We got up pretty early on our last day in Beijing to try to fit as much as we could in before our evening flight. We started off the ...

We woke up pretty early on our third full day in Beijing ready for our tour to the Great Wall of China. We had heard that is was possible to...

We awoke  to very misty weather  on our second full day in Beijing. Despite the mist, we decided that we would head to the UNESCO listed Sum...

After a morning of trekking around the Panjiayuan Antiques Market and a brief visit to Tianamen Square we found ourselves in front of the Fo...

We made an early start on our first full day in Beijing. The weather was vastly improved, warm and sunny an our plan was to do some serious ...

So way back in the first half of September 2011, we were packing our bags once again to go on another quick overseas jaunt. It was the Chuse...

On our third day in Kyoto we got a bit tired of the heat of the city so we decided to head out to Arashiyama, a small town just outside of...

So, onto part 3 of our adventures in Japan in the summer of 2011 (click here for the  first part  and the  second part ). This was our third...

So, onto part two of our  adventures  in  Tokyo ( click here for the  first  part). On our second day in Japan we foolishly slept in late d...

Finally, a post about our summer vacation in Japan! I can't believe we're so far behind with the blog - I'm suitably ashamed! ...

Back in the middle of March, we travelled with a few other Gwangju waygookin (foreigners) down to Jeolla Province in  the south western corn...

We landed in Phuket at about 3pm after a short but, for me , excruciatingly painful (on the ears) flight from Chiang Mai. We then embarked u...