About this blog

Welcome to No More Bunk Beds!

This blog is about travelling on a budget as ‘grown-ups’.

I used to do lots of backpacking in my 20s – take up a small job for a while (usually in restaurants or shops), leave the job and travel as long as the money would allow whilst staying in a dorm room and living on pretzels… then repeat.

Things are a bit different now; I now travel with my husband and do not really stay in a dorm room, we do not go to expensive restaurants and such but we enjoy street foods (still a significant upgrade from a bag of pretzels…) hence the name ‘No More Bunk Beds’.

Still, even as ‘grown-ups’, we like to travel on a budget and go to as many places as we can. We are not after luxury holidays or most comfortable state-of-the-art hotel rooms, but like to get out there, meet people, eat local foods, experience and see the world.

I am hoping that this blog will give me a place to log some of the details and memories of our journeys, but most importantly, I hope it can help other budget travellers of all ages and stages in life to find information, ideas, useful tips maybe, for their coming journeys.

Who we are

A – that’s me. I draw digital illustration and exercise 6 minutes every morning. I travel, try out different cafes and restaurants and write about my experiences on this website: No More Bunk Beds

I am originally from Tokyo Japan. If you are interested in, or already enjoy, or can not get enough of talking about travelling in Japan, visit my ‘Travel Guide to Japan‘ page for Japan travel itineraries and other Japanese content including language learning.

I have an online business – 伝 (den) and offer 1:1 Japanese Lessons and English to Japanese Translation Services.

C – the husband. He plays bass, writes music and bakes breads weekly. His Soundcloud link may be hiding somewhere in this sentence.

We live and work in London, England.