Queen Mary 2
Our incredible adventure is finished and it’s been the journey of a lifetime. Sailing across the Atlantic for the final chapter was an amazing way to end the trip and complete our loop around the world. Our family world tour started from the UK and travelled around the world through Greece, Turkey, Egypt, India, Sri […]
New York
Our journey from Tokyo was tinged with sadness when we waved goodbye to Craig at the airport. With still no answer on his visa application and his passport held hostage by the embassy he had no choice but to stay behind in Japan. Myself and the girls carried on with a mammoth couple of travel […]
Tokyo
Today we are spending our last day in Asia after a mammoth trip through so many amazing countries. Our family fave is still Taiwan but Japan has also ranked highly and Tokyo has been a fitting final week to the Asian chapter. In my opinion Tokyo is like what we saw as the future in the 80s […]
Tokyo DisneySea
We spent a rainy day at DisneySea with millions of others, including many novelty Mickey ear wearing Japanese schoolgirls who spent most of their time taking selfies. We chose DisneySea over the Land version as it is the only one in the world and we had recently been to Hong Kong Disneyland Between the rain and […]
Osaka and Kyoto
The bullet train from Hiroshima whizzed us to Osaka in no time! The Shinkansen bullet trains in Japan can travel at speeds of up to 320 kilometers per hour (199 mph) but as a passenger it feels like such a smooth ride that you have little concept of the speed. Osaka is the third largest […]
Matsuyama to Hiroshima
We arrived in Matsuyama on a very short plane ride over the Sea of Japan from Busan A confusing bus ride, coupled with urgent communications back home with my sister whom Phoebe had tasked to buy tickets to Black Pink’s UK tour meant the journey to our accommodation was slightly stressful so we were pleased […]
Busan
From Seoul we took a bullet train south to Busan, South Korea’s second largest city. The train covered 417km in under 2.5 hours and reached speeds of 185mph so the journey literally whizzed by! We only had a couple of days to explore Busan, the first one we took the metro to the beach and […]
Seoul, South Korea
We left Hong Kong in the very early hours of the morning to fly to Seoul, South Korea. Phoebe, an avid K-pop fan, has been excited about Korea from the moment we left and I am pleased to report that it has fulfilled her expectations! I have also finally given in to watching Squid Games […]
Hong Kong
From the island of Taiwan (officially the Republic of China) we headed to Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China). In Taiwan we were just about getting a very basic grasp of Mandarin (with a lot of help from Google) but now in Hong Kong the language has switched to Cantonese, […]
Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, was our final stop in Taiwan. We caught a bullet train from Taichung after our mammoth road trip and we were looking forward to a break! We spent our days wandering around the city and eating, as per usual. We celebrated Phoebe’s birthday with her choice of activities – shopping, […]
Taiwan Road Trip – Part 2
Our road trip continued from Kaohsiung south to Kenting. The first stop was Paradise of Capybaras which has been reviewed by Phoebe here. Kenting felt like the Costa Del Taiwan in that it had lovely beaches and a booming night market. We enjoyed a rainy afternoon splashing in the waves then a night eating at […]
Taiwan Road Trip – Part 1
Our Taiwan road trip started in Taichung where we left the city and headed into the mountains for the Chinese New Year. The public holiday meant that hotels had hiked their prices up so our budget went out of the window and the most basic hotel cost triple what we were paying previously in Asia. Our hotel in […]
Taichung, Taiwan
After our brief foray into South East Asia we left Bangkok for Taiwan, excited to see what East Asia will bring! Taiwan is the first country that we have visited on this trip that none of us had been to before – I had been to all of the countries bar Egypt and Craig had […]
Bangkok, Thailand
Thailand is now the 8th country on our world tour! Although it is more of a travel through than a proper experience of the real Thailand. There are a few reasons for this – the first one was that myself and Craig had both travelled here in our younger years. I spent about a month […]
Hat Yai, Thailand
From Penang we headed north and out of Malaysia to Thailand. The journey went like this… A Grab (Asia’s answer to Uber) to Pangkalan Raja Tun Uda ferry terminal in Penang. We just made it onto the ferry, although in my attempt to run I dramatically toppled over and face planted the floor (saved from […]
