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...

 

Summer 2000 - SE Asia & Australasia

Still having a brilliant time. In Cairns we went scuba diving and snorkelling at the Great Barrier Reef which was fantastic. I also did white water rafting which was incredible, with grade 3 / 4 rapids (5 and 6 are too dangerous for man). We might do t...

 

South East Asia, New Zealand & Japan 2004-5

Check out the blog and archives December 2004 and January 2005 ;o) http://lunamodule.blogspot.com/2004_12_01_lunamodule_archive.html...

 

Campervan Mark III

Gloriously sunny this morning looking out the window of the campervan at the sunlight on the snowy mountains. We set off from Kaikoura at the usual time following the coastline still for about 30km which was very windey. We then crossed the mountains i...

 

New Zealand

Our first Christmas in the southern hemisphere for all of us except Rich so we were expecting a blazing sunny day and to head into the lake. Well it was warm and after dinner Rich and I raced into the lake but more fuelled by the alcohol than the blazi...

 

New Zealand 2006

I arrived in Auckland, New Zealand on Thursday 5th October, Marthie told me that Bob would come and get me at the airport so I entered Auckland airport staring at all the bold older men, not sure what they must have thought, after about 5 minutes I cal...

 

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...

 

New Zealand & Australia '06-'07

South Island consisted of Sailing adventures in Abel Tasman, Pancake rocks, dancing on bars, Hiking up a glacier in the middle of a rainforest, Karaoke in the middle of nowhere, BUNGEE in Queenstown, Cruising Milford Sound, Stewart Island (next stop An...

 

New Zealand

9 April 07 QUEENSTOWN! Queenstown has everything an adrenaline junky could want. There is everything going on here - skydiving, bungy jumping, jet boats, paragliding, parascending, and more. We didn't do any of that today, but it's been fun! W...

 

Updated overview: The world according to Graham and Nick 2006/7

1/12/06 Well three months into the trip and we thought we would give you an update of the grand plan, where we will be when etc as it has changed since we set off. We stayed longer in the states, cut short the stay in Tahiti and have extended our stay...

 

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...

 

Home to NZ again

The house post a quick paint job, a few new lights and some new curtains...

 

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 ...

 

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...

 

The start of our adventure - Singapore, Dubai, London

Welcome to the record of our adventures overseas. Stupidly, we didn't start this record immediately we left home so the first part of this is being done on memory. Getting to the plane was an achievement in its self - we had been manic trying to g...

 

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...

 

ROUND THE WORLD

Spent only 2 days in Arequipa, leaving us too little time to visit the nearby Colca canyon. Instead we rested and visited the charming Santa Catalina monastery....

 

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. ...

 

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...

 

BMA Conference & Elective

Click 'view photo album' to see all the photos. Ah... the buffet breakfast! I'm not sure I'll ever be able to eat pineapple again in britain. The buffet is superb - salmon, fruit, traditional malay food, muffins, danish pastries, fruit, toast, eggs,...

 

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...

 

Goodbye Edinburgh, Hello World

Apparently our time is nearly up and we're having to return to dear, old Blighty. Life's a beach, isn't it? Blah... So, the account for 'Poot and Poisson Around the World Trip 2' will soon be accepting transfers. Donations welcome....

 

New Zealand - The South Island

Okay, is this what mother nature does to get back at us for complaining too much about the heat in Australia?? Today was cold and rainy (high of 9C) as we made our way from Gore to Te Anau. The poor weather started yesterday as we spent time in the m...

 

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! ...

 

laze around the world...all trips here

First trip to toronto, me and rach stayed at mary's apartment which is on the top floor of the building with a very very big balcony. mary slept in the master bedroom, rach in mary's room...me in the den in a sleeping bag!!! despite the fact that her ...

 

Mountains, snow and Ice...!!!!

How time flies... hadn't realised it had been so long since I did my last journal..!! Ah well, better bring you back up to speed then hadn't I..?!?! Well after leaving Taupo, I moved on to Napier. Napier is famous for its art deco buildings that ...

 

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...

 

Mt Hutt

I did a one-day snowboarding tour to Mt Hutt and loved every minute of it! I was so glad I did not go to the Franz Josef for a second time. It was snowing so the visibility was poor, and I only had access to one ski lift. I was not great at snowboar...

 

New Zealand 2005

The bus trip started today - nine days of travelling in an anti-clockwise direction around the South Island, from Christchurch to Christchurch via everywhere. I'm on a trip organised by Stray Travel, which is a more 'grown-up' version of the typical ba...

 

New Zealand Pictures

Here are some pics of New Zealand, I can finally proove to you all i did the Bungy jump!!! Hope you enjoy them!!...