Trip of a lifetime

Shopping. A woman's downfall and yet the source of such entertainment and happiness! Julie has said throughout this trip that she was saving all of her shopping until South-East Asia because it's sooo much cheaper here. And she has pretty much kept h...

 

Our Travels

Left Holland today and arrived in San Francisco. Left for Kauai on the 19th. Spent about 5 nights there, had wonderful time on the many beaches including glass and barking sands beaches as well as driving around in our Mustang convertible. Also star ...

 

World trip

After another early start we arrived at Airlie Beach for our sailing adventure on the Whitsunday Magic. This 135ft tall ship was to take us around the Whitsunday Islands for the next 3 days. The first night we anchored at Whitehaven Bay after sunset,...

 

Australasia and South East Asia... a continuation on a toilet theme

Homogenity very much defines shopping in Thailand, and the floating market outside Bangkok was no exception. Repetitive photo album designs, countless fake Rolex's and wood-rounded candlestick holders abound, I must've seen them all in at least 50 di...

 

New Zealand & Australia

Caught the morning ferry from Picton to Wellington, and on the TV they were showing the funeral of the Maori Queen, who died about a week ago. The Maori kingship was formed in the 1840s, when the Maoris decided they needed to unite, to better resist th...

 

Europe Gap Year 2005-2006

Have really enjoyed our time in London. Still feel like we're on holiday even though we have to work. London Weather: Not that bad! Even winter was bearable and the summer days are long and (mostly) sunny. Maybe we struck a good year? Londo...

 

Australia 2006

19 to 22 June 2005 =========================== Some of this blog entry, plus soundseeing clips of a ranger walk at Uluru can be heard on my Geographpy for Travelers podcast at: http://tinyurl.com/yayk3t =========================== To climb o...

 

THE ALLURE OF TRAVEL

Looks like I am going to be a milk maid and work on a dairy farm! I am now in Mooroopna 3hrs from Melbourne, staying in this community backpackers (really nice bunch of people!) I will be leaving here and heading 50mins too Murray Valley where I ...

 

New Zealand!

Well after a 12 hour flight we arrived in Auckland safe and sound! We mamanged to sleep about 7 hours but we still felt like we had had none! We met up with Iris (aimees grans friend)and her grand-daughter Heather in Auckland for a coffee which was ...

 

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...

 

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...

 

New Zealand - Home

My home since 1993. Lived in Auckland's North Shore, schooled at Takapuna Grammar (1994-98), and then the School of Engineering at Auckland University (1999-2004)....

 

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...

 

NZ to London 2004

Our first trip away from home!...

 

Round the world trips 2004

After being taken to heathrow we flwe straight out to bangkok where we stayed in the 5star Marriott Hotel on the banks of the river, it was beautiful. After meeting vic's dad we did tours of the markets at chatuchak and sala daeng. The bargains were am...

 

The First Installment

Massive props to all those that showed. Primo party....but then I wouldn't expect anything less from such a killa group of people. Shot to the boys for sussing the sounds, huge thanks to Stevo for providing the venue and everyone else who gave a hand....

 

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....

 

Around the world...

Arriving in Dalat was a bit odd as it is right up in the Highlands and is about 10 degrees cooler than we have been used to. We had a great couple of days there. The town is pretty quiet but there are some great waterfalls and lakes in the area around ...

 

Weltreise 2006

In Darwin checken wir in Chillis Backpacker Hostel ein. Unser Plan, die Westkueste entlang zu reisen, platzt innerhalb einer Minute, da zwischen Darwin und Broome alle Strassen ueberschwemmt sind und es auch zwischen Broome und Perth sieben Zyklone gab...

 

Answering the question: Do dingoes really steal babies?

So I didn't miss my flight...but actually I almost did. The first leg of the journey was to fly from SeaTac into LAX. If you fly on frequent flyer miles, you are one step above livestock. They won't give you a confirmed seat, even though I booked th...

 

London 1995

After a night in the upstairs room of a pub with an Australian girl called Corrina and a bottle of tequila I am smitten. She leaves a few days later to work in a pub in the Gambia. I book a ticket and fly back to Africa for the first time since leaving...

 

Around the world in 80 days

Well yesterday did not go too great, was not WOW, was ok. I did meet my objectives of meeting some new people. I chatted, as I sat next to a 400BC temple, to an India man, 50, who distributes Coca-Cola throughout India, then as happens when a Weste...

 

LA, August 2005

LA was excellent. I stayed with Tim Molloy at his house in Hermosa Beach. The weather was perfect – cloudless skies and summer temperatures. Within a few hours of my arrival I felt right at home sitting outside one the local bars amongst the palm ...

 

New Zealand 2006

27 March I got to Dunedin and lunchtime and met Phil by the train station. He is the eldest of my NZ cousins. He showed me around Dunedin and then dropped my stuff off at his home. I had a great day around the city, shopping and looking at the Scottis...

 

Aircraft Pix

Love the aircraft......

 

Grand ol' world tour

The Navimag cargo ferry, our home for five nights and the best fun you can have on a ship loaded with cargo trucks, cows and sea-sick passengers. Travelling on the first trip of the high season meant that the boat was only a third full. Which was exc...

 

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...

 

New Zealand 2006

We arrived in Rotorua early afternoon and checked into the Conference Hotel, the Novotel Royal Lakeside. To be continued....................

 

Sal's 3 Month Adventure

On the go again, this time making a quick pit-stop in Lima on the way to Quito. The full extent of the earthquake in Peru started to become apparent as I read the newspaper reports and saw that half of the seats in our plane were taken up by Chilean re...

 

Kiiwis are priimo!

NZ, to say it short = sweet ass priimou! Arrived in Auckland where I stayed at Base Bp`s and had a priimou sanctuary girls dorm there (was almost more like a hotel more than a hostel). Wellington beats Auckland 100%! Had a great buss trip throu...