NEW ZEALAND | Thursday, 6 Mar 2008 | Views [254]
New Zealand .
Hey
everyone,
Well, after
8 months and 27 days we are back in New Zealand. Back to sunshine,
thankfully, beaches, cicadas (oh how surprisingly much I have missed cicadas),
friends ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
FRANCE | Sunday, 17 Feb 2008 | Views [205]
Paris, France . From Amsterdam we travelled to Paris and had an excellent four nights being tourists and visiting the big sights. We did not enjoy the coach trip much again. The driver made me feel car sick, took a 45 minute coffee ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
NETHERLANDS | Friday, 1 Feb 2008 | Views [864]
Amsterdam, the Netherlands. From Berlin, we caught a coach to Amsterdam. A coach will never be our first choice for transportation but, as no airline flew this route and the train cost about a €100 each, at only €91 for the both of us a coach is ... Read more >
Tags: Markets
GERMANY | Thursday, 24 Jan 2008 | Views [406]
Gotzis, Austria, Zurich, Switzerland, Munich, and Berlin, Germany. Hey everyone, Hope you are all well, s or ry f or the delay in updating you all. I managed to write a draft version of our trip up until Germany while away that I ... Read more >
Tags: Scams & Robberies
AUSTRIA | Sunday, 6 Jan 2008 | Views [435]
Graz, Fusenfeld, Gotzis and Innsbruck, Austria. Hey everyone, Merry Christmas to you all and we hope you all had good New Years. We have just spent the last seven weeks in Austria including the last two weeks in Gotzis with Renate's ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
AUSTRIA | Tuesday, 18 Dec 2007 | Views [421]
Graz, greater Styria, Hungary and Slovenia. Hey everyone, We returned to Graz last weekend and have been staying with Renate again. This Friday we will catch an eight-hour day train to the region of Voralburg to stay with Renate's ... Read more >
Tags: Snow
AUSTRIA | Wednesday, 5 Dec 2007 | Views [851]
Klagenfurt, Austria. Hey Everyone, We hope you are all well. It has only been a few days since my last couple of updates but since it gets dark, and very cold, here from 4.30 pm I have some free time to spend on the computer and so will write ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
AUSTRIA | Thursday, 29 Nov 2007 | Views [476]
Greetings from Graz. We have been in Graz for four days now but will move on to Klagenfurt tomorrow before we return to Graz later on so I will let you know what we have been up to before I forget. Graz is a beautiful city. It has a population of 250,000 ... Read more >
Tags: Family
AUSTRIA | Sunday, 25 Nov 2007 | Views [379]
Vienna, Austria. Last week we left Chania, feeling sad about leaving our home for the month. We arrived at the ferry port to go to Athens at 9pm and had to wait till 10.30 for the ferry to arrive. Unfortunately, the wind began to pick up and by 10.30 ... Read more >
Tags: Snow
GREECE | Thursday, 15 Nov 2007 | Views [629]
Chania, Crete. Hey everyone, Hope you are all well? At the moment we are still in our apartment in Chania that we booked for a month. We have enjoyed our month so far but only have three days to go. Our first two weeks of sitting on the beach ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
GREECE | Monday, 29 Oct 2007 | Views [441]
Hey Everyone, We have been in our new apartment for over a week now and are getting a bit more of a taste of Cretan life. And yes, people from Crete are known as Cretans. We know the hangouts of some of the stray (or semi-homed) cats and dogs, including ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
GREECE | Thursday, 18 Oct 2007 | Views [240]
From Athens we caught the tube from the sparkling clean, almost brand new tube stations to the port. I now love cities with metro systems. No matter what the language, how far away or how weird a place you want to go to, the tube is cheaper than any ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
GREECE | Friday, 12 Oct 2007 | Views [376]
After our train trip across the width of Italy, we arrived at Brindisi. We managed our first kilometre with backpacks on. Finally managed to find an open ticket office and bought two tickets for a cabin on the ferry. The tickets cost half price because ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
ITALY | Thursday, 4 Oct 2007 | Views [215]
Hey everyone, Sorry it has been a while since an update but we have been pretty busy and internet cafes are really annoying! Hope everyone is good? We have just completed 12 days travelling around Italy. We joined the throngs of tourists at all the ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
SPAIN | Thursday, 20 Sep 2007 | Views [507]
Two days later we actually made it to Barcelona. On our first attempt at getting there the train was full for two days. So we went back to Geraldine's, reserved two tickets on the phone, and hung around for two more nights. We had a few vino tintos in ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
SPAIN | Monday, 10 Sep 2007 | Views [339] | Comments [1]
El Contador, Almeria, Spain. Welcome to a world of sunshine, where the almond trees grow, the sky is always blue and the English are invading. We arrived in Spain almost two weeks ago on our Ryan Air flight. After a mad crush to get on the plane ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 28 Aug 2007 | Views [282]
For the past two weeks we have been staying with Ol’s aunt and uncle in Suffolk. Staying with three, then two, cats, as, unfortunately, one of them had a mishap on the road, 11 chickens, then 10, as one passed on due to natural causes (we did not eat ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 21 Aug 2007 | Views [221]
The Trip As part of my birthday present, for yesterday, Ol and I spent a weekend in London to see some of the sights. We went down by train from Suffolk, where are staying with Ol's aunty, to London to stay with Ol's cousin Chloe from Friday afternoon ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 9 Aug 2007 | Views [392]
Hey Everyone, From one English village to another - we have been staying in Bassingbourn, a small village 20 minutes south of Cambridge, with my aunt for the last 11 days. This village contains a shop, a bakery, two pubs, three hairdressers and a park, ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 30 Jul 2007 | Views [319]
Hey everyone, Well, we left Devon over two weeks ago now (I need to start writing more regularly) and we have been staying with Ol's Nan in Whittlebury. We had another joyless four hour train journey from Brixham to London. We got back on the terrible ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 12 Jul 2007 | Views [212]
Hey everyone, Hope everyone is good? It has been a little while since I last wrote but for the last 2 weeks we have been in Brixham, which is in Devon, which is in South-West England, in case you didn't know. We came to visit my grandma who I haven't ... Read more >
Tags: People
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 4 Jul 2007 | Views [257]
Hey Everyone, We have left Vietnam now and are in London - like every good kiwi on their OE but we left on Monday for Devon, South-West England to stay with my Grandma. London was a bit overwhelming. When we arrived we had to catch the tube to Ol's ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
VIETNAM | Wednesday, 27 Jun 2007 | Views [368]
Hey Everyone, I'm sitting in our hotel room at the Royal Saigon in Ho Chi Minh City. It is incredible noisy with 8 million people tooting in the traffic and sticky with 100% humidity. The tour finished today and most of the group continued on to Cambodia.... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
VIETNAM | Tuesday, 26 Jun 2007 | Views [204]
Hey Everyone, Hope you are all good. I'm going to try not to make this too long but I have been in Vietnam 6 days now and been up to quite a lot. I will try and leave out all the boring, useless details so you get to read the good stuff. So far I have ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
THAILAND | Wednesday, 20 Jun 2007 | Views [343]
Hey everyone, I wrote the below three days ago while in Bangkok but this is the first chance i have to upload it. Will let you know all about Vietnam as soon as i have the time to write about it - but so far its going great. Greetings from hectic Bangkok.... Read more >
Tags: Culture
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 12 Jun 2007 | Views [414]
Hey everyone, Well, we only have 3 more days in Australia - the 20 days went so fast. We leave for the airport on Thursday night for a 12.25am flight to Bangkok for our 2 night stopover before our 12 days in Vietnam. Not too sure if, when or where we ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 6 Jun 2007 | Views [237]
Hey everyone, I’m writing this while sitting outside in the sunshine, on the beach, just got back from a warm ocean swim and turning a wonderful tan colour. Or not. Really I am sitting under cover, in long pants, avoiding the rain. The spring rolls are ... Read more >
Tags: Lost!
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 30 May 2007 | Views [168]
Hey Everyone, Hope you're all good - though having only been away for four days I'm sure not too much has changed. Well Australia is Australia as most of you know it. It is hotter and sunny than home. However, it is not as hot as I hoped. I wouldn't ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
NEW ZEALAND | Saturday, 26 May 2007 | Views [426]
Hey everyone, Just a quick note to show you all that you have been added to our My World Journal as promised. Getting pretty excited as we leave for the airport in under 12 hours now. SCARY. Am all packed now with not much else to do but find things ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
