In 2017, we visited the UK, the US, Denmark, Norway, Thailand, Japan, India and Hong Kong. Boy did we accomplish a lot. Such as... In 2017, we realised that our favourite restaurants in Tokyo were Chinese or Korean as shown to us by my sister and brother-in-law, and many of our favourite teas were oolongs (we also learned their correct name is wulong). For the sake of research, we taste-tested sakes at a tiny festival in northern Japan, including sparkling sake, and ate a sta

Thanks to having a friend outside Olso and a £17 one-way offer from RyanAir, we decided to have a three-day stint in Norway en route to Thailand. Our normal budget is £20/day (for two people), but in Norway we upped it to £75/day. This was necessary, even though we ate out only twice. Whilst not as expensive as we had been led to believe (tales of £22 pints remain unverified), prices were, in general, double or more what you would expect to pay in the UK. We were staying with

We arrived at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok at 7am, and our Airbnb at 8:30. This was far too early to check-in, so needed to kill some hours. Our red eye flight had resulted in exactly that due to sleep eluding us, which meant staggering down the road under the humid sun and collapsing in the nearest café where we would sit, slack-jawed, for the next few hours until our room was ready. The silver lining? Plenty of icy Thai tea. If you have never had Thai Tea, get thee to a

After the somewhat brutal experience of tea drinking in the US, mitigated only by the patience and bemused support from friends and family, we enjoyed four days of intense tea consumption in the UK. We did not need to unpack our loose leafs or our tea filters, such was the availability of proper tea in every household. As we headed off to Stansted on a bright spring morning in mid-March, our minds raced ahead: do the Norwegians drink tea? And now we know: they don’t really dr