Our weekend in the south of France may have been more about visiting Monaco, but the biggest surprise of our trip was just how much we enjoyed Nice. For some reason, the French Riviera has never been high up on my list, and to be honest if it wasn’t for Monaco we probably still wouldn’t …
A couple of months ago (yes, I’m catching up!) we flew out to the south of France for a weekend. Our main objective, however, was not to visit France. Our main reason for this trip was to visit Monaco. Not only is it a new country for both of us, but we are both really …
You might have noticed that, between all the Japan content, I went quiet for a while at the beginning of summer. I was busy with our trips to Cyprus and Luxembourg, catching up with everything at work, and two family events, but then one thing took over everything in our lives with undivided attention: we …
Luxembourg is one of those small countries in Europe that has always managed to elude me – its location amongst several other accessible countries means it should be easy to visit, and yet I couldn’t quite get there. With no flights from Scotland, the only way to visit is from another country, and most people …
Less than a month after we returned from Japan, we were off on another trip to another new country – Cyprus! This was very much a holiday to recover from our holiday, which may sound ridiculous, but Japan was so full on (in case you couldn’t tell from the fourteen blog posts that I’ve published) …
If you’re craving Japan but can’t quite summon the funds to get you there, or if you just want a taste of Japan whether you’ve been there before or not, a great way to sample some Japanese flavours is to grab a subscription box packed with goodies. The only problem is, there are a few …
There aren’t many countries I visit armed with a list of things to buy. Shopping is never near the top of my things to do, even in cities or countries that are famous for it. Japan is the one exception to this, which is exactly why we didn’t visit on our larger Asia trip years …
Our flights to Japan with Air China meant that we had the option to do a 9 hour layover in Shanghai on the way back from Tokyo. China isn’t somewhere I have any immediate plans to visit, so it seemed like a good way to get our feet on the ground of a new country …
Without a doubt, one of our highlights of Japan was staying in a hotel where the “receptionists” are robot dinosaurs! One of the biggest draws to Japan for me is the absolutely insane inventions they come up with, the wacky tech and anime, the nuts TV shows, and the fun things they always seem to …
There were many, many, many bucket list items for me in Japan, but almost nothing was higher – literally – than seeing Mount Fuji. We decided to leave it towards the end of the trip, for a couple of reasons, but partly because it would be a great way to wind down the trip out …
