As the ferry pulled into the huge secluded caldera of Santorini I was dumbstruck. The island of Santorini is a huge ancient volcano where the middle has dropped and been exploded out creating a caldera and the sea had rushed in. What this means is that you have a couple mildly active volcanic islands in the middle of a huge bay and this is surrounded by a broken ring of islands with huge cli

After a sad farewell to Fethiye and all the great people I had met there I hopped on a fast ferry a hydrofoil where the boat floats up out of the water on account of a wing in the water below it to the Greek island of Rhodes.As the ferry pulled into the harbour the first thing you see are some very imposing medieval walls guarding an old Greek town. I wandered the city for nearly an hour wit

OK now that I am settled in to Xela I can make a longer post and post some pictures.Anyway I had to wait around at the Linea Dorada bus station until 3pm from 9am for the bus to leave for Xela. They are quite nice buses better than some US greyhounds. It was 70 Quetzals. The bus went on this highway that wound its way through the mountains...But first some notes about Guatemala City.it's a

So we have made it past the equator.. to 9 degrees..... and to the strictest boarder control in an airport ever. However on sky i had watched boarder control in anticipation but it still scares you when a dog is released into the waiting crowd We got a taxi to our friends uni and after 20 minutes of being stuck in a lift and calling up to the help department.. we found him He has an amazing vie

Lhamo Tso kindly gave a talk at LIT's weekly Tuesday talks. I really could not hold back the tears for this one. They came flowing uncontrollably I could never claim to have really suffered after hearing her story. My troubles are incomparable to hers insignificant even. If you want to continue to bury your head in the sand stop reading now. If you want to really hear what is going on within t

Breakfast in Cambodia lunch in Malaysia and Dinner with a friend from New York in Bali.So my travels have landed me in paradise in Bali Indonesia. Sad to report that I have had to leave my Bostonian via LA friends Tim and Jaime who are now traveling alone again on their honeymoon in Vietnam what is a honeymoon without a third wheel.Cambodia was a bit of a blur. I know Angkor Wat is a place that

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Weds 9th June.Woke up to thunder and it was chucking it down So I did all my coaching indoors with the lil kids. In the afternoon me and my family and some of the other coaches all went to the Pro American Football Hall of Fame. It was really good and made me want to go and watch a live game My family are Pitsburg steelers fans so I am now The rain had finally stopped for my evening sessi

So after 120 days i have left india.There were few highlights of my final few days in delhi i revisited India gate with Ali and got my fill of Masala Dosa brain curry and other favourites including plenty of sweets. Pahar Ganj still looks like a bomb has hit it its still hideously polluted and the temperature is in the high 40's. So after jumping in a taxi to IGI airport i finally got some e

Blogging For Becky Becky thought she might provide an entry explaining why she is carrying around a cardboard cutout that resembles her grandson and is in a number of our photos. Becky... Alas it has not manifested. So here i am then trying to explain what i am not entirely clear about myself. Those of you with children undoubtedly know what i don't. But my understanding is that there is

Wow if you ever have an opportunity to travel to the Grand Canyon take it. It lives up to all they hype. As soon as you step to the edge the canyon just opens up. It is hard to take it all in and the pictures are always different because the light changes.The train trip was great. We arrived at the depot and were entertained by a group of wildwest cowboys. The interesting part is that these

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Em Ma took us to the Summer Palace the residence of the emperors during the hot Beijing summers. The most interesting part of the Summer Palace history is the story of the Dragon Lady. After her husband died she ruled through her young son and when he died through her nephew. She wasn't a very nice lady but she did have a lot of power.The Summer Palace is located around a lake shaped like

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Itrsquos been an interesting few days here in my new home. My guards arrived at my room at 745am and helped me carry all my things down the five long flights of stairs. I think they were amazed by how much stuff I had. I was a bit apologetic but only a little. My school driver from Shenzhen and I left around 830am on Wednesday. We got lost twice but between asking for directions a few ti

Built in 1880 the Cumbres Toltec Scenic Railroad was part of the San Juan extension of the Denver Rio Grande Railroads with tracks running from Denver through the orerich Rocky Mountains to Silverton Colorado and Santa Fe New Mexico. Its path was carved through steep passes and deep gorges and was an engineering feat for the time. In the 1890s the decline of silver mining ended the railr

Thursday 17.6.2010 day 246I love the food in PeruSo today I tried to sort out some trips to Machu Picchu and Lake Titicaca as well as getting to our next resort. So many thinks I want to do I do not know how I am going to fit it all in and pay for itOh well had another fantastic lunch in 3 Aus lunch and watched the Mexico v France match and was happy to see Mexico win. I was so full from bfast a

After Abel Tasman National Park we drove down the west coast stopping off at small towns Westport and Greymouth down to Franz Josef When we got to Franz Josef we did a half day Glacier walk. We walked through the rainforest until we got to the glacier where climbed 1km up through a ice tunnel to a top of a glacier. It was amazing and surprisingly easy to walk on. The glacier was approximately 3

Nelson After getting the ferry over from WellingtonPicton we drove to Nelson where we went horse riding around mountains farmland and little rivers it was very picturesque We managed to find a small pub to watch the first England game a very early morning start 6.30am

Well after a pretty raucous final nite in st. louis including a wrestling match swim in a lake and the commandering of a bipedal powered vessal we set off for chicago. We made some good friends there. One in particular threatened to pull a linbergh baby us and kidnapp us off to her house. though a temping offer it was time constraints proved unmelodic. so off we rolled.Now having slept