So here we are; our much anticipated tour of the Asia Pacific.
Our first job is to tell everyone the schedule as it stands right now so you can think of meeting us in exotic locations when you are planning your own holidays. We promise, if you do come out and meet us along our journey, you will not find us with dreadlocks or wearing Ali Baba pants!!
Feb and March
First stop is New Zealand arriving 30th Jan 2010 and spending approximately a month in North Island and a month in South Island. We leave New Zealand from Auckland on the 27th March.
April
Next we have 3 weeks in Japan spending our time roughly split between Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto with some bits in between e.g. Mount Fuji San. We arrive in Tokyo 27th March and leave on the 19th April.
April, May and June
Bangkok is next arriving on 19th April but setting off immediately for a 30-day tour of Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam then back to Bangkok.
We have given ourselves about five weeks to travel from Bangkok to Singapore and then to Australia at the beginning of July. These five weeks are currently pretty free format and what we want to do will depend to a great extent on how we are feeling following the tour of Indochina.
July, August and September
Three months are budgeted for Australia. We are landing in the North-East of Australia during the southern hemisphere winter. This will hopefully be a perfect time to travel, as it will be dry and warm but not too hot or humid. As we did some of the west coast for our honeymoon last August we wanted to see other parts of this vast country. We’re thinking of travelling clockwise so, North, East and South – plus some middle and then probably back West.
October
2nd October has us in Beijing to start a three-week overland to Hong Kong, taking in many of the famous sights along the way. We are due to arrive in Hong Kong with a couple of days to spare before jumping aboard our flight to Heathrow on the 28th October.
So now nobody has any excuse. See you somewhere cool later this year.
Hi Guys!
ReplyDeletegreat to hear you are having so much fun!
i do lots of work with my nz wine brand to celebrate waitangi day here in London!
anyway, was just reading a really interesting article on cocktail bars and tokyo is THE place to go for serious mixology so thought you could keep this info on the two best "underground" bars for when you are there!
Bar High Five, 4th Floor, No. 26 Polestar Building, 7-2-14 Ginza, Chuo-ku , Tokyo
Star Bar Ginza, Sankosha Building B1F, 1-5-13 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo;
take care now!
and let me nkow when you are going through waipara on south island so i can sort out a mud house winery visit for you!
j and p
x
Hey - great thoughts on Tokyo - we'll definitely check some of these out and a Mud house visit sounds brill. We're going down to the South Island on Thursday so we'll check out our plan in the next few days and give you a shout. Take care. x
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