UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 16 Jan 2023 | Views [74]
Angela's Away is back for another exciting instalment. This entry is out of order for the current trip as i only just
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 30 Aug 2009 | Views [350]
For no other reason than to stop in a country neither of us had been to, we decided to drive through Luxembourg and stop for lunch before continuing to Switzerland. There was nothing particularly amazing about Luxembourg city, but it did provide an ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 30 Aug 2009 | Views [318]
After an uneventful ferry crossing from Dover to Dunkirk, we decided to drive through Belgium rather than France. In less than a couple of hours we arrived in Bruges, inspired by watching the film "In Bruges" recently (the film wasn`t much ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 30 Aug 2009 | Views [366]
To continue from the last entry in my journal, the story goes something like this: Angela decides to leave the south of England after her travels, moves back to the Midlands into a tiny Leicestershire village, joins a capoeira club in Leicester and ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 14 May 2008 | Views [475]
Wow the last couple of weeks have really flown by, as time does when you`re having fun. The jungle trek in Chiang Mai was brilliant. Twelve of us travelled in a truck for a couple of hours to the start of the trek, and spent a couple of days walking ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 3 May 2008 | Views [537]
Which was my first thought when I walked out of Bangkok airport after 9 hours on the plane from Melbourne. Really really hot and humid! A nice lady in an airconditioned taxi took me to Tavees Guesthouse, where I was staying on recommendation. It was ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 26 Apr 2008 | Views [573]
Oops, I've been a bit sloppy with my blog entries lately so for completeness, a word or two about what I got up to in Australia... which wasn't a lot! Doron met me from Melbourne airport and we went straight to the pub for a catch up on whats been ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Sunday, 13 Apr 2008 | Views [627]
So today is my last day in New Zealand, after 4 weeks of travelling around. As everybody said to me beforehand, the south island IS much more fun than the north island and I started to cheer up a couple of weeks ago... eventually! Picking up from ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 26 Mar 2008 | Views [516] | Comments [1]
First off, I've decided to stop drinking milk. No particular reason for mentioning it on here, other than the fact that making a public declaration means I'll be more likely to stick to it. It all started when I stayed at the house in Warkworth with ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 23 Mar 2008 | Views [692]
After spending a day in Auckland, my first impression was: GET ME OUT OF THIS CITY! There's nothing wrong with Auckland itself, just that being back in a big city was horrible. Traffic, noise, huge busy streets lined with shops, people buzzing around ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 19 Mar 2008 | Views [531]
I'm actually writing this from New Zealand, having arrived here at 3am this morning (Wednesday). I was really sad to be leaving South America, I've had such an amazing time and feel I have changed and learnt so much in the 4 months I spent there. I have ... Read more >
PERU | Thursday, 13 Mar 2008 | Views [540] | Comments [1]
Whilst recoverering from the night out in Cusco, I found myself yet again feeding stray dogs on the street. A young ginger dog that looked a bit like Jack caught my attention, because his ribs were sticking out so much. I bought a muffin from the street ... Read more >
PERU | Thursday, 13 Mar 2008 | Views [751]
Well a drunken promise for a "big night out in Cusco" is one thing... but it was quite another when, with the hangover from hell from the night before in Puno, I boarded a bus for the 7 hour journey to Cusco. Kylee´s tour group had left at ... Read more >
BOLIVIA | Thursday, 13 Mar 2008 | Views [616]
After leaving La Paz for the second time, and saying farewell to my new friend Kylee, I took a bus to Copacobana, a small town on the Bolivian shores of Lake Titicaca (read a bit about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Titicaca). I treated myself ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 9 Mar 2008 | Views [757]
Oops I´m falling behind on this journal thing, having adventures quicker than I can write about them! I guess I shouldn´t complain... So I signed up for a 3 day tour, which would normally start with a visit to the salt flats and the dreaded salt hostel, ... Read more >
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BOLIVIA | Monday, 3 Mar 2008 | Views [1175]
Just as I decided it was time to leave Cusco, I randomly bumped into a girl that I had met 2 months earlier in Iquitos and as it turned out we were both heading in the same direction, we decided to travel together. So that night we boarded a bus from ... Read more >
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PERU | Wednesday, 20 Feb 2008 | Views [738] | Comments [1]
After all the excitement of the archaelogical sites in Chiclayo, I decided it was high time for some serious beach action.. so I spent two weeks in Huanchaco, a sleepy little town on the coast near Trujillo with a long golden beach, hot sunny days and ... Read more >
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PERU | Tuesday, 22 Jan 2008 | Views [807]
Today, two and a half months after paddling in the seas of the Atlantic ocean in Salvador, Brazil... I paddled in the Pacific ocean on the coast of Peru!! What an amazing thought, I have crossed South America all by myself! So I left Chachapoyas the ... Read more >
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PERU | Tuesday, 15 Jan 2008 | Views [1317] | Comments [1]
We arrived in Chachapoyas quite late following the broken down bus incident from Pedro Ruiz, but not late enough that the tour salesman at the hostel didn`t jump at the chance to sell us a "special" tour the next day to some of the many archaelogical ... Read more >
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PERU | Tuesday, 15 Jan 2008 | Views [580]
It seems like a lot has happened since my last entry in Yurimaguas, which was only 5 days ago, so here goes... So me and the four Americans set off for Tarapoto that afternoon in two cars. The road between Yurimaguas and Tarapoto is closed until 6pm ... Read more >
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