Japan, country of.... Electronic toilet seats with mis-aimed bidet settings that are very offputting when you're trying to use the great white telephone after a session with your old bosses from London... People on streets giving out free hugs, great after the pub!... Bullet trains without speedometers in the carriages.. Boo.... Old men dressed up as red fairies in Yoyogi Park... Tiny little bars on hidden floors of buildings that seat about six people where...

Hmm Hong Kong. I lost count of the times I told people I didn't need a tailored suit. Or a new shirt. Or a fake watch. Or a massage. Or from one particularly odd chappy a fake handbag. Other than that, its a very small country, it really doesn't take long to look round Kowloon or Hong Kong Island. The space museum is quite interesting, the contemporary art museum is as good as any other I've seen (!) and the bay is rather pretty at night. The HSBC head office is ...

Bangkok Learning from previous mistakes, I booked a flight that left in the afternoon for a change and arrived in Bangkok at sensible time of 7.30 in the evening. I'd been told there were loads of guest houses in town so figured finding a bed wouldn't be a problem. It turns out that the Kao San road area is incredibly busy on a Saturday night and it wasn't until the tenth time of asking that I actually found somewhere to sleep. I was up early the next morning f...

Well, my first step into Asia and being brave I decided to go to a country almost as English as England.. Singapore! Very humid, more so than Darwin, and very small in size, you can drive north to south in under an hour. Also not much to do, people wearn't wrong when they told me you could see everything in three days, still I stayed for six, onwards flights were cheaper that way.. So what did I do.. Not much... Took a wander round Little India to remind me ...