Trip: Round the World 2007
There are [131] stories from my trip: Round the World 2007
NEW CALEDONIA | Tuesday, 14 Aug 2007 | Views [616] | Comments [2]
We seemed to have stumbled over a bit of Europe over the other side of the world in New Caledonia (basically a 2 hour flight East of Brisbane, in the South Pacific). We arrived in Noumea in the evening, after paying a whopping GBP 40 to get from the ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 13 Aug 2007 | Views [659]
Leaving Japan was a bit of a shock to the system to be honest - we were quite getting into the perfectionist nature of the culture (well I was anyway!). We arrived in Cairns at silly o'clock in the morning and decided to take a stroll around, and find ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
JAPAN | Tuesday, 31 Jul 2007 | Views [1662] | 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 >
Tags: Adventures
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 31 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery
Only one day, for that we're thankful...
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JAPAN | Saturday, 28 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery
The Capital of Japan, AND TOKYO DISNEY!!!!
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JAPAN | Friday, 27 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery
Japan Alps
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JAPAN | Thursday, 26 Jul 2007 | Views [1336]
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
JAPAN | Wednesday, 25 Jul 2007 | Views [1890]
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 >
Tags: Mountains
JAPAN | Tuesday, 24 Jul 2007 | Views [1555]
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 >
Tags: Adventures
JAPAN | Tuesday, 24 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery
The `Big Climb`
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JAPAN | Monday, 23 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery
Sumo Tournament
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JAPAN | Monday, 23 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery
The Final Wonder
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JAPAN | Tuesday, 17 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery
Dashing about....
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JAPAN | Tuesday, 17 Jul 2007 | Views [822] | 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
JAPAN | Friday, 13 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery
Hot Springs and more Hot Springs
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JAPAN | Friday, 13 Jul 2007 | Views [644] | 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 >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
JAPAN | Thursday, 12 Jul 2007 | Views [660]
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
JAPAN | Monday, 9 Jul 2007 | Views [1464]
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 >
Tags: Adventures
JAPAN | Monday, 9 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery
Samarai Village and Sand Baths
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JAPAN | Monday, 9 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery
The city that rains....a lot
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