If you’re going to have a wild night out in Japan then Osaka is a good option. And we just happened to be heading here on the afternoon of the Wales vs Australia Game… We arrived in Osaka mid afternoon, and after a walk through Tennoji Park (where the rugby fanzone was, but unfortunately not …
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Let’s go to Kyoto!
Kyoto in one trip (or one blog post – make sure you’ve got a cup of tea with you for this one!) is almost impossible simply due to the sheer volume of temples, history, culture and scenery. Even we recognised that we were never going to fit all the major sights into our three days …
Konichiwa Japan! Arriving in Tokyo and Mount Fuji
After a ten hour flight that was delayed on the runway, we finally landed at Tokyo’s Narita airport. It was very important (to Gareth) that we got straight to the Rugby World Cup Fanzone in central Tokyo to watch Wales’ first match against Georgia. Fortunately Claire reminded him that we would need to pick up …
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The Okanagan Valley and Route 99
When Gareth had visited Canada with his family back in 2003, they had stayed with a very lovely family, “The Young Ones”, who had been friends of Gareth’s parents when they came over to teach in Canada for a year in the mid-80s. So it was only fitting for us to pop in and say …
The Rockies Part 2: The Icefield Parkway, Jasper and Hinton
The 227km road linking Banff to Jasper is known as The Icefields Parkway and is one of the world’s most magnificent drives; and we were about to find out why. There are soooo many places to stop on route that it would have probably taken our entire Canadian trip to explore all of them; mountains, …
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Quebec City and the Gulf of St. Lawrence
Leaving the beautiful Laurentians behind, we said goodbye to our hosts and headed back towards Montreal and then towards Quebec City along the St. Lawrence River valley. We arrived in Quebec City in the early afternoon and after a quick bag drop off at our very pretty little hotel (literally “Au Petit Hotel”), we headed …
Bags packed – Ready to go!
After a lot of planning and years of anticipation we’re ready for our biggest adventure so far! We’ve done a fair amount of travelling in the past, but now we’re about to head off for just over three months to visit 5 countries and check that the world really is round! We are writing this …
Claire and Gareth go travelling! 