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No place like home...Thank goodness !!! For those of you that know us, you'll already know the story, basically we decided that we've both worked enough (I've been working for 11 years, Danielle for 11 Months) and that we deserve some long overdue R&R and decided to take in some sights....enjoy

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Wannabe America

Tuesday, 31 Jul 2007 | Views [1714] | Comments [4]

So.... After a wonderful 6 weeks in Japan, we arrived in Tokyo for our last 4 days! All I can say is that i'm glad we didn't do it first, it would have diminished our view of Japan.... Tokyo was OK, nothing spectacular, just OK! We were expecting Hong ... Read more >

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Gallery: Tokyo - Japan

Saturday, 28 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery

The Capital of Japan, AND TOKYO DISNEY!!!!
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Gallery: Matsumoto and Kamikochi - Japan

Friday, 27 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery

Japan Alps
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The Scenery Speaks for itself.....

Thursday, 26 Jul 2007 | Views [1389]

I LOVE THIS PLACE!! We arrived at Matsumoto in good time, had a MOS Burger (traditional Japanese Burger - apparently!), got lost trying to find our Guest House and were amazed by the sheer beauty of the mountains that surrounded us! Our guest house ... Read more >

Tags: Mountains


The Big Climb of Fuji-San!

Wednesday, 25 Jul 2007 | Views [1921]

The day had finally arrived to climb Mount Fuji - after a day at the Sumo Tournament and a long and tedious train journey, in rush hour, arriving in Kawaguchi at 2200hrs we were both well prepared to get up an go...sort of! The day started well when ... Read more >

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Mission Complete...Onto the Sumo!

Tuesday, 24 Jul 2007 | Views [1607]

After a long old Train ride we made it to Sendai in the North of Honshu, where the final Japanese `wonder` (the Shrine at Hiroshima and Amanohashidate were the other two) awaited us at Matsushima! After checking in, we took a stroll around the city, ... Read more >

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Gallery: Kawaguchi and Mount Fuji - Japan

Tuesday, 24 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery

The `Big Climb`
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Gallery: Nagoya - Japan

Monday, 23 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery

Sumo Tournament
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Gallery: Matsushima and Sendai - Japan

Monday, 23 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery

The Final Wonder
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Gallery: Amanohashidate, Naruto Whirlpools, Kobe and Some Trains! - Japan

Tuesday, 17 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery

Dashing about....
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From Sandspits to Whirlpools

Tuesday, 17 Jul 2007 | Views [879] | Comments [1]

15.07. So, as we've got quite an action packed week ahead (we've now got our JR rail cards so have planned to zooooooomm around the country on the bullet trains), we thought we'd update the blog every couple of days, saying whats we've been up to. ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road


Gallery: Beppu - Japan

Friday, 13 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery

Hot Springs and more Hot Springs
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Stuck in Beppu!!

Friday, 13 Jul 2007 | Views [680] | Comments [2]

Hello All! We`ve been in Beppu for a few days now - although we only planned to stay here two nights, tonight will be our fourth! Quite a funny story - goes like this: Tour Leader Andrews worked out that if we bought a 7 Day Japan Rail Pass we could ... Read more >

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Beppu - Just a load of hot air!

Thursday, 12 Jul 2007 | Views [692]

Arrived in Beppu - a hot spring resort (apparently to understand Beppu is to understand Japan as a whole, very philosophical Mr Lonely Planet). Its quite a cute little place actually - hot springs EVERYWHERE! Looking out of our hotel window you can actually ... Read more >

Tags: Mountains


Rain, rain, go away....pretty please?

Monday, 9 Jul 2007 | Views [1503]

Well....we arrived in Kagoshima and it was beautiful sunshine, but we thought we`d take a `breather` and stay in our hotel catching up on the blog and just chilling out (it was the 13km walk down the mountain that killed us...)......BAD IDEA!! Since ... Read more >

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Gallery: Chiran and Ibusuki - Japan

Monday, 9 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery

Samarai Village and Sand Baths
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Gallery: Kagoshima - Japan

Monday, 9 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery

The city that rains....a lot
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Ebino-Kogen, not that we could tell through the mist!!!

Thursday, 5 Jul 2007 | Views [1262]

Another eventful journey - our bus decided to drop us in the middle of no where (almost), and we were definitely NOT up a mountain! We walked through Ebino `City`, which can otherwise be described as a ghost town (we literally saw about two cars and ... Read more >

Tags: Mountains


The city so....unoriginal...they named it twice!!!

Thursday, 5 Jul 2007 | Views [712]

After leaving Hiroshima, we headed south to Fukuoka/Hakata. We already had a fairly hectic train journey, with about 5 changes, so when our train decided to stop at an unscheduled station for over an hour we were pretty confused (and annoyed, we had ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road


Gallery: Fukuoka/Hakata and Ebino-Kogen - Japan

Tuesday, 3 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery

From city to Wilderness!
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