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Perth Airport to City Centre

Nige March 5, 2015

June describes a budget friendly method of getting from the international terminal at Perth airport to city centre. The journey takes a little over 1 hour which involves transferring from Perth’s international terminal to the local terminal by bus and then the express bus number 40 direct to the city centre.

Live Kagoshima volcano

Nige May 1, 2015

Nige & June visit the live kagoshima volcano island, Sakura-jima. This is a live volcano directly in front of Kagoshima’s harbour. We woke up in Kumamoto in surprisingly good condition after the nomihoudai. It looked like the udon had worked again We paid the price of rushing to catch the tram, and jumped on the […]

Visiting Nara buddha

Nige May 14, 2015

We spent some time visiting Nara buddha (Todai-ji Daibutsuden) and enjoyed watching the deer in Nara park. We then moved from Osaka to Nara. Unfortunately due to the heavy rain we had to cut short our trip in Nara. Firstly we went to Nara koen, or Nara park where lots of deer were just hanging around […]

Train from Kanazawa to Aomori

Nige May 20, 2015

We left catch the train from Kanazawa to Aomori. It’s long long way, half way up the north of Japan. Although the journey was not to bad for the Shinkansen is very fast and comfortable. Though we noticed there is less room on the Shinkansens leaving Tokyo, compared to for example the Shinkansens in Kyushu. […]

Train to Hakodate

Nige May 23, 2015

We caught a train to Hakodate from Aomori. The train went under the Tjsugaru strait, a very long and deep underwater tunnel. It is called the ‘Seikan’ Tunnel and it is said that the tunnel is 2nd longest underwater tunnel in the world. It took about 30 mins to get through the Tjsugaru strait. We […]

Jacobs Ladder

Nige February 10, 2015

Nigel & June give a demonstration of how to climb down & up Jacobs Ladder.

Kings Park

Nige February 12, 2015

We spent one afternoon exploring the beauty of Kings Park. Sight’s included the war memorial, botanical gardens and water gardens.

Perth Free Buses

Nige March 6, 2015

Nige & June introduce the Perth free buses. They start from the esplanade bus station and make there way to the Western Australia state museum and then on to the famous WACA cricket ground, where the watch Australia play Afghanistan in the cricket world cup.

Moving to Japan

Nige March 25, 2015

Nige & June have an interesting time with moving to Japan. We arrived at Narita from KL airport in Malaysia.

Japan Natto Breakfast

Nige April 1, 2015

June describes the Japan ‘Natto’ breakfast. Natto is fermented soya beans and is mixed with tare sauce and mustard, then mixed with a raw egg and then applied over a bowl of rice.