Hanoi to Phong Nha. How To Do It.
We have just spent 6 weeks backpacking through Vietnam as a family and we absolutely loved it. We flew into Hanoi, took the bus to Mai Chai and then took a sleeper train from Hanoi to Phong Nha. (more…)
Everyday life in Japan. 11 Reasons The Japanese Are So Damn Chilled.
No matter how many books and travel blogs you read about Japan, visit the country for the first time and the first thing that will take you by surprise is how incredibly calm and quiet Japanese life appears to be.
Everyday life in Japan is like nothing you will have ever experienced before.
Ever.
It’s not hard to find culture facts about Japan but to experience the calm and tranquillity of this country you must visit in the flesh.
Only then will you marvel at the way that the Japanese people eat, bathe, practice train etiquette; daily life in Japan is calm and marvellous.
11 Foods to Eat in Japan (+ 1 BONUS For When You Can’t Face Noodles)
Japan has some of the best food in the world. Eating, along with many other everyday Japanese life rituals, is one of the things that makes this beautiful country as exciting and intriguing as it is.
But you may be wondering what to eat in Japan when you just can’t face another piece of sushi.
Tell people you are travelling in Japan, and they will first advise you to fill your face with street food. In fact, if you don’t eat noodles swimming in broth at least nine times a day, then you are just a big fat fake, and you aren’t doing the other hardcore backpackers proud.
We have just spent two weeks in Japan where we backpacked and couchsurfed for a big chunk of the time.
Thankfully, both our budgets (and our train journeys) were made all the lighter because of a little known Japanese food secret.
Japan Two Week Itinerary – Without Blowing A Fuse Or Your Budget.
I hate doing the same as everyone else. For this reason, we didn’t follow a standard Japan two week itinerary when we backpacked around Japan with our two kids.
We were tempted I’ll admit, but the trouble was, nearly every Japan travel blog with a suggested two-week itinerary all seemed to point in the same direction.
The ‘to do’ cities.
Everyone was suggesting the same predictable route that looks like this: Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara, Hiroshima, Tokyo.
Nah. (more…)
Taking an Indian Sleeper Bus. NOT For The Fainthearted (or those with a weak bladder)
There are many things I discovered while travelling in India, things that no guidebook or India travel blog could ever have told me about.
One of those things being the hell that is the overnight sleeper bus.
I’m sorry India.
I love your country with all my heart, (so much so that I made a podcast about India with my son putting the world to rights about your bad press) – I’ve even named you as one of my top underrated world destinations, but your sleeper buses?
Well.
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Backpacking in India. 20 Things You Will NEVER Say.
Iloved backpacking in India. I sit and think about all of the challenges we faced traveling around India as a family for six weeks and I smile a satisfied smile. If you can go backpacking in India you can do anything in the whole wide world. (more…)
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