Spending your time doing nothing in the midst of mountain hills is one do nothing activity that lets you admire the sunset sunrise clouds chilly wind flowers in the valleyall in all the beauty of nature around you... and theres no better place than Lansdowne to do so.Leaving for Lansdowne a small hill station situated in Uttarakhand last Friday was a perfect Get away for

Sep 11Yaroslavl was very quiet. There was hardly any traffic for a city if 600000. We visited a couple of churches and then at 5 there were special services in every church for the victims of the air crash. There is talk of the corruption with technical checks for aviation similar to the tourist ship that sank a few months ago. The town has a nice feel to it as its quite an educational cen

Just a quick map based update to show you all where we are at the moment and when we have been for the last 4 weeks since leaving Thailand on August 7th. By the time most people read this we will have arrived in Kuching in Malaysian Borneo where we spend 3 or 4 days before flying to Kuala Lumpur.I will be doing a proper blog in the next few days covering Java and Borneo but until then....

When I arrived in Tanzania the folks at VSO took my passport from me. They told me that they needed to send it to the Immigration Department to get my work permit. I handed it over gladly. They promised me they would get it back to me as soon as possible.Two weeks later I received my passport and a document that I am supposed to carry with me in case anyone should want to see my papers.

This morning we farewelled Yulara and continued our journey north to Alice Springs. It was a lovely sunny day with the wind picking up in the afternoon. We stopped for lunch in the shade of the roadhouse at Stuarts Well. Apparently Stuarts Well is famous for Dingley the Singing and piano playing Dingo according to the information board. We chose not to pursue it.As we got closer to Alice Spr

Note Since I39ve become lazy with blogging due to internet troubles and how much cooler going out and experiencing things in Glasgow are than sitting in my room hooked to a computer this blog will cease to be in any particular order. King Tut39s Wah Wah Hut looks like any of the apartments surrounding it from the outside. The sign is easy to miss and though it boasts itself as the UK

Darkness is setting in in Toronto as we board the A330 for Glasgow. Its hard to believe 400 people have paid good money for the opportunity to cram themselves into a 9 seat wide aluminum tube with wings for a 6 12 hour flight. The view of Torontos lights as the engines thrust us skyward into the night was breathtaking. We could just make out the moonlight glinting off Lake Ontario as we d

Getting used to the whole 39living for the weekend39 thing is strange. I never realised how quickly time can fly between Friday night and Sunday and i39m thanking my lucky stars I actually quite enjoy my job apart from lesson plans and schemes of work and action plans. Basically paperwork in general. I39m not good at keeping things in files. But this week the sunday blues are a

For those who dont seem convinced about the problems in our society I would like to discuss the educational system.Education is the most important thing in life. It is through education that we can develop a good heart develop our creativity gain social contacts grow into the person we want to be.Education is used as the most important aspect of development work in thirdworld countries. Ev

Hm. It seems to me a made a promise a while back that I39d update the world about my comings and goings in Germany. Seems like a grand idea I wonder what happened to...oh wait that39s right I39ve been pretty lazy recently. Well anyways this marks the first attempt to really rectify that. Since it39s been closing in on two weeks since the last one of these that I put up and that w

Hello everyone Just a quick post to let you know that I Julia have entered an online travel photo competition with some shots of Katrina39s and my trip. The winner will be determined by the number of public votes so please vote for meTo do so is easy. Just click this link httpwww.paulettemagazine.comfrantikbatikutmsourceNLFRutmmediumemailutmcampaignpaulette scroll down unt

Most of the maddness you may be viewing about travling in China during the MidAutumn Festival is true. Yes eveyone schlepping boxes of mooncakes through bus stations and shouting at ticket agents and well the usual holiday nusences. It39s advised to stay put if you39re in Guangdong and looking for peace and quiet my mission yesterday was to transpant myself from the heart of Guangzhou t

Sorry Ive been MIA for the past a couple of days however Ive been nursing a strained eye so I decided to give my eyes a break from my contacts and my laptop.No I wasnt detained On Friday we had no classes so after working out some of us decided to play basketball with some of the locals. First we just started playing a game of HORSE. Yet we kept getting some locals who would try

7911 happy Birthday Merry have a great day. We left Gregory Downs being told the road was good sealed a lot of the way NOT. It was rough bumpy but better than the last time we went to Adels Grove. We got the vans through ok with no trouble. We set up all had a swim in the creek as it was very hot. Poor Margy we hope she has not cracked a rib as she is very sore. It cooled down at n

5911 off again on our way to Lawn Hill. We stopped at Normanton for supplies fuel. We stopped had a look at Normanton Railway Station the Gulf Lander train. Then off again to a freebie we had heard about not in the Camps Book. It was 60 km south of Normanton at the Flinders River Crossing a great spot. We set up camp went down to the river where the fish was jumping set Margy up on

Saturday 10th SeptColin and Louise took us for a drive to Eungella National Park on the way we called into the Finch Hatton Gorge and what a beautiful hike to the the falls through the rain forrest on such a beautiful day with the sun shining through the tree tops.We called into the River Rock cafe on the way out and had a drink in the outdoor patio right in the rain forrest.Drove up the very wi

Need to keep this updated more So many things have happened since this last Tuesday...Wednesday was my first full day of classes and they are interesting to say the least. My anthropology class is all about music and how it39s changed over time in London from jazz to punk to popular music and all that falls in between so perfect class for me. Thanks goodness though he gave us tons of venues to