Given the history of the town, it sounds a bit weird, but the name of our Hotel was “Smile Hotel Hiroshima”. It was not a particular smiley hotel, but very close to the center and well organised. We made a first exploratory walk in the neighbourhood and checked-out the option to have late “Okonomiyaki” dinner… Weiterlesen Japan (3/5) – Hiroshima, Himeji & Osaka
We could have easily stayed longer in Tokyo, but there were so many other things to do in Japan in the next 15 days. As we had planned to travel mostly by train and a few days with a rental car with 4 people, we started by bringing one of our suitcases to Haneda Airport,… Weiterlesen Japan (2/5) – Kamakura & Fuji
Konnichiwa, Tokyo. Japan Airlines had brought us safely to Narita Airport and we had got a first idea of Japanese food and politeness. As we had travelled backwards in time again, we landed late afternoon. First thing to do, as always, was to get cash and a SIM card, which both was pretty easy. The… Weiterlesen Japan 1/5 – Tokyo and general impressions of Japan
After the end of our long boat trip through the different seas of northern Indonesia, we still had a few days left before heading on to Japan. Our boat tour operator brought us from Bitung, our final stop in the Lembeh Strait, to Manado, where we continued with another car and a boat to Siladen… Weiterlesen Indonesia (3/3) – North Sulawesi and Jakarta
To be more precise: Dive-Eat-Dive-Eat-(Sleep)-Dive-Eat-Dive-Eat-Sleep … Repeat. This was how our days were passing by on our liveaboard trip from Raja Ampat to North Sulawesi. Just awesome!! We had booked a longer trip which started with some days diving still around the Dampier Strait in Raja Ampat, two days in Misool which is the most… Weiterlesen Indonesia (2/3) – Eat, Sleep, Dive, Repeat
Apologies for the delay but we spent most of the time under water in the last three weeks, so no time for writing our blog ;-)) So some three weeks ago, the flight from Sydney to Jakarta was quite bumpy at the beginning but then, somewhere above the endless red Outback stretching below us in… Weiterlesen Indonesia (1/3) – First days in Raja Ampat
We stayed for three nights in Melbourne. The first evening we had been invited to meet Heinrich and Frauke, good old friends from our home region, at the place of Anita and Norman who we had already met in years before when they visited Germany. So we spent a very nice and inspiring evening with… Weiterlesen Melbourne and Blue Mountains
We had been so happy to see all these animals in the national park, but in „Halls Gap“ the starting point for trips into the Grampians mountains, there were cockatoos and parrots in the trees as well as dozens of kangaroos on the green of our motel and all over the town, we realised the… Weiterlesen Australia – Grampians and Great Ocean Road
We liked Brisbane. We had a modern suites hotel on a hill with a great view over the town from our room, and even better from the small pool on the rooftop. The first evening we still went down to the South Bank which has marvellous promenade at the river (Brisbane is close to the… Weiterlesen Australia – Brisbane and Outback
After leaving Atherton tableland we headed some 550km on to “Bouwen” which is close to the famous Whitsundays Islands. We had booked there a studio at the “Whitsundays Beach Resort” on a peninsula with the pacific ocean and beaches on both sides, but not on the actual Whitsundays of course. We arrived late and had… Weiterlesen Australia – Eastcoast: Beaches, Sharks and (no) Koalas
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