Hong Kong When we visited Hong Kong & Macau we were there for approximately 1 week. From memory, we spent 4 days or so in Hong Kong then went to Macau for another 2 – 3 days. Hong Kong was one of the busiest cities we had visited so far. The constant hustle and...
Huh? whos there? Is this thing on? Hi all! Yes, we haven’t posted a blog post for…well a long time now. So what happened? Well in July 2016 we finished our ‘big trip’ by arriving at Portugal and this time, it was to stay, we began to set up our lives and settle down....
Kyoto We made our way to Kyoto from Mt Fuji via a bus, followed by the Shinkansen (bullet train). We arrived later in the day and went for a quick bit of exploration before the sun went down; we did not visit any specific landmarks but just wanted a quick look. We were staying...
Tokyo After catching a quick glimpse at Mt Fuji on the descent we had arrived in Tokyo. Following our AirBNB hosts directions we made our way to the accommodation. We had tried to pick a location which was not completely in the centre but also not too far from it with good subway access....
We have arrived in Japan! After a lot of anticipation, we were extremely excited to have finally arrived in Japan. It was one of those countries that both of us had been looking forward to for various reasons for some time now. Some of these reasons (but not all) included: The food! Learning about...
Philippines After a crazy 24 hours in Singapore, we headed to the Philippines…more specifically, Cebu Island. Our intention was to spend a week enjoying some Scuba Diving & then spend a few days in the city of Cebu itself before head up to Manilla. We landed at Cebu Airport around 7am. We didn’t sleep...
Singapore Next on our list was this small country! A bustling metropolis and hive of activity. A booming city full of life and businesses. It felt like a newer and cleaner London (with blue sky and much nicer weather). What made Singapore a rare place was that it is a city which can offer...
Malaysia & Penang …two places that had been on our radar since before we started the trip. Due to some unexpected changes of plans we had just 10 days to spend in both of them, so we had to make it count! We started in Georgetown, Penang and after reading that it was well...
Indonesia! It’s been way too long since our last blog post; there are a few reasons for this. Since the last post we have spent a month in Indonesia (and some time in Malaysia, but that will get it’s own post) where we were on the move a lot and also Indonesia isn’t known...
Hello from the North Island After having an amazing time in the scenic South Island, it was time to head to the North Island. We flew to Auckland and stayed here for four days. During our time here we explored the city on foot quite a lot: we went to the Art Gallery to...
Hi all, Carrying on with our tour of the South Island we headed for Dunedin, place we thought would be quiet and small and possibly even a passer-by town…we were so wrong. At first we found Dunedin to be one of the biggest towns we had found in New Zealand so far. It had...
Hello from New Zealand! After saying good bye to Sydney and Australia, we made our way to our second country on the big trip, New Zealand! New Zealand is a country we have both been particularly excited about. It was one of those places that the more we researched about, the more we wanted...