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Japanese supermarket
April 3, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Of course we couldn't leave Japantown without going into a Japanese supermarket - and of course we couldn't leave without food... We promised we would stop for a few hours, which will probably work, as we are actually full after eating our boxes of fresh sushiRead more
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Kinokuniya bookstore
April 3, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
This cool bookstore we have found inside the East Mall in Japantown. It was full of beautiful and funny and cute books, magazines and all sorts of stuff, I wanted to buy them all, but I managed to only buy some magnets in the end.Read more
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Benkyo-do mochi
April 3, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
We stood around trying to choose between the different mochis for about 10 minutes, letting japanese old people in front of us in the queue and asking them about their favourites :) afterwards 2 of them found of on a bench and asked us if we liked them :)Read more
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Japantown
April 3, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
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Tesla shop
April 3, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
Looking in a tesla store and sadly discovering that you can only test drive with a US driving licence. We still got to sit in and play around with a model 3
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Bagbnb
April 3, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
A new website we just discovered and used is called bagbnb, where you can find places to drop your bags off for cheap. Most of them seem to be hotels where you have a receptionist hanging out anyway, so it's good money for the hotel, and quite cheap for us!Read more
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Second breakfast
April 3, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
We came in yo have coffee, but we got tempted into having a Vietnamese sandwich too :D the place had only us in it and old men playing scratchcards and live keno
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First breakfast
April 3, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
We stopped to look in at the Filipino restaurant next to the train station that we walked past before. We left with Thai ice tea and some deep fried sugar coated bananas (we thought they were spring rolls...)Read more
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Jetlag afternoon
April 2, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
So our only plan after getting to our airbnb was to somehow stay away until the evening, so that our internal clocks are set to local time. This meant staying up until 5-6 in the morning by eu time, which was not the easiest as we already woke up at 5... My brilliant idea was to start at the Mission District, which is not really at the centre of town, and then walk into the centre from there. Which started out fine, we had some nice Mexican food, saw some cool murals and houses. But then the walk to town started, and it was some of the dodgyest neighbourhoods we have ever walked through, the streets full of homeless people, druggies, crazies and a random combination of the three - not the best first impression of the city I must say... In the end we made in to union Square, which was a bit more interesting and nice. We also saw our first cute tram too.Read more
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Layover at Heathrow
April 2, 2018 in England ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
We didn't even have to leave terminal 5,and it still looked like the biggest airport I've seen, and we had to take a train to our gate as well... Thankfully it was only for 2 hours, which went by fast mostly by getting from one plane to another. It look like we'll be flying on a Boeing 747-400 ,which looks like a beast!Read more
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Early morning flight from Glasgow
April 2, 2018 in Scotland ⋅ ☀️ 2 °C
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Driving to Fes
April 23, 2017 in Morocco ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
The drive to Fes was about 300 kilometres, and according to Google should have take 4 hours. Of course when we planned our first nights sleep there, we didn't calculate a few extra hours of finding a rental car company in the afternoon... Regardless we needed to get there somehow. The drive was super interesting as the terrain changed every half an hour from orchards to mountains to fields and then finally to something more dry, and more what we expected from Morocco. My most vivid memory is probably the forests we drove past where the ground was covered with trash probably up to your knees. And I'm sure we've already met donkeys and goats and humans on the road. Driving in Morocco was crazy but it was all more or less fine until it got dark, and we had to drive on a small, really dark road with Seamus getting tired. I know I was counting down every minute of driving there, even though it probably wasn't more than half an hour driving there, it felt like forever. We actually drove past a really brutal looking car accident, which reaffirmed us in thinking we need to be really careful. We got stopped by our first roadblock police already this day too, but what we've read proved to be true :the King ordered the police to stop bothering turists, so he just asked us something funny (something about football maybe?) and sent us on our way. When we finally arrived on the borders or Fes, we were relieved, but that's only because we didn't know what driving in the city would be like (and finding our riad...)Read more
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Finding a rental car
April 23, 2017 in Morocco ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
So the evening before we left Seamus realised reading the printed car rental papers, that they require an extortionately high deposit on your credit card, so we had to cancel it last minute (I think I didn't want to worry Anna and Andi, so I didn't tell them until they were in Spain, sorry guys) we read on the Internet that small local companies are more flexible so our plan was to just wing it. We got to Tangier, sat down in a cafe with mint tea and WiFi and started googling. After a while we split into two teams where Andi and I looked on the Internet, and Seamus and Anna walked around trying to find rentals we saw on the map. After a while I found a place with a number that had WhatsApp and he answered me, so we decided to go and try them. I just can't remember why, but we took 2 separate taxis, where Seamus and me got into one, and told the other to follow us in another one once they find one. They later told me they were terrified, as a minute later the taxi pulled over, and a second moroccan dude got into their taxi, chatting away with the driver, with no explanation. Thankfully it did actually take them to the rental place. We could not have asked for a nicer car rental, then this one that we just found by pure luck:our car did everything we wanted from it and we even negotiated the deposit down to an acceptable level. The Dacia Logan was a faithful friend to us on the whole trip!Read more
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Taxi ride to Tangier from the port
April 23, 2017 in Morocco ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
I think I can safely say this was the scariest car ride I ever took in my life, an old Mercedes driving on small mountain roads, overtaking anything and everything regardless of visibility. While beeping at them. And drinking a glass cup of coffee. At least he didn't try and scam us with the cost, which is actually really surprising for the rest of the trip.Read more
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Ferry to Tangier Med
April 23, 2017, Strait of Gibraltar ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
After a breakfast in Spain we got to the terminal to signs of all ferries being completely delayed. Our original ferry was supposed to leave at 10. In the end we got on a ferry that was supposed to leave at 4 in the morning but actually managed to leave at 11 with a slight 7 hour delay. Lesson learned, don't buy you tickets in advance, especially if you're without a car as there's always tickets available... On the ferry we had to fill out our own immigration forms, and also some random moroccan guy's form too, as he asked us to. We gave up when he wouldn't tell us his address and just told us to write down whatever we want...Read more
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Leaving Spain
April 23, 2017 in Spain ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
Every good trip starts with waking up so early it hurts, and then being tired already all day. This was no exception, we left the house before the sun came up to take a bus to the ferry in Algeciras
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