So yesterday we had a leisurely day wandering around the parts of Cambridge that we had not yet gotten to see. We made our way to the Cambridge River I think its also called the River Cam. It's so beautiful there see pictures. We had Cornwell pastries yesterday and they were really yummy. Also see us enjoying them in a picture. We've been help up working because our UK criminal record checks wen
So long Lao Good morning Vietnam
Got a bit sidetracked the last 2 weeks it seems...We had a remarkably uneventful and kind of downer last 6 days in Lao. There is a massive complex of caves near the Vietnamese border where the revolutionary soontobe government of Lao lived during the massive US bombing campaign called Pathet Lao. We tried 2 times to go see them but ran into funny hitches along the way. Lao is the kind of plac
Day 31
Day 31830am I woke up to skype my boyfriend since today was considered a lsquorain dayrsquo from the forecast our prof decided to hold off on digging until Monday. So I had a restful and wellneeded sleep in day As we were talking the clouds lifted and the sun came out just outside my window. It was a great way to kick off our offday. At about 1130pm his time we said our goodnights an
PANAMA OCT 2010
HolaGreetings from Isla Tobago. We're on a small island a few miles out in the bay from Panama City. Its about an hour's ferry ride from town. We arrived yesterday with a boat load of daytrippers but once the last ferry left it was like we were the only visitors on the island. We walked down to a great little restaurant at the only other hotel on the island Hotel Vereda Tropical. The meal
Day 33
Day 33 Olympia overnight Trip630am meeting at the docks meant waking up at 6am getting dressed packing up my washup stuff for the overnight trip and grabbing some snacks for the trip. We all met promptly at 630am in the dark since it was before sunrise at the bus and loaded. It was a 2 minute drive to the ferry terminal at Killini and then we boarded the ferry pedestrian style. Everyo
the end of Dusseldorf
on the morning of 11 Oct.this is a short pictureless blog cos I can't be bothered feeding the craven masses all the timeI have ended up spending 3 nights in Dusseldorf. The reasons have been very personal due to the loss of my father's brother Uncle Gordon here in a Lancaster bomber on 23 April 1944. I was able to visit where his plane allegedly came down and eat at a very good Italian restaur
Leg 4 Journey Back Home
Today we headed back to Puerto Princesa via the shuttle van through Port Wally not too surprised that the cost to go back is 100 pisos cheaper than it was to get to El Nido. We have come upon this many times during our travels in Asia that the same trip in one direction is a different price than the return. Unsure why but that is when I just don't ask Why as there is no reason and it will jus
The weekend
I have definitley been negelecting my blog this weekend so im guessing this will be a seriously long oneSo during my last lesson on friday a 15 year old boy asked me if I had a love friend much to the amusement of the rest of the class and then asked me if I liked his friend... serious cringe factorLate that night courtney and i were supposed to go to watch a film in town with the german assis
Tibet day 6
This morning Audrey and I woke up to rain...in our room...at 4 AM. There were a couple steady streams of water flowing into our room from the ceiling. We put all our stuff in the bathroom which ironically was dry and went downstairs to look for a person to help us. There was a Spanish lady in the lobby who had the same problem. Luckily Audrey can speak Spanish We saw a light on in the hotel
Xi’an Day 3
I got out of bed at 710. It was tough. I showered and was done around 730. Wendy was still asleep. I got ready while she slept and I think she got up about 740. I knew we wouldn't make it down to J P's by 8 so I went ahead and sent a message saying we would make it. He said he didn't care.. we weren't in a huge hurry or anything. P came up with her hair dryer and straightener. We fi
Tibet day 7back to Lhasa
Last night we got to see stars for the first time since I've been in China. The combination of clear air and no light pollution was amazingI don't think I've ever seen that many or that bright of stars. For breakfast we had porridge toast fried eggs and spam. Porridge was exciting because I had never had porridge before. I thought it was only in Mary Poppins but apparently not. It was r
Sawatdee Kaaaaaaaa
Hello from ThailandWe last left you just before we set off for our 3 day jungle trek so let's begin there. Firstly we headed to the elephant camp for an hour elephant ride the treatment of the elephants was a little controversial as is the treatment of most of the animals used for tourists pleasure out here and on that basis Mat and a few others decided to walk behind as the remainder of t
Hoi An and Nha Trang
Photos of Hoi An and Nha Trang 2007
London Baby…
London Stopover.....First of all we decided to take a couple of family outings one of which was to the Notting hill street carnival. Although the food is very much like the food you get at Afrophingston in Switzerland the actual carnival it's self is unlike anything I have ever seen the costumes are amazing so brightly colourful and some are so creative and the beats just force you to move you
New York photos
Hi folksHere are some photos from our sojourn in New York.
First stop Singapore
The adventures begin...Singapore....A little disappointed that the first leg of our Asian adventures seemed so westernised definitely not what I was imagining and so expensive we only had 2 days here and yet we managed to spend at least 3 weeks worth of our budget not a good start though to be honest every country we'd been to so far we have spent more than our allocated budget I guess that'
Xi’An Day 4
I actually made it out of bed at 7. It took 15 years for the shower to get hot. It was so cold. I made good time though and I was out by 720. Wendy got up a little earlier this morning.. 730. P came up and used her hair dryer and straightener because we still had it. Wendy and I packed up and headed down to J P's. We put our stuff in there so we wouldn't have to go back upstairs to get
Week 1 BeijingLanzhou The Great Wall and Sleeper trains
Wednesday 6 October...We managed to get a trip to a much less visited area of the Great Wall Shanhai Pass certain sections are teaming with tourists and you can't budge for souvenir stalls. It was completely run down and a bit sketchy at times but worth the scramble and 10km hike. Wow Just stunning but totally incomprehensible due to its vastness. Again its such a famous site that mos
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