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Offering a variety of dishes (they also do gyoza), and with more than 330 storefronts, Hidakaya offers travellers and locals alike affordable ramen, with a regular bowl starting at ¥390. Fluffy pancakes (also sometimes called souffle pancakes) are incredibly popular in Japan, with many cafés dedicating their menus to the food. Flipper’s also offers up a menu of fluffy pancakes, with the price of a pancake dish starting around the ¥1000 point. Tokyo offers an incredibly wide range of foods, so once you’ve had your fill of sushi, ramen and pancakes, there’s a whole world of Japanese food out there to explore.

If you’re flexible on your departure and/or arrival destinations, try Kiwi.com’s very open search options to search for flights from your city, country, or continent to “Caribbean”. If you’re wanting to see a lot of Caribbean destinations within a short period of time, and don’t want to spend a lot of your travel planning time organising transport, a cruise could be a good option. Cruise ships are sometimes criticised for not contributing to the local economy of the places they visit, so do your part by having a meal in a local restaurant, joining a tour run by a local guide, and/or buying local souvenirs in each destination you visit. Only Cuba and St Kitts have any trains at all, and St Kitts’s is a scenic one — good as an activity but not so great for transport.

A light pack is always your friend, and when packing for the Cotswold Way, it’s nice and easy to keep that weight down. With multiple towns along the way, there’s no need to carry much emergency food, and basic first-aid and entertainment is easy to come by. Let’s take a look at what I brought, and what I wished I had brought on the Cotswold Way. On a hike like this, you’re going to be in ‘civilised’ company most evenings, so you can’t hang out in your camping clothes like you do on a forest hike.

The timing there is very helpful for those with limited time; and it’s easily possible to just do sections of the walk over several weekends, or do some of the Cotswold Way Circular Trails if you just have a day to get out and about. The middle and northern stretches of the Way are the prettiest and the nicest walking, so if you are limited by time, I’d recommend starting in Chipping Camden in case you need to cut your time short. We had the whole route in front of us and decided that if we were to spend half a day getting through the city of Bath and its extended suburbs and townships, we’d like to get that out of the way earlier… start with the road walking, and finish on a high. We walked the Cotswold Way from Bath to Chipping Camden (south to north) in eight days.