um-die-welt 2007

Mit etwas Verspaetung komme ich endlich dazu hier ueber meine Erlebnisse auf dieser Reise zu berichten. Also Argentinien die Erste: Meine erste Station ist Buenos Aires. Eine Stadt mit Charme der Alten Welt vermischt mit einem kraeftigen Schuss Modern...

 

Goodbye Edinburgh, Hello World

Well, apparently our time is nearly up and we're having to return to dear old Blighty very soon. Life's a beach, isn't it? Well it has been for us recently, anyway. We've been in Thailand for around two months now. It's the kind of place where nothi...

 

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...

 

New Zealand

Bungy jumps in Taupo are the cheapest around, So we decided to go there. Before 11am they are even cheaper. On the morning of our jump we got up extra early but still didn't make it there until 10.45am! We still got the cheap price. We got taken to the...

 

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...

 

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...

 

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...

 

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...

 

Adventure New Zealand

Two games later, England are into the final 16 although Owen unfortunately is back in England after suffering a knee injury. Joe Cole is playing like a legend, and Lampard and Terry look solid along with Gerrard and the fighting Wayne Rooney. We watche...

 

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 ...

 

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...

 

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! ...

 

Gap Year : New Zealand

It's a little over a week now since I left Whitianga. I'm currently sitting in the net cafe at Base Backpackers in Wellington on a sweaty Thursday evening with a nice cup of tea. I'm here in Wellington until Sunday morning, when I catch my flight over ...

 

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

Finally have a day off today so no excuse not to catch up on this blog...am sitting in the most bizarre internet cafe yet; its a big red bus, but its cheap and my new home for at least the next three hours, so here it goes... Arrived in Auckland Mon...

 

New Zealand 2007

At around 8.30, we were all on the bus and heading to Christchurch - I was flying in the afternoon and would have about an hour of leisurely strolling about the city before I had to take a shuttle to the airport. The largest city of the south island, ...

 

Grant's travels 2006 - 2007

Return to the Melbourne...

 

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 - 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...

 

Dunedin dinny look like Edinburgh

After a lay in and some leisurely breakfast we caught the bus into the town centre passing such streets as Dalgety St, Kircaldy St, Princes St and George St. Dunedin also has areas such as Musselburgh and Waverly. We saw the statue of Robbie Burns in t...

 

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. ...

 

Aircraft Pix

Love the aircraft......

 

New Zealand

After one night in Greymouth we boarded our bus the following morning to take us down to Franz Josef. We're using a company called Magic Bus to take us around New Zealand and it's really good. Most of the journeys we're making are on average about 5-6 ...

 

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...

 

New Zealand and Christmas/New Year 2006

27th Making good progress, we arrived in Rotorua, the spa town right in the middle of the North Island around 4ish. This compact city is on built on the site of active volcanoes, hence the hot springs all over the place and the constant smelly of rott...

 

New Zealand 2005

Although illegal, hitchhiking is a common and accepted practice here in New Zealand. Let's Go! New Zealand does not endorse it but does concede that New Zealand is perhaps the best country to hitchhike. But, it reads, use common sense: don't hitch alo...

 

New Zealand

Well if you have got this far then its surely worth a read and a peek at the photo's. My journal for NZ is more of a day to day 'this is what i have done' as that was the nature of my trip and of course a little bit of cultural history thrown in ....Oh...

 

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...

 

RTW with Steph and Dion

Written by Dion August 11-12, 2006 We decided to spend a couple of days in Uruguay, so we boarded the 9:00AM Buquebus ferry from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay on Friday morning. The ferry itself was quite nice and the rid...

 

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...