Dear Blog ReadersLast weeks blog sparked some interesting discussions. In particular was the stalkerish nature of the high school girls and specifically the What is your blood type question. Chef Chris told me that people have matched blood type with personality traits. I decided to investigate further and found this description for my blood typeThey are very studious type of pers

Drove to PnR from Norwidjt and took the train in. Took a bus tour visited the Van Gogh and Anne Frank museums and the Flower market.

After all that lazing around on beaches and struggling to walk the few feet from our wooden beach bungalow to the beach we decided it was time to do something different and took off for Khao Yai National Park 120 km northeast of Bangkok. The National Park covers some 2168 sq km of the Phanom Dangkrek limestone mountain range and was the first one to be established in Thailand in 1962. Apparentl

Leaving Kuala Lumpur our plan was to slowly island hop our way into Thailand thus having a great deal of fun going to various different islands and avoid the issues of being blown up in the conflicts around the South of ThailandOur first stop was Georgetown on the island of Penang. Whilst there were a few ways to get there the easiest way is simply by coach from Kuala Lumpur and out across th

Getting to Hanoi should have been easy. For a while it looked like it wouldn't be. Then it was thus the first sentence doesn't really make sense. It does sound good though. A punchy first line don't you thinkWe'd heard and read about the remote border region near Vieng Xai and the rampant overcharging of helpless optionless tourists. To avoid this we took the soft option of booking a singl

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There was a slight rough start to the day seeing as it was the day after St. Patricks day we were all moving a little slow. We finally got all our belongings together and hopped on a bus from Galway to Limerick then caught our connection to Killarney from there. We didn't get in to Killarney until about dinner time it was a good thing the B B was right accross from the bus station because we

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Rich was asked to speak at a conference in MD so yesterday we headed there. As we drove along the Chesepekee Bay we reminised about James Misner's book the Chesepekee and the movie Patriot Games. It was a beautiful day and we enjoyed the drive. We arrived at Sandy Cove a christian camp Rich spoke had dinner and headed home. But we made it to two new states DE and MD

Been working on getting the house settled. The bedroom is done so thought I'd share some pictures. Shamong is known for its garage sales and road side finds. We found the bed and dresser on the side of the road and painted them black. Looks greats That way we could afford to invest in a new king size mattress and rug. Loving it

Arrive Hanoi Friday 25th March after an uneventful flight. The taxi to Manchester airport developed a flat tyre. The car did not possess a wheel brace and a Manchester taxi had to summoned to complete the journey arriving nearly 3 hours after leaving Clitheroe and in the nick of time for the flightSaturday 26th March. An early breakfast followed by a vehicle transfer of approximately200km to P

1 Week in China Hello everyoneToday as mentioned in yesterday's video I moved out of the shortterm place and into my new permanent apartment the Panda House if you will. I got up early which turned out to be slightly disappointing and so went on walkabout for a bit took the bus over to the National Library of Ancient Books which is SUPER impressive. I was there before opening hours I act

My mum left this morning at 5am got message from her to say airport bus never turned up so not sure how she got to airport but can only presume she managed in time for flight. I couldn't get back to sleep for ages so ended up having nice bath and chilling till 11ish. Then went in hunt for food that was not macdonalds or chinese food. Was happy to find baked potato not the best but nice change H

HiAttached photos from last blog.I have also attached the narrative again for completeness.Barbara John in Kwa Zulu Natal KZNWe have spent two weeks in KZN and it has been a varied period covering wonderful scenery cultural interest and good beaches.My birthday saw us on the road to Ramsgate on a 9 hour journey. It was good to be leaving what I thought was quite a strange farm and farmers

Had one of the most amazing days in a long time James and I got a free ticket to Agroventures which is an adventure park here in town. We did everything on offer there or almost everything... I chickened out of the Bungy just couldn't do it But anyways first we went on the jetboat ride. Absolutely hilarious I just now want to have one of those 0100 kph in 4.4 seconds. Then off to th

March 27 2011WOWWOW..a beautiful morning which evolved into a spectacular day..such a great day to be alive We had a quick breakfast outside on the tables on the deck..and then quickly packed up our things checked out of this notverygood hostel..and headed down to the little towns center. Parking along the side of the street.no parking meters in this townwe

Hi everyone It's been a few days since I've had a chance to get on here my first week has just been a flurry of activity I had thought that my first few days would be purely looking for a place to live and jobs but my fantastic German friends made sure that I still had to go explore the city and have some down time. We've thoroughly explored Temple Bar and I'm pretty sure I've been in almost e

G'day GuysSo heres my Australia update since I got here. We arrived in Sydney and we had to get a train and two buses to our hostel which ended up being around an hours walk from the city centre. The hostel itself was aboslutely disgusting and filthy there was no cutlery at all and the other people there were living there and working they werent actually backpacking Stacey was accused of

After a few hours on a bus we got a short boat ride to Don Det in the four thousand islands. This is where the Mekong River fans out and shit loads of river islands are created don't know whether there are 4000 but probably if you count every rock. They managed to chuck my and a few other peoples bags in the water which was a bit worrying but was only really my clothes that got wet and clothes

Sunday March 27th 2011Strait of Hormuz South of IranLatitude 25 degrees 13 minutes north Longitude 57 degrees 32 minutes eastArabia is behind us in a cloud of dust literally. We pulled out of Dubai yesterday afternoon and visibility was only about 500 feet. Luckily the dust storm did not roll in until we were on our way out of the harbor. In the morning we were still able to see the worl