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Sara Nick - Sara Partington & Nick Bullock

We've both quit work to travel the world for 6 months.
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By Sara Nick
April 2nd 2006
Kyoto Asia » Japan » Kyoto
Having had no trouble finding accommodation anywhere in six months, Kyoto finally caught us out and we spent our first day bouncing around tourist offices trying to find accomodation having drawn a blank on the internet. After a very long time we finally ended up in a western style hotel for one night and a Japanese 'Ryokan' for two more. The Ryokan was the full paper walls, roll your bedding out on the floor and try to squeeze your feet into tiny slippers experience and quite entertaining if a bit pricey. Apart from that we saw yet more temples, braved a [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 16th 2006 | 97 Views | [diary=52961]

An error in Sara's bedtime etiquette instigates a full contact Aikido bout
Waiting for a bus Sara is unaware of the huge space invader approaching from behind
Just when you thought all temples were brown

By Sara Nick
March 30th 2006
Osaka Asia » Japan » Osaka
Osaka is a bit like I'd imagined Tokyo would be. It's a tangle of flyovers, buildings, subterranean malls, neon, arcades and the occasional castle. You can quite easily spend a whole day lost underground. Anyway, we tried shopping but we're pretty rubbish at it and failed to get anything despite walking down a couple of the longest shopping arcades in Japan ( each around 2.5km of covered shops all in a row ). We briefly looked at the castle ( yawn ) and we went to the waterfront where we got very scared on what they almost dare to claim is [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 1st 2006 | 143 Views | [diary=50151]

Nick gets all excited about going on the big wheel
I don't like it, I want to get off !!
I don't like it, I want to get out !!

By Sara Nick
March 27th 2006
Kanazawa Asia » Japan » Ishikawa » Kanazawa
Kanazawa is quite a nice little city. It has very twee gardens, old samourai houses, some nice shopping streets and a big castle that, like most ancient Japanese structures, has been knocked down and entirely rebuilt ( new is better - no, really it is - how many English castles have lifts ). Anyway, we did our usual wandering about, cooked our traditional eggy vegetable pancake dinner at an Okonomiyaki restaurant, were the only customers at a local bar and jumped up and down a lot to keep warm. [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 31st 2006 | 382 Views | [diary=49974]

Workers paint the blades of grass
Sara's bulimia was really starting to get on my nerves
I'm toastie, I'm toastie

By Sara Nick
March 25th 2006
Nagano Asia » Japan » Nagano
Before we left the mountains we decided to spend a day or two in Nagano and its surroundings. We had a quick look at the local temple though we're starting to see a bit of a theme there, so maybe not too many more Japanese temples. The following day we headed out to Yudanaka Onsen famous for its bathing monkeys who seem to live a happy life of mostly sitting in hot springs up a snowy mountain. There were a lot of them and they were very cute especially when they threw poo at Sara. On the way back we stopped [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 26th 2006 | 158 Views | [diary=48885]

Sara steps in to ruin my photo of a monk
Nick steps in to ruin my photo of a branch
A monkey steps in to ruin my photo of some snow

By Sara Nick
March 21st 2006
Hakuba Asia » Japan » Nagano » Hakuba
Well, it would be rude to go to a mountainous country in winter and not go skiing wouldn't it. So we hopped on a bullet train to Nagano and got a bus to the resort town of Hakuba. We found a nice little place to stay called Snowbeds and the owner kindly lent us a load of ski wear, hats goggles and all. Sara skied and I boarded. We had two days on the slopes of Happo One and one day at resort of Hakuba47. The resorts weren't quite as polished as those we have been to in France - older [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 24th 2006 | 155 Views | [diary=48507]

Sara prepares herself for the Olympic run
The nose of our bullet train was on time but the rest was 0.001 seconds late

By Sara Nick
March 18th 2006
Tokyo Asia » Japan » Tokyo
Arriving in Japan is a bit like returning home having forgotten how to speak and not only become illiterate but completely dyslexic too. Relatively few people speak English, most menus are in japanese - even the prices, outside large cities most ATMs dont take take foreign cards and tourists are a bit of an oddity, most signs are of no use to us and we cant read the maps anyway ( which incidentally have no North is up convention either ). Still, we quite like the place and are getting along just fine. Our first task was to buy some more [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 24th 2006 | 142 Views | [diary=48500]

Sara just didn't know where to look
A wooden post and the entrance to a temple
Sara tries to use the revolting plastic models to help choose lunch

By Sara Nick
March 13th 2006
Hong Kong Asia » Hong Kong » Kowloon
A bus, a plane and three taxis later we were in Hong Kong. We spent three days here mostly just wandering about, going up to the Peak, catching trams and ferrys, visiting free museums, parks, markets etc. I managed to buy a new charger for my camera after mine was stolen from my checked in baggage at Bangkok Airport (Thailand so far being the centre of all world crime). Sara: I think the highlight was probably the science museum, not for any educational reason, but to try the fitness test. You will be pleased to know that we both have low [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 24th 2006 | 91 Views | [diary=48130]

A fishy character and a dolphin shaped bin
Temple
New buildings are delivered to Hong Kong in a protective bamboo wrapper

By Sara Nick
March 9th 2006
Kratie Asia » Cambodia » East » Kratié
A day of travelling took us North East to Kompong Cham via Sukon famous for its tasty Tarantulas. Sara, who had been bragging about her intention to try one, chickened out and didn't even go for a peeled frog. I gallantly decided not to show her up by refraining also. From Kompong Cham we hoped to get a boat to the town of Kratie. Unfortunately it turns out that the boat doesn't run any more so the next day we continued the rest of the way by bus. Kratie is probably most famous for being one of the last hideouts of [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 11th 2006 | 136 Views | [diary=45777]

The dolphin is the pair of grey pixels near the middle
Sara's driver demonstrates his best stunt
No matter how many times the cows climbed into the tree, they always fell out.

By Sara Nick
March 6th 2006
Kampot Asia » Cambodia » South » Kampot
Kampot is a quiet little town by the river with the French colonial thing more apparent than most places. Promenades with very French lamp posts etc. The French are still trying hard to keep their language in the second language spot for this country but they've completely failed and most restaurant owners struggle to read their own menus whilst speaking English just fine. Anyway, we decided to go on a day trip to the nearby Bokor Hill Station, a big French resort in it's day on top of the highest mountain in the area with views across miles of coastline all [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 11th 2006 | 115 Views | [diary=45771]

The old casino
Sara goes to pray for a better outfit
Sara is caught dancing in the Jungle

By Sara Nick
March 3rd 2006
Sihanoukville Asia » Cambodia » South » Sihanoukville
Another bus and we were back at the seaside down in Sihanoukville. We checked into a hotel with a pool and did very little for a few days. Yep, sat by the pool, read a bit, watched our movie channel, watched holidaying Cambodians swim ( generally fully clothed ) and that's about it. We were too lazy to even take any photos. Finally, feeling that we should probably do something we bundled into a share taxi for the three hour journey to Kampot. we paid for the 'whole back seat' of the small Toyota Camry that was the taxi but relented [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 11th 2006 | 77 Views | [diary=45768]




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