When we eventually left Hermanus we moved on to Wilderness, the next stop along the Baz Bus route, and supposedly a pretty chilled place. To claw back some time we only booked to stay there for 1 night which when we arrived realised was plenty! It was a beautiful spot with a nice sleepy little town but there wasn't much to do, and although our hostel was good it was empty. We walked into the nearby village and had a look round (which took 5 mins as there was n...

We had booked the Baz Bus to travel round South Africa in, which is a backpacker bus service that picks you up from your hostel door and takes you to your next hostel (or hostel shuttle). As we wouldn't have a car and we weren't sure how safe the public transport would be (which we later found out there wasn't any anyway) we thought it would be the safest and easiest way to travel around. The Baz Bus had about 40 stops along the coast of South Africa from Cape To...

When we eventually arrived at Cape Town we were absolutely shattered and in desperate need of a shower. Our body clocks were all over the place and we had no idea what time it was! We knew we'd be shattered so booked a double room in a nice hotel knowing we'd need a good nights sleep and it would be quieter than a hostel. A nice hotel room in South Africa was cheaper than 2 dorm beds in Japan anyway!! After a long nights sleep we checked out and moved to a 'par...

Our flight from Okinawa landed late so it was about 11pm by the time we got to our hotel. We went straight to bed to get a good nights sleep as the next day was Sumo day! We decided to stay in Nagoya an extra day so we weren't clock watching during the day, but supposedly our hotel was fully booked (again doubtful but no reservation, no room!) so were up early to move to a hotel down the road, which actually turned out to be much nicer anyway. Once checked in w...

Grant was really keen to go to Okinawa, it was one of his top things to do while we were away, so we planned to go for a week over his birthday. We got to Fukuoka airport and after an hour delay was on the flight, very excited! Okinawa is a small island south of Japan and apart from the capital city doesn't have any public transport, so we booked a car for a few days to drive around the north of the island, before doing some island hopping on the even remoter ...