A welcoming guide to Okinawa including a pdf packing guide, advice for planning a trip, how to get around, what foods to try and some basics. I loved it in Okinawa and I hope you get the chance to visit.
Okinawa
Tag: transportation
Getting around Hiroshima
Ferries, trams, buses and trains oh my! So many ways to get around Hiroshima.
Jeju- Getting Around
Jeju Island can be reached via plane or ferry from mainland. Unlike a lot of places the airport is close to Jeju City making it easy to get downtown and start exploring. We took the bus, bus number 100. The buses in Jeju don't take cash bee, so first I ran off to a convenience [...]
Sokcho Terminal 속초시외버스터미널
Around lunch time on my teacher trip all of my coworkers filed off our bus except one other teacher and myself. I waved goodbye and our bus took us to Sokcho bus terminal where I requested a ticket for the next available bus from Sokcho to Dong Seoul (동서울), which is near Gangbyeon station in Seoul. [...]
Daegu 대구 transportation and Juicy: Fresh Juice Bar
There are not a lot of vacation days this year. Not a lot of three day weekends as the holidays keep falling on Saturdays or Sundays which makes it difficult to travel. So as soon as I finished flipping through my calendar and found a three day weekend I bothered a friend in Daegu who [...]
Busan-KTX and getting around
Nathalie and I had a similar summer vacation so we decided to do a small trip together. We were suppose to go to Busan and Jeju but due to problems like the ferries not running we had to scrap our trip to Jeju for the time being. So we headed to Busan for 4 days. [...]
Metra
The Metropolitan Rail Corporation or Metra in Chicago is a train system that connects the suburbs to the city of Chicago. It goes past about 241 train stations and is broken up into 11 different lines. One even crossed the border into Wisconsin. It's a relatively easy train system to use, once you know where [...]
Thames River Cruise
One of the things we got on our Hop On Hop Off tour was a voucher for a Thames River Cruise, but it was also included on our The London Experience Tour. We boarded at the Tower Hill pier near the Tower of London. We sat inside since it was cold out and near a [...]
London Hop On Hop Off Bus Tour
Our first tour was the Hop On Hop Off bus tour. We decided to ride it all the way through from beginning to end to be acquainted with the city and to learn more about it. We took a seat on the roof, put on our blue head phones and when the bus moved we [...]
CTA holiday train
Every year the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) puts together a holiday train. These trains are elusive since they usually only run maybe once or twice between set times per line per day. The trains, depending on the time can get packed, especially if it's the time people are getting off work. This is usually between [...]