Aysha's First Around the World Trip

Just turned twenty-five and realized I have so much to see. I Looked into an around the world ticket... hoping to leave in August 2007.

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Italia part one

ITALY | Tuesday, 26 Feb 2008 | Views [161]

Milano- So overrated in my opinion. The city is grey. Our first night in we met some really cool people. My favortie was Rie, a sweet japanese girl travelling alone. In the morning Rie and a Brazillian girl invited me to join them to see the castle ... Read more >

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French Riviera

FRANCE | Tuesday, 26 Feb 2008 | Views [286] | Comments [1]

Marseilles- For some reason we neglected to book a hostel in Marseilles. We met some boys in the train station who recommended hostel Vertigo, which was walking distance away.... so we went. The part of Marseilles we were satying in was sort of like ... Read more >

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Spain again!

SPAIN | Monday, 25 Feb 2008 | Views [251] | Comments [1]

Sevilla aka Seville- We got in around seven and couldn't find the hostel... The streets were mazes and they neglected to put any signs in visible locations. Hostel Nuevo Suizo was and old hotel converted to a hostel. We arrived tired and made a joke ... Read more >

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Thailand in a nutshell

THAILAND | Wednesday, 16 Jan 2008 | Views [298]

I am way behind once again! Thailand- Everyone I met along the way told me a week would not be long enough here and two weeks may just be enough to see some highlights. I cut Oz down by ten days and headed off to Thailand alone. Bangkok- I got into ... Read more >

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Can we be done with Australia yet?

AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 5 Jan 2008 | Views [209]

Alrighty... in Sydney I met up with Rick for lunch my first day back.. we went for Indian... and it hit the spot. That night I planned to stay in, but my roomies weren't having it. There were two German boys and two girls from Tasmania... an English ... Read more >

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Down the East Coast of Australia

AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 13 Nov 2007 | Views [269] | Comments [4]

I had the best last day in Cairns.. I spent it on my own.. wrote some poetry... where did that come from? Drew and listened to some great music. I haven't been using the ipod, but it really does make a difference. It adds sentiment or when I hear the ... Read more >

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Wwoof

AUSTRALIA | Friday, 9 Nov 2007 | Views [390]

Not a bark, but an Organization: Willing Workers on Organic Farms. It's funny though they're not all farms. For our first wwoof our host was a dear sweet older woman, Judy Day. She had her own organic garden with a couple of chucks (pronounced chook.... Read more >

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The land of Oz

AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 4 Nov 2007 | Views [213] | Comments [3]

I'm slacking aren't I? I've been here close to three weeks and haven't written a thing! We flew into Sydney and I left my passport on the plane so couldn't pass customs... it's an Aysha thing to do, really it is. I ran back to the plane and it was right ... Read more >

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Queenstown Pt. Two

AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 17 Oct 2007 | Views [138] | Comments [1]

We headed back to the same hostel and even got the same room and even had Marco as a roomie again. He told me he had to go to the chemist (pharmacy) to get special eye drops... On our last night the first time around we straightened his hair... apparently ... Read more >

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South of the South

NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 17 Oct 2007 | Views [117]

These were our detox days.... I was about 5 minutes late getting on the bus and Jaymie was telling me that he was going to leave without me. I made it on and met our driver, Veno...aka Damien. This guy. He used to be a truck driver... a real mans man.... Read more >

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South Island

NEW ZEALAND | Sunday, 30 Sep 2007 | Views [139] | Comments [1]

We got on our ferry to head to the south island... this was very exciting because we knew on the other end we'd have a comfy big coach bus as opposed to out 11 seater van. On the boat Steve (travel buddy) unscrewed a small table top from in the bar..... Read more >

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Stray Bus

NEW ZEALAND | Saturday, 22 Sep 2007 | Views [460] | Comments [2]

Oh my... where do I begin? Day one we leave Auck @ 7:45 am. J sets the clock wrong and we get up at 6 am... after a long night out w/ our new friends. I napped on the bus, which i thought was a taxi bus taking us to our real bus .... turns out that was ... Read more >

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Aucklland and more

NEW ZEALAND | Saturday, 22 Sep 2007 | Views [154]

New Zealand, what a place!!! Auckland reminded me a lot of Vancouver.. similar shops and close to the water. Right away when we checked into the Fat Camel we met two of our apt mates, Joe and Matt.... sweetest 18 year olds from North of London travelling ... Read more >

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NEW Zealand

NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 14 Sep 2007 | Views [127] | Comments [2]

Let's talk about fiji... BULA! is what they say for Aloha, but it also has ten other meaning, which I couldn't tell you. We flew in to Nadi, pronounced nandi, and downtown is sketchy. We did however meet a nice girl who directed us to the right place.... Read more >

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Kauai

FIJI | Monday, 3 Sep 2007 | Views [307] | Comments [11]

OUr hostel manager in kauai was a sort of born again spiritual nutty guy. Changed his named from Mike to Mikiki... uh huh. He had quite a few rules to keep his way of life circulating around the hostel.... which made it kind of boring, but peaceful at ... Read more >

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