BRAZIL | Wednesday, 29 Apr 2009 | Views [525]
March 6 th – 9 th
Ouro Preto lies at about 1100m above
sea level, some seven hours north of Rio. I was desperate to get some
sleep on the night bus there but the twisty mountain roads ensured
that was not to be ... Read more >
BRAZIL | Sunday, 19 Apr 2009 | Views [932]
Helen and I went
hang gliding with two guys we'd met at the breakfast table one
morning at our hostel – Gianluca (Italian) and Marijan (Swedish).
When we saw the view from Pedra Bonita, where we were to run off a
wooden board, Helen, Marijan and ... Read more >
BRAZIL | Wednesday, 15 Apr 2009 | Views [444]
March 2 nd - March 6 th
Being in Rio for the first time in our
lives, Helen and I had to, of course, do some of the obligatory
tourist activities. We consequently
chilled on Ipanema beach, struggled to relax on Copacabana's what
with vendors ... Read more >
BRAZIL | Monday, 23 Mar 2009 | Views [424]
March 1 st
How excited was I when I was waiting
behind the barriers at “Arrivals” at Rio's airport for my sister
to come around the corner. I haven't seen any family for going on 8
months. I was looking forward to ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 23 Mar 2009 | Views [456] | Comments [2]
March 1 st
Miraculously, after only 3 hours of
sleep, I woke up at 7.40am, despite my alarm failing to have sounded,
in time to have a last breakfast with Luciana, Thierry and Mathilde
and get to the bus station on ... Read more >
BRAZIL | Monday, 23 Mar 2009 | Views [641]
February 26 th
– February 28 th
Thierry, Matilde and I
decided to travel together from the Island of Santa Catarina to Paraty (via
breakfast in Sao Paulo's bus station) and after an 18 hour journey up
the coast, ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 23 Mar 2009 | Views [252]
Looking at
you, Looking at
me, Our lives
worlds apart. I'd like to
talk to you, But where do
I start?
We can
exchange "hello" and "thanks", But it's not
enough. There's
buying ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 23 Mar 2009 | Views [316]
It's raining in Brazil today so I finished off a couple of silly poems I started in Asia ....
The White Westerner,
Is so easy to see.
He beholds a look of discomfort,
As he sweats profusely.
You may catch ... Read more >
BRAZIL | Saturday, 21 Mar 2009 | Views [562]
February 22 nd
- 25th
My fist week of travelling alone coincided with Brazil's biggest festival - carnaval; the mad period of parades, dancing, samba, dressing up and lots of parting held four days before Ash Wednesday. Fearing Rio may just ... Read more >
BRAZIL | Tuesday, 24 Feb 2009 | Views [636]
February 21 st - 22nd The day that Robbie's mum left to fly back to Ireland was also our last day in Argentina and my last day being with Robbie and Eva. I was to meet my sister in Rio on March 1 st and Robbie and Eva wanted to head towards ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Tuesday, 24 Feb 2009 | Views [300]
February 18th - 21st We left Pellegrini, the town from which we had done our excursion to the Ibera Reserve Park, down one long, straight, dirt track. An hour or so into the journey, our driver and his friend tried to help a woman who's car had broken ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Sunday, 22 Feb 2009 | Views [701]
February 15 th - 17 th
We decided to change our plans to visit Salta in the north of
Argentina when the region flashed up on the news one morning. There had been intense rain fall on February 9th which resulted in a ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Sunday, 22 Feb 2009 | Views [498]
February 11 th - 15th
We thought we were driving past fields
and fields of potatoes on the 11 hour bus journey from Buenos Aires
to C ó rdoba so were
just concluding that spuds must be a fond accompaniment for all the
steaks ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Sunday, 22 Feb 2009 | Views [726]
February 7 th - 11th
So on February 7 th I found
myself on the midday flight from Santiago to Buenos Aires, having
gone straight from a nightclub in Valparaiso to the airport in
Santiago, and was forcing my eyes to ... Read more >
CHILE | Saturday, 14 Feb 2009 | Views [289]
February 3rd - 6th
After two days of physical exhaustion in Chile's capital, Eva and I
chose the first tip on Sophie's list and headed for Valparaiso on
the coast whilst Robbie flew to Buenos Aires to meet his mum. Apart
from ... Read more >
CHILE | Saturday, 7 Feb 2009 | Views [302]
February 1st - 3rd
Flying from New Zealand to Chile must bring about one of the
biggest time differences you can experience. It meant that we had to
put our watches back 16 hours, that when I eventually went to bed ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 3 Feb 2009 | Views [614]
January 21 st - 31 st Route Wellington – Feilding – Ohakune – Whakapapa Village – Taupo – Huka Falls – Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland – Rotorua – Waitamo Caves – Kawhia – Gulf Harbour, Whangaparaoa Peninsula – Auckland. Km Driven: ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Monday, 2 Feb 2009 | Views [627]
January 5 th
– January 21st
Route
Christchurch – Akaroa – (Route 72) – Geraldine – Lake Tekapo
– Lake Pukaki – Hunter Valley (Mt. Cook Village) – Oamaru –
Dunedin – Otago Peninsula – Taiaroa ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 7 Jan 2009 | Views [584] | Comments [2]
December 24th/25th O n Christmas Eve evening we ate our sweet and sour stir fry with spring rolls overlooking Port Fairy's rocky coast and watched surfers bobbing in the ocean like seals as they waited for waves. A kangaroo popped its head up just ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 7 Jan 2009 | Views [667]
December 22nd - January 5th The group : Robbie, Eva and myself. The route : Adelaide – Hahndorf – Murray Bridge – Meringie (Lake Albert) – Coorong National Park (pelican observation point) – Robe – Mt. Gambier (Lake Blue) – Port Fairy – Tower ... Read more >
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