Big Adventures, Little World

Archive for the ‘Asia’ Category

By we, I don’t mean Belinda and I, she won’t be home for another week and a half. By we, I mean me and Totoro. He rode the plane, the train and every other form of public transport with me. He even had his own seat on the plane and watched Kung Fu Panda. I [...]

We were both so excited to be visiting Totoro at the Ghibli Museum, you could not hide the smiles on our faces! As we walked down the streets to the museum, there was signs every hundred metres or so, some with Totoro himself on them. So naturally we had some photos with them. The walk [...]

Our last day in Fukuoka was fairly uneventful, as we wandered the streets, checked out a few local sites like the Fukuoka Castle Ruins before we made our way to the airport to fly back to Tokyo for my last night in Japan. I continued my crazy sleeping patters by sleeping on the plane and [...]

A day trip from Fukuoka to Beppu was the plan for today, and we had a 2 hour train ride to get us there. I won’t bore anyone with those details as I’m sure you all get the idea by now. So we arrived in Beppu, found the Information Desk, where they spoke excellent English [...]

The day began with us walking out of our room to find a couple of people sleeping on the floor of June’s lounge room which gave us the feeling that we were just staying at a friend’s house after a big night. It was about 8.30am as we were ready to leave, but realised we [...]