Between Christmas and New Year we planned to get away for a few days to try out our new (to us) campervan, an Adria Twin. The original plan was to do the South West coast. Plans changed though when I had a family funeral to attend in Lincolnshire. We ended up staying 1 night at…
Yes it’s true, I’ve recently become a dog walker. I sold the travel business late last year and it took some time to decide the next move. Initially I hoped to make a living from web design and search engine optimisation. As readers may know, jobs where you can work from anywhere you have an…
After returning our Mazda Bongo campervan to Japan Campers it was time to head to our hotel for the last 2 nights and some Tokyo Sightseeing. The hotel we ended up staying at was the Sakura Hotel Hatagaya. It was well located and reasonably priced. The hotel staff were friendly and welcoming and we will…
As our Japanese campervan tour was nearing the end our next location to visit was Yokohama. In the planning stages of this trip it was not a must see for us. This was partly because we are not really fans of cities and would already be seeing Tokyo and Kyoto. Despite this the drive to…
Our next location after leaving Kyoto was to visit Meoto Iwa and Futami Okitama shrine. When planning this trip we had considered heading as far west as Hiroshima. We quickly realised that with only 2 weeks driving in Japan this would be impossible, it may have been a different matter had we been using bullet…
Most of the popular attractions on a Kyoto sightseeing itinerary are close to the centre. We decided to look for good value accommodation with parking so that we could leave the campervan parked up in what is a relatively congested city. Having transport meant we could visit any attractions that were not within walking distance…