Ahhhh..............Hoi An. Our favorite hotel Thien Than with our lovely hosts Bing and An a breakfast buffet and ohbut nothing worth having comes easy. I need to go back.We arranged the reservation on the phone for Thien Than back in Saigon. I was actually calling the wrong hotelbut I did say it spell it describe it and named the owner. The hotel I was talking to said yes yes yes. We t

To the center of Switzerland for the true 'Alps' experienceWe took the day to go to Lucerne to find a traditional train to take up into the alps. Of course after all the beautiful blue sunny days our luck had turned We drove down into central Switzerland and I was again completely amazed at just how close everything is Had we driven for a few hours longer we would have been in Italy or F

June 11 eveningThere has been an SA cadet who came here in April for a 4 week tour. He had his passport stolen along with other valuables. This has become a nightmare for this young man. He went through a tortuous process to get a new passport that took several weeks. Then another long process to get another visa necessary for nonUSA citizens for foreign travel. He was pointed out to me

So let's be honest I pretty much spent my last day in Singapore asleep. I was so tired from all of the leadup to the conference the conference itself and then staying up to watch the World Cup that I was just spent. But that's not to say I didn't enjoy my last night here. We met a couple of our delegates in the hotel bar and chatted for an hour and a half while deciding what to do for dinner

We were blessed with awesome weather today so decided to go up into the park for awhile. We are having dinner later with Montana Kerri can't wait to see her.Going to the Sun Hwy. isn't open all the way yet. We drove up to Avalanche Pass and then back. They still have snow melting so once again the lakes and streams are full and beautiful. The pictures you see of the lodge are from Lake McDona

Gibbering Madness: Snapshots of a Bizarre Life is a very interesting site to be sure. There, Alex weaves his web of real life adventures. The entries are written in true “mystery novelist” style and Alex will have you wondering if he’s been “channeling” Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon) or Herman Melville (Moby Dick). Something says the answer is “Yes” to both.

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On Reikalein, Christine Syrad describes herself as a “half-British, half-Japanese girl learning to comfortably straddle more than one culture”. So true as she has now taken up residency in Switzerland and is attempting to learn the German language. Viel Erfolg!

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On the way into work this morning the radio news told of a protest in Musaffah by drivers for a taxi firm complaining about a new system of fines that their employer was introducing if they were at fault in an accident sorry traffic colision accident implies there is nobody to blame.The fines are a bit steep up to 5000 Dirhams 900 quid at today's rate and cosidering they earn about 3500 Di

Ok so man eating lizards is a slight exaggeration.. i do not know for sure if the lizardiguanabeast thing reaching to the size of about 4ft would actually eat humans.. but all i know is i did not stick around to see if it couldSo the island Tioman is where we spent our last couple of days. I was so surreal. I felt like i was in the tv series lost. There is jungle and i mean thick thick green

When all I cared about was to snowboard and conquer one of the best mountains in Canada I wasn't prepared for the natural beauty and splendor of the Canadian rockies. To be quite honest I'm not one to be amazed of mountains covered by snow not that I'm not a nature or outdoor person I am but since living in Toronto for over 10 years a mountain covered in snow is just as ordinary as any mall th

I'll start with a general update. The weather has warmed such that we don't need the heater on at night. David hasn't worn his long johns for about 5 days and I am now wearing shorts and a tshirt without a tank top underneath for warmth. In terms of rain it is supposed to rain on and off most of this week so we are planning as we go and the clouds move. Don't think I have told you before but

At Angel stadium.

Las Vegas is fastly developing how fast you ask When I first moved to Vegas there was a road being built as in it was a dirt road. Now that road is fully paved and functioning. It's a pretty impressive thing. Except to get construction down so fast everything is cookie cutter and lots of corners are cut. When I got here we had an issue with our HOA home owners association. Basically there is

so its been a while here ............. so far all we have been doing really is the orientation which is a week long we r learning swahili by taking classes every morning and being tested on them also lots of hands on work like going down to the street and talkin to people about what we have learnt which btw haha sucks ..... a lady was pregnant and am like oh congratz u r having a child but

It was cold this morning 38 Degrees. It warmed up pretty quickly and turned out to be a very pleasant day. We broke camp and drove north on the Stirling Hwy. South of Soldotna we saw a large bull moose in the road right of way. He was looking directly at us so all we got was head on photos. Saw a bunch of eagles but didn't get a single photo. We stopped in Sterling at an Antler Shop that s

KunmingKunming is the capital of Yunnan province and Kunming is where we found ourselves on arrival at...Kunming. Bussing our way to the hostel what we found was sort of a city within a city. The Hump it's a WWII reference the name given to the Himalayan mountains by the pilots who had to fly over them is a sprawling seething metropolis of travellers both international and domestic. Im

A few days before I climbed to the top of Mount Manganui Ines Katja Timo and I went along the main path with another German couple Alana and Tobias form the hostel. Anika and Kerstin decided to skip the climb as they had both done it on an earlier occasion. The hike to the top took about 45 minutes and we got very lucky as the weather stayed nice long enough for us to get back to the hostel

It's lunch time But I'm up in the office which if I haven't mentioned is actually an apartment with office desks set up not very conducive for working indeed but they're moving end June I think being antisocial and lunching alone. Actually I have been getting takeaway most days this week not really fond of the outside food and the hassle of eating the whole works from deciding where to

Churches everywhere you look Monday June 7th. Meetings and phone calls re house today so didn't really get to do much sightseeing. But I'm fascinated with the number and architectural variety of the churches here so while I was running around I stopped and shot three of them. Not very many when you consider there is one on every corner. I estimate there is about one church for every inhabitant in

When we left England seven weeks ago we had 8 flights arranged round the world Philip today goes and books another five internal ones round Australia making it 13 in total. We now have return flights to the Gold coast for The half marathon. and flights to Melbourne Brisbane and back to Sydney to watch Everton. will we ever escape them before leaving for Hollywood on July 20th and heading for h