Malls, halls, palaces and markets. Welcome to Tuesday 2nd July 2013 blog fans! We awoke this morning to dark clouds, thunder and rain; not just little sprinkles of rain either – a torrential downpour of big fat drops. “Great excuse to sleep in!” we thought. So sleep in […]
Our first full day in Seoul had us broiling in our own juices! Ahhhh the joys of travelling in Korea during a summer heat wave… It was 37C today and what felt like 1000% humidity (probably wasn’t though) – hot enough to leave these two tourists wrung out […]
Farewell Japan, hello Korea! Today was a transit day so not much to report. We caught the train to Sapporo’s New Chitose Airport (something of a misnomer as there is no “Old Chitose Airport”), checked in and proceeded to sit on our butts for many, many hours. Half […]
A day trip to Lake Shikotsu has us climbing the hills! Greetings fans! Today was our last full day in Japan and since we haven’t done a decent 10km hike in a while, we thought we’d take the bus down to Lake Shikotsu (Shikotsu-ko) and go trekking through […]
Hokkaido’s capital is hip & happening! We caught our final long-distance Japanese train today, from Hakodate to Sapporo (Hokkaido’s capital). Today’s train journey was by far the longest in terms of duration (3.5 hours to travel the 382kms – there are no shinkansens in Hokkaido, only the […]
