Although the hills look quite beautiful today, I must admit to being rather sick of winter. Today was supposed to be the first day of spring! Oh well, Ichinoseki can be quite beautiful even with snow!
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Top Five Backpacker Sleeps – Japan
Today’s look at budget digs centres on Japan, where I’ve been living now for two year and first visited in April 2011. Japan has some pretty awesome hostels. Not only are they friendly, with great facilities including kitchens, wifi and more, but they often organise free or very cheap tours and are simply a great …
A Traveler’s Guide to Toilets in India
Howdy all. I wasn't going to blog today, I was thinking it was a good day to rest from blogging. But I was working on 'Short Journeys: India' and decided to write a small section in it about toilets, and well, I thought it was interesting and a little amusing, so I thought I would …
Where the Wild Things Are.
Well, today was an interesting day! Not too far from Ichinoseki - perhaps 30km or so, is... wait for it... you won't see this one coming.... A SAFARI PARK! I kid you not. Somehow for 2 years I have resisted going. Perhaps it was the cost, or the fact that I didn't know where it …
The Self-publishing continues from home – Short Journeys: Japan
Whew! Well folks, I have finally managed to epublish Short Journeys: Japan. It's been a lot of work and it felt like I would never get the thing finished, to be honest, but finished it is and finally ready to buy on Amazon, Payhip and Lulu, all at the same time! Which is a first …
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Three years on – Great Tohoku Earthquake
It's now been three years since that fateful day in 2011 when the Great Tohoku Earthquake struck. I remember the day well. I was in Vietnam, in a town called Dalat. I had just arrived, and went out for dinner with a nice chap I met at my guesthouse. We were talking through dinner and …
In which I try to show off my photoshop skills and fail.
Hi everyone, just a quick word from home here in Ichinoseki. Today, it snowed again! Didn't anyone tell them that it is supposed to be Spring here? Anyways I have been editing Short Journeys: Japan, the next in my ebook range and hope to have it available for download by the weekend. Here …
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Top Five Backpacker Sleeps – Europe
Today I start a series of tips on backpacking accommodation across the world. I will look at different regions of the world and talk a little about the best places I have stayed - mind you they will all be budget options! They certainly won't be four or five star hotels, but instead hostels and …
Central Asian tips and photos
So I know I peddle this and that, and recently I have been peddling Central Asia, in particular Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, today I am not stopping! (LOL) I wanted to talk about the place as a region. If you take the Lonely Planet Guide to Central Asia, it considers the region to be six …
My World – Finding me! (Oh) :D
Sorry for the very lame joke as the subject! Today's post is something of an attempt to list all the ways to find me on the interweb. Well I stand with two days of teaching left in Japan, but still over two months before I head back home. It means more feverish work on …
Andy Roams 