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Aomori The snowiest city in the world. An average of over 600cm of snow falls here per year, yes that's 6 metres. It's truly a sight to...

Hirosaki Although I had bought a ticket on the scenic ('joyful' in Japanese) train from Akita through to Aomori, I decided to get out one...

Akita is another relatively large city, on Japan's north west coast. It's known for the Akita breed of dog... I only stayed here briefly...

Against all standard itineraries I had decided to go north from Tokyo, with the plan to eventually arrive in Hokkaido just after the...

The Tokyo rail / metro system is gigantic, yet runs like clockwork, is very clean, quiet and basically just incredibly impressive....

For 2025 I am taking some (much needed) leave, of an extended variety. Japan was the first destination, a country I've never visited....

After a few years of essentially solid Monday to Friday 9-5 work, an escape was necessary. The chosen spot was Yamba, a town I came...

In an attempt to reinvigorate my blogspace (are blogs still a thing? oh well who cares), posting some random photos taken during a short...

Fact: it's impossible to stop Europeans enjoying their summer holidays. By July, many countries within the EU had re-opened to European...

Enter June and the weather continues to get pleasant, the birds really are making themselves heard and my bike rides continue without...

It was now May and the thought of being 'stuck' in Maastricht was definitely not an unpleasant one. It was spring, the countryside was...

Media driven decision-making So, arriving from Norway in Amsterdam in late March on one of the final flights I took an empty train to...

There are many reasons I've always wanted to visit Norway. Of course there is the natural beauty but one of my all time heroes is a...

I've never travelled overnight on a boat/ship before and was curious how I'd like it. The 'ferry' left Tallinn at 6pm and arrived in...

The bus trip from Riga to Tallinn in Estonia was again super comfortable but I was surprised the entire route was just a single carriage...

The bus from Vilnius to Riga was around 4hrs through a fairly unremarkable landscape dominated by flat, open pasture land and pine...

By this stage my ability to absorb new languages was failing and I'd often end up responding with some jumbled...

After rocking back and forth, up and down, for around 6 hours (500km) my train from Kyiv arrived at Lviv station around 8pm. The Russian...

Infamous in the mainstream (scripted, yawn) and alternative (real) media, Ukraine is now a country that many people are at least loosely...

Unbeknownst to me, I've been consuming a part of Bulgaria all my life, specifically the pro-biotic bacteria Bascillus Bulgaricus found in...