EGYPT | Sunday, 10 Jan 2010 | Views [73] | Comments [1]
Everyone travels differently but this is a list of a few special extras we pack as a family, apart from all the standard stuff you need. Our boys are now Riu aged 7 and kai aged 5. No need for strollers: this is the first time this has been ... Read more >
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EGYPT | Saturday, 9 Jan 2010 | Photo Gallery
Luxor, Valley of the Kings, Aswan & Abu Simbel
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EGYPT | Friday, 1 Jan 2010 | Views [337]
January 1st 2010 finds us staying with a Nubian called Mustafa who definitely has the house with the best view in the whole of Aswan. Perched on the roof as the sun sets over the Nile and the desert beyond, you can pretend that ... Read more >
Tags: new year, aswan, nubian, india, flat
EGYPT | Monday, 28 Dec 2009 | Views [46]
"Well that was a nice easy day. We didn't do much". "No" replied Yuki "Just six tombs in the valley of the Kings and Tutenkamun's tomb" We looked at each other and laughed aloud. Travelling in Egypt can we a bit like ... Read more >
Tags: valley of the kings, pharoh, archaelogy, tombs
EGYPT | Sunday, 27 Dec 2009 | Photo Gallery
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EGYPT | Sunday, 27 Dec 2009 | Views [32]
Well that was exciting! Waiting in Cairo airport for our flight to Luxor, we weren't particularly surprised or alarmed when 'flight delayed' appeared on the departures board. The flight was supposed to be 40 minutes late. So with 10 minutes ... Read more >
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EGYPT | Friday, 25 Dec 2009 | Views [37]
Anyone thinks Cairo is a dirty and polluted third world city then they obviously haven't been to a dirty and polluted third world city. While the traffic crawls along, the traffic lights are ignored and the driving is pretty haphazard, at least your ... Read more >
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EGYPT | Monday, 21 Dec 2009 | Views [30]
"I don't want to go to the Pyramids" said Kai after breakfast, acutely unaware of the oldest man-made structure on earth just down the road. Everything about the Pyramids is simply awe inspiring: their size, their age, their accuracy. The ... Read more >
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AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 19 Dec 2009 | Views [64]
Travel these days inevitably starts with Google, which for people who like to organise their own travel arrangements is wonderful in that it enables you to find and book the most obscure little experts or services that had no chance barely 10 years ... Read more >
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THAILAND | Sunday, 20 Sep 2009 | Views [322] | Video
On the wall of my son's bedroom is a large photo spread from the Guardian newspaper of a remarkable market in Thailand that operates around and along a short but fully operational stretch of track. I have never been but will seek this out next time I'm ... Read more >
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INDONESIA | Saturday, 8 Aug 2009 | Photo Gallery
Yet another trip to Bali with the family
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INDONESIA | Saturday, 1 Aug 2009 | Views [259] | Comments [1] | Video
In our younger days one of the great joys of travel was to just wander, to have no real plan except to get lost and see what eventuated. Sometimes it really didn't work and we'd end up in some tricky situations, more often than not it was a pleasing ... Read more >
Tags: bali, volcano, island, beauty
INDIA | Tuesday, 7 Jul 2009 | Views [336]
In December 2008 I headed off to India with my new iPhone, setting myself the simple task to see if I could twitter about my travels as I went. Just as an experiment. As soon as we landed in Mumbai I couldn't even get the thing to connect to any of ... Read more >
Tags: iphone, app store, apple, travel applications, mobile
INDONESIA | Tuesday, 7 Jul 2009 | Views [95]
At pre-school our four year old has been learning all sorts of rhymes and songs in both English and Japanese, and he has the wonderful habit of singing loudly to himself from about 7am or particularly when he is tired. Not being Dyslexic he has no trouble ... Read more >
Tags: dyslexia, ducks, bali, songs, perspective boys, travel with children
CHINA | Thursday, 4 Jun 2009 | Views [201] | Video
It was strange days to be in China. Perhaps even stranger to be reflecting on these moments 20 years on. This is a well written piece about the iconic figure that stopped a line of tanks: http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/rebel.html ... Read more >
Tags: tiananmen, courage, democracy
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 4 May 2009 | Views [317]
This is true. Honest to God. Someone, somewhere in the world has actually put a lump of fried SPAM on top of a ball of rice, wrap it in a piece of limp seaweed and have the temerity to call it Sushi. There should be laws against this sought of thing.... Read more >
Tags: sushi, spam, food, japanese, cuisine, criminal behaviour
INDIA | Thursday, 1 Jan 2009 | Photo Gallery
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INDIA | Monday, 22 Dec 2008 | Photo Gallery
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INDIA | Saturday, 20 Dec 2008 | Views [322]
3am. Bombay International Airport. I'd just landed and this was my introduction to travel outside Europe and America. I had no guidebook, no idea what to do, where to go or how to get there and was, ahem, totally unprepared. I sat down to ponder my ... Read more >
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INDIA | Friday, 19 Dec 2008 | Photo Gallery
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AUSTRALIA | Monday, 6 Oct 2008 | Views [1021] | Comments [5]
I have seen the first few of these several times before, but never seen anyone take it so far. Re-posted for your enjoyment:
SOCIALISM: You have 2 cows You give one to your neighbour.
COMMUNISM: You have 2 cows The State takes both and gives ... Read more >
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INDONESIA | Tuesday, 22 Jul 2008 | Views [361]
One of the things I've been considering on this trip is that of all the travel web sites in the world, the one I usually start with is ... Google. Not Lonely Planet or Trip Advisor or World Nomads. These I use to plan our trip and I ... Read more >
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INDONESIA | Sunday, 20 Jul 2008 | Photo Gallery
Our adventures from winter
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INDONESIA | Wednesday, 16 Jul 2008 | Views [370]
"A massage"
"Sarong?"
"a bracelet for your boy"
"Where are you from?"
"A kite mister?"
"You need car?"
Local street hawkers hassle you all the time trying to flog you ... Read more >
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INDONESIA | Monday, 14 Jul 2008 | Views [313]
4am. Dark. Even the cocks are asleep.
"Yohawaaaw. Awwwwwwwaaaaaahhhhhhhhh. Yohawaaaw. Awwwwwwwaaaaaahhhhhhhhh." The wailing call to prayer goes on and on and on.
We have two enduring memories from Lombok of many years ago:... Read more >
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INDONESIA | Monday, 14 Jul 2008 | Photo Gallery
From our Winter adventure ...
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INDONESIA | Sunday, 13 Jul 2008 | Views [482] | Comments [2]
"Is that it?" Yuki looked decidedly dubious.
The GiliCat was described as the fastest way to get from Bali to the Gili Islands off the northern coast of Lombok, but the boat before us looked tiny. Divided by the Wallace Line , Bali ... Read more >
Tags: vomit, lombok, bali, ferry, disaster, more vomit, travel with children
INDONESIA | Monday, 7 Jul 2008 | Views [338]
After Bali I was slightly surprised at the general level of poverty on Java. Not extreme poverty but the sheer volume of Becak drivers willing to pedal you around for a pitance spoke volumes. Despite the vibrant market along Marlborough Street, there ... Read more >
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INDONESIA | Monday, 7 Jul 2008 | Views [1015]
To walk to the Sultan's Water Palace in Yogyakarta you have to pass through the bird market. As you approach, many of the shops only display bamboo bird cages and it passes through your mind that maybe they have removed all the birds because of the ... Read more >
Tags: bird flu, java, google, indonesia, yogyakarta, doctor, hospital, near miss
INDONESIA | Saturday, 5 Jul 2008 | Photo Gallery
Adventures on Central Java
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