Tokyo is huge! With a metropolitan population of 37 million in the Greater Tokyo Area, covering a space 40% larger than London, exploring the Japanese capital is no mean feat. Hopefully, this guide will prove useful in helping you to maximise your time in this truly unique urban jungle as you navigate the disorientating, yet utterly incredible mega city that is…東京都! When you search for Tokyo on Google…
Looking across to Gaia (the focus of the port wine industry in Porto) it’s truly odd to be standing in the heat of a Portuguese city seeing enormous rooftop hoardings with a number of quintessentially English surnames such as Taylors, Cockburn and Graham peppered across the length of the river bank. Though, I’m not a big fan of encountering my fellow countryman [sic] abroad, on this occasion in…
In the 10 or so years I have been travelling solo, I have noticed a distinct change in the way we travel; a shift in how we negotiate the journey. Back in the summer of 2005, jetting off on my first big solo trip to Australia and New Zealand; a trip I had booked over the telephone. I worked my way north, up the coast from Sydney arranging…