Hello, So another day begins and after a very hard (literally!) night on the floor we have not had the best nights sleep haha! When we returned to our traditional ryokan room last night, there on the floor was a mattress, if you can call it that, no thicker than 5cm and a pillow which we think was made of wood. To be fair they did give us a duvet so you can't complain and it was an experience but I don't think we could have done it every night in Japan! The ala...

Good morning, It's 9:42am and as we travel by train through the valleys and tunnels of our first Japanese mountain it is an hour since we left Osaka. This morning we left our box room in the APA Eki Higashi after a good nights sleep and enjoyed croissants and coffee at the station. We bought our Mt Koya World Heritage Ticket with ease and waited for the train to depart, a lovely morning and easy process compared to the hectic experiences in China! The train is ...

Hello from Japan! We have both just polished off our first Okonomiyaki (traditional dish) over looking the Dotombori river in Osaka! Yesterday, our final day in China, we visited Suzhou for a day trip. We had lazy morning and enjoyed an amazing breakfast in the hostel. We then took the bullet train to Suzhou and on arrival walked through the city to the north where we walked around the Humble Administrators Garden. This was a beautiful, yet jam packed full, Ch...

Good afternoon from Shanghai! It's 2:39pm and we are currently sailing along the Yangtze River looking out to the incredible skyline of The Bund and Downtown Shanghai! The sun is shining, tower blocks glistening and somehow we have managed to end up on a posh yacht with 2 other guys. This is the life! Last night we arrived at Shanghai airport later than planned and although we had booked a night in the Mercure Airport Hotel, we landed at T1 and the hotel was a...

Good morning, Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, the place where dreams are made. As we sit having breakfast/lunch (it was impossible to find breakfast again today!) the sun is shining and we have had another amazing morning! Panda hunting has been great but first, a few words about yesterday. We had a really early start leaving our hostel in Xi'an at 5:00am! After a daunting taxi ride to the airport we managed to check in fine and found a croissant...