Our trips around the world…
As mentioned in the previous post, packing up after the thunderstorm was very, very wet. Our camping gear was wet. We were wet. The campsite was wet. Pretty much everything we owned was wet. We had to wait for breaks in the rain and then dash around trying to pack a little bit at a... Continue Reading →
Whilst the thought of flying internationally with two bikes was quite daunting, it actually ended up being a surprisingly straightforward affair.We couriered the bikes to the hotel in Guangzhou where we would be flying from, and somehow managed to get two fully boxed bicycles through the airport without too much drama. In fact, travelling with... Continue Reading →
Because we'd never done anything remotely like this before, there were a few things we tried to factor into the planning to make the whole experience a little easier.The first was our camping setup.After much humming and hawing, we realised that we were going to be spending around three weeks living in tents, and the... Continue Reading →
After many, many years of travelling—primarily backpacking, staying in hotels and apartments, and getting around by trains, buses and planes—we decided it was time to do something rather different from our usual style of travel.We'd already experimented a little. We'd spent a month in Malaysia doing something of a staycation, renting an apartment and settling... Continue Reading →
It had only been 5 months since our trip around South Asia, but it felt like years. The urge to travel was still biting us hard, however our new job only gave us a 1 week holiday in the summer. This was compensated for by 3 weeks in winter, but that feels like an age... Continue Reading →
We have wanted to travel to Japan since before we even met. And even after travelling to Japan for 2 weeks in the winter of 2011, it is number one on our list to go back to - hopefully to live in the near future! Japan was very much just as we expected it to... Continue Reading →
2 Travelling Kiwis 