Day One The train is speeding through the grey sites of northern England and I begin to think that it has been almost 3 years since I decided that I had had enough of spending my life on the motorway quit my job and flew off to the other side of the world. I have spent most of my life travelling in some form or another mostly for work but never found a place to really call home. My best friend

March 12thNeptune day is a traditional celebration that happens every semester on the ship. It is supposed to occur when our ship crosses the equator but due to poor weather and timing we had Neptune Day today. Basically this is what happenedfirst we are woken up by drums and whistles around 7 am not very excited about that considering the fact that I had no classes today and I got zer

Hello allThis is a travel blog. But seeing as I have become a permanent fixture in the city of Phnom Penh I have decided I need a more permanent blog. I have set up a new more awesome one accordingly. Please follow me herewww.adventureorbadchoices.blogspot.comTravelblog.org has served it's purpose but now it's time to move on Let the next adventure beginLoveYanzi

Hi everyone.Well thanks to Argentine airlines our plans have been hijacked again so we have an extra day in Paraguay instead of the day we had planned in Buenos Aires. So this means we now have time to continue our blog. We are sorry that we don't update you more regularly but shortage of time is a factor as well as access to computers in some places.Now back to La Paz for the most xciting

The morning is spent with last minute shopping for Mary before putting her on the plane back to Australia. That done we checked out of the Thanh Thuong guesthouse. The guesthouse gets pretty good reviews from Tripadvisor but despite the newness of the hotel I got a smelly room. The family who run the guesthouse were not overly friendly. That done we head out to Tan Son Nhat Airport with plenty of

We have been extremely busy planning all of the fun stuff like hostels on the beach Nile Cruises Abseiling Skydiving Bungy Jumping shopping in London etc. We have been so busy that we have forgotten to organise the important things like finances something to sleep onin for a month on the safari and some warm clothes for camping in sub zero temps in Germany during Oktoberfest. I don't think

Before leaving Australia I had booked a guide for my first day in Hanoi. I met up with the guide Rosie at the Hanoi Guesthouse. Rosie Huong is her Viet name is a member of Hanoi Kids. HK is a free guide service run as a club of university undergraduates who are keen to practise their English language. Rosie is 21 in her 3rd year of a four year degree at Hanoi University of Business Com

Het leven is vooral een gebeuren op straat. Je ontmoet er mens en dier.

I choose to do a tour out to Tam Coc the collection of Karst outcrop that shares similarities with Ha Long bay but on land. A trip to Ha Long bay is the usual tour out of town but given the weather I am inclined to give it a miss. I later find that Ha Long is so touristy that I am glad for my choice.The tour is with the Sinh Tourist and involves a 3 hour bus trip down to the town of Ninh Binh.

HelloWe currently have viruses on both our USB and memory cards so we havn't been able to update the blog. Two weeks ago we travelled from Chi Phat to the southern coastline of Cambodia. Our first stop was sihanoukville for some much needed relaxation and sun to burn off our leechbitten ridden bodies We loved it here and spent 4 amazing chilled out days lying on the beach and drinking 50cent b

Op 8 maart was er internationale vrouwendag. Ook in Senegal lieten de vrouwen dit gebeuren niet zomaar passeren. Toespraken werden er afgewisseld met muziek en dans.

Een land leer je kennen door de eetgewoontes van zijn bewoners heb ik ooit gehoord. Als onderdeel van mijn aanpassingsproces meende ik dat het tijd was om een deel van deze eetgewoontes eens uit te proberen. Daarom ter orintatie de dieetkaart van de gemiddelde Namibir in Kunene ontbijt vlees met een vettige melkpap lunch vlees met maispap als ze eens gek willen doen avondeten vlees

We've let the blogging go off the boil a bit but have kept on full steam traveling North and we've seen a lot. From the beaches of northern Karnataka and Goa where the accommodation is cheap the beer cheaper still and the warm sea perfect sand and overrelaxed atmosphere made us lose the best part of two weeks we headed to Hampi which is the nearest you can get to playing real life Indiana Jones

We bezochten ook een aantal scholen op niveau van het kleuter lager en secundair onderwijs. Ondanks de grote infrastructurele en materile noden water sanitair gebouwen klaslokalen didactische materialen ... weten de scholen en de leerkrachten op een creatieve wijze om te gaan met deze beperkingen. De kleuters leren er al Frans vanaf de kleuterschool. Het onderwijs verloopt er gedisciplin

WE packed and left by 930am this appears to becoming our regular move out timeThe road way taken was easy going and long straight stretches of highway.No trouble to our rig and we made good time. We came alongside some more tennis balls growing in the paddocks and being an hour on the road we decided to pull over for morning tea and check it out. After our long discussion on the co

Het logo waar we reeds jaren mee werken werd omgezet door een kunstenaar in Dakar tot een schilderijtje gemaakt met verschillende soorten natuurlijk zand. We hebben deze techniek gedemonstreerd gezien in Gore.Met de hulp van Ibrahima Ciss Bieke's gastheer vonden we iemand die voor ons 7 dergelijke schilderijtjes wou maken. Donderdag rond 12u leverde Ibrahima de 7 exemplaren af in ons verblijf

Tijdens ons verblijf konden we genieten van enkele feesten. Op straat uiteraard waarbij de gehele gemeenschap betrokken is. Wat een ritme spontaneteit en sierlijkheid Daar kunnen we nog wat van leren...

En dan de laatste dag vrijdag 11 maart. De kers op de taart ht memorandum. Werken werken ... tot op het laatste moment werd het document gepolijst onder meer door onze fantastische secretaris Walter. De samenwerking tussen KeMoPoDi en LoWaZoNe is nu een feit Ons logo werd in de vorm van een zandschilderij cadeau gegeven aan alle betrokken gemeenten van Senegal en Vlaanderen.

Heute stand auf meiner Liste ein Besuch des Pearl Harbour Memorials der Gedenksttte des Angriffs der Japaner auf die amerikanische Flotte am 7. Dezember 1941 an. Die Busfahrt dorthin dauerte ber eine Stunde. Der Eintritt zum Denkmal ist kostenfrei nur wenn man ein UBoot oder Kriegsschiff anschauen wollte mute man Eintritt zahlen. Ich wollte aber nur das Denkmal besichtigen. Der nchste

A nice early start today we departed for Bath planning to camp at a site some 5 miles away. We headed into Bath and on the advice from some other campers we met looked for a Park and Ride as taking the camper into Bath may have been tricky. Well no park and Ride was to be found on our route we found out later that the way we came in was the only road NOT to have a park and Ride and we ended up i