Day 5- After posting our last blog from the middle of day 5 we headed for the underground bus terminal and somehow managed to work out which bus we needed to get to Seattle airport for $2 instead of $11 :) Again we encountered some interesting characters as, when we boarded the bus, we were greeted by a bearded man saying 'Do you like STEAK?'' to which we simply replied... mmmhmmmmm. He continued to try and talk to us... and himself for the duration of the journ...

Day 4 another slightly lazy start once again missing breakfast and emerging into the market around midday. Having heard Phil and Charlotte's stories of flying fish in the market we waited around for a while and whilst there was some small scale tossing of trout (already packaged) we never had any salmon soaring over our heads. After consulting our tourist map we decided to head to the streetcar station for a short trip up to Lake Union. As we started walking to...

Day 2 was a reaaaalllly early start as we had been told to turn up 1 hour before our 6:10am ferry departure and as we were a good 15 mins walk from there the alarm was set for 4:45am! On arrival at the ferry terminal it became clear that there was no need to turn up so early as we just sat waiting for 45 mins. The other thing we realised as we sat there was that there was another ferry called the 'victoria express' which left at 9:50am and only took one hou...

Ok so welcome to Andy and Maika's Canada/USA blog! We are currently writing from the International Youth Hostel in Victoria. As i sit here I can hear water planes flying about 40ft over my head and the occasional horn of a departing ferry. As you may have guessed, we are right on the waterfront. We left Penny and Shani's this morning and arrived in Victoria at around 9am. A short bus ride later and we had discovered downtown, a pretty little street with a mixtu...

Ni hao! I am writing this time from an amazing little hostel in Beijing! We checked in after the tour finished yesterday and were dropped off by the taxi driver on a normal looking road. I then spotted a sign for the hostel so we started walking down this small alleyway, stepping over bricks and scaffoliding poles etc etc and the alleyway slowly got narrower and I slowly got more worried that I was going to be sleeping in a backstreet beijing gutter but then we s...