This is our second trip of 2010 and is a local adventure which we normally wouldn't put on the blog. However this one was unique as it was the first time we were able to take the the dog on a motorcycle trip. This was actually a ferry trip interrupted by some motorcycling. We had 6 ferry rides to get all the way around the circuit. Including camp fees ferry tickets and gas the whole 4 days cost

I liked my little blondie title it made me laugh if noone else this blog entry is about my trip to South Korea from December 29th to Jan 10th when I went to visit my friend who is there teaching english. This was my first venture into Asia. I flew from Edinburgh to Amsterdam then Ams to Seoul which was 11 hours......boring when you're by yourselfMy friend met me at the airport and I was a me

Brisbane Shiplifts provided the venue for our 2010 haulout with 300 and 600 ton travel lifts to make even the largest vessel look like a dinky toy in the slings. Four days of beauty treatments at the spa for Marnie buffing her topsides and antifouling from the waterline down. Hindered by continuous rain one day dickies at the ready and full speed ahead applying three coats of Jotun C Victor 50

Les papillons ont commenc vivre dans nos bedaines.... On a rencontr les parents de Marc aujourd'hui pour les mettre au courant de nos attentes et besoins par rapport la maison et les rnos et ca veut donc dire que ca s'en vient. Dans 72 heures nous seront en direction Vancouver puis Sydney. Il reste ben ben ben des choses faire mais bon on priorise continuellement. Les valises sont bien a

On the 30 April my May holiday officially beganMy friends and I are on the trip now the Venetian night tour that consists of visiting Budapest Venice and Verona This is my first journey without parents or teachersAs we came to Lviv where the tour started early in the morning we had a complimentary Lviv sightseeing from the tour companyBut our emotions started with having breakfast at th

This is the day I was looking forward to. Some time with the kids. N. drove us to school because of his afterschool plans. I walked around the center a bit until the English classes started. Word spread that I was there as many of the older kids may have remembered my last visit. Unfortunately I really couldn't identify any of them but they flocked around be nevertheless. Their bright faces wer

Heute wird endlich ein weiterer Great Walk begangen. Zwar ist derTongariro Alpine Crossing nur ein Teil vom Great Walk Northern Ciruit doch bei dieser 20 km Tagestour sind sie Highlights des Tongariro National Park aufzufinden. So machten wir Ich und Felix aus Manchester UK den ich ein Tag zuvor kennengelernt habe auf den Weg. Als wir endlich mit dem Shuttle ankamen merkten wir sofort da

And so after Cambodia comes Japan. Well its been 3 weeks only after my Cambodia trip so this is probably my shortest travel hiatus yet. sweatdrop But anyway this trip is going to be different because this time I'm traveling with my whole family finally Ugh when was the last time we all traveled together anyway like... 35 years ago maybeAt first I really couldn't decide whether we s

Monday we headed to Placa Catalunya and Las Ramblas. I don't get this street. It is all tourists so why are they selling animals and birds Well the flowers were pretty. Although we had read the numerous warnings about pickpockets here we felt as safe as anywhere else we have travelled. As you can tell by our photos there is nothing about us that suggests money. Our main goal was to eat lu

Sucre that got its name from a previous president not the sugar is Boliviarsquos official capital even though the seat of the government as well as two of the three democratic powers executive and legislative the court of justice is still in Sucre. are situated in La Paz. Never offend a local by mentioning that La Paz is the capital of BoliviaSucre is also called La Ciudad Blanca the w

I took a spontaneous hike up to the Boca de Alamo cave painting site about 18 miles north of here with my friend Sherita her neighbor Marta and a couple of young gals from La Paz who are staying w Marta. My friend Sherita is a huge fan of the Baja cave paintings and has taken many treks to see the various glyphs made by some of the first inhabitants of the Baja Peninsula. I have seen phot

Adam's Blog A rainy misty drive to the ferry at Comox on Vancouver Is yes made it in plenty of time had us head back to the mainland at Powell River pop'n 12000. It was a big sawmilling and paper mill town once but they have closed down it is now more of a sleepy fishing town or end point of the road on the west coast of Canada to visit the Gulf Islands.We drove about 5kms south of the mai

Hi AllThis is going to be a short entry unlike me I know but easier for you to read...Cartagena is a beautiful colonial city in the northern part of Colombia. It offers a great old city narrow streets to stroll through surrounded by immense wall a reminder of bygone days when Pirates hunted the city for its treasures and a great fort was built to defend it. Many of the houses in the old town

Took the ferry across the River Shannon over to County Clare. Stopped at the Cliffs of Moher and at O'Brien Tower which over looks the Cliffs which was pretty exciting for Colleen. She hasn't stopped telling us that she is an O'Brien and has relatives here and has connections. Went to a medival dinner with singing lords and ladies at Bunratty Castle. We drank Mead which is a wine with honey mi

I spent the weekend at a little place called Home Port Farm. It was a nice little farm out in the countryside surrounding the city of Whangarei and home to a very nice couple Cathy and Howard. I got lost a few times getting there and had to make a few calls to them in order to figure out where it was that I was actually going but in the end Howard was standing out on the driveway waiting for my

FinToday started walking through eucalypts feeling a bit homesick. They are grown as a plantation timber around Arca. The tall straight trunks and the leaves and bark on the path made if feel very much like walking in bushland around Canberra. There are plantings of different species almost all the way into Santiago itself along the Camino.It was hard to decide whether to push or just take i

Ribadiso AlbergueThe evening at Ribadiso turned into a bit of a nightmare. The albergue seemed to have settled down around 10.30pm and all was quiet until a few well lubricated individuals returned to the dormitory just before 1.00am. Unlike conventional buildings where it would have been possible to close and lock the door at the designated closing time this albergue is based on a collecti

The Wellington chapter has come to an end. On May 2nd we headed across the Cook Straight by ferry to Picton.The ferry journey was surprisingly calm Laura still managed to get queasy but it really could have been a lot worse. Wellington disappeared out of view very quickly and with that all our connections to the city were cut.The latter half of the ferry journey about an hour and a half was s