Australia

Today we arrived in Melbourne airport. I have been looking forward to this for a while now so it's really nice to be here. We got out very quickly, normally our bags are at the bottom, so that made a change! We had a slight issue when we landed, my ...

 

Goodbye Edinburgh, Hello World

Well, apparently our time is nearly up and we're having to return to dear old Blighty in a couple of weeks. Life's a beach, isn't it? Well it is for us at the moment, anyway. We've been in Thailand for around six weeks now. It's the kind of place wh...

 

European Getaway

Before arriving in Nice today we stopped off at a French perfumary called Fragonard. We had a tour of the lab, heard about the elusive "Nose", who makes up the purfumes for each factory. Apparently it takes something like 1000kg of flowers ...

 

Look out for Kiwis !!

DAY 0 On the 19th of December (a Tuesday) after a pretty nice Christmas lunch with my working team in a nice restaurant in town (I shouldn’t have had so much wine…), I took the plane from Melbourne to land in Christchurch, where I was joined a couple ...

 

bali/malaysia 2005

Well I have finally made it out of the country on my first trip overseas. Like many Australians, my first trip is to Bali, Indonesia. The trip finally came after months of waiting for these holidays to begin. I have to admit though, I do not think i wa...

 

Great Ocean Rd

My alarm woke me at 6am, only had 3hrs sleep (this seemed to be the average sleep I was getting recently). Great just made it in time for my tour bus, did not know what to expect of this tour just so long as it did not rain then hopefully the day s...

 

Round the World 2005-6

From Wanaka we headed up to Franz Josef, home of the Franz Josef glacier. We stayed at a charming little backpackers called Glowworm Cottages, with fresh homemade soup served every evening. We opted to do a full day guided walk on the glacier and so ar...

 

World Travels 2007

Arrived into Melbourne today by train. After the tram journey to St Kilda, we tried to locate the backpackers. Walking around and getting more and more pissed off for not knowing where we are, we finally found the place and booked in. Entering our r...

 

the big trip

Left Portland and headed for the big Smoke!!!! Enjoyed a week seeing family and friends. On the 18th i flew to london. Its Cold wet and horrible....

 

My Gap Year 2001

Travelling with Sarah a lovely trusted KES girl, we set off on our first location - Singapore the hottest place ever! From here we spent 6 months experiencing the delights of backpacking in Australia. On the west coast remember the lovely Brendan and t...

 

The land down under

Cruise WhitSundays Diving course...

 

Round the World Trip 2006/07

We arrived in La Paz on Thursday afternoon. It is absolute mayhem here! Buses, taxis, combis and people everywhere. Crossing the road is a challenge in itself. We went to an Asian restaurant for our farewell meal on Thursday night. Having not had a cur...

 

World Backpacking Trip (Part 2) - New Zealand, Australia, Asia & Europe 2006 / 2007

Wednesday 11th April I Woke at 5am as train rattled into Hanoi. I met Aaron and Natalie at the front of the station and we took a taxi back to the same hotel, where we had breakfast because nowhere else was open before 8am. Then I took a ta...

 

S.E ASIA 2006

We had a little less than a week to fill in before meeting Chris (Andrews older brother)in Laos so decided to spend it on yet another tropical island! We didn't have enough time or funds to get down to the desired southern Thailand islands so we settle...

 

2006 Holiday

 

Australia

Since I've fallen just a little bit behind with my blogging i thought the best thing to do might be to combine my oz experiences to date into just one mammoth journal - easier for me anyway, maybe not you the reader!! A lot seems to have happened in...

 

Travelling 2006

We had a couple of nights in Rotorua, which is a beautiful place, but it smells so bad!!! It's like rotten eggs, apparently it's sulpher. The first night in Rotorua, we didn't do much, we just chilled out in the geothermally heated pool, which was s...

 

South Australia, Victoria and ACT

We spent a couple of nights here, to recouperate from the long days of driving across the Nullabor. Our first evening was eventful as we noticed a lot of kangaroos in the campground. One approached our van and before we knew it, had lunged for our ba...

 

Nov 2006 : The Devil in Tassie? Pfff, même pas peur !

Hi guys, Here I am again. And this time I thought I might just give it a go and try to write this in English. Of course, it’s not gonna be as hilarious as the usual stuff (oui, mes chevilles vont très bien, merci de vous inquiéter) but I’l...

 

Melbourne, Australia @ 2001

Argued with him....so run away to Melbourne with my friend...so appreciated him be my accompany at that time.......

 

3 weeks to go in London

Starting this off 9 months into the trip probably seems a bit strange but I've decided that I would like to have some type of memory like this that is official rather than lots of bits and pieces and scribbled bits of paper all over the place when I do...

 

Southeast Asia 2006/07

Well after arriving from the so clean city of Singapore, I quickly made my way to the southern bus station direct from the airport. I caught a bus to Damnoen Saduak and the following morning booked out a boat from a nice man Aree (081 9415952). That...

 

Thailand 07

Hi Yal, what a great website this is, we can upload our photos and write little notes for anyone who wants to have a browse. … Started in Pattaya, bout 2 hrs south/west of bangkok. Everyone drives big brand new utes or little scooters, its crazy drivi...

 

The Pacific, NZ and a tiny bit of Oz

Dunedin is a nice but fairly quiet town. We found the world's steepest street - Badwin st and drove to the top and held our breath on the steep descent! Then we drove out to the Otago peninsula and visited Larnach Castle - New Zealand's only castle. ...

 

please insert name for journal here: OK

Vancouver City, the most family orientated city in the world. Ladies "A.A" night wednesdays! Wednesday 10th May Moved hostels today from the crazy people part of town, to the edge of the crazy people part of town. Decided to switch host...

 

Europe 2005

Mozart and Strauss and Sachertorte - and a surprise reunion!!!...

 

June 2006 : Stopover in Singapour

Premières nouvelles du front… Ouh là là, j’ai l’impression d’être ici depuis plusieurs jours déjà, tant on a déjà vécu de choses !!! Mais je vais commencer par le commencement, ça sera sans doute plu...

 

Australia

01 April 2007 Sydney 10 April 2007 Sydney to Bangkok ...

 

One less kiwi in NZ

After saying farewell to the parentals and Cam, Hal's and Ella I headed through the exit gates to board flight EK407 to Dubai via Melbourne. Emirates is a great airline.. the on board entertainment was great each person gets there own touch screen o...

 

worldtrip 2002-2003

I travelled around the globe during 1 year. Continents i visited: South-America, Fiji-islands, NZ, OZ, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, India and Nepal....