Melbourne 2015 Melbourne with blue sky Unfortunately, blue sky might mean that it is slightly prettier, but it also means that it was quite a bit colder. Well, I guess you can't have everything. Except perhaps in summer, where
Melbourne 2015 Melbourne in the light Looking out the window in the morning was rather unmotivational and as such we thought the sun deserved a bit of a head start that morning to try and make the city a
Melbourne 2015 Melbourne in the Cold Well, the title is a little deceiving as nothing seems to be as capable as Canberra when it comes to squeezing the living heat out of humans. I've lived in Australia for a
Transit Duck Adventures Getting up at 5 in the morning isn't really my strong point, and it wasn't improved by the realisation that I had been awake for over four hours when I boarded my first
Japan 2015 City landscapes It took us a surprisingly large amount of time to find a train today. Like 6 hours and 12km of walking. And even then, the train still had rubber wheels. It is worth
Japan 2015 Adorable Pets The first destination for today was an exhibition by Toho studio, known for works like the original Godzilla or the Seven Samurai. The funny thing is that the Godzilla almost looks cute for
Japan Not Rain but Wind If you would like to build a museum for different styles of Ramen, by building a small network of back alleys (the place where Ramen shops are naturally born), where in a place
Japan Toyoda and Silk First, the joke. The busiest store at the Nagoya train station, with a queue that required portable barriers to keep it in line, was the popcorn shop. The reason for coming down to
Tokyo In hot and cold water For the majority of the day it was bucketting and cold winds were in no short supply. So we set ourselves underway to find us some hot water instead, and found a Japanese
Japan Kamakura (鎌倉市) After being in busy Shibuya yesterday, we went for the scenic route today. Our route to Kamakura involved the subway, a normal train, an upside down monorail which the train was suspended from,
Japan For Science Today was time for the science museum. Even if we aren't exactly fluent in Japanese, it's still exciting to see what kind of a show they put on in there. If was slightly
Japan Nagoya (名古屋) Today's goal was to shoot down to Nagoya for the train museum there. It's a little weird that the museum from trains which were very much operated by Japanese Rail (JR), cannot actually
Transit Tokyo (東京) Our usual method of getting out of the country involved driving to the nearest city and flying from there. This time we decided to spoil ourselves and fly to the nearest city instead.
A City Again Having slept through most of the ferry, the storm does not appear to have been able to bring down either the ship or my stomach. But Melbourne did not exactly prepare a particularly
Transit The Long Road/Ocean Back Today was for the race back to the ferry. We didn't spend as much time as we would have wanted on the last remaining sights on our way, but we also wanted to
Tasmania Oyster Once we had all gotten ready and good to leave, the first navigation instruction was for the 'Great Oyster Bay'. After looking up where that actually was, I pulled the handbrake again and
Tasmania Hobart It's always fun to go onto a television towers and look over the toy city below you. Hobart has one better, a mountain which is twice as tall as the worlds highest tower.
Tasmania 2015 Gecko Tasmanian roads are weird. Rarely does the road actually seem to be smooth but most of the time it seems to have a slight ripple in it, which is infinitely magnified by our
Tasmania 2015 Tasmania The ferry had an interesting propulsion method considering that the boat shook as though they had mounted the boat onto cylinders instead of mounting the propeller to the cylinders. But whichever method of
Tasmania Boat Getting up at 8:30, I tried to make as little noise as you can whilst using a water pump to freshen up. By 9:30 I kind of realised that I had
Tasmania 2015 Koala! Change in scenery succeeded. We found a rainforest to walk through. One of my travel partners thought this was a great opportunity for hiking and immediately stocked himself up with 3L of water
Tasmania 2015 Yet More Beach I mean, yes they do call it the great ocean road, but I don't think I took a single picture today which didn't have a significant percentage of blue ocean in it today.
Great Ocean Road Buses and Motorhomes I've always had trouble falling asleep on economy class planes. And as it turns out, being on a bus for eight hours doesn't prove to be any more successful in the sleep department.
Melbourne 2015 Australian Ocean After yesterdays disastrous weather, we were clever enough to book sunshine and warmth for today. The forecast department caught on. The weather control department did not. It wasn't raining at least, but the
Melbourne 2015 Australian Rainforests Going from the south coast to the east coast of Australia took us through some rain forests, and that could mean only one thing. Rain. And lots of it. During one of short