Just a quick map based update to show you all where we are at the moment and when we have been for the last 4 weeks since leaving Thailand on August 7th. By the time most people read this we will have arrived in Kuching in Malaysian Borneo where we spend 3 or 4 days before flying to Kuala Lumpur.I will be doing a proper blog in the next few days covering Java and Borneo but until then....
Uglich
Sep 11Yaroslavl was very quiet. There was hardly any traffic for a city if 600000. We visited a couple of churches and then at 5 there were special services in every church for the victims of the air crash. There is talk of the corruption with technical checks for aviation similar to the tourist ship that sank a few months ago. The town has a nice feel to it as its quite an educational cen
LansdowneThe Do nothing Get away
Spending your time doing nothing in the midst of mountain hills is one do nothing activity that lets you admire the sunset sunrise clouds chilly wind flowers in the valleyall in all the beauty of nature around you... and theres no better place than Lansdowne to do so.Leaving for Lansdowne a small hill station situated in Uttarakhand last Friday was a perfect Get away for
Thursday 1st September Vienna the place not the bread
Today we went to Vienna.On our way we stopped in Bratislava For anyone who has watched Eurotrip... It is nothing like it I can39t decide between which is my favourite place Lauterbrunnen or Bratislava. We did a short walking tour around Bratislava then had 2 hours free time. We walked around the quaint little streets and they had a few market stalls around. I just love how quiet and cute
Koh Phi Phi part one
Arriving in Koh Phi Phi we were excited to return to Paradise our favourite place on our Thailand trip in 2009. The water was clear and turqouise and the scenery still looked amazing. After paying a 20baht towards the beach cleanup fee when getting of the boat we headed off to The White Our home for the next 6 weeks. The streets of Phi Phi were a lot busier than before but the ambience of the
Friday 2nd September We just want to find the Ferrero Rocher
We started today off with a driving tour around Vienna stopped of at a castle then we were dropped off in the middle of town. We some how ended up hanging around with Tim and Carla today. Our aim was to find the markets that had been pointed out at the beginning to the driving tour... unfortunatly we were given the wrong directions and ended up spending most of our day walking around. We went to
Saturday 3rd September Final destination Prague
Travel day againNice early packup to head to Prague with a stop off at a Concentration Camp Mauthausen Concentration Camp. I don39t have any photos of the Concentration Camp because I really didn39t want to. We started our trip with a 30 minute video and I was fine watching the video until the last 5 minutes where photos were shown from when the Americans made it to the camp. The photos
Sunday 4th September Thinking of Christchurch today… And HAPPY FATHER’S DAY
This morning one of the other Christchurch girl39s said 39It39s September 4th today39 and it took me a while to click I cannot believe it has been an entire year that we have put up with earthquakesThis morning brekkie wasn39t until 9.30 but it got very warm so Steve and I were up at 7.40 and got ready to put a load of washing on... problem was the guy standing in the reception di
Monday 5th September From Prague to Berlin
Today was a civil time to get up... or should I say normalish 6.306.45 has become a usual wake up time on this trip for travel days.This morning we were ready very early Steve rung Elijah since he missed out on talking to him yesterday. It was a pretty uneventful drive too cold when the airconditioning is on and too hot when the airconditioning is off. I pretty much did the ususal for a bus r
The date says it all
Today is September the 11th. On board right now we have over 1000 American guests. We carry several american news networks on our onboard TV channels all of which are doing memorials for the World Trade Centre. I remember where I was at school in the reception area. Where were you911Dont ever forget.
Tuesday 6th September Free day in Berlin
Today we started off with a 2.5 hour walking tour with a tour guide arounf Berlin it was not a usual tour where he took us to buildings and explained what they were he took us to very random places like construction sites and the underground subway station and explained the history and what used to be where we were standing. We were taking to the carpark of an apartment building to be told we
Never ending tours
Need to keep this updated more So many things have happened since this last Tuesday...Wednesday was my first full day of classes and they are interesting to say the least. My anthropology class is all about music and how it39s changed over time in London from jazz to punk to popular music and all that falls in between so perfect class for me. Thanks goodness though he gave us tons of venues to
Finch Hatton Gorge
Saturday 10th SeptColin and Louise took us for a drive to Eungella National Park on the way we called into the Finch Hatton Gorge and what a beautiful hike to the the falls through the rain forrest on such a beautiful day with the sun shining through the tree tops.We called into the River Rock cafe on the way out and had a drink in the outdoor patio right in the rain forrest.Drove up the very wi
Karumba to Gregory Downs
5911 off again on our way to Lawn Hill. We stopped at Normanton for supplies fuel. We stopped had a look at Normanton Railway Station the Gulf Lander train. Then off again to a freebie we had heard about not in the Camps Book. It was 60 km south of Normanton at the Flinders River Crossing a great spot. We set up camp went down to the river where the fish was jumping set Margy up on
Adels Grove
7911 happy Birthday Merry have a great day. We left Gregory Downs being told the road was good sealed a lot of the way NOT. It was rough bumpy but better than the last time we went to Adels Grove. We got the vans through ok with no trouble. We set up all had a swim in the creek as it was very hot. Poor Margy we hope she has not cracked a rib as she is very sore. It cooled down at n
Basketball Exploring more of Chengdu
Sorry Ive been MIA for the past a couple of days however Ive been nursing a strained eye so I decided to give my eyes a break from my contacts and my laptop.No I wasnt detained On Friday we had no classes so after working out some of us decided to play basketball with some of the locals. First we just started playing a game of HORSE. Yet we kept getting some locals who would try
Da Mei Xia painless retreat for midAutumn festival
Most of the maddness you may be viewing about travling in China during the MidAutumn Festival is true. Yes eveyone schlepping boxes of mooncakes through bus stations and shouting at ticket agents and well the usual holiday nusences. It39s advised to stay put if you39re in Guangdong and looking for peace and quiet my mission yesterday was to transpant myself from the heart of Guangzhou t
Monday 22nd Wednesday 24th August Sailing in Greece… or using the motor
Short drive to where we boarded out yatchs We parked the bus to repack our bags and while there we seemed to aquire 3 homeless but very friendly dogs. Steve was made the Skipper of our yatch and being his wife I was made his 1st Mate. We had 4 other girls on our yatch who later on decided that Steve and I were mum and dad and they were our 4 daughters... even though 1 of the girls is 2 years old
Thursday 25th August Albania
This morning we were up at 6.15am so we could clean our boat before leaving we had to have inspections... problem was we were such a great team that we had the boat finished and emptied in 45 minutes... I stood guard of our luggage because our friends the 39town dogs39 may have tried to steal somethingAfter packing up we drove to Tirana Albania. It is crazy to come from such a pleasant
Friday 26th August Tirana to Dubrovnik Croatia
That is the best nights sleep I have had since being on this tour We had an airconditioned room and a blimin39 comfortable bed to sleep onWe headed down for breakfast where we had omlettes... YUMToday39s journey was taking us to Dubrovnik. When we arrived we set up our tents had tea then jumped on a bus to go on another walking tour... of 39Old Dubrovnik39. It is a really n