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Monday, 10 Sep 2012 | Views [671]
Journey begins...
We abandoned our furchild Oliver (Golden Retriever) in Crookwell. Not
sure how that is going to work out but maybe some in the household will
benefit from the increased activity and maybe one will receive benefits
in the ... Read more >
Tuesday, 29 Jun 2010 | Views [887]
Hi All, Two years to the day that we departed we touched down in Sydney on the coldest day in 20 years with clothing perfect for the tropics. It was an uncomfortable flight from Bali to Australia with Pacific Blue but at least only 6hrs. How do they ... Read more >
Thursday, 18 Mar 2010 | Views [771]
Hi All, We stayed in Chiang Mai for a couple more days before heading back to Bangkok. We went for a swim in the pool, and a chat to a norwegan diplomat at the hostel one morning which was quite nice but in the afternoon I found that I couldn't hear ... Read more >
Saturday, 13 Feb 2010 | Views [1030] | Comments [1]
Hi All, A short bumpy late evening flight and we arrived at Lijiang airport which is about 25km away from the old town. We collected our bags and walked out of the airport to find out pickup and waited and waited. No pickup. I was very annoyed as ... Read more >
Saturday, 13 Feb 2010 | Views [769]
Hi All,
Chinese new year has been a real problem with travel
at the moment. We ended up having to fly from Lhasa to Chengdu on a
relatively cheap fight. The airport is 65km from Lhasa and we left
about 3hrs to get checked in thinking this would ... Read more >
Saturday, 13 Feb 2010 | Views [591]
a dummy entry for later.
Saturday, 13 Feb 2010 | Views [748]
Hi All, Tibet has the ability to captivate and break your heart at the same time.... What a great surprise. We were met at the train by Pazu Kong, our trip arranger, wearing traditional tibetan clothing and he placed a tibetan white silk scarf over ... Read more >
Monday, 18 Jan 2010 | Views [916]
hello all, Whilst the regular blog writer is otherwise occupied I
shall offer my words of wisdom
We are aboard the Qinghai-Tibet Railway which is
the world's highest railway and one piece of impressive engineering .It
has 160km of bridges ... Read more >
Friday, 25 Dec 2009 | Views [958]
Hi All, Snowing. Sometimes light and fluffy and other times small pieces but coming down quite heavily. Relaxed for the morning at the hostel before heading to the train station before heading onto the metro. Needed to change twice so were glad that it ... Read more >
Friday, 25 Dec 2009 | Views [778]
Hi All, We returned to the hostel and decided to watch a video with a Dutch couple. I didn't know they were Dutch and asked about the accent. The yellow polar fleece clogs on his feet should have been a give a way. While waiting Vanessa and I were watching ... Read more >
Wednesday, 9 Dec 2009 | Views [919]
Dear All, We had to move out from our cosy little family run accommodation to move into Rudolf hostel which strangely enough was associated with the Santa claus hotel. Lame but true. It only had a check in at 2pm so we killed a little time by booking ... Read more >
Friday, 4 Dec 2009 | Views [974]
Hi All, We entered into the narrow port entrance passing the Soumenlinna Fortress before getting a super view of the old town and in particular the Uspensky Orthodox Cathedral. There was a dusting of snow on most buildings and it felt like we had finally ... Read more >
Thursday, 3 Dec 2009 | Views [906]
Hi All, Long train trip 9hrs. Most of the leaves are gone from the trees
but some still were full of pomegranates standing out boldly in red;
natures christmas trees. There also were pear trees with their yellow
fruit. Looks great. Most of the trees ... Read more >
Wednesday, 25 Nov 2009 | Views [821]
Hi all, Day trip to Karlštejn
Castle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%C5%A1tejn This is a great castle and we did the boring tour which unfortunately didn´t cover the Chapel of the holy rood which was ... Read more >
Thursday, 4 Jun 2009 | Views [733]
Hi All,
Back in Paris and the weather is great. We just went out to Roland Garros but the only way to get tickets were from the scalpers. Well at least we could hear the roar of the crowd as there was no big screen display outside like the Australian ... Read more >
Sunday, 22 Mar 2009 | Views [932]
Hi All, Went to Australian consulate in Madrid hoping to find out some good news on the Schengen zone. Took a couple of tries to get there as the consulate location in the lonely planet was incorrect and we ended up at one of the tall buildings which ... Read more >
Thursday, 12 Mar 2009 | Views [866]
Hi All, This should be before Tangier but cant be bothered fighting with the blog editor. Journal entries: prices on goods in medina;western bad attitude in young muslim people;opportunity beggers.Westerners are worth a shot;seemingly petty theives ... Read more >
Wednesday, 10 Dec 2008 | Views [866]
Oi All, Vanessa still refuses to take her turn writing the blog and as a consequence David no longer has fingerprints and now has frog pad finger ends. We were sitting around on the upstairs courtyard last night reading our books and talking when an ... Read more >
Thursday, 4 Dec 2008 | Views [1004]
Oi All! Not much sleep on the bus last night. We stopped every 3hrs. Couple of interesting incidents 1) a crazy person who was on the bus decided to start harassing other passengers. Bus driver got rid of him quickily at the nearest bus station with ... Read more >
Saturday, 8 Nov 2008 | Views [1040] | Comments [1]
Hola All, Hopped on the bus at puerto madryn and thought no not another epic bus trip. Sat down and discovered that the seats while lovely, wide and comfortable did not allow me the legroom that i required. Mr cranky. So spent the night trying to get ... Read more >
Saturday, 8 Nov 2008 | Views [679]
Hola All, Well certainly saw the penguins. It wasn´t quite what we expected as they were in burrows under bushes and spaced about 1m apart. We were hoping to see a large group out in the ocean. Actually quite a drive of about 400km to get there and ... Read more >
Saturday, 11 Oct 2008 | Views [1113]
Hola All, Just back from 7 days out in Torres del paine NP. We had the intention of walking the full circuit but the track was closed due to avalanche so walked the W circuit. We also hoped to walk to the zapata glacier for another couple of days ... Read more >
Friday, 3 Oct 2008 | Views [1015]
Hola All, We are in puerto natales about 1500km south of purto montt after spending 4 days travelling on the ship puerto eden. Staying at erratic rock hostel. Day 1. Ship leaves at 4pm and boards at 230pm. I was a bit grumpy as we had traded in our ... Read more >
Monday, 29 Sep 2008 | Views [792]
Hola All, Ok so we went to puerto montt and the hostels and town were dives. For example one hostel near the bus station had a room that was about 1m tall under the roof for 8000 chilean pesos. Not likely. So we jumped on a bus to ancud on the island ... Read more >
Saturday, 13 Sep 2008 | Views [945]
Dear All, The plans of mice and men go astray... The plan was to get to Santiago then fly up to Quito then to the Galapogos islands for an 8 day trip. Spent a frustrating day trying to work it out. First problem was that we needed to call ecuador ... Read more >
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