The Wind Began To Switch…
Jamie was going to talk about our hike to the summit of Mount Hakodate today. He was going to mention that we passed through the almost San Franciscan dock area; that some locals seemed genuinely surprised to see us on the streets at all; and that with the sun shining, the world feels like a ...
Sapporo Me Another One
It’s taken eight days of our trip to reach one of Japan’s big cities. With a little under 2 million inhabitants, chilly Sapporo, capital of Hokkaido, may be a fraction of the size of Tokyo, but there’s no doubting it’s a major city; if it were in the UK, it’d only have London ahead of ...
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Home Sweet Hostel
There comes a time in every traveller’s trip when homesickness comes calling. The timing of it is often weird. We both felt terribly homesick in the Galapagos Islands once, after travelling for 11 months. Given that it’s one of the most heartbreakingly unique, unspoiled places on Earth, it shouldn’t have happened – it wasn’t like ...