I woke up in Tokyo on my first day in Japan, feeling slightly anxious and out of my comfort zone. Tokyo. It’s pretty big. (The most populous metropolitan area in the world, with a population of 38,6 million in the metropolitan area. That’s nearly eight Finlands.) I’d arrived at the hostel at around 1am, following a […]
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Towards Bali via gumless Singapore
Welcome to Paradise. … is how Bali is advertised. So, we decided to go and see if it’s true… My friend Nikki was visiting me from Finland, and we decided we wanted to do a beachy trip out of Vietnam. What better place than the idyllic, famous Bali. We only had a stint from Monday […]
HCMC 2 HN by sleeper bus
Google ‘sleeper bus Vietnam‘. I guarantee you will not feel particularly inspired to try this form of transportation which has been described as “It’s sort of how I would imagine taking off in a rocket ship to mars would feel like non stop for 12 hours” or similar by the numerous blog posts and articles. […]
The travel “queues” of Malaysia
Selamat Datang! Two weeks ago it was the famous TET, ie. Lunar New Year (ie. Chinese New Year, but it is celebrated in many South-East Asian countries so…), meaning a week off work. Me and my Portuguese friend Patricia decided to go to Malaysia. Why Malaysia? Why not Malaysia. It has twin towers, beaches, […]
Day 21: BERLINnovation
Hallo meine Freunde, Hello from a train Hamburg-Copenhagen. You know what y’aaaaalll, last train ever!!! Am quite relieved tbf, no more stress with trains or reservations etc etc etc ahhh 🙂 It’s quite a funny train, once again, because it is obviously long distance (5h), but last I checked it had just three carriages! We […]
Day 18: Switzerland Sightseeing
Today was the day we left Interlaken and took the scenic train to Montreux, which is in the west of Switzerland, in the French speaking area, at Lake Geneva. It started not too well with me in floods of tears and CC running barefoot thru town, now with shocking blood blisters on his feet. (Once […]