Category: Site seeing

Sunday morning and we walked up to Tokyo Station, with our luggage, looking all the other Japanese pushing around cases. Rosie and I booked the train tickets the day before to make sure we knew what we were doing, so the experience of finding our train was relatively painless. Once on the platform we were […]

Today Merv and Robyn went to the zoo to see Pandas and we took Sally and Shaun on a trip to Yoyogi Park, entering through a back exit, so that we could walk along the park ways and end up at the Meiji Shrine. I set Google for the wrong entrance, which came out quite […]

Today was a tourist day, starting out at the Tsukiji Fish Market. The fun actually starts before this trying to use Google Maps to get to a place. It is very confusing initially to get your starting direction, but once you start it isn’t too bad. It is also interesting when it sends you through […]

After a pleasant 11 hours of flying (1 stop) we all arrived safely in Tokyo, some looking fresher than others. We then spent an hour at the airport getting ourselves ready to travel around Tokyo. Get money, get Pasmo card and buy a train ticket into town. Once on the platform this very nice train […]

I planned this trip around returning to the Yi Peng Festival in Chiang Mai since last year it was a fluke that we arrived in time for the festival and thoroughly enjoyed it. When Debbie and Neil wanted to join us on a golf trip to Thailand, I thought this would be a great experience […]

Rosie and I don’t really like looking at temples and churches so Bruce thought that a trip to the countryside with a nice boat ride to a beach and then a strenuous climb up to a cave would be more fun. We enjoyed the experience a few years ago so I thought it would be […]

Today we did visited the Hellfire Pass Interpretive Centre, which is funded by the Australian Government to commemorate all those POW’s who lost their lives building the Thai-Burma railway in WWII. We started by taking the walk along the railway line through the granite cutting referred to as Hellfire Pass. It is a very moving […]

After a fairly torturous flight from Perth in the middle of the night to Singapore and then Bangkok, we arrived fairly tired and stiff, but we were picked up by Tom’s Taxis and taken to our very nice hotel. The room had a separate bedroom, kitchen and living area which is way above our usual […]

At the end of our trip, we stayed in Bangkok for four nights since we still had hotel credits from 2020. We stayed at the Novotel Silom Road, which is reasonably cheap and has quick access to the freeway to the airport. The hotel is a bit run down now, but the pool was good […]

Bruce had nothing planned for today so we just had a leisurely breakfast overlooking our laundry, which was drying out on the street across the road from our hotel. A swim in the pool, a walk to a really nice coffee shop, a massage and then a walk around town.