After a night of thunder and a lot of rain and wind, we awoke to a lovely sunny morning. A bit fresh, but you could tell it was going to...

Weather today is rubbish - rains most of the day but as we are driving, it doesn't really matter. We stop at the Maui main dealer in...

We are off on our Hidden Secrets tour and meet Melinda at the Time Out cafe in Federation Square. For the next 3 hours, we wander the...

We decide on an extravagance; let's park the campervan on a site in Melbourne and treat ourselves to a nice hotel in the city, that...

The stretch from Port Fairy along the Great Ocean Road is absolutely amazing. The road hugs the coastline and we end up stopping what...

On the way to Port Fairy and we stop off at Mount Gambier where we see the Blue Lake, which is a crater lake that had a rich cobalt blue...

A quick trip to the seaside after leaving Adelaide; just 30 minutes and we are in Glenelg. It's a really nice place, with a fantastic...

Hindsight is undoubtedly a wonderful thing, as we subsequently found out following our long journey down the Yorke Peninsula. It takes...

1st day here and we get a taxi to the Intercontinental, that is a lovely hotel right on the edge of the city and overlooking the famous...

So it's goodbye to the Land of the Rising Sun and incredibly clean toilets (that have electronically warmed seats) and off to the...

Nara was Japan's capital in the 8th Century and there were some historic buildings to see, so we caught the train this morning to have a...

This is our last guided tour until we hit South America. We meet Mami in the hotel lobby and off we set, using public transport most of...

We arrive in Kyoto and check into the massive Hotel Granvia, that is above the train station. We have already been given tickets to a...

Another bullet train journey to arrive in Hiroshima. Our hotel, the Sheraton Grand, is located next to the train station. We had sent...

Off to the 3 geisha districts by bus. They were all relatively close to each other, but all very different. The first one we saw was...

We leave the very traditional town of Takayama, to head to Kanazawa, but we have a brief stop at a UNESCO village called Shirakawa-go...

Woke up to another cold day, but we didn't mind. Had a nice breakfast before exploring more of this Unesco listed lovely town. We...

Today we travelled from Tokyo to Takayama by, firstly, the bullet train and then changing to a more sedate train, which wound its way...

A day trip to the Nikko National Park and our first venture in taking public transport on our own. So, a lengthy underground walk to the...

Well, here we are in a rainy Tokyo and will we see any blossom? We had heard that Spring has arrived early in Japan and that all the...