We landed in Havana airport approximately 10 minutes before a tropical storm hit, phew. The baggage collection was the first part of Cuban craziness that we encountered. There were hauds of people waiting for luggage, exacerbated by three flights of luggage being on one carousel, but mainly because all the Cubans had clearly been shopping elsewhere for things they can't get in Cuba. Each person had at least one trolley stacked up with boxes and boxes of goods. Af...

Mexico Tequila Few Hours We had an overnight stop in Mexico City before our flight to Cuba. We arrived late, later than expected given the flight time change. We had a minor delay due to waiting at the completely wrong carousel for our luggage, so it was around midnight when we were walking around the signless terminal searching for the route to our airport hotel. We finally came across an office, where someone kindly informed us of where to catch a shuttle bus...

The journey from Japan was an exhausting one. We landed in LA six hours before we took off in Tokyo after minimal sleep. Our second flight from LA to Mexico was not for six hours and so we spent our time half asleep in the most infuriatingly confusing airport ever with only the welcoming smiles of US immigration for company. Marvellous. We weren't going to write a blog about somewhere that we only spent a few hours in transit but it was such an awful few hours th...

Getting to our next destination was a little trickier than any of the others in Japan. It involved not only two bullet trains but also a very long bus ride up mountain roads. The bus trip was livened up by the autistic Japanese passenger doing constant sound effects, Greg's favourite being the imitation of the door beeping. We finally arrived at our ryokan, perched on a mountainside overlooking Mount Fuji. Checking in we were told that we had been upgraded to a ...

After our poor sightseeing efforts in Osaka, we were keen to make the most of Hiroshima, we had dumped our bags, acquired our maps and got into the city within 30 minutes of our arrival. We had an agenda. First up was sake shopping, we were keen to take a bottle of our favourite sake home with us, so set out on the hunt for 'taka', that's all we knew. We were unsure if this was the name of the type of sake, a specific sake or a sake brewery. One of the girls in t...