The port town of Nagasaki is famous for two reasons. During the period of isolation when Japan cut itself off from the world it was the only port where foreign traders were allowed to land and interact with Japan, this […]
Farewell Korea
Today we leave Busan in South Korea for Japan. We have been in Korea for 1 month, 3 days in Seoul and then 4 weeks in Busan. We arrived here with an embarrassingly small amount of knowledge about the place, […]
Ascending Taishan
Tai Shan or Mount Tai is the first of the five great mountains of China. It is known as the eastern mountain out of the five and is the most climbed mountain in the world. The close association with birth […]
Living that Ново life
As our train approached Novosibirsk, capital city of Siberia, several cargo trucks passed stamped with the label ‘Hово’. I excitedly wondered aloud if this was potentially the source of the term ‘Hobo’ which refers to travelling workers who are often […]
