Blogs from Asia - page 14783

Hi everybody, This next blog features an array of pictures from many different occassions, although one thing remains the same...the location. As you all can see, we frequent "The Hub" quite often - for birthday parties, going-away parties, and just to go out and have a good time. It's a convenient little place, located in the basement of the nearby Oriental Hotel, and with Melanie's 10%-off Disney discount, we can't think of a better place to go sometimes. The first couple of pictures are of us along with Summer, a fellow Ariel, and her boyfriend Jason, who was visiting for a week back in April. Of course we had to take him to "The Hub" and show him what we do here in Tokyo! Then, later that week, we were back to have a going-away party ... read more

Well I made it to Koyasan - finally! I seemed to have missed hanging a left at Osaka and had to backtrack but it's all good. On the backtrack I met a young guy who had spent a year in NYC on his own because he wanted to improve his english. He found a place to live on the internet before he went (can you imagine???) - and HE thought I was brave for being in Japan on my own - sorry, I think he is the brave one for heading to NY with only an internet contact! We had a great chat and both agreed that Japan is much calmer and cleaner than North America - and that I am in for a bit of a shock in China:). The train ride to Koya from ... read more

Hello All…well, we thought the ‘delightfulness’ of Kuala Lumpur deserved a blog all of its own. It all seems like a while ago now but we had a fantastic time. We arrived in KL after a delayed Air Asia flight. As a lovely change we were staying with family friends - those of you who remember Wing King (who my Mum used to child-mind (Karen)) - it was his parents Janice & John. They lived in Northampton for about 18 months 20 years ago (whilst working at St Crispins and mum looked after their son). They moved back to KL but had kept in touch with mum and dad over the years. So, it had been a while since I had seen them (I was only about 6 when they left!!!). We were very excited as ... read more

North to South - the first two stops on the road down through Vietnam. In Hue, (pronounced Who - ay), Helen and I ate disgusting pasta that had so much garlic in it, we felt nauseous. Actually, everytime I crave western food I go for Pasta (in India it was usually the only western choice) and its always rotten so now I have finally learned and banned myself from ordering pasta. To work off the pasta in our bellies and to avoid looks of scorn and hatred from locals due to our pong we hired bicycles and cyled for hours around the city. It was great! We both couldn't remember the last time we were on bikes and these were ancient models with curving handlebars and hard high seats so that you were sitting high and ... read more

so we followed them to the happy guesthouse in Siem Reap. we stayed there becuase it meant that we didn't even have to think to get there because it was all organised by our friends in pnom penh.Its not as nice as the one in pnom penh but it does provide free moto taxi service anywhere you wnat to go which is nice.. anyway the temples... theres a lot of them so prepare for an extravaganza of photos which will probably look all the same to you. they were awesome. we bought a 3 day pass and for the 1st day we did the small circuit and then on the 2nd day we did the big circuit.On the third day we got up to see the sunsrise, but were to tired after that to do anything ... read more