London 1995

After a night in the upstairs room of a pub with an Australian girl called Corrina and a bottle of tequila I am smitten. She leaves a few days later to work in a pub in the Gambia. I book a ticket and fly back to Africa for the first time since leaving...

 

Oz East Coast

Every adventure is solicited by the good, the bad and ralphy and the following is an account of our travels on the East Coast of Australia: Arriving in Port Douglas it didn’t take long to realise that Far North Queensland might be heaven if it wasn’...

 

Friends are the family you choose - 2 years in London

I have been asked by a number of people to keep the stories coming. The feedback l have had from many of you has been so complimentary and flattering. I hope l can continue to make you laugh (l would be happy with a smile), sometimes cringe and l know ...

 

AUSTRALIA

I loved my time in Australia. It is a country with heaps of natural beauty and, more impressive to me, some of the most interesting animals on earth. I found Australian culture to be a mix of British and American culture with a unique dialect and vocab...

 

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 ...

 

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...

 

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! ...

 

Life of a Working Holidaymaker

A significant month. The 15th marked my 6 month anniversary of arrival in London. In celebration, I spent the day in Cambridge. It was a great day, with beautiful weather and plenty of green fields, pretty rivers, funky old buildings, and lazing uni st...

 

Our 2007 UK and Europe Trip

I didn’t know that Michael Schumacher had a brother in Thailand but we found he lives Bangkok. A trip which took us an hour plus at 1.30am took only 35 minutes at 9.00am. If you run out of four lanes, you create a fifth on the side of the freeway. E...

 

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...

 

Our holiday ready to start in UK and Europe

After two years of planning our holiday starts son The two years have gone by so quickly we could use another few weeks to get organised ! I hope we can think of something to say! ...

 

Australia 2006

19 to 22 June 2005 =========================== Some of this blog entry, plus soundseeing clips of a ranger walk at Uluru can be heard on my Geographpy for Travelers podcast at: http://tinyurl.com/yayk3t =========================== To climb o...

 

Goodbye Edinburgh, Hello World

Well, apparently our time is nearly up and we're having to return to dear old Blighty in a couple of weeks. Life's a beach, isn't it? Well it is for us at the moment, anyway. We've been in Thailand for around six weeks now. It's the kind of place wh...

 

A Week In Southern Spain

After a great friday night farewell party for our fellow New Zealander Caroline who we met on our Gullet Cruise in Turkey and is heading back home we spent a cruisy saturday morning packing. We then travelled by Rail to Stansted Airport for our 5.30 f...

 

Australia/Malaysia 2000

Friday 4 August 2000 Back on the road again. New bus driver - Young Joe Young. This fella was off his rocker! The "put your seatbelts on" signal consisted of 2 rings of a bicycle bell followed quickly by "SHIT! PUT YOUR SEATBELTS ON!!...

 

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....

 

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...

 

Round the World Trip

I know when you see the pictures of what we are wearing you will think to yourselves where can I get these outfits from? Well, I hate to dissapoint you it is not easy looking this good - Tights and shorts - gifts. boots and coats $90. Looking like comp...

 

More Brisbane pics

Pics of the new hostel..........

 

Exchange 06/07

so flight was rather unveventful most interesting thing was my flight attentents name was Poo. yeah thought it was funny... got lots of free alks yeww! had a stop over in japan sayed in a like 5 star hotel its was cool. It had a toilet that squirted wa...

 

Aussie 2006

Back to Australia, this time for my Granddads 100th birthday. I spent a couple of nights in Brisbane the first with my sister. You can see a lot of Brisbane by foot and Ferry so after the first day my feet were incredibly sore. Still managed to check...

 

First Weekend In London

Photos from Easter Saturday, drinks at the Icon Bar(photos that Lindz took have been edited!!!!) and at the airport....

 

babe i never had

sometimes we miss out a lot in life. no one should be restricted to travel. you can go anywhere. screw the visa lawyer fat cat. be free, i love this world :)...

 

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 ...

 

Gap Year 2004

Me and Deaj organised to take a couple of days off work and head out to the Blue Mountains for a bit of fresh air. James really enjoyed his trips there, so it really had to be done. We shot over on a train to Katoomba, one of the larger towns in th...

 

Brissie Saturday 2006

Here are some pics of us looking silly in hats and glasses and also some beautiful pics of Brisbane QLD Capital, gorgeous day out good to see the sights. ...

 

Australia 2005

Summer 2005 decided at the last minute to head out to Australia in my uni holidays. Went out on my own but met so many awesome people out there and had the most amazing time of my life. Stayed up in Queensland most of the time cos it was too cold in NS...

 

North America Travels 2006

I arrived in Seattle on Wednesday 3th May after a 14 hour flight from Brisbane to LA. On my flight from LA to Seattle we flew over a number of mountains covered in snow, on was Mt Saint Heleans, the volvano that erupted in 1980. In Seattle I stayed wi...

 

Trip to OZ

Hmm just a test to see how this works!!...

 

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...