A day off. Tuesday June 8. Drove about 30 miles south of Mobile to Bellingrath Gardens and Home. Got there about 9 AM. By the time I got about two steps away from the car I was sweating. By the time I bought my tickets I was soaked. The 10000 sq ft mansion was built in 1935 by one of the first US bottlers of Coca Cola. Apparently bottling was an extremely lucrative business. I strolled the gar
The dog car to dinner at a fantastic place for pig ankle
I said ldquoItrsquos the dog carrdquo Carol saidrdquo Oh no not the dog carrdquo You should refer to my posts on Feb 24th 2009 and the one following to get the full background on this. Letrsquos just say last year we thought we might be eating a Chihuahua named Honey. We were waiting looking over the koi ponds outside the hotel in the shade in about 90 degree weather for our dinner
Day 9 To Hershey
Today the weather was very cold and rainy. We are glad we did not camp out last night After a very late morning sleeping in at Days Inn we departed for Hershey where we would be staying with Jerome's friend Mitch. The drive though raining a lot was very beautiful. Mountains began to appear and I discovered a new perspective of them they are very beautiful surrounded by mist and fog. O
TAXI part 2
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
The Canadian Rockies
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
Rainy in Brugge
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
Mariners vs Angels
At Angel stadium.
PLANTS in a desert.
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
arusha tanzania
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
Anchor Point AK to Seward AK
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
Kunming. Yuanyang. Nujiang.
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
Mount Manganui and Zorb
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
Office alone
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
Day 49
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
Zurich
I arrived in Zurich after a very long day of trains. I woke at 400 am yesterday to catch the train from London to Paris. Then spent an hour in the train station there before heading to Zurich. I arrived there at 300pm whew So lets get this straight I spent Monday afternoon through Tuesday midday on a plane and all of Wednesday on train. I have been traveling every day for the majority of th
home at last
hey all just wanted to let you all know even though you probably already knew that i am home. After two plane rides I arrived last night greeted by my mom dad nanny and pa. Thank you all for coming we went to ininout and feasted on burgers so nice sorry for the late reply but i spent the whole day with my mom running errands and such. Well this is my last blog... If you get desperate
Day 2 Let the Walk Begin
Corfu is all Venetian green and spoiled by the sun.Its richness enervates. Its valleys are painted out boldly in heavy brushstrokes of yellow and red. The Judas trees line the dusty roads in terrific purple explosions. Everywhere you go you can lie down on grass Lawrence Durrell Ok so we are about to find out if these words of some 65 years ago are true today.Usual continential brekfast of eg
iseltwald
ok so at the lake lodge hoslte and we have been having an amazing timewe met 2 guys from denmark who are geeks like us....really great guys they brought a car and invited us along to go with them to the shynege platte..beautiful view a cog train that goes up a mountain just a little south of innsbruck and boy the views were amazing all the mountains to the south laid out before yo
Photos added
I have now added some phots from Day 1 and Day 2
The Jungle island of Monkeys and man eating lizards.
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