Seoul 29th March Caught the super express train today to Seoul. I was going to stay another couple of days in the yuppie apartment, as there is a great crowd, there, but he was already booked up, he offered for me to crash on the settee, but i decided to move on............like the littlest hobo.......do you remember the series about the dog?? Anyway, back to the super express train. So i picked up the catalogue for a nosy and to see what food they had, and w...

The Beetle to Korea The hydrofoil to Korea is called the "Beetle" for some reason. I had tried booking on line, but was too close to the sailing date, so i had managed to ring up and reserve a seat.The ferry sailed at 10.15, and i was told to be there an hour before. so being in a town i have never visited before, i cleverly allowed 30 minutes from my hostel to the ferry terminal, after all, it did not look very far on the tourist map................ ...

HiroshimaMarch 26thIt was quite a long trip down to Hiroshima and i was on the trains for about 9 hours, so i had plenty of time to decide what i was going to do and then it came to me like a light being switched on, what was the rush to get back to China?So i decided to ditch the return flight, which was just as well, as i had forgotten to confirm it with the airline, and get a ferry from japan, as the place they leave from was only another couple of hours west ...

Carry on up the mountainsKawaguchiko, Mount FujiMarch 24/25The trains here are great, they are all really big with big seats and lots of room, and they either have backs that move, or the whole thing completely swivels around like on Jo 90 (those of you who are over 40 will remember) so you can always face the direction you want.getting off at the final station was a bit bizarre as there is a Thomas the Tank engine theme park with rollercoasters and stuff. Not wh...

Tokyo and Pearl Harbour Tokyo march 21-22Upon arriving atTokyo station, Jason Bourne was brought out of retirement yet again, and i headed off around the Yamanaote railway Loop in the wrong direction.It was not the end of the world i thought, seeing as it goes round in a circle i will get there in the end. And then i remembered when my mum, dad and nana came to visit me in sheffield and got lost going back to devon and ended up on the m25.they were heading east a...