Winding down my Japanese Survival Guide now, with principally the third last post unless something else springs to mind, folks it’s time to prepare for the red tape that awaits the foreigner when you come to work in Japan as an ESL Teacher. The irony of it all is that Japan is a principally capitalistic …
Continue reading Japanese Survival Guide Point 7 – City Hall and Bureaucracy
In the spirit of reviewing things, and the interest it seems to create when I DO review something (My KLIA2 review very quickly became my most viewed post) I thought I’d review my recent flights of a week and a half ago on Air Asia. For those of you who have never flown Air Asia, …
On my final full day in Yokohama I went to an exhibition (I guess that’s the right word for it) in a shopping mall opposite the Yokohama Museum of Art called ‘Orbi’. Although I had never heard of it before, my wife had said it would be an interesting thing to go to (although she …
Before I moved to Japan to live for two years, I spent three months at the end of 2011 in the Republic of Georgia teaching English with Teach Learn Georgia (TLG) in a remote village in the west of the country. It was a brilliant three months, and in June or July I will be …
I’m continuing for a few more weeks my regular Saturday spot – ‘The Japanese Survival Guide’, and today I wanted to look a bit at the Japanese language, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, if you are headed to Japan it will help to know a couple of useful phrases, but also, to someone who’s …
Hey everyone. A quick post today to say hi! Here I am, home in Melbourne, Australia, and I thought I'd do a quick post about THAT. Well, Japan to Melbourne can be not too bad if you have a direct flight, but I took Air Asia. As far as budget airlines go, there's a reason …
After the excitement of crawling through a tunnel created by lava, we headed around to the Sakik Iyashi no sato NENBA, as the brochure says. In Englished, it calls the place the ‘Thatch Roof Village’. Today it is a basically an open-air museum costing around 1000 yen to enter. You can go from thatched house …
For those who have followed this blog for a while – I mean back in its earlier form on blogger as well as here on Word Press, you will know that there is a bane in my life – that is Mount Fuji. No, we are not bitter enemies or anything, I haven’t been attacked …
You may never have heard of Kribi, it’s a small seaside town in Cameroon, a few hours south of Douala. But let me tell you, when it came to my trip in 2011 I came to Cameroon pretty exhausted from Central Asia, a quick day and a half in London and then a long flight …
So, here I sit at Gloria Jean’s in the brand new terminal of Kuala Lumpur International Airport, writing my first ever airport review – well, of this new terminal that opened, as near as I can work out, a week ago on May the second. We received an email two days before our flight on …
A Scottish island girl exploring the world on a budget
exposing the inner-world of my brain
My second blog page
Put pictures on your travel dreams
The beautiful picture of angels makes you happy.
inspiring journeys and friendly advice
A Scottish island girl exploring the world on a budget
exposing the inner-world of my brain
My second blog page
Put pictures on your travel dreams
The beautiful picture of angels makes you happy.
inspiring journeys and friendly advice
Andy's World Journeys 