I just returned from Macau I have been quite busy for the last month and have a lot of material now to catch everyone up on. My trip was what foreigners here call a visa run. This is when my legal stay in China is about up and I need to leave and return. My duration of stay is limited to 90 days so I have to take small trips to be here legally. It is inconvenient and a blessing at the same

Hello All Apologies for the lack of postings it feels like we havent stopped all week. Where did I leave you ..ahh yes Day 26 it was times to start tackling all the winter leaves and that meant sweeping collecting and then burning.sounds simple enough right and it would be if there wasnt what felt like little mountains of leaves everywhere. In some areas they had built up to be kne

Sunday April 10th 2011Rounding the Cape of Good Hope Latitude 34 degrees 32 minutes south Longitude 23 degrees 23 minutes eastSouth Africa is still scarred from apartheid. The people are not very friendly in the big cities and crime is rampant. Many people have come down from other parts of Africa in search of jobs. Unemployment is over 25 and everywhere we saw people sleeping in Parks an

One of my rules is to be critical in accordance with the claims that someone makes if you are a humble 2Star then I don't think I'm entitled to criticise you on the basis of 5Star standards. But by the same token if you claim as Qatar Airways very stylishly does in its TV adverts to be The World's 5Star Airline then watch out for the 5Star criticism. Only fair.I just made a somewhat ardu

Hi there and Good Day to everyone ...we had another greet day spending time swimming and walking about Ala Moana Park at 1585 Kapiolani Blvd here in Honolulu ....We walked in and about the area making our way as far as Fort DeRussy Beach and had a stop along the way for a a great breakfast outdoors at a small sports bar where we met and chatted with some very charming folks from Norway.We later ma

Tombeaux des MingAprs un long trajet en car pour sortir de Pkin nous arrivons aux tombeaux des Ming. Les Ming tait une dynastie impriale importante en Chine. On peut voir trois tombeaux ouverts au public mais trs peu d'objets funraires. C'est un lieu sacr o les chinois viennent se recueillir de nombreux dons sont faits des billets sont jets sur les cercueils sur le trne de

One dog remains from the dogs cat and chooks that usually frequent the place the others having been distributed temporarily from Koroit to Clifton Hill and he's going tomorrow to stay with Aunty Judy. He seems to have forgotten or is choosing to ignore that Ruby and the cat aren't here. The gate to the verdant bounty of the top paddock has been opened but Mav and Jai haven't realized it yet.

So here we are three weeks in and I've finally got around to starting my blog. Actually maybe not Ben's just finished dinner so I'll have to come back to start writing Back from dinner so here we go. I left Cowling on the 17th March for the long journey down to Gatwick Airport. Mum and Dad dropped me off at Burnley and I continued on to Gatwick via Manchester and London. I thought it'd be nic

After recovering from all the exciitement of Bondi we spent the next day in the city and went to Darling Harbour. This is where we saw the aborigini guy that walks around there for photos. We then had dinner which was free but gross and then Stacey and I headed to the Opera House and Harbour Bridge for night time pictures We then went to bed ready for our 5am wake up callThe next day 6th Ap

Yes its true and I am not just putting that as a header of our blog to get you to read our update This past week we became the proud new parents of a 14 year old pregnant girl from Gulu It has been a whirlwind of an adventure with excitement and feelings of overwhelm but God is directing it all.We first found out about Judith in passing when I was chatting with a friend of mine. She

Felt bit better last night so we headed for an indian then had early night. Got woken up early for a tour we had not even booked and caused a scene at breakfast as I asked for butter and jam for breakfast with roll apparently not allowed. They really struggle thinking outside the box in vietnam. No real rules but sometimes very strict over silly things. Went on boat trip today along the perfume

In all honesty I'm pretty sick of India now. It started a while ago when in Delhi and visiting the tourist attractions and I started to notice that people were really staring at me. I'm not sure why I didn't notice it before. Perhaps it was because people hadn't stared at me so much before or perhaps it was because I hadn't noticed it so much... maybe due to being with other friends and not payin

meeting the family. seeing the sights Taj Mahal The Hanids in Haridwar Rishikesh My Dad and me Amritsar and the Golden Temple The cancelled train scenario Pushkar for Holi Shimla and return to Delhi.

Dear Blog ReadersWe begin this week with news that has reached us from England that the Radio 1 Big Weekend will be held in Carlisle this year Laura is gobsmacked that her hometown should be represented on such a colossal scale with acts such as the Black Eyed Peas Foo Fighters and Boeun Girls High School favourite Lady Gaga will be performing. Lauras coteacher was visibly stunned at t

Today i feel like neardeath. I started feeling dodgy yesterday while I was sitting in a hammock outside our bedroom door and writing my blog. I felt a little bit achey and knew I was coming down with what Ed Sarah Will and Maddy had a few days ago. I also had a very bloated uncomfortable feeling in my stomach which wouldn't go away and which I'd put down to eating too much right before bed the

YoSo far so good in the heading home department. Weather hot and muggy when we left both on Fri and the early part of Saturday. No much rain fortunately. Fri nite we stopped just before Atlanta that enabled us to go thru Atlanta early STy am and at that it was busy enough. It gets to be like a parking lot as you progress into Atlanta and we were doing bumper to bumper at 2

Lots to say about this place... soon...ish

Delhi.I feel like a local. I have not been anywhere near as intimidated as I thought I would in Delhi in fact I have felt very relaxed ever since I arrived... apart from the slight issue with the phone topup going a bit skewwhiff. I met a guy called Ajit through a friend a French girl from England I made in Pushkar. We met up a couple of times and as his mother lives in Allahabad he was ta

from Rajasthan...

also coming soon... ish