Destinations

  • Ovation of the Seas Cruise Part 3: Hobbiton + Bay of Islands

    Ovation of the Seas Cruise Part 3: Hobbiton + Bay of Islands

    After two more sea days, we finally arrived in New Zealand! I’d never been to New Zealand before this and it always just felt ‘too close’ or ‘not foreign enough’ to make it very far up the bucket list. Let me tell you, these few days changed my mind by 100%! I cannot wait to…

  • Tokyo Disney Travel Diary

    Tokyo Disney Travel Diary

    We went to Disneyland for Jade’s birthday, and as advertised, it is the ‘Happiest Place on Earth’, and 100% the best place to spend your birthday. If it is your birthday, tell the cast because it makes for the best day. Personalised birthday stickers! Hand drawn lovingly by the cast. Every time they saw Jade,…

  • Osaka Travel Diary

    Osaka Travel Diary

    The time was flying by so quickly and suddenly it was time to move on to final week in Osaka. We’d already had a taster of Osaka from a day trip in Kyoto and I was excited to go back to a more ‘city-like’ city. Like our Tokyo week, we had a couple of different…

  • Kyoto Travel Diary

    Kyoto Travel Diary

    After a packed week in Tokyo, we arrived in Kyoto a bit stumped about what to do. We’d stayed in 4 different hotels over the course of a week and now had 7 nights in the same hotel. I had planned out the days but quickly realised all the sights I’d planned to see weren’t…

  • Tokyo Travel Diary

    Tokyo Travel Diary

    After months of planning and waiting excitedly, it was finally time to go to Japan! We went for 3 weeks from the 31st of October to the 20th of November. This was our first big overseas holiday, which was super exciting but also a bit scary. Because we did so much, I’m going to split…