We arrived in Seoul, not really knowing what to expect, having heard mixed reactions from loads of people. We got off the bus to boiling, frantic, chaotic city - you can imagine Mark's first impression! We cracked the extensive subway and found our hostel. We were a bit wary of where we were staying as had come from Geongju where we had stayed in the most revolting hostel (South Korea is not renound for it's cleanliness!). Our hostel turned out to be pretty good ...

Apologies in advance for the essay! Busan/Pusan so much to say. We arrived last Thursday by hydrofoil (after scrounging money off staff to pay the taxes!) and found ourselves at the subway not knowing anything about the culture or the currency! We were faffing around the ticket machine clearly looking like confused tourists when a guy approached us and out of the blue paid for our tickets. Thanking you kind man. First impressions of Busan were incredibly wel...

Well hello again. We went to an island called Jeju, which was tagged as "the Hawaii of Asia", as it is off the south of the mainland, and so has a slightly warmer climate (much like the Isle of s***e could be labelled "the Hawaii of UK"!) It has lots of things to do so we did lots of things! This is what happened: Day 1: A bit overcast and so we decided to explore our little town. We made our way down to a waterfall which is apparently the o...

Ok, final blog from Japan. In Kyushu, the southern most of the main islands. We went to the largest volcano crater on EARTH! It is just massive- bigger than me with jen standing on my shoulders! In fact it has a circumference of 75miles. wow, geography heaven. We got off the train and realised that the town, station and all, was actually inside the crater (or caldera to be geographically correct!). The huge crater had 5 smaller active volcanoes within it- which ...

We arraived in Hiroshima on Friday (8th May), from the moment we got off the super fast train we loved the city. We made our way to our hostel and dumped our luggage and decided to head for the beach. After 4 days of torrential rain we were loving the fact that there was not a cloud in the sky! We got the free ferry (short arms long pockets, Marky, was loving it!) across to Miyajima Island which is this hidden gem just 15 minutes from Hiroshima. When we arri...