The Can & Cannot’s of Train Travel – Part II

It was a big NO, for the Nozomi... From the positively ‘cannot’ to the ‘maybe can’, train travel can be a fun, scenic and enjoyable way to get around. But it can also be awful – having talked about the two absolute worst-case scenarios yesterday, here we look at things that aren’t as bad…although still frequently unfortunate.   Savings, what savings? Across the world, I’ve paid a wide variety of prices for train travel. In Ireland... Read More

There’s No Shame in being a UFO Enthusiast…

**Many of you will be aware by now that I’ve actually had a major change of plans and am now in Frankfurt, Germany. I’ll write more about the atypical series of events that unfolded in the 48 hours or so I was in China by tomorrow but I thought in the meantime I’d post what I had already written and planned to post about my trip to Japan. It’s amazing in hindsight how you can fly for just 3 hours from Japan to another Asian... Read More