New York City also known as the Big Apple is larger than life and the “City that Never Sleeps” and somewhere that everyone should visit once in their lifetime. I have lost count at the number of times I have visited the city over the years and in that time I have seen people on their first trips making so many mistakes that could have easily been avoided. (more…)

Road trips are one of my favourite ways to travel and to explore the USA. The freedom of being out on the open road and the incredible feeling of having control over what you see, where you stop, where you stay and how long your each of your days are is simply one of the best ways that you can get to see so much of a country that you might not have been able to see otherwise. (more…)

Miyajima Island and Itsukushima Shrine are two of my favourite places to visit in Japan. Miyajima is located in the beautiful Seto Inland Sea close to the city of Hiroshima. The most famous landmark on the island is the large red torii gate which appears to “float” at high tide. (more…)

One of the best ways to travel from Lisbon Airport into the centre of Lisbon is by using the Metro which is cheap, safe, efficient and incredibly simple and easy to use.   The Metro station is located next to Terminal 1 (which we used) at Lisbon Airport however if you arrive at Terminal 2 which is used by the low-cost airlines, you will need to take the free shuttle bus between the terminal buildings which runs every ten minutes. (more…)

On my last trip to Hong Kong, I stayed at one of the airport hotels and I found out that it is possible to take the bus from Hong Kong Airport to Hong Kong Disneyland. In the past I have always taken the MTR train to the park (whether it be from Hong Kong Island or from Tung Chung Station which is close to the airport) so I was interested to see how easy this bus journey would be especially as I have barely used the bus in Hong Kong on my previous visits. It turns out the journey is incredibly easy and as I always do, I have taken photos so you can also see how simple it is. (more…)

When you land at Vienna Airport in Austria, you are immediately confronted with advert after advert for the expensive City Airport Train to the centre of Vienna as soon as you enter the terminal. I am not joking when I say that you will see signs for the CAT train everywhere you look – there’s even luggage going around on the baggage reclaim belts advertising it whilst you are standing there! There is however another and much cheaper option to travel to the city centre which is not advertised anywhere at all – the S-Bahn. Even though the S-Bahn train makes several stops on route, it costs a fraction of the price. (more…)

The one thing I had never managed to do in Japan despite numerous attempts over the years and many visits is to see Mount Fuji. On our recent two week trip when the weather was beautiful every day, I was so hopeful of seeing Mount Fuji from the Shinkansen between Tokyo and Osaka for the first time ever (the weather had always been bad every other time) but I failed yet again. (more…)

Back in 2012 on my last major trip to Japan, I wrote a blog post called How to Exchange Your Japan Rail Pass at Narita Airport which became one of my most popular and searched for posts on this blog. So it seemed only right on my recent trip to Japan in October 2018 when we flew into Haneda Airport in Tokyo, to write another post with all the latest information. (more…)

One of my favourite things from our trip to Japan in October was that we flew into Haneda Airport in Tokyo for the first time ever instead of Narita Airport. Haneda Airport is located less than ten miles from Tokyo Station in the centre of the city making the journey incredibly easy, quick and very cheap and affordable. It was a welcome contrast to landing into Narita Airport which is located forty miles outside of the city and then having to take a less frequent, much longer and more expensive train or bus ride into Tokyo. (more…)

The view of Hong Kong from Victoria Peak is one of the most iconic city views in the world and is usually at the top of every to-do list when visiting Hong Kong. The easiest, quickest and most popular way to get to the Peak is to take the famous Peak Tram which takes seven minutes to get to the top however there can often be long lines which during busy times of the year and on clear days can sometimes be several hours long. (more…)