What is Tokyo like?
Have you been to Tokyo? What is your impression? Would you like to visit Tokyo one day? What are your expectations? For the Japanese, Tokyo can be seen as the ‘city of dreams’ associated with opportunity and chance of success…
2 weeks in Kyushu with the Japan rail pass. Part 6 of 6: Day 14 – 17 Kyoto and going to Narita airport (Tokyo)
Day 14: typhoon approached Southern Japan – Rest day and Kyoto ramen We woke up and felt smug and relieved at the same time. Smug as we made the right choice traveling yesterday and relieved as we actually managed it.…
2 weeks in Kyushu with the Japan rail pass. Part 5 of 6: Day 11 – 13 Beppu and emergency move to Kyoto!
Day 11: travelling to Beppu – Kaimonji hotspring – Beppu reimen noodles We checked out of our Kagoshima airbnb at around 10am. The main station was only about 5 minutes walk, but the owner of the building (not the host)…
2 weeks in Kyushu with the Japan rail pass. Part 1 of 6: Day 1 – 3 Fukuoka
In the Summer of 2019, we explored Kyushu Japan with the Japan rail pass (aka: JR pass). This time we were 3: myself, C, and C’s mum. The JR pass allows you to travel with almost all JR trains including…
Trouble ridden summer holiday in Japan
Small problems and some stressful situations are completely common during travel. Being a budget traveler, I’ve had dozens of small travel problems like that, but I have never had so many in one single journey like we did in summer…
A little Christmas story and Happy New Year
2019 had been a really peculiar year for C and I. We have been very busy and were unable to travel as much as we did in previous years due to some changes forced upon us, one of which was…
Is it hard to travel in India?
India can be challenging for budget travellers. We were constantly on alert about what we ate and drunk, tricky taxi drivers, scammers and general pushing, shoving and chaos of Indian cities. I think we were intrigued, stressed and excited all…
What to take to India
These are a list of things that I personally found helpful in our 9 days trip (city based, hotel stay, in April). Mosquito repellent clothes I’ve been wearing mosquito repellent top and trousers throughout the trip. C was wearing mosquito…
