The Viking Festival went off today without a hitch. I was once again grateful for the tiny Ibiza as maneuvering around the tiny streets of Catoira in back to back traffic trying to find a parking spot was no easy task especially when you try to park in someone's overgrown yard and they ask you to move with a boulder in front of you a ditch to the one side and a sharp incline to the other... aga

Well well well.Here I am back in Beautiful bustling packedin Quito. It is a valleycity. before I looked up impressed with the heights of the surrounding mountains at the views of volcanoes. I had no idea that I would be venturing to such beautiful placed outside of here so soonBefore I came to Ecuador even in the initial plnning of my journey I felt compelled to incorperate vipassana m

Buenas TardesWe zijn heel trots op jullie en jullie reacties We worden er hier echt blij van leuk Ga zo doorTerug naar onze mooie verhalen ugh. We zijn in Copacabana Gisteren na een hele hobbelig rit van 4 uur of zoiets in de middag aangekomen. Die rit was er een om nooit te vergeten. Krakende geluiden bij elk hobbeltje ach hij rijdt vaker dus het zal wel goed gaan... hmm misschien te

BaliAfter some thoughts and lazy discussions at the beach bar back in Koh Samui a few of us decided that travelling by bus from Thailand through Malaysia and Indonesia was looking increasingly tiresome and so we decided that the best thing to do would be to fly onto different destinations and meet later in Bali. Apart from that one of the guys was hoping to dive whilst out here so his decision

The day dawned chilly and foggy. Yep. Still in San Francisco. But not for long. I picked up our next hire car at the Ellis St Hertz just a dogleg's block away. This time a bright red PT Cruiser. The kind that scratches really easily. With no GPS option we knew how to get to the 101 and freeway from our trip to San Jose so found our way onto the 80 east. That took us across the five lane double

Het stond op ons lijstje met plaatsen waar we heen willen Granada Nicaragua.We namen de auto tot aan de grens hebben hem daar geparkeerd en aan de ldquoandere kantrdquo een taxi genomen. Shasta werd door onze buren verzorgd en we hoefden ons over hem geen zorgen te maken.Het was errug rustig aan de grens deze keer omdat het laag seizoen is. Wij vonden het geweldig Binnen een half uur ware

Deze ochtend schijnt de zon maar waar men tent staat natuurlijk niet. Alles nat inpakken en de baan op. Ik moet ergens water zien te vinden en het is zondag. Een kerkhof of benzinestation is ideaal. Ik ga al direct omhoog. In de zon is het warm dus ik rijd al snel in men Tshirt. In etappes klim ik tot 200m. Niet zo hoog en toch word ik getrakteerd om adembenemende zichten. Ook zij er enkele ferm

I don't know what UNC Wilmington's maintenance staff would do if a 5 ft python which had gorged itself on an Opossum showed up in the woods next to the Chancellor's walk ... but I doubt they would rope it off and put up signs instructing visitors to have a look but leave it be.

Hallo zusammendie letzten zwei Wochen haben Elaine und ich in Malaysia verbracht. Von Thailand aus sind wir mit dem Bus nach Georgetown gefahren eine alte Kolonialstadt im Nordwesten von Malaysia. Die Innenstadt von Georgetown ist ein UNESCO Weltkulturerbe und man kann dort viele historische Gebaeude finden die den Einfluss von verschiedenen Kulturen widerspiegelen. Auf dem ersten Foto ist die

Itrsquos been nearly two months since we left the UK and during that time wersquove hardly stopped anywhere for more than a couple of days. It has been amazing visiting all the places wersquove been but the constant travelling was getting pretty tiring. We decided after the chaos albeit a sort of organized chaos of Hanoi and Hue that it was finally time to head south and spend a week relax

The Hope Academy consists of about 25 players ages 1822 who all live in the same cell and have to follow the same rules and regulations. There are about 6 of us AIS staff who go into the prison every week. The AIS coach of the team is a local South African that can speak the same language of the prisoners. Most of the prisoners speak English but some have trouble understanding us. The coac

On my recent trip to Manuel Antonio Park Costa Rica I began to reflect as I often do about life and the impact humans have on the planet as a whole. Sitting on this pristine white sand beach I breathe deep the fresh salty air. I casually watch the Capuchin Monkey to my left drinking from a Juice Box. I nod to him and proceed to look straight ahead.I contemplate the fact that humans may be to b

They called on Thursday and told us that the registration papers and tags were there so we could inform the insurance company and take the baby home. It was drizzling so we took a taxi the four blocks to the dealer's. After waiting for other proud parents to check out their newborns we were finally able to sign papers and listen to the salesguy's explanation of features which included a key to

This morning we set an early alarm so we could watch the sun rise over the Indian Ocean. Unfortunately the day dawned cloudy and drizzly however last nightrsquos full moon was a spectacle to behold and we saw the southern cross.Today we arrived for the last leg of our adventure at Shamwari Game Reserve. We are camping here but not in any way you would imagine. If I said the tent comes compl

SO... we have come to the end of our volunteering in the Street Centre it was so sad saying bye to the kids yesterday and the owner of the centre was so nice. On our last day we did face painting followed by making a huge collage of lots of pictures that we printed space themed. We also had water fights drawing football and fun I will definitely remember this place for the experience and

Its not just pop culture that venerates crazy drugineberiated women. The Greeks did it too here at Delphi. The Oracle as she was known was the source of all knowledge a speaker of riddles the one who held the keys to the future. And all this power was driven by her relentless sniffing of noxious fumes. Delphi for many years drew kings and conquerors the rich and the meek all and sundr

I Australien finns tv typer av krokodiler. Stvattenskrokodilen r en liten mindre typ som trivs bra i billabonger och vtmarker. Stvattenskrokodilen anses inte heller vara srskilt farlig fr mnniskor. Den mycket strre kusinen saltvattenskrokodilen r vrldens strsta reptil och anses vara mycket farlig fr mnniskor. Skillnaden dessa tv r utver storleken att saltvattenskrokodilen kan

We spent the day on July 29th travelling out of Lombok to Ubud in the center of Bali. As is usual in Bali and Lombok it was a slow day of travel. At 1030 am a forty minute taxi followed by waiting a ferry ride on the Giligili fast ferry and a long shuttle transfer through Kuta and Bali traffic to our final desination at 5 pm to the Champlung Sari Resort in the center of Ubud. We spent the fi

This man sends a text message from his place of workcertainly someone who is not far from him as often you go to friends family says researcher by showing us the picture a construction worker doing a little break with his mobile as it is done before with a cigarette. This is a very subversive because it calls into question the morals and ethics in the workplace says the researcher. We have

Greetings and Salutations from OklahomaBella Jojo The Dude Mischa and myself traveled another 500 miles todayJoanna decided to give the cats their special medicine prior to leaving this morning and it definitely kept them very calm. Or very scared. I'm really not sure. Joanna was freaking out because their inner eyelids were half closed causing them to look lizard like. And Dude manage