When it comes to the 2011 Greater East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster, as well as its aftermath, few places show the devastation like the town of Futaba. Located pretty much next to the nuclear plant, this was formerly a thriving traditionally Japanese town. Then what happened happened—it was a ghost town. Things thankfully are…
While I have not sampled every villa in Pampanga, I have done a fair few through my work in the stag party arena. And I have to say that not only is Casa J Private Villa one of if not the best, it is also frankly ridiculous. And I mean that in the best possible…
I love trains. I’ve been on some ridiculous journeys from Vietnam to China and all the way to London, but riding the train in Japan is a different beast altogether. This is the sort of place where the obsession with railways has reached near-religious levels. Every timetable, every platform, every line is meticulously thought out,…
How bad is the Techo International Airport???? Clickbait much, well yes to an extent, but also honest discourse, because I do feel that this was a big waste of time, money and effort. Why do I think this? Well I will get into that, but the salient point is that the money could have been…
Tokyo is an amazing city. It is big, safe, strange, and completely unforgiving if you do not know where to go. Out of all its districts, Shinjuku is the one that hits the hardest. Think of it as Tokyo with the safety lock off. Neon lights, drunk businessmen, ramen steam, seedy touts, and girls who…
As the first city in Papua New Guinea over the border from Indonesia, as well as the next stop on my overland Papuan adventure, I was to be seriously pleasantly surprised by Vanimo. That’s because as well as being obscenely beautiful, Vanimo also exists almost like some kind of weird inland island utopia of safety….
