225227 A Weekend in Tuscany Siena Cortona PisaWellhellip here it is the recollection of the first weekend off we as a group have. And I will preface this long entry with the statement that it did not dissapoint. I had heard stories and had been told by many that Tuscany is beautiful and a must do must see experience and I am going to have to go ahead and agree with those claims. Absolute

My dad spent time in India as an Army dentist during World War II. The following is a link to a 10 minute YouTube video clip. This is just the first part of an hour and a half interview that was recorded several years ago for a Vets Remember public television interview show. lt httpwww.youtube.comwatchvJDGsiQDHyIo gt My dad's Parkinson's disease has progressed since this

After the heavy rain and lightening of the day before Sunday dawned as hot as ever. After a quick breakfast we set off at 08h00 towards the Manuel Antonio National Park for a day by the sea. Bathing costumes and towels were the order of the day but not being interested in swimming I opted for the walking.Apparently one of the four beaches in the park is rated as one of the ten most beautiful

Friday the 26th. John was exhausted after the NicaraguaCosta Rica border crossing so we stopped early just outside of Liberia. The road side police which we had been told we would need to bribe could not have been friendlier. One cop was cuter than any Chippendale Irsquove ever seen. Now Irsquom and old lady but this guy was breath taking Costa Rica is famous for its bad roads. The

Greetings everyone Can it be March already I say yes because I'm getting ready for my annual DrakeSmart trip to Europe and I'm ready for the big countdown to Copenhagen Hamburg Heidelberg Stuttgart Rothenburg Geneva Paris Normandy Dublin and London. We do all this in 19 days.I'll preface this trip blog by saying this is no vacation in the sense that it's not a leisure trip rather an

Well hello again Colombo airport welcomed me with an ocean of fibs. My hotel had apparently sent several taxi drivers to meet me which was strange as I hadn't booked a hotel.I consulted my lonely planet to check prices for a three wheeler to Negombo the nearest resort and somehow read a much lower figuremeaning I stood bargaining with a driver over 50 pence for half an hour. When i got to my h

CWB UgandaCrew Arrive SafelyFriday 26 FebruaryIt was an early start for us all meeting at Heathrow Terminal 5 by 8 am. Having everyone assembled on time was a good start and we worked on checkingin luggage which included excess that BA were good enough not to charge for with kit bags and tshirts being taken out to leave for the children in Uganda. We were all very pleased with the number o

CWB UgandaCrew begin work in KampalaSaturday 27 FebruaryAfter breakfast and a quick stop into a nearby shopping centre for bottled water and the opportunity to change money into local currency we all headed to the national sports centre in Kampala. Here we met national cricketer Fred who showed us around the cricket ground which included a wonderful traditional scoreboard. It may not have the

Hi We arrived in Bangkok safe and sound yesterday afternnon thai time which is 7 hrs ahead of the UK Today Sunday we visited Wat Pho and the reclinging Budha which was beautiful the feet of the Budha are inlaid with pictures of mother of pearl we also went on a ferry back to our hotel.We aren't very far from Patpong where there are lots of gogo girls and a street with boys we haven't walke

There are many joys about spending a few years in the Northern Hemisphere and one of the best is the lead up to Christmas. Christmas in London has its own kind of magic from the sparkling lights lining Oxford and Regent Streets to the window displays at Harrods and the giant snow globe over the statue of Eros in Picadilly Circus.My festive season started early with our work 'Winter Party' stage

This is an update from Chile in the aftermath of the earthquake at 330 AM local time February 27Yesterday was well stressful We were awoken about 330 AM our time to some violent shaking in our hotel room in downtown Santiago. It is hard to describe the feelings of helplessness as we lay in bed with things being thrown around the room and the fear that the building was about to collapse. It

The District Six MuseumDistrict Six was once a denselypopulated busy area of Cape Town. Towards the end of the Nineteenth Century here and the adjoining areas of Woodstock and Salt River were workingclass areas of Cape Town where all races lived together.It is of extra interest to me because it was in these areas that my greatgrandfather lived and worked and it was on Constitution Street in D

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So weve actually managed to do some sightseeing now.

Fairly turbulent flight over night to Cape Town this could have been because the flight flew along the coast of Africa. Probably managed to sleep on and off for 3 hours. Once we reached Namibia we could see the Namib Desert outside and the sun rising. The landing into Cape Town was smooth and we saw Table Mountain upon landing. We were tired when we arrived from lack of sleep but the adrenalin

22610I just finished my first week of work at Tiffany Co. in Sydney. I thought Irsquod be doing the same thing as in the states but turns out therersquos not much to do. The US call center is the only place that can Australia orders over the phone we donrsquot have access to any records for returns repairs orders etc and none of the stores ever answer their phones. So basically all I

Yesterday a group of us decided to take a daytrip to Brussels Belgium to get out of Maastricht for a little bit. It was a nice break from schoolwork since Brussels is only 2 hours away by train it made for nice easy travel. We headed out of MaastrichtCentraal at 10 am changed trains in Liege and arrived in Brussels around noon to start our day. Kristina a friend of Cenay is currently

Hello allI've finally managed to get some time to put pictures up of our sailing trip around the Whitsunday islands. We went out on a catamaran for 3 days had a great time snorkeling and scuba diving and playing Jenga which on a boat is pretty dam hard. Harry the skipper was a kiwi with a sick sense of humor so i got on with him well plenty of pictures were taken so Irsquove uploaded the bes

Hello all Michelle and I started class on Tuesday Our classes seem very interesting and it looks like they shouldnrsquot be too hard I am actually taking a digital photographic practice class which will be really interesting because I just got my new SLR from my parents for Christmas and Irsquoll get to learn how to use a lot more of it than I would have trying to teach myself. We have be

Ok...so it has been so long since the last time I blogged so this one is going to be very long. I do not even know where to start.After I went out to dinner with Andre the next day we took a day trip to Bhuktapur. It was a 2 hour bus ride on 2 local buses. Quite an adventure. In Bhuktapur we did some sightseeing and ate some food nothing special...but after is where it gets interesting. Anoth