Trip: Our Big Year Off
There are [36] stories from my trip: Our Big Year Off
NORWAY | Wednesday, 16 Dec 2015 | Photo Gallery
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SPAIN | Tuesday, 1 Dec 2015 | Views [869] | Comments [1]
It was full speed ahead from the moment we got off the plane in Barcelona until we boarded the ferry to Tangiers two weeks later. We had had a night flight from Crete which allowed us the bizarre experience of being the only people in the vast airport ... Read more >
GREECE | Thursday, 19 Nov 2015 | Views [1041] | Comments [1]
Ever since I had heard that the inhabitants of Crete were called Cretins I wanted to meet them as they would doubtless be close cousins to anyone on our school rugger team who met with the disfavour of the sports master Mr Horrobin. It did not take long ... Read more >
Tags: gorges, harbour, sunsets, wwoofing
GREECE | Wednesday, 18 Nov 2015 | Views [860] | Comments [1]
Give us a chance to tour around northern Greece with an expert in Byzantine architecture and we'll take it! My cousin Gabriel is currently studying for a doctorate at Durham University and to say that he is obsessed with Byzantine Churches would probably ... Read more >
Tags: byzantine, churches, northern greece
TURKEY | Sunday, 15 Nov 2015 | Views [766] | Comments [1]
Ask any Kiwi traveller what to see in Turkey and their lists will generally be almost identical: Istanbul, Cappadocia, Pamukkale and Gallipoli. Before leaving the UK Tamara popped over to Gallipoli for Anzac day 2002. On that visit she embarked on a ... Read more >
Tags: cappadocia, caves, gallipoli, istanbul, palaces, pamukkale, turkey
MOROCCO | Tuesday, 3 Nov 2015 | Photo Gallery
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SPAIN | Tuesday, 3 Nov 2015 | Photo Gallery
Two weeks in Spain
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TURKEY | Tuesday, 3 Nov 2015 | Photo Gallery
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GREECE | Tuesday, 3 Nov 2015 | Photo Gallery
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VIETNAM | Tuesday, 3 Nov 2015 | Photo Gallery
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MALAYSIA | Tuesday, 3 Nov 2015 | Photo Gallery
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GREECE | Thursday, 22 Oct 2015 | Views [788] | Comments [1]
After a decently long time in foreign climes there is nothing better than meeting with friends and/or family to be able to relax and enjoy a meaningful conversation. This was our pleasure as we alighted from the Etihad Airways flight via Abu Dhabi into ... Read more >
Tags: car touring, central greece, sunsets
VIETNAM | Saturday, 3 Oct 2015 | Views [739] | Comments [1]
Our plans only started to include Vietnam a week or so before leaving New Zealand and we had a few tussles over whether to visit there or head more directly to Europe to enjoy the northern summer. There was an element of unfinished business in that our ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Tuesday, 18 Aug 2015 | Views [1172] | Comments [3]
One subject that has always fascinated me is the question of how everyone arrived at the place they call home doing the job that they do.
In the wild west there are many tales of settlers with a vast continent ahead of them that had the choice to ... Read more >
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM | Tuesday, 28 Jul 2015 | Views [742] | Comments [2]
Our time in Borneo has been racing by. Along the way we have interacted with a number of people either experimenting with a simple life, embracing one or living simply because that is how their family has lived for generations. Since we got off the plane ... Read more >
MALAYSIA | Wednesday, 15 Jul 2015 | Views [716] | Comments [8]
I'm lying in bed with a whole bevy of nurses monitoring my every movement - the reason? it is day two of our time in Malaysia and everyone seemed to think that that would be the time when my body crashes after all of the busyness of the past few months ... Read more >
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