Japan - Oita to Osaka The instigator for this trip to Japan was the Rugby World Cup and after a cramped ninety minute train ride from our hotel in Kitakyushu to Oita city we had finally achieved our objective with time to spare. England would be playing Australia and there was time to enjoy many …
Japan - Kobe to Oita. It's not very usual to have to remove shoes before entering a youth hostel and usually you would try to avoid such a request, yet many hostels in Japan do ask of this etiquette which of course you follow. You don't mind here. A hostel in Japan is often like …
Tokyo - Japan. What has Japan done to be able to cast off such a wicked past and earn the respect of every person to have ever travelled to it's beautiful shores? My home (at least when I'm there), the United Kingdom appears to be forever carrying the burden and guilt of empire but Japan …
Jinja - Uganda May 2008 After a good day and a half on the road, we finally it made it to Jinja. If you thought the Nile was a big ass, lazy river then think again! We were here for one reason only. To raft one of the greatest sections of commercially available white water …
Valencia - Spain I can't say that Valencia has been high on my list of places to visit but as I begin a new era of sharing, being told what to do and saying 'yes dear', all with a smile, I found myself hurtling down a runway heading to the east coast of Spain in …
