Back to the mainland
12 November 2025
Takamatsu to Okayama on the slow train
Other than changing to the Shinkansen at the station on a previous trip to Shikoku, now I am in Okayama for the first time. It seems large and fan....
Short expensive journey
8 November 2025
Limited express from Tokushima to Takamatsu
$32 for a one hour train journey of 50km that although advertised as a limited express still stopped at nearly every station and 3/4 of the 2 carr....
The record breaking 3rd flight
29 March 2025
Singapore to Hong Kong on an A350
OK, this flight was an Airbus A350 and the previous one was a Boeing dreamliner. I no longer know my planes. They are both almost identical, 3 x 3....
Train from Busan - the sequel
19 April 2024
Busan to Seoul on the KTX
Now I am back in Seoul. I will be here for 7 nights. It will be my final stop on this holiday. I am staying in a very well located hotel in Myeong....
My bag fell in fish
12 April 2024
Gyeongju to Busan on the KTX
For the next 7 nights I will be in Busan. My third visit here. I am staying in the same hotel as last time. Getting here was a bus, a bullet trai....
So ancient, so grey
8 April 2024
Daegu to Gyeongju on the KTX
Now I am in Gyeongju. I have not been here before. Apparently it was the ancient capital of the ancient Silla kingdom. This means it is featured o....
The first of 4 bullet trains
5 April 2024
Seoul to Daegu on the KTX
Now I am in Daegu. No one has heard of Daegu. This is my third time in Daegu. Clearly I like it here. It is a city of about 2 million people, and ....
Outside hotel photo include
16 May 2023
Taichung to Taipei on the HSR
Now I am back in Taipei. My last stop in Taiwan, but there will be a bonus 30 hour stop in Singapore on the way home, so for hotel photo lovers, t....
Trains and drains
15 May 2023
Taichung station area
I am part pig, part man, proof below. Today is a rest day. So I walked to the old train station, the area which I stayed in last time. It is all n....
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