Au pair America - Atlanta 2001-2002

My year living in the states was one of the best years of my life. I lived with Janet and Kevin Murphy and their 3 children, Thomas, Caroline and Katherine as a live in au pair in Atlanta. Living with a family is both very rewarding but also challen...

 

New York City, The Fabulous

New York City... no matter what state or country you are originally from, I suggest you make a stop in this remarkable, enchanting city at least once in your life. The locals are kind and helpful, the architecture, both modern and antique, is uniquely...

 

Exploring New York

On our second run at Australia day the Harris's took us out to a bar not far from their home in Brooklyn. It was an aussie bar called the Sheep Shed run by an aussie guy who married an american chick. We were in a raffle and somehow all of the austral...

 

Touring the States

 

USA 2006

We set out at 8PM for Washington DC from New York. Once again it was inevitable that we were going to get lost on the way. After eventually arriving after midnight, the lit up Washington Monument stood as a landmark, a reminder that we were in the Ca...

 

US Roadtrip

Maybe I should have started this 6 months ago, before I set off for Europe, but no matter. For some time I had been considering how to get me, my cello, guitar, suitcase, and a 300lb trunk across the country. I considered shipping, getting someone to ...

 

World Trip 2007-2008

We finally got to this place called "San Pedro de Atacama", a tiny little town in the middle of a plain in the Atacama desert that was surrounded by mountains in the far distance. Some of the houses and their rooves were made of mud. The road...

 

Travels of an antelope: Fact or Fiction

This will go down as one of the most random adventures I'll ever have! I flew out to Slovakia looking forward to spending three weeks with my girlfriend, thinking I might have time to head off to one or two other places when she was in Uni, but things ...

 

Places I've Lived

Cincinnati, Ocean City, Columbus, New York, Helsinki, Dallas...

 

USA 2007

I went to Niagara Falls with my brother and his family. Niagara was impressive, however I had always imagined it to be a lot bigger than what it actually was. I was happy that I brought a spray jacket along with me because the mist was like rain at var...

 

Camp is over

Howdy folks!!! I'm in New York now, camp is over and it's time to party!!!! The last few weeks of camp went by so quickly. But here are a few highlights of camp since my last blog.....well what I can remember anyway! Lake Placid trip - Being on the...

 

USA 2003

New york to Key west...

 

New York City!!

Well, yesterday we saw the Statue of Liberty from a distance - the queue to see it up close was 3hrs long so we thought we'd leave it till tomorrow and get up early!! We did a lot of filming arounf town and we visited Ground Zero which was a really mov...

 

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...

 

Sevilla: Spring '07

I just realized that I still haven’t written about Amsterdam here or posted my pictures - sorry! Although it was a cool city, we were all kind of homesick for Spain after 3 days of freezing rain and the strongest wind in the world (which made it imposs...

 

Italy-London-Canada-USA 2004-05

10-10-2004: Santa Margherita Milan to Santa Margherita 11-10-2004: Portofino Day trip to Portofino 12-10-2004: Manarola Santa Margherita to Manarola 13-10-2004: Cinque Terre Hike between Manarola to Corniglia to Vernazza and back to Riom...

 

United States Travel: NEW YORK CITY

Manhattan, baby! Day 1 - Buffalo Airport to Laguardia Airport. The pilot flew us over Manhattan which gave us an amazing view of all the sites! Central Park, Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge could all be seen from the air....

 

OUR ODYSSEY

Caught Eurostar to Paris on Friday night. Sat went to market, Notre Dame, Crepes on Champs Elysee, Climbed Eifel tower, Sunday to Montmarte, more food. Moulin Rouge, more food, Eurostar hoem. Amazing weekend....

 

Family Holiday to New York

Had a fantastic week in New York with Mum, Doug, Dave and Bri. Saw all the sights I missed last time as we were staying near Times Square. We were there for one of the hottest weeks the US has seen! ...

 

New York

Ok so first stop NEW YORK! oh my god I can't actually believe that i'm now officially a traveller! New York is amazing, its everything i ever dreamed it to be. Our hostel was just around the corner from the Empire State Building and near Macy's too!!! ...

 

East Coast Blues

Ah, Washington! The capital of planet earth. The IMF, The World bank, The Federal Reserve, the Pentagon, and the White House. The iron triangle of power and money, the future target of terrorist attacks.... This was not really clear to me at the t...

 

Three months in South East Asia - 2005

Portugal with kai-Chun. Expensive fish meal (not paying the whole bill), Cap St. Vincent sunset, walk on the beach, The Old Village, Portimao, supermarket, dinner over looking the sea (moon on the water)....

 

The Long Day Is Over!

After waking at 05:00am I knew I was in for a long day. After saying goodbye to mum at 08:00 Chris got us to the Heathrow by 09:00. Being very early we had to sit around until 10:30 until we could join the check in line. The flight left at 2:00pm and w...

 

USA and Canada 2006

Our third and final day here in New York and time for a quick update. Currently in the 5th Avenue Apple Store using their computers and internet for free, yes mum I am going to get your wireless stuff as well! We flew out with Virgin and the in flig...

 

New York 2006

Moi, Julien et Ricardo sommes partis pour Red Bank dans le sud du New Jersey. Notre but; un genre de péllérinage pour Kevin Smith. Mais avant tout, une bonne grosse journée de geeks n'en serais pas un avec un arrêt au Monk's, le ...

 

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...

 

New York, New York!

Flew in from Montego Bay and arrived at JFK airport in the evening. My dad arranged for me to stay with some relatives whom I had never met. It was nice to met another side of my family. My cousin picked me up in a SUB with satellite tracking device...

 

Melbourne to London via USA and Canada

Hiya, Well I'm still alive and well. NYC is amazing, it's hard to even out down in words the experiences I've had in one night and one full day. The flight to LA was so long, I thought I was never going to make here. I couldn't sleep, the movies ...

 

August - December 2007

Once annually the Thames Barrier - flood protection barrier - is tested. This takes the best part of a day and eventually you see the Barrier fully closed....

 

USA 2004

A few weeks in Aussie, and about a month in NZ, then stopped off in Vancouver on the way back to UK....