HiThe Hotel is awesome we got up early and took a taxi to the Holocaust Museum. Pam Julia stayed in line and Heidi Rylan walked over to the Washington Monument and stood in line and got tickets to go up around 1230pm then walked back to the Holocaust Museum where the others were. At 10am we went into the Museum and learned tons Julia said ldquoGrandma my heart is heavy.rdquo Which comp

Ever since I started planning this trip I have been looking forward to Halong Bay a Unesco World Heritage site due to its approx 2000 pinnacleshaped limestone and dolomite rocks or small islands sticking up out of the bay. According to legend per DK Eyewitness Travel Guides the bay was formed when a gigantic dragon ha long means descending dragon plunged into the Gulf of Tonkin and cre

Im in Darwin for a few days thats all i can bare the humidity is at 90 and the mosquito's are out to get meJust spent a couple of days in Kakadu National park swimming in waterfalls and cliff jumping into plunge pools. It is so beautiful really tropical rainforest's eagles weird bugs the lot. We went on a crocodile spotting boat trip and tried not to squash any frogs as we walked it is

HiThis morning after leaving West Virginia we got into Virginia of course. We drove and about two pm we pulled over in Staunton Va. and took a nap at the local Walmart now you know why the blog isnrsquot getting done we are so exhausted by the time we check into our hotel room at night.Later about 430 pm we finally got into Washington D.C. and one of the first things we saw that we re

When I think of the Netherlands NL I think of tall skinny buildings and canals. There certainly is a lot of each but what struck me the most is the bicycles. They are everywhere. There are more people on bikes in Amsterdam than in cars. The sidewalks are all quite wide with a slightly different surface on half. That is for bikes. If a bike lane isn't part of the sidewalk there is one on th

Temp 29 degreesWe got up before 930am because they have a free breakfast on here the the hotel. We had showers and made our way on the subway to Battery park to catch the Ferry out to the Statue of Liberty. It was already quite warm by this time especially on the train. Luckily we had prebooked midday tickets as the line was massive it went in loops through battery park. We got on and over to

We are in Almaty since 2 days. Everything perfect despite the road from Aktoebe down to Aral was in very bad condition and additional there is a lot of construction thus makes it necessary to by pass the old road through tracks in the velds. Heading north now direction Altai.

So after a dodgy start in Sydney I had a great timeIts an awesome city seems to have everything from shopping to great views and plenty of things to do. Its got an awesome feel to it very friendly and I thought quite chic in places. Although it did rain for almost the entire duration of my stay My first full day there I got the ferry over to Manly to visit a friend. The ferry was fab it

Ad Hello hello Sadly we have reached the end of our journey arriving last night in Redding CA. The weather here is gorgeous and we are excited to visit with our friends Nancy and Don. I just want to take a minute to thank everyone who made our trip special and helped us along the way. In this day and age people tend to keep their heads down and not help others. Well in our little trek a

Chengde My Kingdom for a TempleChengde is the old summer retreat for the Qing Emperors. Up in the hills 200km northeast of Beijing it is noticeably cooler than the capital and was an excellent base for hunting forays. It was also an excellent location for international conferences amongst the finelysuited politicians of Chinarsquos past.Royal Gardens The city was therefore built to impress

Ubud in Bali is a center for the arts. Many of the artists and artisans are happy to have you visit them in their studios and a number of them also hold classes.One of these is the batik artist I Nyoman Suradnya. His Nirvana Batik studio is by happy coincidence located on Jalan Gautama. Gautama being the name of the Buddha. He runs classes that range from one to five days in length and even

So I got to Mui Ne Monday night feeling much better but decided to take it easy. I stayed at the Wind Champ hotel. It is Korean Owned but I wasn't really impressed by it. It was a typical spot fair on the cleanliness AC bed mosquito net and luke warm water for the shower. I didn't have a shower curtain and no way to put the shower head up so I could take a standing shower with my hands free

Okay sooooooooo it's been about a week and a half since I left the wonderful city of San Sebastian and frankly I don't know how I feel about being back Of course I'm SO happy to see my family who I missed like crazy and while it is very good to be HOME it's also very sad. Saying goodbye to everyone was very hard and saying goodbye to my host family was probably one of the hardests goodbyes

Var p sightseeing idag igen igen. Jeg startede ved London Bridge station og gik til Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Hvis man har set film om Shakespear eks. Shakespeare in love vil man nok genkende det. Derefter gik jeg til Tate Modern som er et meget stort kunst museum inde i en turbine hal en i sig selv rimeligt grim bygning. Herefter tog jeg et smut forbi St. Paul's Cathedral der tilgengld

Western Australia has a land area of 2525500 sq km almost one third of Australia.The UK has a land area of 243609 sq km.Which means the UK will fit into Western Australia about 10.4 times. It has one Daily newspaper The West Australian and Today Philip's name is in it He finished 4085 out of 5465 in a race time of 14429.Back training today Philip has decided next he is going to run the Gol

Hej alleNu har jeg vret i Guilinomrdet . Her er meget varmt og smukt men ogs meget larm. Jeg var til et show om aftnen og det var meget meget smukt. Det var udenfor og de brugte bde bjergene og floden som scene. Der var 600 mennesker med i forestillingen. Ved siden af vores hotel ligger den skole hvor brnene i showet gr i skole de bor ogs p skolen.Jeg har cyklet ved rismarkerne og det

Once again....not much happened today. Just went to class and came home to do my homework. Kinda boring for you to read but wanted to keep you updated. Friday we don't have class so we're viewing the Cathedral in the Plaza de Armas and then the Sun Temple here in Cusco then Friday night we're going to learn to Salsa from Peruvian students and then to a concert. And on Saturday we go to Valle

A long way north but itrsquos still raining much warmer though which is great it was really quite cool in Tanna. We grabbed a cab and went to see if we could find a room in the only place in town that mentioned a beach. No problem this island as well was very quiet with very few tourists. The beach at Beachfront Resort was black sand and the water was very stirred up from all the rain but

I got a little behind but here is Day 7 The day started once again at Warorot Market where we had to pick up an order of tops that we had made then lunch at the airport plaza. A very nice Japanese place on the fourth floor of a very large mall quite a change from yesterdays stop at the roadside restaurant. We had an order of tempura shrimp two orders of pork cutlets some kind of deep fried f

bin derzeit in Kolkata. Rumte mein Zimmer in Shantiniketan verabschiedete mich von Freunden und hatte einiges Orgenisatorischs zu tun. Drei Monate Pause von Indien dann komme ich zurck. Erstmal ein wenig Malaysia Strand und Natur und dann Berlin fr ein paar Wochen. Morgen Abend flieg ich nach Kuala Lumpur. Ich muss raus aus Indien. Mein Visa ist am Ende und ich brauche auch unbedingt ne indis