Asia
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Malaysia: Pink Taxis and Mischievous Monkeys
Pangkor is a little island, about a 20 minute ferry ride off the western coast of Malaysia. Although our bus journey there took over seven hours instead of the scheduled four with no…
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Malaysia: Another Journey Begins
WEBSITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION 😮....but please read on It was a wonderful morning …….to head to the airport and leave the country, one of those dreary dark January days when the wind slanted the…
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Japan: Highs and Lows
Now that we are back home from our six-week trip in a campervan around fascinating Japan, it’s time to reflect on our experience. We flew into and out of Osaka and in between travelled…
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Japan: Kyoto, City of Crowded Charms
We arrived in Kyoto in the dark after a six-hour journey from the Sandan Gorge. We hadn’t planned on such a long drive, thinking that we would stop somewhere along the way but…
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Japan: Holy Mountains and Glorious Gorges
Our visit to Fukuoka didn’t start well. The traffic was horrendous as we made our way into the city from Nagasaki. Fukuoka is the largest city in Kyushu (one of the main four…
