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 ...

 

Grant's travels 2006 - 2007

Return to the Melbourne...

 

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 ...

 

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...

 

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...

 

The Ring Searching Route 01 - 17AUG2004

KUALA LUMPUR / SINGAPORE MH605 01AUG 1540/1635 SINGAPORE / AUCKLAND NZ28 01AUG 2020/1010* AUCKLAND / SINGAPORE NZ23 17AUG 1155/1900 SINGAPORE / KUALA LUMPUR MH610 17AUG 2110/2205 KUALA LUMPUR / SINGAPORE MH605 07AUG 1540/1635 SINGAPORE / AUCKLAND N...

 

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...

 

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...

 

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! ...

 

Trip to New Zealand, USA and Canada

Skiing at lake Lousie was pretty sweet with me and matty enjoying a massive dumping while jezza was at home resting a sore ankle. Poor guy, we ate burgers there too. We also spent waitangi day there skiing which turned into a morning side for life fre...

 

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...

 

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

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

Had afew beers on 22nd with mates, cheers guys then left nz on the big oe...