Saturday 6 Feb 2010
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Destinations Travel Show
So, to get some more ideas and help flesh out the ones we already had we went off to the Destinations Travel Show at Earl's Court in London.
On the whole I would say my feeling was one of not being very impressed. It was a fair bit smaller than last year and didn't have half of the things we were looking for. We did get about a foot of brochures and I'm sure there will be useful stuff in amongst the thousands of pages, but probably nothing we could not have found via Google.
We did find out 3 useful facts though:
- A rail card in Japan might not be the best idea as we are not really travelling that far. I need to research more.
- There are lots of national holidays in Japan around the first week of May, so it might be a bit dead.
- Himeji Castle is being restored and will be covered in scaffolding. You can still go in, but it will not be as awe inspiring as we had hoped.
We did not get much further on camper van hire for Oz, so I need to research that more. This is being a pain, NZ is easy and cheap, OZ is just expensive. Saying that it's still cheaper than hostels and train tickets.