Travel

An aspiration list of our travel plans, which we tick off when we've both been to a place!

Armenia 🇦🇲

Rubenerd has been interested in Armenia since his late mum practiced calligraphy of their alphabet. He has a friend there now who wants to show him around!

Yerevan

⬜️ Ararat Brandy distillery
⬜️ Cascade, and Cafesjian Center for the Arts
⬜️ History Museum of Armenia
⬜️ Hrazdan Gorge
⬜️ Kond Quarter
⬜️ Republic Square and surrounds

Australia 🇦🇺

This is where we live, though we haven't seen that much of it. Go figure!

Adelaide

✅ Boat Deck Cafe
✅ Glenelg and tram
✅ Hahndorf
⬜️ Ingle Farm (an old haunt)
⬜️ Marion
✅ Mawson Lakes
✅ Mount Lofty Summit
⬜️ Meet Kevin and Baxters
⬜️ Port Adelaide
✅ Rundle Mall
⬜️ State Library
✅ Victoria Square

Brisbane

⬜️ Ascot State School (Rubenerd went)
⬜️ Queen Street Mall
⬜️ Racecourse Road

Melbourne

✅ Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre
✅ Chinatown
✅ Flinders Street Station
⬜️ Immigration Museum
✅ Melbourne Central
✅ Melbourne Museum
✅ Melbourne Sky Deck
✅ Patterson Lakes (Rubenerd grew up)
✅ Rialto
✅ Royal Botanic Gardens
⬜️ Royal Exhibition Building

Sydney

✅ Australian Museum
⬜️ Australian National Maritime Museum
⬜️ Art Gallery of NSW
✅ Blue Mountains
⬜️ Centrepoint Tower
⬜️ Cockatoo Island
⬜️ Fort Denison
✅ Harbour Bridge
⬜️ Kurnell Landing Point
✅ Mrs Macquarie's Chair
✅ Opera House
✅ Royal Botanic Gardens
⬜️ Taronga Zoo
✅ Wendy Whiteley's Secret Garden

Candanavia (to fill out) 🇨🇦

Kiri has friends there, and Rubenerd has always wanted to go.

⬜️ Montreal
⬜️ Rocky Mountaineer (the dream!)
⬜️ Toronto
⬜️ Vancouver

Europe (to fill out)

Rubenerd went there a couple of times as a kid, but not recently. We have a couple of very specific places we want to go to, but honestly would love the time (and leave, cough) to just spent a month exploring.

Ukraine has already been filled out below.

Cities

⬜️ 🇳🇱 Amsterdam
⬜️ 🇩🇪 Berlin
⬜️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bristol
⬜️ 🇩🇰 Copenhagen
⬜️ 🇮🇪 Cork
⬜️ 🇳🇱 Delft
⬜️ 🇮🇪 Dublin
⬜️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh
⬜️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Inverness
⬜️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Liverpool
⬜️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 London
⬜️ 🇩🇪 Frankfurt AM
⬜️ 🇩🇪 Munich
⬜️ 🇳🇴 Oslo
⬜️ 🇫🇷 Paris
⬜️ 🇨🇿 Prague
⬜️ 🇱🇻 Riga
⬜️ 🇮🇪 Ring of Kerry

Hong Kong 🇭🇰

Kiri's folks are from Hong Kong, and Rubenerd had always been interested in exploring.

✅ Avenue of Stars
✅ Bank of China building
⬜️ Ding Ding!
⬜️ Hong Kong Heritage Museum
✅ Kowloon area
✅ Kowloon Walled City garden
⬜️ Lantau Island
⬜️ MTR to the New Territories
⬜️ Nan Lian Garden
✅ Old Kai Tak Airport runway
⬜️ Palace Museum
⬜️ Star Ferry
✅ Sun Yat-sen Museum
✅ The Peak
✅ Victoria Harbour view

Japan 🇯🇵

Japan is, unsurprisingly, Kiri's and Rubenerd's favourite place.

(Every City)

🟨 Animate
🟨 BOOK•OFF second-hand books, music, etc
🟨 Doutor
🟨 Famima
🟨 HARD•OFF second-hand electronics
🟨 Lashinbang
🟨 Lawson
🟨 Mandarake
🟨 Pokémon Centre (for gifts)

Fukuoka

⬜️ Canal City Hakata (looks like Namba Parks? :o)
⬜️ Fukuoka Castle
⬜️ Fukuoka Tower observation deck
⬜️ Hakozaki Shrine
⬜️ Kushida Shrine
⬜️ Kyushu National Museum
⬜️ Ohori Park
⬜️ Shofukuji Temple
⬜️ Tenjin
⬜️ Uminonakamichi Seaside Park

Hiroshima

⬜️ A-Bomb Dome
⬜️ Andersen Takaki Bakery
⬜️ Hiroshima Castle
⬜️ Hondōri Shopping Street
⬜️ Mitaki-dera
⬜️ Mount Futaba
⬜️ Shukkei-en
⬜️ Trams!

Kyōto

✅ Arashiyama Bamboo Grove
✅ Arashiyama Oi River
⬜️ Eikan-do Temple
⬜️ Fushimi Inari Taisha
✅ Ginkaku-ji
⬜️ Gion
✅ Higashiyama District
✅ Kamogawa River Delta
✅ Kinkaku-ji
✅ Kiyomizu-dera
⬜️ Kodai-ji Temple
✅ Kyoani Official Gift Shop (closed)
✅ Kyoto City Hall
✅ Kyoto International Manga Museum
✅ Kyoto Imperial Palace
✅ Kyoto Railway Museum
✅ Kyoto Tower
✅ Nishiki Market
⬜️ Nijo Castle
⬜️ Tenryu-ji Temple
✅ Togetsu-kyo Bridge
✅ Yasaka Shrine

Nagoya

⬜️ Atsuta Jingu
⬜️ LEGOLAND Nagoya
⬜️ Nagoya Castle
⬜️ Nagoya Science Centre
⬜️ Port Nagoya Maritime Museum
⬜️ SCMaglev and Railway Park

Odawara

✅ Odawara Castle
✅ Odawara Station (from Train Simulator!)
⬜️ Okada Museum of Art

Ōsaka

✅ Dendentown
✅ Dotonbori/Glico Running Man!
⬜️ Keitakuen Garden, Chausuyamacho
✅ Kobe Port Tower
✅ Namba Parks
✅ Nakanoshima
✅ Ōsaka Castle
⬜️ Ōsaka City Museum of Fine Art
✅ Shin-Ōsaka surrounds
⬜️ Shitennō-ji
⬜️ Tempozan Ferris Wheel
⬜️ Tenmangu Shrine
✅ Tsutenkaku Tower
✅ Umeda
⬜️ Umeda Sky Building

Ōtsu

⬜️ Ishiyama-dera
✅ Lake Biwa
⬜️ Otsu no Miya Nishikori Ruins
✅ Keihan street tram

Sapporo

⬜️ Day trip to Otaru
⬜️ Hiking in summer!
⬜️ Mount Moiwa
⬜️ Odori Park
⬜️ Sapporo Beer Museum
⬜️ Shiroi Koibito Park
⬜️ Sapporo TV Tower
⬜️ Sapporo Station (with the pretty clock!)
⬜️ Tourist train (TBD)

Tōkyō

✅ Akihabara
✅ Harajuku
⬜️ Keio Line exploration
⬜️ Imperial Palace and gardens
✅ Nakano Broadway
✅ Shibuya
✅ Shinjuku
✅ Tokyo Big Sight
⬜️ Tokyo Municipal Government Building (three times, and always closed!)
✅ Tokyo Skytree
✅ Tokyo Tower
✅ Tokyo University of Technology (AsiaBSDCon)

Yokohama

⬜️ Cupnoodles Museum
⬜️ Ramen Museum
⬜️ Sankeien Garden

Malaysia 🇲🇾

Rubenerd's family lived here for a few years, and Malay is his favourite food!

Kuala Lumpur/Klang Valley

⬜️ Alamanda (a Ruben childhood haunt)
⬜️ Batu Caves
✅ Berjaya Times Square
✅ Damansara Heights
✅ KLCC Park/Petronas Towers
⬜️ Malaysian Chinese Museum
⬜️ Merdeka Square
✅ Menara Kuala Lumpur
⬜️ The Mines
⬜️ Petaling Street
⬜️ Putrajaya
✅ Plaza Imbi

Penang 🇲🇾

⬜️ Cheong Fatt Tze/Blue Mansion
⬜️ George Town
⬜️ Komtar Rainbow Skywalk
⬜️ Penang Hill funicular railway

Singapore 🇸🇬

This is where Rubenerd grew up, and is still his favourite place alongside Japan.

⬜️ Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
✅ Botanic Gardens
✅ Bugis Junction
✅ Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
⬜️ Day trip to JB (insert PCK reference)
✅ Emerald Hill
✅ Funan Centre
⬜️ Haw Par Villa
⬜️ Mr Prata
✅ Ngee Ann City
✅ OUB Centre
✅ Raffles Hotel
✅ Sentosa Merlion (RIP)
✅ Sim Lim Square
⬜️ Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
✅ The Jewel @ Changi

Taiwan 🇹🇼

We've wanted to go here for ages, and AsiaBSDCon 2024 finally gave us an excuse! Alas, stuff came up. Hopefully next year.

Taipei

⬜️ AsiaBSDCon
⬜️ Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall
⬜️ Guang Hua Digital Plaza
⬜️ National Palace Museum
⬜️ Shilin Night Market
⬜️ Taipei 101

Ukraine

Rubenerd has been interested in Ukraine and their aviation history since he saw his first Antonov. We can't wait to go there one day.

Kyiv 🇺🇦

⬜️ Khreschatyk
⬜️ Maidan Nezalezhnosti
⬜️ Motherland Monument
⬜️ National Museum of Ukranian History
⬜️ Ukranian State Aviation Museum

UAE 🇦🇪

We're meh about the UAE, but the QEII!?

Dubai

⬜️ QEII Hotel (the refurbished Cunard ocean liner)

United States 🇺🇸

We love exploring the US, even if the FOREX makes it painful sometimes! Rubenerd worked from San Francisco for a bit, and has a bunch of friends on the east coast.

Boston, MA

⬜️ Acorn Street
⬜️ Beacon Hill
⬜️ Boston Common
⬜️ Freedom Trail
⬜️ JFK Presidential Museum and Library
⬜️ MIT Flea Markets
⬜️ Old State House

Chicago, IL

⬜️ 360 Chicago
⬜️ The 606
⬜️ Chicago Cultural Centre
⬜️ Chicago Riverwalk
⬜️ The 'L'
⬜️ Millennium Park with The Bean!
⬜️ Museum of Contemporary Art
⬜️ Robie House, Frank Lloyd Wright
⬜️ Shedd Aquarium
⬜️ Union Station

Los Angeles, CA

⬜️ Griffith Observatory
✅ Grauman's Chinese Theatre
✅ LA City Hall
✅ Longbeach
✅ OUE Skyspace
✅ RMS Queen Mary
✅ Santa Monica
✅ U.S. Bank Tower
✅ Walk of Fame
✅ Walt Disney Concert Hall

New York, NY

✅ Battery Park City
✅ Bryant Park
✅ Central Park
✅ Chrysler Building
✅ Ellis Island
✅ Empire State Building
✅ Flatiron Building
⬜️ Guggenheim (only saw outside)
⬜️ High Line
⬜️ Hudson Yards "Bee Hive" Vessel
✅ Grand Central Station
✅ Intrepid Air and Space Museum
⬜️ Metropolitan Museum of Art (only saw one wing!)
⬜️ MoMA
✅ Penn Station
✅ New York County Courthouse
✅ One World Observatory
✅ Rockefeller Center
✅ Statue of Liberty
✅ Times Square

Philly, PA

✅ 30th Street Station
⬜️ Elfreth's Alley and Museum
✅ Franklin Court Printing Office
✅ Independence Hall
✅ Liberty Bell
✅ Philadelphia Jewish Museum

Portland, OR

⬜️ Ladd Carriage House
⬜️ Pittock Mansion and view
⬜️ Portland Art Museum (LOVERULES!)
⬜️ Portland Japanese Garden
⬜️ Portland International Rose Test Garden
⬜️ Powell's City of Books

San Francisco, CA

⬜️ Alcatraz
✅ BART and MUNI ride!
✅ Bay Bridge
✅ Cable Cars
✅ Coit Tower
✅ Embarcadero
✅ Fisherman's Wharf
✅ Golden Gate Bridge
✅ Golden Gate Park
✅ Lombard Street
✅ Painted Ladies
✅ Palace of Fine Arts
✅ The Presidio
✅ Transamerica Pyramid
✅ Twin Peaks
✅ Union Square

Seattle, WA

⬜️ Boeing Factory Tour and Future of Flight
⬜️ Pike Place Market
⬜️ Space Needle
⬜️ Visit Josh Gay
⬜️ Washington State ferry ride

Whitefish, MT

⬜️ Empire Builder Amtrak
⬜️ Glacier National Park
⬜️ Whitefish Depot and station
⬜️ Whitefish trail