AUSTRALIA | Friday, 19 Jan 2007 | Views [1452] | Comments [1]
We hightailed it from Wilsons Promontory to try and get to Phillip Island in time for the famous Penguin Parade which starts at dusk. Our research indicated that the good tickets sellout fast, so we drove straight there and got there with an hour ... Read more >
Tags: beaches & sunshine, penguins, phillip island, ambassador van, wilsons promontory
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 18 Jan 2007 | Views [1017]
After spending the night with a pair of savage possums beating our door down to get into our cosy van (maybe because it was raining), we started our long trip straight to Melbourne for some van maintenance, then on to Wilsons Promontory. Thankfully ... Read more >
Tags: beaches & sunshine, squeaky beach, wilsons promontory, victoria, australia, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 17 Jan 2007 | Views [2255] | Comments [3]
Check out our hard hitting Documentary about Ned Kelly's last stand in Glenrowan, Victoria. I have to say I was extremely disappointed with Glenrowan - I guess I was expecting something a bit more impressive considering the towns history with the rather ... Read more >
Tags: laughter, ned kelly, glenrowan, ambassador van, australia, video
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 15 Jan 2007 | Views [867] | Comments [3]
After a cool night in the van at Thredbo, we grabbed a hearty breakfast and headed up the crackenback chairlift, accompanied by the musical sounds of the continuing weekend long blues festival echoing up from the valley below. From the top of the ... Read more >
Tags: mountains, thredbo, mt kosciusko, thredbo blues festival, ambassador van, australia
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 15 Jan 2007 | Views [1084]
On Saturday we made it to the Thredbo Blues festival, an annual musical event held in the Thredbo village, which is now in it's 13th year (or 14th year if you count the one that was rudely interupted by a bushfire) We got to see quite a few bands, ... Read more >
Tags: culture, thredbo blues festival, ambassador van, australia
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 13 Jan 2007 | Views [617]
After a day of travelling in blistering 40+ degree heat, we have arrived in Canberra. Both the van and us struggled a little in the draining heat but we pressed on with a few cooling rest stops. Along the approaches to Canberra by Lake George, a bushfire ... Read more >
Tags: sightseeing, ambassador van, canberra, australia
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 10 Jan 2007 | Views [584] | Comments [1]
Well, we've picked up the World Nomads Ambassador Van, and have taken it for a quick spin around sunny Sydney before we head off into the unknown. We have to drop the van off in Melbourne, but we will decide our path to get there as we go. Canberra ... Read more >
Tags: ambassador van, stowaway, australia
VANUATU | Thursday, 14 Dec 2006 | Views [2330] | Comments [4]
So there we were, quietly sitting in the airport terminal munching on a sandwich waiting for our flight to Tanna when suddenly the ground shakes & ceiling fans start wobbling wildly. Earthquake!!! We looked at each other, then at the floor - which ... Read more >
Tags: adventures, volcano, earthquake, vanuatu, tanna
VANUATU | Wednesday, 13 Dec 2006 | Views [876] | Comments [1]
I think the Bus system in Port Vila has got to be one of the best in the world! For a flat rate of just over one dollar you can jump on any of the countless mini-busses and be taken to anywhere you wish within the city of port Villa. Just like a ... Read more >
Tags: beaches & sunshine, vanuatu, port vila, kava
CHILE | Sunday, 14 May 2006 | Views [1731] | Comments [1]
The sun is out today, after another night of torrential rain. Ive been visiting the local markets & doing some souvineer shopping. Pretty much every single building sells tourist things of one shape or another. Hanga Roa is a small, sleepy town ... Read more >
Tags: sightseeing, easter island, moai, chile
CHILE | Tuesday, 9 May 2006 | Views [2315] | Comments [12]
Well if you can land the space shuttle on the runway here, it must have pretty good brakes! Running from one side of the narrowest part of the almost triangular Easter island, the airport is wedged between 2 volcanoes at its sides and the sea at each ... Read more >
Tags: adventures, easter island, moai, rapa nui, stowaway, chile
CHILE | Saturday, 6 May 2006 | Views [2027] | Comments [4]
Hiya all, Well here i am in Santiago, smog capital of Chile. The smog is so thick you can only really see about 5 blocks. Santiago is right next to the Andes mountains to the west, (which you can just make out some of the top outline of it, if you ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, chile, santiago, smog
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 20 Apr 2006 | Views [2718] | Comments [12]
G'day viewers, Mike & Mal Leyland here. We were hoping to be going travelling around our big beaut country of ours with our home movie camera and showing you, the people at home, just what it's like - so you don't actually have to go there yourself ... Read more >
Tags: stonehenge, mike and mal, england, woodhenge, cheddar, leyland brothers, grommit, cheese, oxford, bath
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 26 Mar 2006 | Views [1532] | Comments [2]
So here I am, driving a tiny little gold-coloured hired Fiat Punto down south down the west coast of England... The Cornish coastline is really nice, so I took all the small back roads to follow the coastline down south towards Lands end. The roads ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, king arthur, tintagel, round table, england, cornwall, dodgy brothers
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 10 Feb 2006 | Views [8]
Hiya Everybody, Well, I'm back in sunny (not) Sydney after my latest jaunts through a couple of states. Firstly I went for a nice drive up the east coast to past Coffs Harbour, visiting numerous friends & relatives along the way (all convieniently ... Read more >
Tags: alice spings, ayers rock, outback, kings canyon, olgas, sunscreem
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 30 Jan 2006 | Views [5]
Oh yes, I flew down to Tasmania for 10 days. Hopped on a sort of minibus tour with about 6 other backpackers & went around the island staying in youth hostels. Climbed cradle mountain, went to Port Arthur, wineglass bay, some caves, Hobart &... Read more >
Tags: tasmania
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 10 Jan 2006 | Views [29] | Comments [2]
Hiya everyone, Well I'm back in Australia(for those who didn't already know this). I survived the chills of London and the multitude of customs inspections with my shoes, backpack, shish pipe and mandola intact. The tube train broke down on the way ... Read more >
Tags: sydney, customs, heathrow, rockstar, mandola, home
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 22 Dec 2005 | Views [14]
Departing Vienna for a slightly warmer England and it's straight down south to jolly Portsmouth by the sea. Land ahoy & shiver me timbers, there's some ye olde ships there like Nelson's flagship ‘Victory’ (surely I don't have to explain that one), ... Read more >
Tags: england, blighty, merry christmas, portsmouth, victory, mandola
AUSTRIA | Friday, 16 Dec 2005 | Views [2904] | Comments [1]
'We walked in the cold air, freezing breath on the window pane, lying & waiting.... yadda yadda yadda..... Ahhh Vienna '. Oh well, it will make sense to 80's music junkies like me. Yep, I'm in Vienna, Austria.
I'm having a bit of reverse culture ... Read more >
Tags: snow, vienna, austria, chocolate, christmas, travel broadens the mind, travel broadens the behind, hot chocolate, ultravox, snow
EGYPT | Friday, 2 Dec 2005 | Views [1073] | Comments [4]
Meanwhile, back in Aswan, Batman prepares to escape from the clutches of the dreaded tourist police jokers by leaping onto the BatBoat... Well, perhaps it wasn't quite the Batboat, but we did sail a Felucca (small single-masted sailboat) down the ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, egypt, tomb, tutankhelvis, pyramids
EGYPT | Saturday, 19 Nov 2005 | Views [1172]
Then it was off to Wadi Rum , a desert region of sand dunes and impressive vertical rock mountains made famous by the exploits of Lawrence of Arabia, who used it as a base during WW1, and also lived there for some time after the end of the war. It ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, egypt, wadi rum, bedouin, ramses, cairo, pyramids, lawrence of arabia
SYRIA | Wednesday, 16 Nov 2005 | Views [1061] | Comments [1]
After camping a night in a disused rock quarry to evade the Turkish rangers (who aren't very keen on people camping by the roadside in the middle of nowhere), we crossed the border to Syria. Strangely, the soil changes colour from dusty grey to rich ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, damascus, syria, palmyra
TURKEY | Wednesday, 2 Nov 2005 | Views [1745] | Comments [4]
Today we visited Cappadocia, a large area of amazing rock formations & underground cities carved straight out of the soft rock. One area we visited had 11 levels - 3 floors above ground carved into the cliff, and 8 levels below ground! A bit ... Read more >
Tags: relaxation, bath, turkey, turkish massage, cappodocia, massage
TURKEY | Friday, 28 Oct 2005 | Views [1146] | Comments [1]
We left Greece and after a long and annoying border check, we entered Turkey and drove to Instanbul. I had 3 days there to wander around and went to the Blue mosque and St Sofia and lots of museums (such as the archaeological museum, the museum ... Read more >
Tags: food & eating, turkey, istanbul, anzac, blue mosque, troy, belly dancers, termessos, olimpos
ITALY | Sunday, 23 Oct 2005 | Views [702]
Hang on, it's Wednesday.... so I'm in... (checks watch) .... well it's 4am in the morning in Sydney anyway (note to self: much change watch to local time, after finding out where I am & what day it is).
I'm pretty sure I'm in Rome today, there ... Read more >
Tags: sightseeing, italy, rome, cistene chapel, colosseum, piza, pizza
NEPAL | Tuesday, 11 Oct 2005 | Views [1503]
Hi Everyone, I'm Back in Kathmandu, Nepal, after wandering up & down a few small hills to have a bit of a look at Mount Everest. Before that I did a week long trek to the Annapurna ranges (kinda at the other end of Nepal). It started at a fairly ... Read more >
Tags: mountains, nepal, mt everest, trekking, annapurna, chitwan, ballooning, himalayas, kathmandu, thanboche
NEPAL | Sunday, 18 Sep 2005 | Views [831]
Hi All, Well I'm here in sunny Kathmandu, Nepal, about 28 degrees and not too humid (unlike Bangkok). It's nice here - like a big friendly village (except the airport which is surrounded by hundreds of touts & taxis to take you everywhere you ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, nepal, kathmandu, rafting, trekking
CAMBODIA | Friday, 9 Sep 2005 | Views [514]
Hi All, I'm in Siem Reap in Cambodia at the moment and have another day here before moving on towards Thailand. I went to Angkor Wat and other temples yesterday, the day before yesterday and yet again today. They are absolutely amazing, especially ... Read more >
Tags: adventures, cambodia, angkor wat, preah kahn, bayon, ta prohm, siem reap, vietnam
