We loved Japan. Maybe because it is so funky. Here’s some random facts to prove its funkiness. 1. They like Sushi Of course they do. We do too. But only looking at the sheer amount of raw fish they down, you can see how much they really like it. We did our best to keep up (we had Sushi on 13 out of 16 days in Japan), but the piles of plates they left behind...
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Fukushima – not the first place you’d think of going to for a vacation. In fact, I can’t think of any place with such a negative connotation to its name for the last few years (with the exception of a few war-riddled countries maybe). Nevertheless, it seemed a logic place to go when heading north from Tokyo, and since we’d read just as many positive things...
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Tokyo – a place that in my mind is somehow associated with an equal amount of tall shiny buildings, people in crazy dresses and tons of raw fish. Oh, and right now, funky pink trees. Turns out the two days we spent there was enough to see all four. Plenty of all four, actually. It seems that the term “Tokyo Hotel” is actually sarcasm: It took us...
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Ho Chi Minh City, formerly and probably better known as Saigon, is the second-largest and most southern city of Vietnam. Usually either the first, or as in our case, the last stop on a typical backpackers route through the country, it offers heaps of things to do and buy, as well as cheap flights to just about any city in Asia. We compensated another...
Read MoreAlthough we were hesitant to leave the beautiful beach at Hue, doing so using motorbikes did make the decision a bit easier. Knowing that we’d be doing a route which Jeremy Clarkson called “one of the best coast roads in the world” in the Top Gear Vietnam Special sure did help a lot, too. And he was right (he usually is, when he’s not busy...
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