Fuad loves to travel! A lot! Carrying a Bangladeshi passport means he needs a prior visa for visiting most of the countries. He got detained in many borders because of his nationality but; he didn’t give up - he set his foot to 43 countries. He believes, if he could travel the world despite all the odds, you can, too. Fuad is a Computer Engineer by profession, and author of a travelogue in Bangla. He currently lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
There’s a particular kind of decision fatigue that hits the moment you start researching Kuranda from Cairns. Cable car or train? Which one first? Do you need a car? I went through all of it before landing on the combination that turned out to be exactly right: Skyrail up, a wander through Kuranda village in between, and the Kuranda Scenic Railway back down...
Nagoya doesn’t have a single obvious neighbourhood to base yourself in the way Kyoto or Osaka does — it comes down to what you’re prioritising. Nagoya Station (Meieki): the default choice, and the right one if you’re passing through on the Shinkansen the way I did. Everything — trains, department stores, an entire underground food and shopping city...
Nagoya’s food culture has a name: Nagoya meshi. It’s bold, built on rich red hatcho miso, and it doesn’t apologise for any of it — this is a city that serves pork cutlets under miso sauce instead of the usual tonkatsu sauce, and treats deep-fried chicken wings as a food group. If you’re wondering where to actually eat it, here are thirteen...
Hobart sits close enough to the rest of southern and eastern Tasmania that most visitors end up choosing between five or six properly different days out, and every “best day trips” listicle online treats them as interchangeable. They are not. I did two of these myself, researched three more properly rather than guessing, and there is one that gets...
I got into Nagoya on a late Shinkansen from Tokyo, checked into a hotel two minutes from the station, and had exactly one day to see a city most people skip entirely. Nagoya sits on the Tokaido Shinkansen line between Tokyo and Kyoto, and a lot of travellers treat it as nothing more than a place the train passes through. I wanted to know if that reputation was fair...
This is the 7 days in Tasmania itinerary I actually did, Launceston to Hobart, one way, no backtracking. It is not the only way to see the island, and if you have longer, I have included an honest section on what I would add rather than pretend a week covers everything. But if you have seven days and want to see the real range of what this island does, this is the...
I spent five days in Hobart across a longer Tasmania trip, and I could have used every one of them. But most people do not have five days, so this is not a diary of what I did in order. It is the itinerary I would hand a friend with three or four days, built from everything I actually saw and checked, reordered where a stranger’s trip benefits from a different...
I did not plan this post the way I planned the others. There was no single walk, no single day. This is what happens when you add up four nights of wandering Hobart’s waterfront, its heritage streets, its markets, and its museums, then step back and look at what you actually did. If you are planning a Hobart trip and want the real shape of the city rather than...
I stayed at exactly one hotel in Hobart, Nightcap at Carlyle, in Derwent Park, north of the CBD on the same side of the river as the city itself. Everything else in this guide is researched and checked against multiple current sources, not personal experience. I would rather say that plainly than write reviews for rooms I never slept in. Hobart is small enough that...
I only ate at two places in Hobart worth calling proper first-person recommendations. Everything else in this post is researched, checked against multiple current sources, and clearly marked as such. I would rather tell you that upfront than pretend I dined my way through the entire city on one four-night trip. Hobart’s food scene has grown into something worth...