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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 [...]

A month ago or so I was sitting a home on the computer and a message pops up from Bel. “Hey, wanna go to Korea while you are here?” A little bit confused I reply “Sure, why not?” so here I am, in Korea, for a whirlwind tour of about 24 hours. Once again up [...]

An early start was in order as we decided that returning to the hostel for some R&R during the middle, and hottest, part of the day was best. We were heading to Dejima, which was once a man made island, but had since be reconnected to the rest of Japan but is in the process [...]

Our first day in Nagasaki started later than usual so we could catch up on a bit of sleep that we so desperately needed. We eventually decided to pull ourselves away from the air conditioned comfort of the hostel room and went off to wander down Temple Street. Nagasaki has trams going all over the [...]