Hello my fellow travellers! I was off to an early start this morning because I wanted to be able to spend as much time as possible in Nikkō before I had to return to Ichiro in Shinagawa. Nikkō is an historical town and large parts of it are designated as a World Heritage Site. In total there are 103 structures that are considered to be World Heritage and they primarily belong to either the Rinnō-ji Temple, the Futarasan Shrine or the Nikkō Tōshō-gū Shrine. As I wrote in my blog post yesterday the Nikkō Tōshō-gū Shrine is the final resting place of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616) and this is the one which I was looking forward to visiting the most. Ieyasu was the first shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1603–1868) and he is one of the most ... read more

Hello my fellow travellers! Today I once again started in a very leisure pace with a dip in the pool of the compound. I tried to contact Kerry's jet ski guy but got no reply and with the desert tour costing an arm and a leg I went for the free museum option that I had checked out yesterday. Since I still had value left on my bus card I decided to go to the centre by bus. It turned out though that google maps had the location of the bus stop wrong due to the construction work so I ended up missing the first bus and spent a lovely half hour sitting together with a local in the shade of a traffic sign, stubbornly waving off taxi after taxi. When the bus finally came I ... read more

Hello my fellow travellers! Today Trudi dropped me off by the Museum of Islamic Arts which was pretty much all of my plan for the day until when me and Belal would meet in the evening for the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra at the QNCC. First I would visit the Museum of Islamic Arts and then the Souq Waqif and if I had enough time then walk along the cornice. I can tell you right away that I didn't have neither the time nor the energy for that walk! The Museum of Islamic Arts is really big and really well organised! I spend a lot of hours in here, gawking at the many gorgeous artefacts! They are all very well presented and illuminated which makes this a photographers heaven! It's very easy to take photos of everything ... read more

Hello my fellow travellers! We left early this morning, parting with a big hug for Jerson and Laila. I know I'll meet them again for sure, they felt like kindred souls in the couch surfing community and I'm really grateful that I got to meet them both! For this day we didn't have any plans other than getting to the airport in time but we ended up checking out Plaça de Catalunya while we were shifting between the train and airport bus, we had some spare time so we used it to take a look at the many wonderful statues on the square. It's certainly worth a view with it's neoclassical style and especially this early in the day it had a rather relaxed vibe to it. This trip has been a good one, we've especially ... read more

Hello my fellow travellers! Me and Ante had a leisure start on this day with plenty of time before our bus back to Andorra was leaving so we slept in for a while and then we headed to the same cafe we went to yesterday and ate some more of his delicious baguettes. We saw a lot of the same people there as we did yesterday so that place seems to have a lot of regulars which is very understandable. With some breakfast under our belts we jumped on the bus and went back to Barcelona, same as on our way up we enjoyed the lovely Andorran landscape but once we came down to the lower lands we sat back with a movie until we rolled into Barcelona. As we came into the city I noticed ... read more