Food, glorious food – eat Tokyo
October 30, 2013
I thought I had a reasonably good idea about Japanese food being comfortable with sushi, tempura, teppanyaki and the incredibly expensive wagyu beef. I knew
Category: Indochina and Far East
Nature’s colours – travel in autumn
September 28, 2013
With summer a fast receding memory autumn has plenty going for it in the northern hemisphere. In both England and Japan the colours that it
Who’s travelling where?
September 25, 2013
The Post Office has just released its figures for currency sales for June to August with some quite surprising results. Top of the fastest growing
Olympic congratulations – Travel to Tokyo
September 13, 2013
Congratulations to Tokyo (and Japan) on beating off tough competition from Istanbul and Madrid and being awarded the 2020 Olympic Games. Personally I think it is
End of an era – bans on popular local transport
August 29, 2013
For many people one of the joys of travelling can be to experience local transport around the world – toy trains in India, a felucca
New swimming star in Thailand
August 2, 2013
We recently got a news update recently from Elephant Hills, Thailand’s first “luxury” tented camp. It contains some fantastic footage of one of their newest
Welcome to Vietnam – McDonald’s free zones
July 19, 2013
It was announced this week that McDonald’s was going to open it’s first branch in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, next year. With a population
Rare sighting of Snow Leopards
July 16, 2013
Here is a wildlife good news story that caught my eye. So often we hear about wildlife problems so when a great good news story
by TMS