Thursday 10th February 2011 Rather than taking another long VIP bus to Vientiane we decided to take the kayaking trip to break up the day. Our trip started with a large tuk tuk ride for an hour to be followed by an alleged 17km kayak through rapids with a BBQ lunch by river followed by a mini bus journey into centre of Vientiane.The kayaking part of the journey was much shorter than expect

Days 13After a grueling 19hr flight I finally made it to Phuket My cold really acted up on the plane with the lack of fresh and and pressure when landing and taking off which made for a pretty miserable flight. However the awesome Korean food and over abundance of newrelease movies made up for it. When I landed in the airport I was greeted by a man holding a sign with my name for the bunglao

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We've just been out for lunch with Mum and Dad at the pub they go to every Sunday for lunch to celebrate Dad's birthday. Very nice too. Since its also Mother's day it was a set 3 course meal though only the boys had enough room for the pud At the end mothers received a packet of chocs from the management That was nice. I'll also put on one or 2 pics of last weekend when I poopped up to Le

Ive been working so much that Im kind of in a constant daze not really knowing what day it is except in reference to where and what I need to be at any given moment. I recently wrote my little nephew saying I couldnt wait to see him on Saturday wrote it on a Friday meaning I would see him the next day and I even knew it but my brains a little scrambled right now. Having f

Wow what an amazing Mother's Day we have had. To quote mum This has to be the most memorable Mother's Day ever We were up and out by 7am and our driver took us up to MutianYu a part of the Great Wall which we had been recommended by several friends. It was a chilly yet sunny start to the day but well worth emerging from our beds super early. It is a national holiday called Qing Ming this i

We rolled 90000 miles on the van we are borrowing whom we affectionately have named Balaam's Beast. If you are unfamiliar with who Balaam or his beast is check out Numbers 2224 or trusty Wikipedia . After about 2000 miles into our journey it is our desire that the Lord take us right where we should go and if we need to slow down adjust our route or just plain listen more carefully to G

Vejret byder skiftevis paa slud og sne og saa overvejer man hvorfor daelen man tog frivilligt fra 25 graders varme og skyfri himmel i Buenos Aires. Isaer naar destinationen lyder paa Verdens Roevhul o Aarsagen maa findes et sted. Naturen selvfoelgelig Det er ikke mange steder der kan byde paa saa smukke omgivelser. Desvaerre eller charmen ved det om man vil er det dog fuldstaendig paa n

So a long day of travel behind us and one flight ahead and we will arrive in Bangkok. The journey has been long but very easy and straight forward. Omaha to Denver Denver to LA a final cheeseburger and fries with a Budweiser to wash it down then the 15.5 hour flight to Hong Kong where we are now. In total I think we'll be traveling for 30 hours but we have nothing to do but sleep when w

March 30So today I got up had my breaky then went for a surf. It was quite a bit smaller and not as good yet when I first got out there were still tons of guys out there. Haha. Anyway after that I packed up and cleaned the house up a bit i headed for Lima. I took a convicollectivo back to the center area where I then caught a taxi to Daniels house luckily his maid was outside and she let me in.

Tuesday 8th February 2011 Our VIP bus was anything but unless you count the VIP written in big letters on the front. You could easily be fooled into thinking it was just a local bus with very little leg room and no facilities.After a very long journey winding up and down mountain roads we checked into Nazim Guest House which had been recommended online and walked to the top of Pha Po

Today we leave for home by train. 8am we leave and arrive in at 5.30pm. We didnt get into Adelaide until 7pm because we had to stop for 1.5hrs due to a massive dangerous sand storm It was so bad we couldnt see out of it but it was a pretty awesome site I got to see the Murry River which i have never seen before either. I got really burnt in melbourne which i was suprised because it wasnt that

We woke up a bit late today but today was the Melbourne Zoo day.I couldnt beleive how big it was we ran outta time but saw it all except the seals and the birds. I wasnt too fussed because im not a fan of birds We dont have elephants at the Adelaide zoo so it was good to see them they had some babies too so that was pretty cool. I got some close ups of some butterflies in the butterfly crib

We went to the museum today. Again ive been before but it had been a few years and i had forgotten most of it and im sure of new exbiditions My bro hasnt been to melbourne as mentioned in other blogs so this is why we went.We spend about 30mins looking at farlap This was my 3rd time to melbourne and 3rd trip to see farlap My mums OBSESSED with horses and just HAD to see him again O.o They

A long time since writing due been a long trip from Adelaio Perth with very little communication. So here goesLeft Adelaide to 23 march at 7am travelling to Flinder Range and meet new people on the trip. There was 11 of us inc including the bus driver Tour guide who hated being called a bus driver CraigDel We went for a few walks one through a gorge with alot of spider webs. I went through thr

Dear Blog ReadersIts April Fools Day and as a collective I was mightily impressed with the students today in their endeavours to truly live up to the days namesake. My first class was 32 and I marched straight into the classroom to find nobody there and everybodys gym kit on the desks. Damn. I went into the neighbouring classroom to find my actual 32 class sat in the 33 classroom

Today we woke fairly early for a big day. We headed down to the yarra and walked around for a bit. The we were on our way to the Eureka sky tower In our travels we came across 2 Irish street preformers No one else had stopped but we thought they looked hilerious so stopped to watch. Which im so glad we did now At first they were quite average.. but VERY funny Once they got into it more you

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sorry not very many pictures for this blog entryThe 6am bus ride from Dakla to Asyut was uneventful we were both super tired and slept for 4 hours out of the 7 hour ride. I was rudely awoken by my head banging against the window over and over again...the roads here aren't exactly pothole free. I looked over and saw Nick with his mouth wide open and head bobbing around also...the most attra

Dit weekend is het echt heel mooi weer hier in Leipzig. Zonnig en boven de twintig graden. Gister zijn we dus naar het meer gegaan. Daar kun je in een half uur naar toe fietsen en dan heb je echt het gevoel dat je ergens minstens twee of drie uur van Leipzig vandaan zit. Het is heel mooi om daarheen te fietsen omdat je door een bos heen rijdt en overal is natuur en de stad lijkt ver weg. Aan het