Osaka and Hong Kong
We headed through to Osaka briefly before our flight to Hong Kong. We basically ate and wandered around. Not unpleasant at all. Andrew was fascinated with the large Ferris Wheel…
Kyoto April 2018
We travelled between Tokyo and Kyoto on the bullet train, shinkansen. Kyoto station is quite an architectural statement – big and modern. And then at the very top a green…
Tokyo in April
Another Lao New Year and another chance to have a short break without using up too much annual leave. Cherry blossom season had just finished but there was still plenty…
Hellfire Pass
Since we have been in Asia we have been intending to travel to the Burma Death Railway. However, getting to Kanchanaburi from Vientiane requires some travelling time and it has…
Seoul, solo
With Andrew still away in NZ I needed a breakout from Vientiane. 12 hours after I booked flights to Seoul there was an escalation in the rhetoric surrounding North Korea…
Wat Phou and Hue
In early September I finally got to visit Wat Phou in southern Laos. Wat Phou is the 2nd of 2 UNESCO World Heritage sites in Laos (Luang Prabang town is…