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...

 

Australia: Home sweet home

Today was the first day that we weren't together. I went up to the Sunshine Coast to say goodbye to my family, while Alberto stayed with my dad and 2 sisters: Lea and Jaana... quality time with the in-laws! First stop was to take Holly the dog back to ...

 

Southern Hemisphere Safari

Came down to Floriano for a weeks relaxation on the beatiful brazilian beaches! Checked into the only hostel recommended in the "book" to find we were in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of hippies in a room stinking of damp with no money! ...

 

Australia (and a bit of Asia and Indonesia too) Summer 2006

After being met at the airport by someone from our hostel, we checked in, admired the room and then went into town for a wander around. It was notably warmer in Alice than in Sydney, however, town it would seem is more like a village. After an hour we ...

 

Australia - SouthEast Asia 2006

La capital Vietnamita nos recibio con los primeros 26 del viaje, casi senti que tenia frio. Nuevamente, taxi, 100cc, 2 ruedas, 2 personas y mi gran mochila. Recorrimos, diferentes hoteles, nada que valiera los 10 dolares por 2 personas que suelen c...

 

Grant's travels 2006 - 2007

Return to the Melbourne...

 

Round the World Trip 2006/07

After all these years of 'one day planning to go in the future'....I made it across the world to the world down under. We are spending 3 months in this lovely country and had to apply for a 3 month holiday visa to be able to do so. Personally, I fo...

 

Australia

Sun 25 Feb 07 (Writing on the 1st March) FROM KAKADU TO KATHERINE I was really excited about arriving in Katherine. From what we had heard and read it sounded a lovely little town. Having stayed three days I don't know how anyone could live here! ...

 

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...

 

Australia

After Cervantes, we cruised on down through Perth (which will be our final Australian destination) to the funky and very pretty port city of Fremantle where we left Drew and Alistair for a few days while we continued further south. We plan to stay in F...

 

Wish you were here?

Hi, After we left you on Monday afternoon we took a walk from our hotel down to the Tulum ruins on the beach. We didn't have the place to ourselves like at Chichen Itza unfortunately but most of the tour buses had departed. The ruins are of a Mayan...