Awards
Best Train System Italy for overland travel (Japan’s Shinkansen were also good but more expensive). Singapore for underground travel. Worst Bus System ROME. Favourite Non-Train/Bus Mode of Transport A: Biking in France. B: Trams in Helsinki. F: Car. J: Plane. Favourite Public Transport Moment A: Reading Harry Potter
Flights
And after one day less than five months away, we landed back in Brisbane bright and early on Monday morning (30 degrees after last seeing 6 degrees in Narita was a bit of a shock)! Not being people to slack off, we had our container with boxes waiting for us
Japan
...because we're heading home (via the Wild West). On Sunday morning we packed up all of our worldly possessions (one bag and many books more than we started with) to head back to Tokyo for our flight home. After breakfast and an important meeting with the local fauna,
USA
Here are some pics from our flight from Seattle to Las Vegas. In 1.5 hours, we went from these forested coastal scenes... ...to this mountainous brown desert interspersed with cookie-cutter housing developments! I find this landscape fascinating, hence all the photos... 0:00 /0:21 1×
Flights
AKA: How we got from France to Canada via a week in Barbados The Wednesday we left Paris was one of our longer travel days. We were originally booked to fly Paris to Miami and straight on to Barbados, but that flight was cancelled so we had to rebook Paris
Estonia
Technically it was a 26-hour day (24 hours plus the two hours we gained by changing timezones), but I'm talking about how long B and I were awake for. We woke up at 3:50am on Thursday in Tallinn and didn't get to bed until almost
Finland
We have arrived in Helsinki, Finland after our 13.5-hour all-night flight from Singapore! We left Singapore around 10pm on Thursday and arrived in Helsinki before 6am on Friday, so we really just had an extra-long night. We all got a few hours of sleep on the plane and are
Singapore
Addy connected us with her good friend Nachi, who invited us to lunch during our final few hours in Singapore. It was lovely to meet her! Some Singapore Airport sights... 0:00 /0:26 1× Finland, here we come!
Singapore
We made it to Singapore!!! Sometimes at dinner we do "a rose and a thorn", which involves each person sharing a highlight and lowlight of their day. Given that it's after 11pm on a massive day of travel (Brisbane to Sydney to Singapore) and we'
Flights
After some (very) late night re-shuffles, early morning substitutions, hard decisions on socks and undies, many re-weighs and way too much mental maths for that time of day... all of our bags weigh exactly 7kg. What these photos don't show are my bulging cargo-pants pockets and the large