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NI COM NAV INT" http://www.travelblog.org/Live Travel Journals, Diaries and Photos from realTravellers en-us Thu, 05 Feb 2015 07:50:17+0000 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 07:50:17 +0000 Manycities have their extraordinary legends butKrakow is special it has magical tales about itshistory. The history is everywhere you can touchit every corner around you when you walk in thismedievel city that brings you back in time. I love Polandhttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Lesser-Poland/Krakow/blog-871160.html Tena Koutoumeaning greetings to you all in Maori language. We arrived in Auckland about 2am so a bit hard tohave first impressions. The apartment is good but a bit on the small side we are going to be cosy buthey ho staying in a city you are not ofte https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/Nort--Island/Bay-of-Islands/blog-871239.html Day 19 Jan. 29 2015 Port of call Nawiliwili HI on the Islandof Kauai Weather forecast sunny temperature 75F24C actual 81F27C experienced mist then lightshowers leading to heavy showers on nor https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/Hawaii/Kauai/Nawiliwili/blog-871566.html I've been on the road for a little over a month nowtravelling the Australian coast from New South Wales all the way down to Victoria's Great Oceanroad. The sights I've seen and people I've met have absolutely transformed the way I see Australiaand I c https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Eden/blog-871563.html Bulaeveryone well had a very relaxing day today we went down to the beach which is just outside ourbungalow and we appeared to be the only one's on there so we got our lily white bodies out andblended well into the sand You couldn't see us It https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Fiji/Nadi/blog-871565.html Hola from the sunny shores...OK I'd be lying we've had a lot of rain today not so sunny.But in 11 days first day of rain.We enjoyed the most beautiful night last night after a day of justputzing around.Martha had made an early spaghetti dinn https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-871516.html Lots of celebration going on hereat a Tropical Palms since our arrival back on land. Cory and Sam made their annual bet on the SuperBowl. Sam has lost the bet these past two years so they have had to treat us to some very fine meals.Whoa...what an endin https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/Florida/Kissimmee/blog-871559.html We decided to take a winter trip around the OlympicPeninsula and started out on Monday with a ferry ride to Port Townsend where we stayed overnightwith our friends Nancy and Mark. Our visit was great a delightful dinner party much excellentconversat https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Forks/bl-g-871443.html We boarded Sirius 1935 at the Royal Langkawi Yacht Club around lunchtime on the24th January and quickly realised the sleeping arrangements were going to be similar to that of thecamper van some weeks ago i.e. trying different places to sleep each nighthttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/blog-871506.html Day 6 and 7Thiswill be our 4th trip to San Francisco so I'm assuming we will be leaving some of the touristattractions out however my blog from SF trip in 2014 has some ideas and tips if you're a novice.Wewill cross the bridge int https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/S-n-Francisco/blog-871557.html This is a sonopsis of what has happened is the last several days.On Jan28th I was lucky enough to have company. My cousin Dave and his wife Nancy Mallon fromIndianapolis Indiana were in FL and heard I wasn't too far away so they came to visit me. Ithttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/Clermont/blog-871553.html Day5This day we will check out of Monterey and head north again towards San Francisco great city Onthe way I am extremely keen to check out Half Moon Bay.As I've mentioned before we always

struggle to find somewhere that is reasonably https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/California/Sausalito/blog-871556.html Day 4Our plans for the 4th day are split betweenSanta Cruz and San Jose. We have neither been to either of these places before so excited toexploreSanta CruzWe have been reliably advised to explore the Santa Cruz mountains ashttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Santa-Cruz/blog-871554.html Asthe name suggests Resort Latitude Zero sits within spitting distance of the equator. A hedonisticoasis the resort is snuggled cosily amongst the Telo Island chain. The what chain If you are not asurfer it's an archipelago incognito. Even the goodhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Mentawi/blog-871171.html We started our lastweek with dinner with friends of Mark's from Chevron. A few live here in BA and one is on a tripwith three friends. We had a fun dinner at Camp Bravo we ordered many items and shared the foodthe wine and conversation flowed. We went https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-870997.html Last Sunday was great Winterattacked finally and everything became white. I decided to go for a short trip to catch some snow.Instead of going to downtown as usually I turned out of the city driving toTyniechttpyoutu.beZpSLnAt1aQ Mor https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Lesser-Poland/Krakow/blog-871549.html Funny crash of crazy kids during skiing lesson. Recorded in PolishTatra Mountains during winter and snow weather with happy end.httpyoutu.beEdVzSWOUWrwhttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Lesser-Poland/Krakow/blog-871546.html Niedzica Castleis a beautiful gothic chateau with its roots starting in XIII century. Located over beautiful artificialCzorsztyn Lake.httpyoutu.beyzsz5En2BU More at https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Lesser-Poland/Niedzica/blog-871547.html Very Merry Christmas and a Happy NewYearhttpyoutu.bePZv48YiIsHsMore atwww.traveltopolandblog.comhttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Lesser-Poland/Krakow/blog-871548.html Sunshine andblue skies greeted us in Antigua. In 1543 this little town became the Spanish capital a beautifulplace set amongst green mountains. The town thrived with huge churches and public buildings. Butthree of those mountains are volcanoes and https://www.travelblog.org/Central-Americ--Caribbean/Guatemala/Capital-Region/Antigua/blog-871544.html Day 3We're staying in HiltonGarden Inn in Monterey looks like a great place. We are spending 3 nights in Monterey which is thelongest we ever really spend anywhere From here we are wanting to spend time in Monterey CarmelSan Jose and Sa https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Monterey/bl-g-871542.html Day 2We haven't been to Big Sur since summer 2011 when we drove from SanFrancisco to LA and made the catastrophic mistake of not allowing time to stop off and enjoy BigSur. This year we are pushed for time too but are giving ourselves the fullhttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Big-Sur/blog-871540.html HiPhotos from today have just come through so here goes.https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/blog-871535.html Hi. 4 February 7.30PM.Ohwhat a difference a day makes.Today did yesterday walk in reverse and was great as usual.This timethe hat to keep the sun out of my eyes while yesterday it was for the rain for some of the day.Wasable to see more and st https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/blog-871534.html Weleft Lanquin and headed for Rio Dulce I think it was the worst road we have travelled on all year. Wetravelled for six hours in total and more than five hours on an unsealed bumpy road but at least wedidn't have any roadblocks.Our driver calle https://www.travelblog.org/Central-Americ--Caribbean/Guatemala/Caribbean-Coast/Rio-Dulce/blog-864471.htmlhttpwww.casablancavalley.clwebenmapaAfter lunch at Casas del Bosque we proceeded to oursecond winery tour of the day at Vina Emiliana.Emiliana leads the way in establishing new standahttps://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/blog-871533.html My anticipated trip to ValleCasablanca and two of its premier wineries lived up to my expectations.The drive was easy on theCostanera heading towards the coast. I remembered some of the highlights on the way from myprevious trips visit to the C https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/blog-871529.html Sothis past Friday I grouped up with about a dozen coworkers to go to an event called FRANK in

Rotterdam.The idea is that they close down the cruise terminal and bring in a DJ then watch as itgets packed with about 3000 partygoers. Here's a set ofhttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/South-Holland/Rotterdam/blog-871527.htmlContinued from previous blog post...As stated in my last post we are currently planning and bookingour vacation for this year.We are flying into LAX from London Heathrow and have already got ouritinerary planned out based on previous trips https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/California/Santa-Barbara/blog-871511.html Dag 12 og 3Noen synes sikkert det er passeligblrete fly med busines class nr mann skal p ferie men har man frst tatt skrittet gjort dette en gang sbegynner mann allerede spare for ogs kunne gjre det til neste ferie. Dethttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Sri-Lanka/Southern-Province/Galle/blog-871510.html Today marksone month since I began my study abroad adventure in Ireland. One month ago I was saying my finalgoodbyes and going through airport security on my own leaving everything I know behind. It was aday that my life would change so I believed a https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Waterford/Waterford/blog-871505.html Today was to be taken up with a boat tour of 5 islandssnorkelling kayaking and eating A tour costing 600 baht 12 which id booked yesterday. After a goodnights sleep made my way down to the end of the pier to catch the boat i was the first on ihttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Ko-Chang/blog-871504.html A lovely dayhere in Dubai. We travelled in a spotlessly clean air conditioned train through the outskirts of thecity to yet another shopping mall. Everything here is inside a Mall..I guess it's to keep out if the heatespecially in the summer. Again it https://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Ar-b-Emirates/Dubai/blog-871501.html First full day in ko Chang started a bit impulsively by hiring amoped for the day Was gonna do it with Anna a girl from Sweden also in the dorm room but aftertrying a few places she was unable to hire one all because all you need to hire one is nhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Ko-Chang/blog-871502.html Today weare back in the CARIBBEAN ISLANDS Antigua. Its 77 degrees humid with soft trade winds. YESPeople ask me all the time...where is my favorite place in the world Thats such a hard question andthere is no clear answer as I have fo https://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Antig-a-and-Barbuda/Antigua/St-Johns/blog-871494.html We enjoyed 3 final days in Liberia at the BestWestern El Sitio just soaking up the sun and walking around the city. We arrived at the DanielOduber Airport in Liberia to await our flight home on Monday but sadly not it was cancelled Thecrew had logged https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/blog-871498.html G'dayeveryoneAfter 6.5 great weeks in Australia it was time to leave. It was a pleasure to catch up withsome many friends and acquaintances again people who I really appreciate and I usually hated tosay goodbye when I had to move on. I left the co https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-871009.html The day did not start well an overnight mosquito bite to myeye left me half blinded. We slowly rode South from Malaybalay not expecting much but a long daysmotorbike ride towards Davao. It didnt take too long too realise that the journey was going to thttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Mindanao/Davao/blog-871488.html Following the lastposts and while we are waiting for the new Black Widow Drawers to arrive we are now working outthe route to the Cape. There are four cars going and as a group we have not yet decided exactlywhich way we will drive up. but one of our phttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Sunbury-Australia-/blog-871493.html Nacheinem Monat unterwegs in Australien inkl Stopover in Singapur ist es mir nun doch noch gelungenein Blog zu erstellen... gt jegliche TippGrammatikfehler werden bitte ignoriert Momentan geniesseich die letzten Tage mit Tigi Janina in P https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Perth/blog-871271.html Pics https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/Changi/blog-871400.html Bula were in Fiji let me just repeat myself again were in FIJI Bula means Hello. Well itwas touch and go whether we got here or not. Believe it or not this was a groupon deal and we allknow what groupon can be like but the deal was too good to tuhttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Fiji/Nadi/blog-871481.html Hi again My first time ever actuallyleaving the state that I could clearly remember I went to my great grandma's 90th in Colorado when

I was 5 hey I sort of remember it was to the Midwest after my first summer up in Sequoia. I hadnever even b https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/-ew-York/Manhattan/blog-871475.html With Lisa still in Perth Stuart and I went to the Melbournesuburb of St Kilda this morning. It is a very trendy and expensive area with more coffee shops than Ihave ever seen These shops also sold the most amazing selection of cakes too Fortunately wehttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/blog-871474.html Just had two amazing daysin the Red Centre. We arrived at Alice Springs late afternoon had a quick swim then went for awalkabout. Not a lot to see or do there quite an odd little town really as the modern parts have justbeen built on a grid system wi https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Ayers-Rock/blog-871460.html We were fortunate to have perfect weather as we crossedthe vast Pacific Ocean. Now being in the Southern Pacific Sea we werent quite so lucky. After twodays of bouncing around the ocean many passengers were very happy to see the entrance to theSydn https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Port-Melbourne/blo--871254.html Our second day in India we went to do sightseeing in Delhi. We took the metro toNehru Place from where it is a short stroll to the Lotus Temple. Metro was very very crowded eventhough it was a Sunday. There was standing room only but it has the advanthttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/blog-871356.html This morning Kennedy and I went to theQueen Victoria Market which wasn't as cool as I was hoping. There were lots of nice souvenir thingsbut I can't buy any yet because ill have to carry them around. We went over to the food market andhad Chinese for lu https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/blog-871457.html Kennedy and I hired bikes and cycled to Brighton beach to see the beach huts. I hadn'teven been in the sea since being in Australia so I decided it was about time to go in. We went for aquick swim but the water was pretty cold we didn't last long beforehttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Brighton/blog-871456.html When Iwoke up this morning it was raining that meant I had no idea what to do today. I was chatting tosome girls at breakfast about what to do and they said they were going to a free museum so Ithought I might as well join them. I agreed to meet themhttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/St-Kilda/blog-871453.html The oneabout nothing other than catching upI forgot to write about a reunion event that was too funny tonot write about.As my classmates and I were getting together to pose in the Wilderness Lodge lobbyfor our class picture I heard someth https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/Florida/Lady-Lake/blog-871451.html Late start this morning so we headed down to thedinner for brunch. Stuart had waffles and I had what was described on the menu as two eggs yourchoice plus bacon. What came out was three menu definitely said two eggs a pile of bacon twopieces of t https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/-log-871450.html Hi People So we started off the day badly I check my bag and found I have lost 700of cash in different currencies Vick was not happy and I'm gutted so much money to lose I havephoned both hostels we stayed at and no luck but to be honeshttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/Sentosa-Island/blog-871439.html Day 18 Jan. 28 2015Port of call Honolulu HI on the Island of OAhu Weather forecast mostly sunny temperature 75F24Cactual 82F28C experienced foggy conditions in the higher regions https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Hawaii/Oahu/Honolulu/blog-871444.html A phone call to an auto electricianin Tamworth assures me that the problem with the battery charger in the caravan can be fixed so wehead off to Tamworth to a caravan park recommended by the auto electrician. On arrival wediscover that the world famous https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-Sout--Wales/Tamworth/blog-871098.html Day 17 Jan. 27 2015 Port of call Honolulu HI on the Island ofOAhu Weather forecast mostly sunny temperature 75F24C The ship docked in Honolulu Harborwhich is used for commercial s https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/Hawaii/Oahu/Honolulu/blog-871438.html Eigentlich war geplant eine Fhre zu nehmen dienicht sehr weit weg war aber es gab einen neuen Fahrplan und an diesem Montag war keine Fhre.Also mussten wir zurck nach dem Osten der Insel da wo wie auch bei der Herfahrt bergesetzt

hatten. https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Magallanes/blog-871420.html Sunday 1stFebruary 2015 Today we stood in the Governments Pink Palace in Buenos Aries looking out of one ofthe three windows which lead to the famous balcony from whence Eva Pern spoke to her people whowere gathered in the Plaz https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Bueno--Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-871436.html OK I know I am far behind in my updates. And there is noexcuse. So lets get on with it with my trip to Gramado and Nova Petropolis two cities about twohours drive from Porto Alegre. And what a different place it was.With Christmas over andhttps://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Rio-Grande-do-Sul/blog-871434.html We left undera dark cloudy sky happily the sun came out by the time we reached the Beothuk InstituteInterpretation Centre. The Beothuk are an indigenous people who were made extinct in thttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Newfoundland-Labrador/Gander/bl-g-871431.html 11. TravelblogFebruary 1 2015Layover in Amsterdam. Checked in with familychecked email had tea and rested. Boarded and departed right on time. I found myself envious ofthose who could actually sleep or rest and decided to accept the fact thathttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/blog-871432.html 10 TravelblogJanuary 31 2015Weleave today. I tried to cram the gifts people had given me into my bag two drums one for me one forthe ETI Board two wall hangings a package to deliver to a Tanzanian living in Minnesota a largehandbag and a https://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/blog-871428.html Only two days 'til Colinand I head for Delhi. It will be amazing elating I will cry at what I see...and great currys will beeaten.See you all in four weeksJamie D https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/National-Capita--Territory/New-Delhi/blog-871435.html The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words andsong inspiration feeling and understanding. Willie Dixon The term colossal conflhttps://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/Eastern/blog-871173.html HolaEveryone As mentioned before I was unable to write my blog in Cuba so I am catching up here inMexico where the internet is better.What a wonderful time we had in the small town of Vinales a fewhundred kilometers west of Havana. It was very refr https://www.travelblog.org/Central-Americ--Caribbean/Cuba/blog-871418.html So short post. I'm alive and at my destination. That's a seriousvictory. https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Kosovo/Centre/Prishtina/blog-871430.html It has been awhile. Since the last post we have crossed five different time zones and four different countries withfour different flights. After leaving Kathmandu we flew to Delhi where we spent two nights withMaan in an improved experience of India de https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/Washington/Seattle/U-District/blog-871408.html Quick updateAfter 22 hours of time in theair we made it well except for Scott's luggage which is getting delivered today. We flew Toronto LABrisbane which was 19 hours of time in the air and 3 hours lay over in LA. We had an Amazing Racemom https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Byron-Bay/blog-871385.html 9TravelblogFRIDAY January 29 2015Bweranyange Girls Secondary School and ClosingMeetingBrighton arrived and we headed to Bweranyange Girls Secondary School about 50km fromKayanga. The road was bumpy and dusty lined with children and womenhttps://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/blog-871425.html Here are the pictures that I tookduring our weekend in Cork and Kinsale. The first few though are from a park in Waterford I am justuploading them as well. Enjoy https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Cork/Cork/blo--871421.html Well... this visit to Prague was actually a stagdo so there is not overly much to say wellI can say... but I wanted to add it so it gets attached to the map lol.Our apartment was right on theriver Vltava. The attached picture was that awesome v https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/blog-871328.html My first blog post will be more like a diary because I will beliving in Sucre for 4 weeks and live like a local. This also means that I wont have 1000 of pictures asmy goal is to not look like a tourist which is hard. After those 4 weeks when I wilhttps://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Chuquisaca-Department/Sucre/blog-871330.html8 TravelblogTHURSDAY January 29Another great breakfast at the hotel. Omelette Tonica localTanzanian coffee homemade bread and fruit. Good way to start the day. Brighton picked up the teamearly and took Christopher John Albin and me to KAR

https://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/blog-871422.html 'Time is precious waste it wisely. Wellwe are making good use of our time by wasting itAll is fine here. I'm recovering from my zip lineadventure just fine better than expected. In fact Sat. night I was surprised at how spry Ihttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-871404.htmlTHE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE The McPhaul Bridge is a 1200 foot long single span suspension bridgecrossing the Gila River. Construction began on it in 1928 and was completed in December of 1929. Ithandled automobile traffic across the Gila River o https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/Arizona/Yuma/blog-871416.html SonntagEs war kein langer Tag mit 350 km Abfahrt erst um8.30 und schon nach 100 km der erste und einzige Halt des Tages in einer BckereiKonditorei inTelhuen.Auf der Herfahrt war ich schon dort da war es angenehm leer aber jetzt war eine Fhttps://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Magallanes/blog-871414.html We left Mumbai thismorning after a slight altercation with the Indian Police who refused to allow us to enter the airportbecause we didn't have a paper ticket. We have no tickets it's all been via our passports..which thePolice took off me Eventually https://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Ar-b-Emirates/Dubai/blog-871413.html well...despite the dusty surrounding walking still seem not a badoption in Muang Sing walking allow me more time to look closely whatever behind fence and bushchance to run into village stupa's day and deity's day. Armed with a local map got name of thttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/North/Muang-Sing/blog-871027.html Ein recht angenehmerTag denn es gab eine Variation ohne Schotter. Und wir zwei Feiglinge Brigitte und ich nahmen dieseAbkrzung.Futaleufu ist ein kleines Kaff ich kann mir berhaupt nicht vorstellen wie man da lebenkann..... Es gibt NICHTS. https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/bl-g-870202.html Dateline Ft. Lauderdale Florida WHOA After an amazing two fun and restful weekson Balboa Island near Los Angeles we were thrown into a whirlwind of activity for the next 38 hoursBefore leaving Balboa we walk along the harbor g https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/Florida/Fort-Lauderdale/blog-871409.html One again it caught me coldfeet by the NationalAnthem I was wolfing down my padthai at the open table in the Sunday walking market andsuddenly everyone stood up unanimously sharply match with the uproaring of the music from theloudspeaker. I hurrie https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Northern-Thailand/blog-868751.htmlOne more bridge linking between the two countries over the Mekhong. mean another boat bordercrossing point disappeared also mean more time consumed for extra distant to get to the costomentry point. to avoid it I skipped Chiang Khong all together. by ghttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/North/blog-869252.html ooh...a traffic light I was wonderingwhy our bus stop before entered the town center seem like Namtha took another step further tobecame a city but look around the surrounding...well...the road work from the airport is almost finishtown still expand https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/North/Louang-Namtha/blog-869750.html Endan is het al bijna zover Vrijdag vertrek ik naar Zuid AfrikaIk vlieg samen met 3 andere meidenSharon Naomi en Lara dat komt wel goed qua gezelligheid dus. Al komt het nu allemaal wel ergdichtbijNog met een aantal mensen afspreken en evehttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/Province-of-Groningen/Aduard/blog-871406.html It'sbeen a fair bit since our last blog and I know our fans and followers are waiting with bated breathfor an update. So here it goes. We made our way up to Chiang Mai by overnight train from Bangkok.The 15 hour ride was chilly and scenic but it did th https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/blog-871398.html If you work long hours all through the working weekdays you surely know the feeling ofexhaustion when finally Friday arrives. And when it is time at last to do something different you donot have either the energy or idea where to go during weekend andhttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/blog-871397.html Woke after a good nights sleep andmade my way down to the port 10 mins away to catch a boat to the mainland then a 2 12 minibusride down the coast to catch another boat out to ko Chang i thought there would be a boatconnecting the 2 but no c https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Eastern-Thailand/Ko--Chang/Koh-Chang/blog-871394.html This first photo is the last one Fran took before her phone wasstolen. It's an addin.Except for the accident it was a terrific day. We drove about 2 hours south of

Saigon to the Mekong Delta. This is a big geographic area covering about 15 of Vietnahttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Mekong-River-Delta/blog-871349.html Update fromyesterday's post. I've heard from at least one fellow traveler that I should have written about a partof our visit to the Ci Chi tunnels the part where they gave us AR15s and M16s and sent us into thejungle. Well not exactly. Anyway we were https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-871391.html Traveling alone can be really difficult sometimes and going with ababy will only make things even more complicated but it does not mean that you cannot have fun inthe meantime. You just need to be prepared for almost anything and you need to pack smarhttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Australian-Capital-Territory/blog-871389.html HelloallMy flight left Chicago a couple of hours late so I got bumped to a later flight to Pristina. I barelyremember the flight except that the seats were very spacious or it felt that way because the flightwas about half full. They fed us some https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna/blog-871384.html You know its going to be difficult when people cant even agree on how to pronouncethe name of the country.Laos I had said confidently with the silent s until I heard others say Laos.SoWere going to Laos I said to the ne https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/West/Vientiane/blog-868899.html Chiang mai r en riktigt trevlig stad 14t tg norr om Bangkok. Trafiken r nstan lika illasom i Bangkok men som backpacker kan man ta skydd i gamla stan som utgrs av en stor kvadrat. Hrtar man sig lttast runt med cykel.Av ren tillfllighet https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-871376.html Zehn Tage auf Langkawizehn Tage Miggang und in denTag hineinlebenzehn Tage Paradieszehn Tage wunderschne Sonnenauf und untergngezehn Tagerelaxte ReggaeMusik am Strand nach dem Dunkelwerdenzehn Tage vom palmengesumthttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Langkawi/blog-871367.html Hi Followers and bloggers Isome how managed to get up and watch the Super Bowl which was at our 6am I was shattered buthad a few beers and chicken wings while watching it with some American lads I was gutted as it wasthe last quarter and w https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/Changi/blog-871362.html WithLisa away in Perth for a couple of days Stuart and I went into Melbourne to explore it further and togo and see the MCG for those of you with little sporting interest that is the Melbourne CricketGround. We did a walk around the city first follhttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/blog-871364.html Day 16 Jan. 26 2015 Port ofcall Lahaina HI Weather forecast mostly sunny temperature 73F23C wind 15 kts Got up at 615 amand went up on deck for a walk. As the ship had adopted https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Hawaii/Maui/Lahaina/blog-871363.html Hi all So today we planned to go tothe floating market however the taxi driver said the ones you see on TV and postcards are actuallynot in Bangkok but 90km away and the one in Bangkok is not worth going to So to say he pissed onour chips i https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-871361.html HiFollowers The journey wasnt too bad it was definitely better than the train up here in everywaycheaper quicker warmer and quieter. We arrived about 6am about a 5minute walk away from ourhostel on Khao San road. I booked up Chart Host https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-871340.html Hi People We booked on to another tour today in Chiang Maithrough tiger jungle tours. We managed to get a bargain as we booked twoday tours at the sametime. So it roughly worked out about 35 each for both day tours. Today we gohttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Northern-Thailand/Chiang-Khong/blog-870939.html So weare up relatively early about 8 am. Uncle Buddy was up earlier and ate breakfast at the hotel thenvisited with other guests. Hubby and I just had a snack at the gas station while filling up. Stopped atthe Petrified Forest and Painted Des https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/Arizona/Winslow/blog-871236.html Well today turned out to contain more than we bargainedfor We asked the hotel concierge to get us a taxi to go to Lower Parel for no other reason than I hadread it supposedly has 'little plazas of activity in one of most up and coming areas of Mumbai.https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Maharashtra/blog-871285.html Today was a quiet day onemore day to shake the jet lag and adjust to the heat and humidity. We drove to Splash Dive Shoptoday and set up our first dive trip for tomorrow 2 tank boat dive lunch and a snorkeling out on the

Barrier Reef. We are all look https://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Belize/Sta-n-Creek-District/Placencia/blog-871343.html Curico Chile. Partimos de Arica a las 8 am con destinoa Santiago 32 horas de viaje en un bus muy semejante a los de Colombia sorprendente encontrarque los buses y precios bolivianos son mucho mejores que los chilenos.... El destino nos condujo enun l https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Maule/Talca/blog-871310.html Flew in fromBrisbane this morning. Checked in dropped our bags and found Central Market. Great selection offresh fruit veg meat bread you name it it's here Huge plates of lamb and chicken gyros think we aregoing to love Adelaide. Had a wand https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaide/blog-871342.html I had a glorious liein today I woke up at 1045 and I think Icould have happily slept longer but I had lots to see and do. I decided to head to Sunee restaurantwhich I had been to a few days ago for breakfast but when I got there it was shut. I heahttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-868383.html Backhome sitting in the sunshine watching the shadows on the snow marvelling at how beautiful it is at26C ...I do like it and have the clothes to deal with it . SO MUCH better than the balmy mildCLOUDY CLOUDY CLOUDY depressing days of January . At https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Distrito-Federal/Mexico-City/Centro-Historico/blog-871188.html Have arrived inAustralia after another long flight from Singapore. Hotel just a short walk from Sydney Bridge and itseems so high We will be walking and climbing across it on Thursday. Also seen the Opera House.We were welcomed by RAIN We are now https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-Sout--Wales/Sydney/Sydney-Harbour/blog-871337.html According to the four year old travel guideanother passenger in the mini bus to Sen Monorom was travelling with the road connecting BanLung and Sen Monorom was mostly impassable difficult to navigate and should only be tackled byexperienced dirt bike https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/East/Senmonorom/blog-871277.html SP Cambio de planes. Despues de un ao y medio de camping he desarrollado uninstinyo para detectar la lluvia que ni las ranas del desierto australiano. A eso de las 6 me hedespertado esta lloviento y a lo bestia ademas. Ha parado un par de vehttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-871333.html After an overnight stopoff that wasneeded due to distance after the Grand Canyon at Laughlin a very small Las Vegas not overly worthblogging about lol we made our way to our final leg of the trip... Los Angeles.Sadly I had to getmyself back https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/L-s-Angeles/Hollywood/blog-871186.html Day one l'universit. Pour vrai.So this morning we took aplacement test. It was interesting not extremely hard but not the easiest either. But that's okaybecause that's going to place me in the correct level after seeing my placement test. Whichttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Burgundy/Dijon/blog-871325.html Da ormai quattrolunghe settimane il Mercante si sta lasciando trasportare dalla lenta corrente del Rio dele Amazzoniil celebre fiume avvolto da un romantico alone di mistero ed esotismo ma che si rivela in realta unaimmensa massa dacqua lurida di https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Pa--/Santarem/blog-870512.html Hi.Monday. 2 February 8PM and in the t v room as not sure if theinternet is working in the bedroom.... sometime it does but not always.... so having a coffee before Ihead upstairs.Drizzly day with temperature hovering around 11 degrees. All day.Uphttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/blog-871319.html This past weekend a smallgroup of us 3 Americans and 3 Germans Anna Sarah Eva Sarah Ro Chrissi and myself went to Corkand Kinsale. Our travels started in Friday when we caught the bus to Cork in the morning. Once wegot to Cork about a 2 hour bus https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Waterford/Waterford/blog-871321.html I'm at O'Hare airport no thanks to my connecting flight fromDes Moines. There was a heavy storm last night and all flights out of Des Moines were cancelled.Nevertheless my intrepid father drove me down to Chicago so all is well. I've checked in for mhttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Illinois/Chicago/blog-871316.html Thursday29th January after a leisurely and very good breakfast at the hotel in Estepona we headed off alongthe coast highway towards Gibraltar. We once again went through La Duquesa where we had spentthe first and second days of the trip looking at pro

https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Fuengirola/blog-871311.html The other reasonwe went to see Hacienda Npoles is the private menagerie that Escobar built for his children. Thesewords may call up in your mind a small thing that you could walk through in an hour or so. This isfar from the case. The menagerie covers https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Antioquia/blog-871313.html 7 TravelblogWEDNESDAY January 28We began theday at breakfast with the team. Albin Mathias of Powering Potential New York and Karatu nr. Arushais conducting a technology needs assessment to help determine 'next steps' for connection toInternet https://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/blog-871308.html Belofte maakt schuld Dezeblog is ter ere van Dana. Want we wensen haar ook veel succes met haar avontuur in Finland waarhet koud is en sneeuwt. Moose Moose Muppet Show.DusIk begin in eehttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/blog-871300.html 6. TravelblogTUESDAY January 272015A big day..Today January 27 2015 was the Fixing of the Touchstones ceremony at KARUCO. TheBishop and Dr. Katabaro had been storing the touchstones since Groundbreaking at KARUCO onOctober 11 2012. https://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/blog-871122.html Since I have beenback in Germany since being in England for Christmas I have been doing quite a lot more than I didbefore. I go out with friends at least two or three times a week and it's cool. However last week wasa stressful one. I had runins wit https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Baden-Wurttemberg/Stuttgart/blog-870973.html NOTE There are 54 photos in this blog article which areprobably more interesting than the text to most people. Scroll below video and on to the next page.There are captions for each photo just click on a photo. JD Another visarun to ehttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-868603.html This place isawesome. I left Salzburg at 7 to get here spent the entire day exploring the mountain and the oldtown and am now sitting in a bar figuring out what to do since I leave in two hours to go out inMunich for a bit then catch a 5am train tmrw thttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Tyrol/Innsbruck/blog-871306.html OCEAN TO OCEANMay 22 2015 will mark the 100th Anniversary of the dedication and grand opening of the Highway80 Bridge at Yuma Crossing. It is a 336 foot long steel truss bridge that was actually completed inMarch of 1915 but c https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Yuma/bl-g-871305.html Well Salzburg was absolutely gorgeous. Not that I'd live there but if all I wanted wasgood food mountains classical music and relatively cheap prices it would be a good play Womenwere not to be seen unfortunately...The day I got there I went on thhttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Salzburg/blog-871304.html A year seems like a long timeto travel and yet we are constantly finding we need to be selective. We don't want to be packing ourbags every day. Even with a relatively small country like Vietnam there is so much to see. So of allthe options for https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-871299.html Vienna was againamazkng. I spent the week with a bunch of abroad friends from school. Tuesday night got in anddidn't even have time to eat. Went straight to the bar with my friends and tried all these specialityshots. Example breathing fire out o https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna/blog-871301.html Hey everyone its been an odd couple of days to say the least I just got to my host'shome and am getting settled. I spent the first two days here at a really nice hotel getting used to theclimate and figuring out the do's and don'ts. Not too much to shahttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Northwest/Saint-Petersburg/blog-871303.html EnglandIreland Scotland WALES In the month of January we visited all four of these countries. This trip toSnowdonia with the Cambridge University Hillwalking Club provided the most exciting winterweather a snow shower on the drive in and some beau https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/blog-871290.html How daft am I I knew I was going to Thailand but in my headthought I was just getting connections to Laos. So a stop over for 3 days came as a bit of a shock somoral of the story read the trip notes before you go mmmmmSo with a couple of days to spahttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Rai/blog-871131.html Thereis a waterfall in pai around 8km outside of town. In order to get there you have to trek through thedense jungle which involves wading through the river at several points and hiking up an almost

impossibly steep hill.Just as I was about to emba https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-871295.htmlHi everyone had our last day in Perth today so Dorothy Chris myself and Stu went down to a marinaand walked around. Mike had to work in the morning so we were going to meet up with him in theafternoon. We could see a storm coming in so decided tohttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Port-Melbourne/blog-871293.htmlEnde des 18. Jahrhunderts kamen hier die britischen Hndler an und lieen sich nieder. IhreHauptstadt benannten sie nach ihrem Knig Georg III Georgetown. Aber kein Einheimischer diehauptschlich chinesisch geprgt sind macht dashier heithttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Penang/George-Town/blog-871287.html HuThe train fromHanoi to Hu was going to be a 12 hour sleeper train which at first sounded really gruelling. Howeverit ended up being my favourite way of travelling so far We went for the soft sleeper optionwhichconsisted of a 4 bed compa https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-871023.html Hello andWelcome to the Kingdom of Morocco This great North African country is one of the few Arabcountries that I am visiting on my round the world trip. Home to roughly 33 million residenceMorocco is 172487 sq mi roughly the size of the state ofhttps://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/blog-833438.html We spent only one night is Singaporein a hotel in Chinatown. We travelled there from KL on an aircon 'Nice' executive bus. Thissupposedly is like an airoplane as you get an electric socket screen with films to watch food andextra leg room. Infact the https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/blog-870851.html I've beenspending a lot of my time cycling here in Kathmandu now that I know the area better. Buses are verycheap but don't always get you close to your destination and taxis are too expensive for trips withinthe city. I haven't been doing much more tha https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu-Valley/blog-871050.html 24 December 2014 Christmas Eve We have an elf visiting us for Christmasher name was Scarlett. Scarlett sent herself in the post and told us we were going on holiday I wasexcited and I thought it wasn't real but it was https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-871279.html ...eine Anwltin und ein ShrimpAllergiker selber Arzt bitteschn insShrimpRestaurant...Die ganze allergologische Ausbildung die ich in den letzten Jahren genieendurfte brachte uns zumindest zu der Erkenntnis dass das vielleicht ein bisschenhttps://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Rio-Grande-do-Norte/Natal/blog-871276.htmlLeaving Hassan after our great day in Shravanabelagola our next destination was Mysore a citywhere we have been before here is our lasthttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Srirangapattana/blog-871265.html Was fr einrauschendes Fest NB Cachaa berwindet alle Sprachbarrieren. Und einer is im Pool gelandet. Ichwar's nicht. Groartiger Abend https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Rio-Grande-do-Norte/Natal/blog-871275.html Amazing views from the lookouts in Springbrook National Parkhuge waterfalls and looking back over to Surfers Paradise and the ocean.https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Springbrook/blog-870985.html This monthin Spain has been about food tapas in all its shapes and forms from simple marinated anchovies toskyscraper stacks of tasty morsels to paella and arroz negre a black rice risotto with seafood tochorizo in cider and eggplant chips. Sun https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Cabo-de-Gata-Nijar-Natural-Park/blog-871065.html Ho Chi Minh City fka Saigon still called Saigon byeveryone in Saigon is very different from and has a very different vibe from Hanoi. It's moreprosperous has more positive energy has better infrastructure and it feels more modern andwestern. A l https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-871272.htmlMoved up from The Gold Coast by train this morning. Took about an hour from Nerang to RomaStreet near central Brisbane. we have an early flight out to Adelaide in the morning. Staying atMeriton Apartments on Herschel Street and managed to get an uphttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Brisbane/blog-871270.html Vegetarierhaben es hier schwer. Ist mir aber ziemlich egal. Was braucht man mehr als eine Caipirinha ein StckFilet und ein paar gute Freunde https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Rio-Grande-do-Norte/Natal/blog-871269.html Ein weiser Mann sagte mir einst gestern das wichtigste in

Brasilien sei Bunda. Tatschlich ist das ein zentrales Thema in diesem Land. Bunda ist allgegenwrtigvor allem optisch. Und das ist nicht immer schn Auch Risikosportarten werden danachttps://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Rio-Grande-do-Norte/Natal/blog-871268.html Wellhere I go again route number 734 to the train to Hallett Cove to the bank. What else is new reallyWell Hallett Cove shopping Center is and I can check off another coastal town lol. Hallett CoveShopping Centre doesnt have much but it is a changehttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/blog-871259.html Eben noch gro berUmweltschutz rumgetnt und dann...naja ich bin hier sowieso die einzige Person im Land oder aufdem Kontinent die Mll trennen will.Jedenfalls war die ganztgige BuggyTour durch die Sanddnen derUmgebung genial Wie die Kin https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Rio-Grande-do-Norte/Natal/blog-871257.html The most frequent bit of advice I got when people heard I wasgoing to India was to only eat vegetarian food I was not overly keen on the idea but thought it wasbetter than being ill especially when traveling on buses and trains with dodgy facilitieshttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Kerala/Varkala/blog-871237.html Thurs am we did a 3 CaveCombo tour of the Waitomo Caves. The first limestone cave offers the opportunity to see stalactitesstalagmites and amazing colonies of glowworms by boat. The acoustics are really good and they holdcarol concerts in the caves dur https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/Nort--Island/Rotorua/blog-871125.html Its been quite a while since Ive last written. A lot has happenedsince too much to try and cram it all in one single blog post. At the moment I am sitting on the beachlooking out over a beautiful blue Indian Ocean with two small pagodas built onhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/blog-871238.html The mountain biking trip I was hoping todo was cancelled so I went caving and canyoning instead which was fun.https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/San-Gil/blog-871219.html 110115 Via Antiguanaar San pedro La Laguna Lago Atitlan. Ondertussen zijn we 30 januari een dikke 3 weken geledendat ik nog een update gedaan heb van mijn blog en eigenlijk simpelweg niets geschreven in delaatste 3 weken. Reden 3 we https://www.travelblog.org/Central-Americ--Caribbean/Guatemala/Western-Highlands/Lago-de-Atitlan/blog-871226.html We arrived in Placenciayesterday at 500 after a 2 hour wait on the tarmac in Houston thank you United Airlines. It seemsthe oxygen bottle for the flight crew was empty and we waited for maintenance to bring the newbottle for an hour and a half and a https://www.travelblog.org/Central-Americ--Caribbean/Belize/Stann-Creek-District/Placencia/blog-871234.html SALUT A TOUS ET BONNEANNEE 2015 httpyoutu.beyCHlJRc72TQ httpyoutu.beogUGnhN7PA Ici l'hiver est est bel et bieninstall. La neige recouvre la ville entire. Son paisseur vari https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/blog-871126.html So my car her name is Phat Patti is loaded down with all our usual roadtrip stuff and my birthday present A brand new Nikon camera and all kinds of stuff for it. I couldn'twait to take photos with it. We hit the road around 4am. Picked up Uncle Budhttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Texas/Fort-Worth/blog-871220.html Istarted off the day with boiled eggs coffee cereal and fruitWe then took a walking tour of Venice. Wevisited the fish market in Pescheria. It was bustling early in the morning. They had lots of strangeexotic fish pasta and fruits. You must as https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Veneto/Venice/blog-871101.html We hopped aboard several trains before a stop at Milan for lunch. People seemed to bemore fashionable and good looking there. I also noticed that Italians are usually rather thin. Wesummized this is due to the amount they walk in combination with cookinhttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Liguria/Cinque-Terre/blog-871102.html I had cerealespresso blood orange juice and pastry.I put my jogging shoes on and shorts and my new Italiajacket as we headed for the train station. After a few stops we went for a long hike over a hill. Thiswas very challenging and steep. We saw a https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Liguria/Cinque-Terre/blog-871103.html We took a train to Pisa dropped off our bags at the bus stop and headed tosee the Leaning tower.We hopped on board a very very cramped bus Andrea warned us of pickpockets. Finally arriving at Pisa we walked our way up to the gates leading towards thttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Pisa/blog-871104.html We got up and had a small

breakfast at Vita Largo Alinari and headed to The Uffizi This was several levels of amazing paintingsand sculptures. I took a lot of photos to study later. The most impressive to me was theMichaelangelo Holy Family painting https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Florence/blog-871105.html I woke up not feeling so great probably from the rain.I had a washer in my hotel andattempted to wash some clothes but they do not use dryers here. I had to hang clothes on thewindow seal per the natives.There are some amazing statues and churchhttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Florence/blog-871106.html October 14 RomeWewoke up early and I was feeling a bit better. We took a train 2 stops to Rome.I was really hoping Iwould have more time in Rome but unfortunately I only had half a day. I was a bit stressed aboutfinding my way around but manag https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Rome/blog-871108.html We took the train to Spello. I saw a dog that looked like my Jack Russell Terrier Shakesand his name was Spello.Spello was a neat little town. We walked all the way up another hillyvillage.We ended up at the winery for our wine tasting.The wineryhttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Umbria/Assisi/blog-871107.html I flew in via Little Rock toAtlanta to Amsterdam to Venice. I was pretty drowsy and watched XMen and Dawn of the Planet ofthe Apes on the way.I gathered my bags and headed to the currency exchange. I exchanged 400American Dollars for around 250 Eur https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Veneto/Venice/blog-871099.html Hi everyone Hope you're all enjoying a good weekend relaxing and enjoying chickenwings with the Super Bowl game going on Those of you who are in the USA or are interested inAmerican Soccer that is. I am currently watching it or trying to but I fahttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/blog-871218.htmlBooked out of our little apartment this morning and headed down The Keys early for lunch great tripdown lovely lunch at Wahoos on the water in Islamorada between Key Largo and Key West such agorgeous spot on the water overlooking a little marina with https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/Keys/blog-870986.html We have had a great time on this cruise. Ithink we could have a great time on any cruise...even if it were on a shrimp boat especially if SamSandy were along for the ride. It gets more and more difficult for me to do everything we are experiehttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/blog-871205.html Kdy v okol Melbourneprobhala zlata horeka konkrtn tak se dlo ve 3 mstech v okol Ballarat Bendigo a Beechworth.To prvnz nich m 80tisc obyvatel jsem navtvila dky CouchSurfingu.Jak se to stalo V lt 2013 kdyhttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Ballarat/blog-871210.html Hacienda NpolesPart 1. We are just back from a visit to Hacienda Npoles. Before Dec. 2 1993 the most famous personin Medelln was not Botero but a criminal named Pablo Escobar. He was born into a simple familynear Medelln in 1949. By 1 https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Antioquia/blo--871197.html Oh yes forgot to say when we came out of the winery after lunch we saw a bush firestarting quite some distance away roughly about 18 20 miles away. Out here they have a largeamount of fire volunteers Who don't get paid. When we have seen houses in amohttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Perth/Joondalup/blog-871212.htmlMonday morning. We've had two lovely days in Perth 3 nights. Our hotel is just down the road fromWACA where England have been playing cricket and the team is staying in our hotel too We have asuite a lovely big lounge with kitchenette so loads of rohttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Perth/blog-871206.html Morningyesterday off we all went to Swan Valley which is the wine region. On the way we saw wildkangeroos happy nibbling grass on a golf course not bothered about the golf balls flying everywhere.We went into The Vines golf resort to look around thehttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Perth/Joondalup/blog-871211.htmlGreat news My trip is back on I leave here on Mon Feb 9 and meet up with Andrew in the airport inToronto. From there we fly to Frankfurt then on to Chennai. I will be home again on March 25 seeyou all then. Looking forward to sharing the adventure wit https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/Victoria/blog-871208.html Great Ocean Road jeaustralsk pamtkov ddictv oblben turistick atrakce a nejvt vlen pamtnk v jednom.Jde o silnici

vybudovanou navracejmi se.vojky z Prvn svtov vlky jednak aby je njak zamstnali jejichhttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Great-Ocean-Road/blog-871203.html V noru2011 jsem mon njak mlhav zaznamenala zemtesen v tak divn znjcm mst v na hony vzdlenm NovmZlandu kter m nikdy nijak zvl nepitahoval. Kdy si to uvdomm 22. nora toho roku uplynulo pesn 8 dnhttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Christchurch/blog-871112.html Pntekeste rkeztem a szigetrl Bangokokba a chiang maii jszakai vonat jobb helyei mr rg elkeltek. Kipihenvna msodosztlyon javarszt embripzban aludniprblva tlttt 15 rs vonatt fradalmait ismt otthonra leltemChia https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-871110.htmlFranz Josef nen jen historick chlpek jde taky o vesniku a ledov ledovec. Nebo mon ne tak ledovneustle se zmenuje a to pmo dramaticky. Koneckonc ale to je ledovec tak by se mohl ode m dokattrochu cty...dobe dobe je https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Fra-z-Josef/blog-869105.html Nepal was never on my nonexistent travel list. I'm not sure whichplacescountries are actually on my list but I don't remember ever thinking I would like to go toNepal one day. But isn't that how some of your best trips begin off your radar. My wonhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/blog-853786.html Having safely arrived inUshuaia the southern most city in the world and commonly known as the End of the world we wereawed by the landscape. This is why we came to South America for our adventure. The mountains arestunning and expansive snow capped https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Tierr--del-Fuego/Ushuaia/blog-871195.html POVERTYJETSET'S SUPERBOWL BLOG EDITIONSPECIALEven though I've been back in the US for nearly 3 weeks I've still got a ton of info andpictures to process from The Trips To End All Trips. After Morocco I headed back to Algeciras Sphttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Sierra-Nevada/blog-867695.html We are in theland Down Under which as our 18 hrs of flying testified is a long long way from home as far as theother side of the world For the first section of our tour we have been joined by WanderingAlison'ssister Jackie. We arrived into Pert https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/blog-871054.html After a couple of wonderful days away on the Great Ocean Road wecame back to Stuart's yesterday to chill. On the way back we stopped to see London Bridge seephoto. Today Lisa is off to visit Cynthia in Perth just the 4 hour internal flight.https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/blog-871198.html So we had our first incident of theadventure. After having taken the ferry back to Buenos Aires we took off for Ushuaia. The flightseemed to be progressing normally until we were infomed by the captain that we had developed aproblem with our front tyres https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Bueno--Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-871194.html PEARL HART Pearl was born in 1871 up in Lindsay Ontario inCanada. She came from a good family of some affluence and was well educated and brought up. Atthe age of 16 while attending a boarding school she took up with a sporting man by thehttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Yuma/blog-871193.html Hi justfound some more photos https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/blog-871191.htmlAfter spending 3 weeks eating steak and getting fat what does one do next Go to the beach ofcourseUruguay is directly across the bay from BA so we decided to take a ferry over to Montevideothe capital and make our way down to a beach resort cal https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Uruguay/East/Punta-del-Este/blog-871190.html Okay so a lot has happened in a week sinceour last blog update but today is our first day off we can't wait any longer to tell you the crazywonderful moments that we have experienced. Let's start with the people in our tour group who wehttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/West/Huay-Xai/blog-871185.html Our 3 weeks in BA arequickly coming to end what an amazing time here. Below is an extract on some of what we havebeen up to.Tobs spent a day taking Spanish lessons. She really enjoyed it and that evening ordereddinner in spanish and got me my ste https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Bueno--Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-871181.html Hi7PM and in the kitchen today as Guppy needs to be chargedand all the other plugs Srebrenica busy. After my blog will go upstairs and charge him but not sure ifGoogle is working up there today.Only three seasons today autumn winter and spring..https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/blog-871187.html Tugela Falls Amphitheatre

DrakensbergThis spectacular hike offers superb views throughout. It takes about 3 hours along fairpaths with chain ladders and narrow l https://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/blo--870753.html Day 3 we docked at the port in Cozumel Mexico. We rose bright and early so we couldget dressed and head down to the buffet on lido deck for some fuel for the day. I think we had eggsbacon potatoes fresh fruit and we even both shoved some banana in ohttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Cozumel/blog-871123.html ...imLeben mal fr oder gegen etwas demonstriert zu haben. Endlich habe ich auch etwas gefunden wofres sich lohnt sich einzusetzen neben weniger Papierverschwendung Fr mehr Authentizitt beimToilettengang https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Rio-Grande-do-Norte/Pra-a-Da-Pipa/blog-871184.html Bij terugkomst in Belfast kwamen we in een pakhuis terecht. In de woonen studeerkamer stonden de verhuisdozen drie hoog opgestapeld. We hadden dus toch nog eenbeetje Sinterklaas want bij het uitpakken kwam de ene na de andere onvermoede schat tevoorschhttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/County-Antrim/Belfast/b-og-871183.html ...als seinen Kater in dieser Kulisse zu berwinden Soundtrack des Tageshttpyoutu.benSTWcsU91ZY Groartiges Wochenende mit groartigen Menschenhttps://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Rio-Grande-do-Norte/blog-871182.html Happy Newyears everybodyNYE was quite a good having discovered Old Monk Goas premium rum packaged ina deceptive plastic bottle. We indulged in this for 3 days straight together with some friends wedmade in Varkala. The night itself was spent https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/blog-870506.htmlWhen the eight Indian women and their chicken got on the boat in San Marcos the water wasalready within a foot of the gunwales. We hugged the coast barging south through the chop towardsSan Pedro.The women sitting in a huddle in the bow laughed nonhttps://www.travelblog.org/Central-Americ--Caribbean/Guatemala/Western-Highlands/Lago-de-Atitlan/blog-870356.html SP Ha llovido estanoche poquito. Y mucho viento del oeste. La casita de bambu es fantastica el techo protege de lalluvia y la cortina colgante del viento y de la lluvia que cae lateral. Ademas el suelo de bambu vienea servir de somier es c https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-871179.html SP Pretendialevantarme y salir pronto esta maana pero no ha sido asi. He desayunado a eso de las 8 me heduchado y he ido al mercado a comprar una navaja nueva Mi navaja suiza la perdi en la playa deHoan Lao aquella noche que me dieron la https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-871176.htmlSo finally we arrived in Luang Prabang after a great journey the scenery was pretty spectacular withgreen dense mountainous forest. Unfortunately the Mekong is one of the most polluted rivers in theworld and is the colour of a caramel milkshake..... https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/blog-871172.html SP Esta maana me ha costado levantarme demasiada fiesta en el hostal ayer. He bajadopara mi desayuno un buen cafe y un bocata de tortilla. No esta mal para estar incluido en mis 5dolares. Finalmente me quedo un dia en Hue. Tengo el cargadorhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-871170.html From Hanoi it is an easy excursion to getto the limestone islands of the world famous Ha long bay. Every shop offers a tour. We preferred theoption of going independently to Cat Ba island and then picking trips from there. You get a flavour ofth https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Northeast/blog-871150.html Mittwoch 28.01.2015 Puntadel Este Buenos Aires 173 Seemeilen Heute Morgen hatten wir nach der verspteten Ankunft inBuenos Aires wieder einen inkludierten Landgang eine Stadtbesichtigung. Leider spielte das Wetterberha https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-871163.html SP Esta maana mucha humedadhe esperado a que subiera un poco el sol para que seque mi tienda. En ese tiempo ha venido unavieja con las vacas para ponerlas a pastar en el cabo este y luego han venido un pescador viejete ysu seora pero no https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-871169.html Excuse me mam.Excuse me sir. Would it be possible for me to speak with you pleaseA question of that nature right orwrong immediately launches Penny and myself into defensive autopilot. There's an almost intrinsicassumption that the enquirer wants thttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Sumatra/Bukittinggi/blog-869599.html 25 janvier 2015Jour 100Waouw centime jour de voyage a en jette Et pourtant la journe ne sera pas trs intressante

puisque aujourd'hui nous faisons le transfert d'Ushuaa Mendoza. Nous avions d'abord pens faire letrajet en bus mai https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blo--871154.html SP Bueno de 9 de la noche a 3 de la maana ha habido paz. Luego han venido maspescadores y claro han pasado con las linternas a investigar mi tienda no se les ocurre que estoydurmiendo A las 630 de la maana https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-871166.html Freitag30.01.2015 Buenos Aires Montevideo 138 Seemeilen In der Nacht berquerten wir nochmals dasriesige Delta des Rio de la Plata. Es ging wieder zurck nach Uruguay. Wir mussten in der Nacht dieUhren erneut um eine Stund https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-871168.html SP Hoy heconseguido mantanerme de clandestino hasta las 830 a esa hora un ciclista que pasaba por elcamino ha mirado a un lado y ha visto mi tienda naranja mi proxima tienda de campaa sera verde ode camuflaje. He venido a curiosear y c https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-871164.htmlOkay after a long series of complicated events I actually have my plane ticket It's for tomorrow I'mequal parts thrilled and terrified. I'm also going to miss everyone here so very much It's times likethese that I'm really thankful for the Internet https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/Iowa/Iowa-City/blog-871165.html For English scroll down.W Beskid Niski pojechalimy nieprzypadkiem i nie byle gdzie tylko do Buczynowej Doliny. Powstawanie buczynowej ledziam odpocztku. Z podziwem i lekkim niedowierzaniem.To jahttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Lesser-Poland/Beskid-Niski/blog-870966.html SP Por lamaana he tenido algo de visita pero poca. Han sido 3 viejos supongo que expescadores que siguenviniendo aqui por costumbre que han inspeccionado mi tienda. Aparte ha venido el padre de lafamilia esta que esta viviendo aqui cerca https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-871162.htmlSP Por la maana a las 6 me he levantado y he empezado a recoger antes de las 630 ya he empezadoa venir gente yo a lo mio he terminado pronto me hebiese gustado estar un rato mas para que latienda se seque pero si me quedo media hora mas https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-871161.html 19 janvier 2015 Lever 7h00 puis petit djeuner. A 8h45 la navette de l'htel nous rcupreet nous emmne l'aroport. Il ne nous faut que huit minutes pour y arriver mais heureusement quenous sommes venus tt car il y a un monde fou.Nouhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Gansu/Baiyin-/blog-870098.html 18 janvier 2015 Nous nouslevons 8h00 et aprs le petit djeuner je regarde les actualits tlvises pour la dernire fois enAustralie.Nous partons vers midi et passons par l'aquagolf o nous nous amusons une petite heureessayer d'e https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/blog-870096.html SP Eltemplo fabuloso para dormir ni un ruido ni un alma por ahi ni siquiera por la maana. A las 9 estabaen marcha en el centro de Nam Ding he hecho algo de compra por cierto he aparcado la bici en elparking vigilado del supermercado lo https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-871159.html SPAl menos hoy me he puesto al dua con la situacion del mundo en la pension tenian la CNN dehongkong en ingles el euro se esta yendo al carajo que suerte haber pasado los paises mas caroscuando todavia estaba alto... y los tiros en oriente https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-871158.html SP Esta noche un poco de humedad pero ningun problema mas. Por la maana nieblahasta una hora despues del amanecer. He mepezado a desmontar campamento y he aprovechadopara una puesta a punto de frenos. Mientras estaba trabajando en la bici hanhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-871156.html SPComo era de esperar por la maanahan venido los pastores y sus bufalos al prado. Ningun problema los bufalos son buena gente y lospastores normalmente tambien. Mientras se secaba la tienda de la humedad que ha habio en lanoche he cambiado la ca https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-871155.html From the RockyMountains of Oman we travelled 7 hours to the French Alps specifically Les Gets. We spent 7 nightsin the glorious Alps where the snow covers the earth as far as the eye can see. The snow seems totake you back in time making you feel https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Rhone-Alpes/blo--870930.html SP Me he levantado con resaca despues del monton de cervezas de ayer asi que no mehe levantado tempranisimo. Finalmente despues de empacar todo estaba en marcha a las 10. Parasalir de Hanoi ha sido un poco liio pero finalmente he encontrado uhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-870967.html What is the first thing to do if you

happend to have a layover of a day in Singapore Yes exaclty extend with another day at least if youcould because Singapore has so much to offer and so much to see and do...With approximetaly twodays in Singap https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/blog-870933.html Vtejte v nejlepm mstAustrlieMelbourne m 45 milin obyvatel aneb stejn jako cel Nov Zland. To jen pro zatek. Zamilovalajsem se hned po vstupu z vlaku e slavnho ndra Flinders Station. Zrovna svtilo slunce chttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/blog-871118.html So afteryesterdays antics i decided to have a chilled day today. After a really expensive tiny bowl ofcornflakes 100 baht 2 Which didn't even include a cup of tea I headed down to the beach and prettymuch stayed there all day getting quite https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Ko-Samet/blog-871153.html 2wks today Sometimes it feels like ive been away for a lotlonger and other times that I've just arrived 1st full day on ko samet so decided to walk the length ofit only 6km but hard work in the heat with no shade So needed a few fruit shakes alohttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/blog-871152.html After the absoluteepicness of Las Vegas we were off to the Grand Canyon... but a little cheeky bonus was going on alittle bit of Route 66.We headed to Seligman for a pitstop food and a few photos.I'm not going to talktoo much about this as th https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Gra-d-Canyon-National-Park/blog-871086.html So today started with another taxi ride this time into townto pick up a coach to ko samet a small island off the east coast the coach was packed and we weresubjected to watching teenage mutant ninja turtles for an hr of the journey there was littlhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Ko-Samet/blog-871151.html We weredelayed 5 hours at KL because India were experimenting with a new air traffic control system clearlyit wasn't working So we were quite tired when we got to Mumbai but immigration was much easierthan we had been led to expect with far shorter q https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/blog-871148.html Hey there Recently I have been thinking about starting up a blog okay that's a lie I'veactually thought about it for awhile now I just never had the libido to get going I guess until today. Iam constantly seeing all of these inspiring trave https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/California/Sequoia-National-Park/blog-871147.html the latesthttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Palawan/Puerto-Princesa/blog-871146.html After leavingIligan we paid a quick visit to to Initao to see the white beach there. Then a long ride to Cagayan DeOro. Not an especially nice day mostly Industrial Plants along the road. Went straight through CDOas been there before and stayed the nighttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Mindanao/Bukidnon/blog-871034.html It is no secretthat we love ancient civilisations. If you follow our blog you already know that we would trade anymodern city break for a historical site visit. Visiting Central America was no different. If you ask ustoday what was the most memorable Ma https://www.travelblog.org/Central-Americ--Caribbean/Guatemala/Peten-Region/Tikal/blog-777029.html PoharaEarly morning walk along thebeach well not that early obviously but quite. The beach must be about 2 miles long and is verygently sloping with very calm water it looks like the ideal kids beach. By the time we were walkingback I think there w https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Nels-n-Region/Golden-Bay/blog-871130.html Thursday 29115 Wellington to Pohara. Ferry to South Islandtoday. Really pleased that it was a calm sail and lovely views as we came towards Picton throughnarrow inlets. We then decided perhaps foolishly that the scenic route to Nelson looked like a shttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Abel-Tasman-National-Park-blog-871129.html Wednesday 28115 WellingtonTook a ride in the Wellington cable car funicularreally it goes up the hill with a couple of stops and ends in a large botanical garden. We followed thedownhill route back to the city through the gardens had a coffee stop ihttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-871128.html I hadprepared carefully for my first ever safari. I had my camera with its large lens for wildlifephotography a broadbrimmed hat to protect against the last of the day's rays and sensible shoes incase we were to get off the vehicle and walk.Getti https://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/Mpumalanga-/Kruger-National-Park/blog-871124.html Day 2 DAY AT SEA So this day Avi and

I woke up feeling pretty refreshed. I believe we slept in a little bit around 830 or 9 or so . We got ourbathing suits on I got my little pool bag packed with a book and our sunblock etc.The book ofhttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Caribbean/Gulf-of-Mexico/blog-871116.html The ozoneat Rere Falls helped dispel last night's grogginess due to overindulgence in wine.The falls are about60 kilometres north of Gisborne and a popular place for local people to picnic. A family was therewith their relative from the USA a laid https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/Nort--Island/East-Coast/Gisborne/blog-871120.html Tuesday 27115 Napier to Wellington. Quite a longdrive to Wellington from Napier but very scenic and very quiet until close to the city. Stopped in acouple of almost deserted towns for coffee and lunch and made it to the apartment in Wellington justaft https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-871119.htmlMonday 26115 Napier. Picked up a walk guide from the Art Deco Centre and headed out to explorethe city. Interesting history of the rebuilding of Napier after the earthquake in 1930 The land liftedabout 2m and created dryland from the lagoon that https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Hawkes-Bay/Napier/blog-871117.html This Website could Not cope withinputting Myanmar so Not much hope for me getting it right We are now at the end of this short butbeautiful journey. It has been different from many though I'm not sure why. Perhaps its thedelightful people the amazing https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Yangon-Region/Yangon/blo--869837.html If you think adventure is dangerous try routine it's lethal So we booked our extremecanopy zipline tour and we were off on our adventure by 730 Sat am. We met the van and they wereright on time. There were 6 people in the van alr https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-871097.html The one about letting my AuntPat know what I have been up to.My Dear Aunt Pat called me today. My Godmother. My motherssister in her 80s and pretty spry for her age she still goes to the gym when she is not bothered bythe bronchitis she ha https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/Florida/Clermont/blog-871111.html A few changes in the cruise schedule. Because of thestrong wind and rough seas the Captain said there would not be any stopping at CocoCay. This is aprivate island located before Nassau that Royal Caribbean Lines owns. It was to be a beach day witha B https://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/blog-871091.html HolaMy apologies ontaking an eternity to write my trips in the past few months have been more personal than pleasurebased. I went home in late Octoberearly November for a lovely autumn visit with family and friendsand then up to Northern Califor https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Baj--California/Rosarito/blog-871100.html Sunday 25114Left Whakatane and headed for Napier.Stoppedat waiotapu to visit some thermal springs. It was amazing although very hot and smelly forsomething so completely natural it looks anything but natural. Arrived at Napier and checked intoour A https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Hawkes-Bay/Napier/b-og-871096.html August 2012When I returned to Guatemala for the third time I was 16. I remembervisiting anywhere outside of the country for the third time felt like an accomplishment. Like I wasexperienced because to an extent I was. However I quickly https://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Capital-Region/blog-871095.html Today was the best day yet we wenton a short hike through the jungle to a waterfall which we climbed overin and went swimming in thelittle pools The jungle area of Trini is so nice and clam you could be in a different world whencompared to the b https://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad--nd-Tobago/Trinidad/blog-871088.html SaturdayDecided against travelling back to Rotarura andinstead explored Whakatane walking along the riverside and out to the mouth. Loads of big pickupswith boat trailers parked up at the jetty so presumably loads of boats out at sea mostly fishing fhttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Plenty/blog-871094.htmlFriday 23115Left Cotswold Cottage with its massive king plus bed guest sun lounge super kiwibreakfast excellent tourist info from the owner and lovely views across the valley. Today we aredriving south towards Whakatane first stop is at Matamat https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Rotorua/blog-871093.html This is what happens when you try to write about atrip that occurred a month ago....Better late than never.Christmas EveSanta Mrs Claus on our flight

1613 to ChicagoKids received Large Plush Rudolph stuffed animal from Santahttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Illinois/blog-870776.html Good morningyesterday myself Stu Mike Dorothy and Chris went to a place called Fremantle which I suppose wasabout a 50 minute drive away. We were armed with plenty of sunscreen on I put 50 on and Dorothygave us some salts to drink. It got to 36 deg https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Perth/Joondalup/blog-871090.html Lana my roommate and I went to the RememberanceShrine this morning which was so much better than I was expecting. There was a museum all aboutAustralia's contribution to all the wars from WWI until now and a gallery of art and poems by peoplewho were https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/St-Kilda/blo--871089.html 23.01.15nach Green Bakers LodgeDer Tag war wunderschn warm prima Wetter.Zuerstdie unglaublichen Serpentinen die von oben gesehen so toll ausschauen.Den Rest des Tages entlangdes Sees General Carrera und nur am Schluss noch ber eini https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Arica-and-Parinacota/Arica/blog-871083.html Une nouvelle srie de photos depuisMont Eden et la fameuse Sky Tower dont la hauteur est lgrement suprieure la Tour Eiffel mme sielle n'y parat pas... https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/bl-g-871087.html Hi travel followers.Nearly two weeks have again disappeared and we reluctantlymoved on from Mark and Mel's plus Tahlee and Kiara place to MardiWyong and ended up stayingtwo weeks at our great friends John and Lynn's.It was fantastic to catchhttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Newcastle/blog-871085.html24.01..2015Zur Hacienda520 km Strecke ein Grenzbergang und am Anfang 150 km Schotter zurHacienda hin dann nochmal 30 km Kevin entwendete beim Abendessen einige Brotscheiben undetwas Butter dies war ein eindeutiger Hinweis dass wir sehr frh https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/El-Calafate/blog-871082.html Wednesday 28thJanuary Puerto MadrynChubut Province Argentina In July 1865 a clipper named Mimosa entered the natural harbour ofGolfo Nuevo bringing 150 Welsh immigrants to Argentina. They found some natural caves on thesout https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Uruguay/District-of-Montevideo/Montevideo/b-og-871081.html Ein freier Tag an dem wir um 9.00 zum Ende der Welt fuhren die obligaten Fotosmachten. Beim Rckweg in den obligaten Regengu kamen.Und den Nachmittag verb rachte ichschlafend weil mde und Blog schreibend weil hintendran. https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Tierra-del-Fuego/blog-871075.html So the adventure is almost here...It has beenmonths in the making. My boyfriend and I have been talking about doing a trip like this since we metalmost a year ago. We both wanted to go down to Australia the best way to do it was on a workingholida https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/blog-871078.html Hi.8.30PM andin the bar....... kitchen area.The sausage I cooked this morning was quiet nice.... just hope I cooked itenough. . so far so good. ... four seasons in one day. .. left and it was 13 degrees according to thechemist down the road.. https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/blog-871076.htmlThursday 22115 Today was a whistle stop tour of the Coromandel Peninsula starting with a slightlyoverpriced visit to a water garden however the fact that they had excellent gluten free cake in thecafe made up for it. And the gardens were nice with a p https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Coromandel-Peninsula/blog-871074.html jj https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Tierra-del-Fuego/Ushuaia/blog-871070.html So sorry to have not updatedrecently. We received the news December 23 that the World Cruise would not take place but that wecould continue starting March 22 in Singapore. We decided to take that option instead of cancelingthe whole thing. Some of our f https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/Florida/Pompano-Beach/blog-871072.html 29.01.15Nach Cerro SombreroUm 8.00 fuhr ichlos. Weil ich unbedingt zu den Pinguinen wollte. Die Fahrt geht immer recht flott wenn es Teerstraegibt aber zu den Pinguinen waren 35 km Schotter. 20 km waren okSchotter 15 km waren bei derHinfahr https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Magallanes/blog-871063.html CaptainsBLogSo here we are 1802.005N 6305.004W. Still in St. Maarten still in Simpson Bay Lagoon.Getting a little bit looney but you knew that already.Where have we been this past month On St.Maarten 2 trips to Phillipsburg 2 tr https://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Si-

t-Maarten/blog-871069.html First full day in New York City today so first stop after a breakfast ofpancakes and waffles at a traditional diner was to pick up our New York passes which we hadordered online. Essentially they gave us entry to pretty much all of the attractions for sehttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/blog-871068.htmlTRAVELBLOG 5. January 26 2015KARUCO 2015MONDAY Another great day in Kayanga. Brightonhad to miss our morning meeting because his young son was in the hospital with a very high feverfrom malaria. We learned he got better later in the day so that ishttps://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/blog-871066.html Ich wachte ganz frh auf lange vor demWecker um 6.00 und versuchte eine Erklrung fr das Gerusch vor dem Fenster zu finden. DasOffensichtliche gefiel mir gar nicht Regen. Leider gab es keine andere Lsung es regnete und zwarziemlich stark. https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/blog-871060.html Wie verlieenVillarica fuhren am Villarica See entlang und am Villarica Vulkan denen ist wirklichnicht vieleingefallen durch Tler und einen Pass hinauf zur Grenze nach Argentinien.An Grrenzen immer diegleiche Prozedur Warten Auswanderung ic https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Catamarca/San-Fernando-del-Valle-de-Catamarca/blog-870014.html Text fehlthttps://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Araucania/Villarrica/blog-871061.html I am veryglad to be here. Images of the 'American' War were etched on my brain at a World PressPhotography exhibition I went to as a school student in the seventies you know the ones nakedchildren escaping napalm in front of impersonal US soldiers. Ihttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Red-River-Delta/Hanoi/blog-871062.html Bangkok Kao SanRoad Grand Palace Wat Pho Temple Wat Arun Temple gt Ayutthaya gt Bangkok Sky Bar GoldenMount the river by night gt Koh Phangan nature trail in the jungle Haadrin beach Full Moon Party gtKoh Thao https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/blog-870500.html Langkawi was probably themost relaxing part of our trip so far. After a short flight from Kuala Lumpur we were only 45 minutesfrom the airport and our accommodation was beautiful.Ambong Ambong was a small hotel with 11individual villas which were bu https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Langkawi/blog-871053.html As my time began to run down in Sampa I found myself with a lot of places still to seeand not enough time to fit them all in. One such place that I had been wanting to get to for a whilewas Embu. Finding myself with a willing partner and a weekend to kilhttps://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Sao-Paulo/S-o-Paulo/blog-827788.html AussieImport 25 26thJanuary 2015 Sunday morning arrived and the day of our Australia day celebrationswe had set a breakfast date with everyone for 7.30 with the same guests we had for dinner lastnightEverybody dutifully arrived https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Manjimup/blog-871018.html The title is a giveaway again... it felt like the longest day of mylife with us trying to get there but it was soooo worth it.We got up early doors at the Yosemite Bughostel sorted some lunches and got underway. We had to divert due to snowfall inhttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nevada/Las-Vegas/blog-870878.htmlGlenda and I are in a caravan park in St. Helens on the north east coast of Tasmania. We arrivedhere yesterday and will stay here for another day or so. Here we can plug into 240 volt power andattend to some domestics like washing ourselves and the lahttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Tasmania/St-Helens/blog-871048.html Oh no it'ssnowing. It must be time to head off into some sunshine.We plan to visit three Central Americancountries that are all new to us Guatemala Honduras and Nicaragua. Each country spans the widthof Central America from the Atlantic to the P https://www.travelblog.org/Central-Americ--Caribbean/Guatemala/Capital-Region/Antigua/blog-870854.html Happy birthday Katie our eldestgrandchild is 5 today. An early start for the trip which took seven hours and consisted of a boat rideacross the lake a coach ride from there to the fiord. This road was built in the 60s to service a newhydro ele https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Fiordland-Natio-al-Park/blog-871038.html After a very long day on Thursday we arrived here yesterday morning.Have spent today on a city bus seeing all the sites. Went on Singapore's version of the London Eyeand then we went into Raffles Hotel for. a Singapore Sling . Only the one mind you as qu

https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/Orchard-Road/blog-871043.html Thursday 29th January2015. Lisbon PortugalWe awoke really early so we could get a phone signal to see where and whenwe had to meet our friend Eva. After several exchanges of texts we arranged to meet Eva at the Casados Bicos our only instruction https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Lisbon-and-Tag-s-Valley/Lisbon/blog-871041.html The northeastern provinces of Kratie Ratanakiri and Mondulkirisome of the most remote areas in Cambodia are home to much of Cambodia's vanishing wildlife andforest and some landscapes of outstanding natural beauty. Ratanakiri my next stop is an isohttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Ratanakiri/blog-870936.html Hi.9am. Saturdaymorning.. had problems getting Guppy to work in the bedroom last night and sure was not comingdownstairs in the bar area to do my blog.Yesterday misty and damp but not cold .... temperature hasbeen around about 10 degrees... so al https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/blog-871042.html We rose early in order to speak with our children. It seems so odd waking early inorder to speak to them before they go to bed. We visited a hardware shop called Hayes that passesas a motorcycle museum. In there was the Indian motorcycle developehttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Bluff/blog-871036.html A few days tocatch up on as we have not had a reliable internet connection On Wednesday we left the site atPounawea and started off further along the southern scenic route. We stopped at Perakaunui Falls.This waterfall features in most tourism b https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/Sout--Island/Invercargill/blog-871035.html We set off this morning on day 2 of our trip along the GreatOcean Road from Apollo Bay to Warrnambool. Another fantastic drive along the coast with thehighlight being a stop to see the 12 Apostles which are limestone stacks created by sea erosion. Thhttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/blog-871031.html Loved Paihia Little seasidetown with great beach. Went to Waitanga Treaty Grounds where the Maoris signed away most oftheir land rights to the Brits. Apparently the Maoris wanted protection from each other and to getguns. Hummm Am still anti coloniali https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/blog-871032.html The mosteasterly point in Australia. Lighthouse and awesome views of Byron Bay New South Wales.fabulousbeaches. Busy place popular with backpackers from all over the world and a few old hippiesHadbreakfast in Kingscliffe a much more relaxe https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Byron-Bay/blog-871026.html Breakfast was at the beach this morning which was a loteasier to get to than the Pinnacle but still a lovely view to have in the morning. We visited the mainlandmarks along the Great Ocean Road London Bridge and Loch Ard Gorge. Loch Ard Gorge was myfav https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/blog-870995.html Yesterday now two daysago last night we were in Halong Bay without internet so I'm sending this on Saturday was a full dayin Hanoi with an early morning exercise observation a walk with a chef through the street marketsand sampling of street food https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Red-River-Delta/Hanoi/bl-g-871021.html Our bus to KL had air con and took about 4 hours. There were a lot of twisty turnymountain roads which made Fred feel a bit travel sick. KL is an ultra modern city. There are lots oftall tower blocks. Our airbnb is in one of these condominiums. It is ahttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Wilayah-Persekutuan/Kuala-Lumpur/blog-870704.html Myfinal days in New Zealand. It is sad to return to Canada and leave all these opportunities fordiscovery behind but I miss Mike and I am also excited Courtney who also lives in Auckland was kindenough to give me a 24 hour layover at her house. She t https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/blog-871016.html It was a windy day the waves were huge. Rosalieand I enjoyed a dip in a pool at the edge of the pedestrian walkway that looked over the ocean'scrashing waves. After the pool we climbed down to the beach level and fought the wind to get theseamazing pi https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Dunedin/bl-g-871014.html Finally I have had the time to take some amazing pictures of the birds in theBotanical Garden's Aviary. Over the course of the last few months I had had many visits to the birds.There were two parrots that I especially liked to visit as they spoke Germahttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Dunedin/blog-871013.html As thetrain rolled out of Guangzhou Railway Station I was lulled by the calming sway of the railcar as it

smoothly coasted out of the city centre at a steady 155 kilometres an hour.While I contemplatedreading my current book I could not turn away fhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guangdong/Guangzhou/blog-871012.html After theearthquake destruction had been safely cleaned up we accepted the invitation from our friend Sarahto visit Christchurch. Her mother kindly met up with us and provided us a local tour of Christchurch.We visited the zoo fed a giraffe and watche https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/Sout--Island/Christchurch/blog-871011.html On the Carretera Austral there are rod jobs galore and somestretches are closed for 6 hours and if you're caught in between you're caught and then you have towait whether you want to or not We did not so we got up early and drove as fast as possible Whttps://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Rio-Negro/El-Bolson/blog-870887.html Well itsbeen a long absence since my last blog and its been a great start to 2015. After seeing Naomi andAlex off on their long trip to Hobart on the 27th I had two days to myself and pottered around doingboat maintenance and cleaning. Fo https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-Wes--Thailand/Ao-Phang-Nga-Marine-NP/blog-871005.html After our wonderful experience with Geovaniwe spent the remainder of the day having our laundry done and packing our bags. We ate at thehotel last night finishing up our pasta and pesto.Our shuttle arrived on time and sadly we were a bitrushed not https://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Cos-a-Rica/Guanacaste/Liberia/blog-871008.html After meeting up with Victoria and travelling to FranzJosef the three of us decided to continue on to Arthur's Pass National Park. On our drive Victoriacaught up on her sleep in the back seat and Rosalie and I reveled at the view. We were visited durinhttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Arthur-s-Pass-National-Par-/blog-871007.html Another drive farther north. This time we were headed to the gorgeous glaciers atFranz Josef. We pulled into our hotel the reward we had all been looking forward to after mediocresleeps in hostels and on friend's floors. Many people hike above and alohttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Franz-Josef/blog-871002.html 1. Geta SUBU card it works for the Metro the bus and the train. You also pay less with the SUBU card. Youonly need one card for a family because you only swipe the card when you enter the Metro then youpass the card back. You can add money to the card https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-870994.html Tigre is an easy day trip fromBuenos Aires. You can take the train from Retiro or from Belgrano as we did. We took the bus to theBelgrano train station closer to our apartment than Retiro. Also the train only goes to Tigre so noneed to find the right t https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buen-s-Aires/blog-871000.html Haidie How allemaalKunnen jullie geloven dat januari alweer bijna om isDe tijd is hier echt serieus aan het vliegen. Aangezien ik hier nu ook al 3 maanden ben voel ik dethesis druk ook stilaan stijgen.. Maar ik blijf er kalm onder of beter COOLhttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/Miami/blog-871001.html We thentraveled to Wanaka to meet up with friends and enjoyed the beautiful hiking opportunities on LakeWanaka. From the main street a stunning view of the lake and the misty mountains could be seen.After a day of small town festivals and hikes the w https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Wanaka/blog-870999.html Greetings from down southI've been to theAntarctic twice since I last blogged and both trips were amazing and both trips visited very differentplaces. The first voyage headed as far south as ice conditions would allow usIt was bright daylighthttps://www.travelblog.org/Antarctica/Antarctica/blog-870076.html Forgive me if I get my days datesand times wrong cos quite honestly I don't know one date from the other let alone the days. Thesetime zones are confusing me as well https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/blog-870998.html G'day across there woken to a lot of wind here this morning blew a huleylast night so not sure what the weather will be like today but no doubt it will be hot. Last night it was32 degrees didn't look up what it was in the day as we were walking in ithttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Perth/Joondalup/blog-870996.htmlWe hit the road at half 7 and went to the pinnacle. It took about an hour to get to the top but theview was incredible. The whole way up was walking and climbing over rocks which was cool because

the path was completely natural. We sat at the top and hadhttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Great-Ocean-Road/blog-870993.html After afew weeks in Buenos Aires we realized we would need to learn Spanish before heading out tosmaller towns in South America.We looked on Craigslist and found Ivana. We contacted her andarranged for her to come to our apartment for two hours a da https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-870991.html Na onze intensieve hike in Torresdel Paine zijn we blij om weer terug in de bewoonde wereld te zijn. Aangekomen in Puerto Natalesblijven we nog een nacht bij Oscar en Gloria om uit te rusten. Ook nu zijn er veel andere gastenaanwezig van over de hele we https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Magallanes/Punt--Arenas/blog-870990.html We are back from the cruise now....what follows is my journey log of all ofit. Happy Sailing Happy Reading Happy Days. Welcome aboard The Enchantment of the Seas Day 1Cruise Day All aboard.......our week of fun and festivities is about to bhttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/Cape-Canaveral/blog-870983.htmlThe fog cleared and we continued on the road along the mountains towards Queenstown. You areprobably wondering where my reference to Middle Earth fits in but Queenstown was actually usedfor a large amount of the Lord of the Rings films. Once we arrivedhttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Queenstown/blog-870987.htmlhttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Gold-Coast/Main-Beach/blog-870988.htmlIt was a foggy day as we left the mainland of Te Anau and headed into the mist on the water by boatto the glow worm caves. The caves were surrounded by mossy trees and the walls of the cave werewet like they had been the walls of a steamy shower. We climhttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Te-Anau/blog-870984.html Road TripRosalie and I planned a trip to the eastern coast of the south island to Kaikoura known for its whalewatching and dolphins Rosalie's favourite creatures Kaikoura is a bit of a fisherman's town not muchmore than green hills cliffs boats https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/Sout--Island/Kaikoura/blog-870981.html Ho Chi Minh City SaigonJeg ankom rimelig sent til Ho Chi Minh sjeg missede gruppe middagen. Da jeg havde pakket lidt ud gik jeg ned og satte mig i receptionen dajeg hbede p at lbe ind i nogle af dem jeg skulle rejse rundt sammenhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-870863.html Most of what I knew about Portland priorto our visit this summer was based entirely on the satirization of hipsterdom in Fred Armisen andCarrie Brownstein's Portlandia. I came expecting streets lined with cyclists coffee shops andanarchist books https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/blog-853639.html Hello world there's asong that we're singin' Come on and get happy. A whole lotta lovin' is what we'll be bringing We'llmake you happyYep if you guessed the Partridge Family Come on Get Happy song you just wohttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-870953.htmlI've had so much freaking free time this week. I'm such a type A person and need more structure inmy life. Okay rant over. And yes I will say it is nice to have had some free time to sleep get to knowthe city and get acquainted here. And hanghttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Burgundy/Dijon/blog-870971.html Ok so before enteringArgentina I heard only good and very good things about Argentinians how super friendly they aremuch more than Chileans or other neighboring countries how much cheaper than Chile it is and soon and so for. So maybe the probl https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/blo--870965.html From about September to April Punta Tombo National Reserve is full of Magellanicpenguins. They are migrating between Brazil and Argentina and are coming to Punta Tombo tobreed every year. Why they are not staying all year round in Brazil and breed therehttps://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/blog-870964.html El Chalten is another smalltown about 3 hours north from El Calfate 550 pesos return bus ticket and the town is only 30 yearsold exists since 1985 which was created to satisfy tourists needs to hike Fitz Roy mountain range. Ipersonally spent only 5 https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/blog-870961.html Thismorning we took the bus to central market and China town. I wish we had smelly video because thesights sounds and smells were amazing. We stayed around there until lunchtime then bought a

single journey ticket for about a pound and travelled by trahttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Wilayah-Persekutuan/Kuala-Lumpur/blog-870962.html ElCalafate is a small town in Southern Patagonia on the Argentinian side. And it is a gate to TheParque Nacional Los Glaciers with its main glaciers Gl. Moreno Gl. Spegazzini Gl. Upsala Gl.Viedma. All of these glaciers can be visited from boat or wal https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/blog-870959.html The most famous person in Medelln and maybe in all ofColombia is an artist named Fernando Botero. He is probably more famous than the president. TheNational Museum devotes the entire third floor to his works and spread out in front of the museumon https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Medellin/blog-870957.html We heard thathitchhiking in Argentina is popular and that is true. We heard that hitchhiking in Argentina is safeand that is true. We heard that hitchhiking in Argentina is super difficult and unfortunately it is trueas well. But as the bus tickets h https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/blo--870958.html Bariloche is the first town tourists usually stop when entering to Argentina from LakesDistrict in Chile. We travelled from Puerto Varas in Chile to Bariloche by bus and it took us about 78hours costs 16000 Chilean pesos. Bariloche is a mountain like https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/blog-870955.html Norzim LamNorzim lam is one of the most important roads inThimphu where you find most of the hotels and important official buildings. There are many shopsand shopping malls in this area. While most part of Thimphu becomes silent after evenhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Bhutan/Thimphu/blog-870956.html The recent airline crashes intothe ocean raise an interesting question. Which airlines are the most dangerous And converselywhich ones do you really want to fly Here is what Yahoo Travel came up with examining fatalityrecords The Most D https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Clovis/bl-g-870952.html For todays tour i got picked up from the hotel they said 06.15 they arrived at 07.00Could have spent a bit longer in bed oh well. So went round to pick up everyone else and eventuallyheaded out to see the bridge over the river kwai walked acrosshttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-870951.html Dienstag27.01.2015 Rio de Janeiro Punta del Este976 Seemeilen 2 SeetagNach zwei weiteren Tagenumgeben nur von Wasser sind wir nun in Punta del Este. Wir haben auf der Fahrt hierher fr eineWeile den tropischen Grtel der Erde verlas https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blo--870950.html Had a good nights sleep the pod is 4 floors up and has brill air conditioning so thenoise of the traffic isnt too bad. Woke up to some more luggage around the room so may get to meetsome fellow travellers later from the inital impression there doesnhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-870580.html Freitag23.01.2015 Salvador Bahia Rio de Janeiro756 Seemeilen 1 SeetagLetzte Nacht begann das Schiffsich stark zu bewegen. So starken Seegang hatten wir bis anhin noch nie. Nun sind wir immerwackeliger auf den Beinen. Zum Glck wird e https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blo--870949.html Our captain announced that we would have our very first Eos Community Service Dayto help leave a positive mark on our hospitable surroundings. We took the tender over to a beachthat was covered in rubbish. Living on the ocean and seeing beautiful beacheshttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Flores/Labuanbajo/blog-870711.html The best thing aboutcruising Indonesia was privacy. With only a couple of other superyachts around we were spoilt forchoice of private islands and beaches snorkeling and dive spots. The contact weve had with thelocals in Indonesia has been su https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/blog-870715.html Abouthalfway through our guest trip I found a note left on my bed. It read AHoy there young Pollywog Byorder of your Captain you must dress as a man and report to the foredeck at 2pmor else You willentertain the Royal Court and IMPRESS Oh https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/West-Papua/Raja-Ampat-Islands/blog-870714.html Raja Ampat is the diving mecca of Indonesia. Its anarchipelago comprising more than 1500 small islands and hosts the largest marine national park inIndonesia. This was where we spent Christmas and New Year working.Crew Christmas was on thehttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/West-Papua/Raja-Ampat-Islands/blog-870713.html Had anearly start packed and got ready for my flight. Laurie Kathryn and Emma came round to say goodbye

and we hung out in the kitchen chatting with Alan Warren Alex and French Alex Then it was time forgoodbyes which were of course traumatic the https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Fiji/Nadi/blog-870903.html Already it seems like we've been gone ages. We arrived in Singapore on Wednesdayand stayed right in the middle of the city so our first evening we just stepped out and walked aroundand found somewhere to eat. On Thursday we had a fullon sightseeing dayhttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Perth/blog-870938.html I took thefree walking tour offered by the tourism bureau and it was well worth getting up early on a Saturdayfor It's offered three times a week and starts promptly at 930. They highly suggest you sign in before915 though. The good news is that you https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Melaka/Melaka-City/blog-868668.html ..sometimes her driver takes her in the Cadillac but on this particular day ZhuPing was driving it herself. She stopped at the lights was surprised when a woman on an ebike hither car not hard enough to do any real damage even more surprised whenhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/blog-870929.html Hej bloggenFrsta veckan i Thailandr avklarad. Sitter ter igen i Bangkok Thailands knytpunkt nr det gller transport.I mndags fick jag nogav storstaden och tnkte det kunde vara en bra id att fly bort till en paradis lngt bort.https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-870926.html Today wentaround a lot of Jomtien with a motorbike taxi looking for a new room or house to rent.Found a lot ofcheap places but all was rented out found a awesome big house but cost 25000 and had nothinginside.. not even aircon.But end of the https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Jomtien/blog-870932.html 2 Days ago I spend all the money i could afford and then some tobuy half of the computer equipment i needed now sitting in office working alone while my boss is onholidayhe send me an email saying he have to let me go and apparently he also mailedhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Jomtien/blog-870931.html We set off inthe morning with the promise of sunny but brisk autumn weather to the Otago Peninsula. Aftertravelling along the harbour we took a narrow road surrounded by cliffs to the Larnach Castle NewZealand's only castle built in 1871. Of cour https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/Sout--Island/Otago/Dunedin/blog-870924.html My girlfriend calls me and says my boss want's to talk toyou...I'm like umm why now what...He had apparently been talking about someone to fix hes websiteand she told him she knew someone who could handle thatwas true but still had not donehttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Jomtien/blog-870928.html The four of usset out this morning in Stuart's car to drive the Great Ocean Road. This is one of the worlds greatestdrives along about 200 miles of spectacular coastline. We kept stopping to look at the views andsome of the lovely towns on the way. We hhttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/blog-870927.html Introduction toThailandLanded in Bangkok Airport 6am Its was nice temperature inside the airport so didn't think itwas so hot down heretook a few minutes to find my way thru the passport check and then waiting toget my luggage https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Jomtien/blo--870925.html Monday was spent travelling from Paihia to Coromandel through more stunningscenery. We stayed in the YH in Coromandel Town which was a caravan shaped log cabin with atoilet block and kitchen facilities. Tuesday morning we went on the Driving Creek Railwahttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Coromandel/Hot-Wa-er-Beach/blog-870911.html Another Sunday exploring New Zealand. Today's road trip was to theCatlins known as the hidden gem of the southeastern coast. The landscape is rugged and runs alongthe coastal cliffs with gorgeous views of the ocean waterfalls and penguins Althoughhttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Otago/Catlins/blog-870888.htmlRound Robin Quilt Betty Mom's RevealThis is it the final revealSome of you have indicated that thishas just been plain torture to wait so long for the last quilt . Sorry But I have to say I have absolutelyloved every minute of this l https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/Tennessee/Nashville/blog-870205.html I stumbled upon Belize truly by accident. I waslooking for somewhere to escape to for the weekend and Belize appeared. I wanted a warm placewith about three hours or less of flying time. Belize is only about 2 hours from takeoff to touch down.

Belize https://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Belize/Belize-District/Belize-City/-log-870916.html Sorong wasnt the prettiest town. If you look it up on Tripadvisor the best thing todo here is to leave and head to the Raja Ampat Islands which we did but we made the most of itsince we were there to pick up the guests.As yachties we managed thttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/West-Papua/Sorong/blog-870712.html Zwei Entitten dienur schwer miteinander vereinbar sind. Zugegeben ich hatte mich auch nicht gut vorbereitethttpyoutu.beZll7xBGzjn4. Schlielich bin ich nicht davon ausgegangen dass ich in eine derartpeinliche Situation geraten wrde. Nun si https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Ri--Grande-do-Norte/Praia-Da-Pipa/blog-870909.html Verdient einen eigenen Prost.https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Rio-Grande-do-Norte/Pra-a-Da-Pipa/blog-870908.html San Francisco Travel DiaryThe day I booked my tickets for SanFrancisco it was like a dream come true I always wanted to visit this place not because I heard thename in a lot of Bollywood movies but because I studied a lot about this city its culhttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/blog-870789.htmlPipa die japanische Wollmispel die belgischen HochleistungsBrieftauben oder die ungarischeTabakspfeife. In unserem Fall ist allerdings der von Natal ca. 90km entfernte Strand gemeint wohlauch einer der bekanntesten in ganz Brasilien. Frh morgens https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Rio-Grande-do-Norte/Praia-Da-Pipa/blog-870907.html Day 9 Jan. 19 2015 San DiegoCA Weather forecast cloudy and cool actual was sunny and pleasantly warm in the mid 60s F Todaythere was no cloud or fog as the weather forecaster had predicted on last evenings news andhttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/blog-870384.html Days 1015 AtSea This is a combined blog for all the days we spent at sea from our sailing on January 20th 21st toour making landfall on the 26th. Day 10 Embarkation https://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-an--Seas/Pacific/blog-870905.html So this is the first test entry of what will become a travel history ofour 2015 MG adventures.As I work my way thru this format I am going to experiment with options ofadding photos maps videos etc. and see how they'll fit into this format.Thhttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Illinois/Morton/blog-870906.html Breakfastat Pretamanger for the second morning in a row but given it is almost directly across from where weare staying that is really no surprise. It snowed overnight so the was a light sprinkling of white in thegardens parks and on the sides of the https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/Washington/blog-870904.html Road TripNot long home from holiday we quickly planned ournext road trip to get us through the winterLAXSan Luis Obispo via Santa BarbaraMonterey via BigSurSF SausalitoLake TahoeFresnoPalm SpringsLos Angel https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/blog-870902.html Day 17Sometimes when it comes tothe end of a holiday you are ready to go home and see friends and loved ones and get back into aroutine this definitely isn't one of those days. Waking up knowing tonight I will be on a plane toLondon Heathro https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/S-n-Francisco/blog-870901.html Day 16Early start for us today as we need to allow time to get into thecity before we can start our bus tour leaving from Union Square. There are plenty of bus tours tochoose from and you can pick them up in many places around town.We arehttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/blog-870900.htmlThe phone rings loudly in the dark room. Its a little disorienting at first. The noisy heater cycled toooften during the night and we really never went all the way out. We just pick the phone up and put itback in the cradle without saying anything. It https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/Utah/Cedar-City/blog-870897.html Hoi An was a beautiful city or the old quarter bit wasanyway. That's the only bit we really visited. Lots of history and nice places to eat. We went out onenight for a few beers and some shisha. The hotel was good too it had a massive pool with a swimhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Northeast/blog-870899.html Hi Everyone So today we hadan early wake up of 6.30 as we had a tour to a hot spring the white temple Chiang Rai the goldentriangle and a village tribe booked for the day.It didn't start great as they picked us up 25mins lateat 8.05 hat https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Northern-Thailand/Chiang-Khong/bl-

g-870860.html Photo of Ant at the airport headed to Russia...this better not be the only post we seeover the next few months https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/blog-870898.html Had a greatsleep at the Grand Magnolia Suites and Ballroom such a beautiful old home with all themed roomsand a huge ballroom excellent spot for weddings etc and Evelyn prepared us some coffee andbreakfast which was great. Then hit the road again head https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/Osprey/blog-870539.html Chile has very little Spanish influence apartfrom the language but has far more British German and French influence. Several gifts in the formof statues were given to Chile and are now situated in Parque Forestal to celebrate its 100 years ofindepen https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Santiago-Region/Santiago/bl-g-870895.html We visited the Presidential Palace or as it is also called Palacio Moneda because theystill make Chiles peso coins here. The president doesnt live in the palace but lives in his own housealongside the rest of the population. Outside the palace ther https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Santiago-Region/Santiago/blog-870892.html Day 15On the move again and onto the10th and final hotel today. We leave Yosemite quite early as we are driving to San Francisco andhave a lot of things planned starting with a baseball game tonight so need to get into the cityearly.Waki https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/b-og-870891.html In the Plaza de Armas there are statues commemorating the battle between Valdiviahe can be seen on a horse and Lautaro from the Mapuche army who was responsible for therevolution in Chile and killed Valdivia. In the early days before the Spanish arrivhttps://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Santiago-Region/Santiago/blog-870890.htmlINFORMATION ABOUT SANTIAGO AND CHILE Along with Japan Chile is the country with the mostseismic activity in the world. In 1960 it had an earthquake measuring 9.5 on the Richter scale whichdestroyed most of the buildings in Santiago. It is the So https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Santiago-Region/Santiago/blog-870889.html Good morning everyone woken up after agood sleep Perth is hot apparently there is still a bush fire going nearby not that we have seen it so Idon't know how 'nearby that is'. We have come out to see Stu's cousin Michael his wife Dorothy andtheir s https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Perth/Joondalup/blo--870886.html With my job I travel a lot around the UK don't panic I won't bang on about to my jobThe perk is though I get to visit a lot of places that I wouldnt necessarily of gone to. Having lived inthe UK all my live I forgot how blessed we are in this country thttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Tyne-and-Wear/Newcastle-Upon-Tyne/blog-870775.html Alta Montana tour Theguide showed us various spots in the Andes and told us about various disasters and mysteries thathad occurred in the mountains throughout history. I was intrigued and loved hearing the details andit left me with desire to se https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Aconcagua/blog-870677.html The weather here in New Zealand canstart rainy and finish hot and sunny or flip and be freezing. Finally the perfect day had arrived for anexploratory journey to Otago's Tunnel Beach just outside Dunedin. Being a ginger I haven't spentmuch time at th https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Dunedin/bl-g-870884.html Perito Moreno is nothing to write home about the hotel was ok the second steak inthe restaurant was ok as well the troika of aMexican a Swiss and a Swede was joined by a Japanesebig meeting of the UN.Next morning it was time to go to Chile yet aghttps://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Rio-Negro/El-Bolson/blog-870659.html I took abus tour to Alta Montana where the guide explained all in both English and Spanish. It was great forme because I could listen to the English explanation to get the general idea and the Spanishexplanation to fill in the details and recheck agai https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Aconcagua/blog-870680.html Im really happy in this hostel and thispart of my trip has been relaxing and productive in comparison to my time in Cordoba where I felt abit dissatisfied with what Id managed to see and quite lonely. The hostel owner Javier has beenreally helpful https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blo--870673.html Mendoza is out in the desert passes through the Andes and it is the Argentinian

province closest to Santiago in Chile. Its main business is oil extraction its second biggest moneymaker is tourism and its third business is wine production. The c https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-870674.html The food in all Argentinian cities that Ivevisited has been mainly based around Italian cuisine beef American food wine mate coffee and lots ofbread. Sweet food and fizzy drinks can be found everywhere here and people eat very sweetbreakfasts. I https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blo--870675.html Another week of classes have gone by and another exciting weekend exploring theOtago landscape. Today Marie Amy and I the three Canadians boarded a train. The university wasnice enough to plan a Welcome Train Trip for all the international studentshttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Dunedin/blog-870882.html Before Imoved permanently to the United States in 2011 I used to come to this country at least once a yearmainly to visit my family in California. On one of those trips we traveled by car from Los Angeles allthe way to San Francisco.After spendin https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/California/San-Francisco/blog-870876.html Finally getting acquainted with theneighbourhood surrounding Abbey. Today after the first week of classes I spent the afternoon hikingthrough the Botanical Gardens. The gardens stretch from directly behind Abbey College all the wayup to the grocery s https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Dunedin/bl-g-870881.html It was on a fine Monday afternoon 19th day of January when Carmela my collegefriend and Minette my brother's girlfriendreached the peak of Cebu the Osmena Peak.Minnette and Iwoke up a little bit late since we partied in the streets of Cebuhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Cebu/Dalaguete/blog-870877.html Looking back at myblogs and my thoughts of travelling through Colombia my preconceived knowledge of this vastcountry has changed forever. Furthermore my mindset has changed. My view on my life choicessince retirement reinforced. Facing my 3rd wint https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Bogota/blog-870857.html Hi8PM and just had a showerwith room to move aboutand hooks. So yes a new experience and a hair dryer so all good news.Slept in this morning.. 9.35before I got up.Someone did come in at midnight and leave at 3.30am. But in the attic no Windowshttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/blog-870874.html Wednesday began with rain fallingonce again with no relief in sight. At this point we decided to look into leaving this area a day earlyand adding a day on to Liberia. This would only work if all the pieces fell into place i.e. reschedulingthe shuttle https://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Alajuela-La-Fortuna/blog-870871.html I got to San Gil last night after a nice bus journey through themountains. This is the place for adventure sports and today I went paragliding. It was incredibleflying with the birds over Chicamocha Canyon the views were amazing as you will see in the phttps://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/San-Gil/blog-870872.html The Nubianmausoleums within the current borders of Sudan are famous amongst Archaeologists andPyramidaphiles a like. However seemingly the current Sudan residents don't quite value them inquite the same way. On my first attempt to visit these red teethhttps://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Sudan/North/Atbara/blog-870866.html For English scrolldown.Naszym kolejnym celem by Beskid Niski. Waciwie tylko dlatego e chciaam w kocu odwiedzikoleank ktra z mem stworzya tam Buczynow Dolin. Wczeniej nie syszaam wiele o tej czci Karpat.Buczy https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Lesser-Poland/Beskid-Niski/blog-870441.html Hieren soire c'tait session skate. On m'a emmen sur un lac gel qui se transforme en patinoire gantel'hiver du ct de Mont Royal.La suite n'tait pas prvue mais on m'a emmen manger La Poutine plattypique qubcois https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blo--870864.html https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-870862.htmlMe voila arriv. Le froid est dj trs agressif et annonce la couleur Je publierai au fur et mesure lesphotos et commentaires alors rests connects https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/blog-870861.html LABOURS ED MILLIBAND MUST BITE THE BULLET TO WINTHE MAY 2015 ELECTIONIf Ed Milliband or Red Ed as he is known by the Tory conservative tabloidpress is to head up the next UK government he must do a Faustian deal with his political enemie

https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Westminster/bl-g-870859.html Some years ago while on a visit to my old friend who lives in the city of Terre Hautein Indiana USA we traveled to Chicago one time by car on a weekend. It was my first trip to thisgreat American city and I enjoyed it very much. We left my friend https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Illinois/Chicago/blog-870856.html My friends and I had been together back incollege we planned to do at least one trip while in college but that hope never materialized. Aftercollege sadly we parted ways each to build their own life. We kept in touch for a while but as we allgot bus https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/blog-870852.html So I am sitting here in thelobby of a Fairfield Inn near Detroit. We have had a couple of frustrating weeks with car repairs andwhatnot watching money flow through our fingers like water. Could have been much worse and theLord provided for us so w https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/Michigan/Flint/blog-870853.html Hi everyoneWe flew to Perth today I'm so tired that I justcannot update the blog tonight. It's soooooo hot here and it is a 3 hour different time zone. You maythink that's not much but considering I was up at 5.00 am this morning and it would now bhttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Port-Melbourne/blog-870855.htmlHaving made our early start we arrived at 08.05 I like KL ..Our cases were first off the carousel andour driver was waiting. It took an hour to drive to the city ... at one point we were in an 11 lanehighway...full of traffic..so glad I wasn't driving T https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Wilayah-Persekutuan/Kuala-Lumpur/blog-870839.html Donnerstag 22.01.15Rish fuhr mich bereits um 06.30Uhr zum Bahnhof. Zum Glck war heute der Zug nicht sehr voll sodass die einstndige Zugfahrtangenehm war. In Chalakudy angekommen lief ich zur Hauptstrasse die nach Athirapally fhrt. Leiderwurd https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/blog-870835.html We have just walked around theWACA for those uninitiated amongst you this is the Western Australia Cricket Association ground inPerth just a stones throw from our hotel. I was convinced that I could smell the leather of thekoocabura but keith t https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Perth/Pert--City/blog-870837.html Today we learned a bit about the vast history of mask and maskmaking inVenice. The tradition of mask wearing and thus making goes back to the 13th century. Masks wereworn frequently to hide identity thus giving a sort of social mobility as well as ohttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Veneto/Venice/blog-870764.html Hey everyoneHad anabsolutely amazing few days in Budapest. A great city I highly recommend. Amazkng historyamazing nightlife nice people and somewhat easy to navigate.Got in late my first night there. Metsome cool Australians woke up early t https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/blog-870836.htmlIn April 2008 while on a trip to Hungary I decided to travel to Slovakia by train with my Hungarianfriend. I wanted to see another former Soviet bloc communist state in Eastern Europe besidesHungary and Poland. The following is an account of our visit tohttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Kosice-Region/Kosice/blog-870831.html Friday October17thA pretty quiet day today. After another lovely sleep in we headed out just around the corner to'Mr Mrs Mohgans Super Crispy Roti Prata' for the perfect breakfast fresh crispy roti with fish curryand ikan bilis ancho https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/blog-868989.html Wednesday 28thJanuary 2015. At Sea en Route to Lisbon.We had a quick breakfast in the restaurant and then madeour way to the 9.30 lecture in the Aditorium. THis was called Tracking the Mountain Gorilla in theRemote Impenetrable Rainforest of Uganda https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/blog-870832.htmlTuesday 27th January 2015. At Sea en Route to LisbonWe had a posh breakfast and ended up sittingwith one of the craft lecturers who is called Billie. M managed to get a rough idea of the sort ofthings she had planned and decided she would attend the https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/blog-870830.html Monday 26th January 2015. Welcome Aboard the Azores Plymouth England UKWewere collected from our home in Bristol as arranged at 12.15 pm. This arrangement had changedfrom the original plans as we had received a telephone call from the cruise comphttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Devon/Plymouth/blog-870829.htmlTuesday 27th January a fine warm day at last. We took a short drive up the hill behind the apartmentblock to the nearby village of Pueblo Benaldamena and spent most of the day there enjoying the sun

and the views. In the evening we took the excellent thttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Fuengirola/blog-870650.html So enjoyed acouple of days in Marissa probably the most tourist orientated place so far. Massive bay sandy beachstretching all the way with bars and restaurants lining the sand. Distinctive south east Asia beachfeel about it.Absolutely massive wa https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Sri-Lanka/Souther--Province/Unawatuna/blog-870825.html LAST WEEK IN SYDNEYSo I decided as it's my last weekthat I needed to make it a busy one and try and do something most days. It seems strange thinkingthis part of travelling is over as 3 months always seemed so long to be somewhere Woke up quihttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-870817.html We spent3 nights in the YHA Paihia in a double room with ensuite which cost approx 44 per night and wasreally pleasant. We probably raised the average age of guests by 2 decades but everyone was reallyfriendly and it was a nice quiet environment It https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Rotorua/blog-870808.html We left Ozamis and caught the roro ferry across toDukas. Pretty easy just turn up at the Port in Ozamis buy tickets and Port Fee and ride straight on tothe ferry. The ferry was packed but only took about 30 mins to cross to Dukas. Then short ride to Mhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Mindanao/Lanao-del-Norte/blog-870809.html With theroof all done it was time to work inside the car. The following have been addedInternal cupboards atthe back converting from 11seat down to 5 seatWater tank fridge CB Radio sand flagengine andtransmission temp monitor winch tow bahttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Sunbury-Australia-/blog-870821.html Noussommes passs hier dans les Adelaide Hills o des incendies ont ravags des centaines d'hectares cesdernires semaines.Ca fait bizarre de voir toute cette nature calcine alors que nous tions juste ct. Onpense aux gens qui ont beau https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaid--Hills/blog-870816.html Mais que voyonsnous au loin sur la plage Un bateau chou Un bateau ... depirates https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaide/blog-870814.htmlWoke up early this morning to meet Yasmin for her last day in Sydney She had finished her EastCoast trip but needed a tour of Sydney so we had a touristy day. It was absolutely boiling so we hadto change our plans a bit because Yasmin gets sun strokehttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/blog-869916.html Le plaisir detomber sur une bonne brasserie belge Adelaide Aaaaaahhh une bonne bire OOhhh elle pas ptillantecomme en Belgique snif snif Mais on est contents quand mme looolUn peu de belgitude a fait dubien https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/blog-870812.html Quelquesphotos de l'amnagement de notre van On l'a achet quasiment vide il y avait juste une structure poursoutenir le matelas. Il a fallu l'amnager quelque peu pour se rendre la vie plus facile mettre uneparoi derrire les siges https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/blo--870804.html Je consacre un post Adelaide car c'est une ville qui vaut la peine comme dit avant il y ale National Wine Centre un beau jardin botanique on y est retourns maintes fois il est vraimentsuper. L'tang rempli de Lotus Sacr est juste sp https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaide/blog-870788.html We arrived in Melbourne yesterday after an overnight flightfrom Hong Kong. Met at the airport by Stuart and we are staying with him and Ineke in their lovelyhouse. Very modern and typically Australian open plan and very spacious. We did go for a walk whttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/blog-870806.html Solo there was nothing much in Solothat was the remarks given by my childhood friends when I suggested we made a weekend trip toSurakarta or known as Solo 60 km away from Yogyakarta. The last trip I did to Solo was perhapsmore than 20 years ago and https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Java/Solo/blog-870744.htmlMonday morning and I'm cycling again but this time on a 4 hour countryside tour with GrasshopperAdventures. This ride was 30klm long and took us off the beaten track and through the villages andrice paddies around Siem Reap.There were only three of uhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/East/Stung-Treng/blog-870559.html SP Hay quien sepreocupa de si sigo vivo o no recomiendo mirar la pagina web del localizador si se mueve en unadireccion continua por las carreteras a unos 15km por hora es que sigo vivo. Si avanza a unos

80kmh es que estoy pegado al radiador https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-870795.htmlCAMBODIAExecutive SummaryThai islands wake parks kite surfing motorbikes chilling dinning fruitshakes rum endless beaches buses and beauty leads us to Cambodia. From the Phnom Penh backstreets and riverside to https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/blog-870654.html Une petiteddicace pour nos loulous qui nous manquent fort avec une photo de Marraine en compagnie d'HelloKitty ainsi qu'une photo du cinma en plein air ct des vignes o nous avons vu le film The Secret Life ofWalter Mitty.Je fais https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/blog-870785.htmlJane Fonda and Joan Baez. We all know what they have in common. They were great looking whenthey were younger they went to Hanoi during what the Vietnamese call the American War. Theyboth came back to a lot of derision in the US. They both stayed in ourhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Red-River-Delta/Hanoi/blog-870783.html Comme on a unpeu de temps avant que les vendanges dmarrent on en profite pour se renseigner fond sur le sujeton achte quelques livres. Pour l'anecdote on tait en train de chercher des bouquins dans unelibrairie de seconde main lorsque l https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaide/blog-870782.html Today I crossed over into Chile from Argentina. The entire trippasses through the Andes and on both sides the views are dramatic. There are rivers a disusedrailway track tunnels desert canyons and mountains and famous points that we were told about dhttps://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Aconcagua/blog-870667.html Thekind waiter who served us food and pepsi also took us through the laborious 2 hour custom processat the border. At one checkpoint we had to show our passports and hand over our visas whilst asniffer dog sniffed around our legs. On the second checkpoi https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Santiago-Region/blog-870668.html Whilst on the bus filling in my customs declarationtwo Chilean boys offered to help me if there was anything didn't understand. We began chatting.When you spend so long on a bus ride with the same people you end up chatting with quite a fewpeople. I thi https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Santiago-Region/Santiago/bl-g-870670.html I got up at 6am after 3 hours sleep determined to pack get to this beautiful park buymy bus ticket to Santiago and get on it. But very quickly it became too hot to do anything its 39degrees today. In the last few days my friends and I would start w https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-870671.html Hello les amis Je sais cela fait quelquestemps que n'avions plus mis de posts sur le blogBonne nouvelle nous allons faire les vendangespendant 2 mois partir de la 2me semaine de fvrier Le premier rdv dont nous avions parl pour un joba https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/McLaren-Vale/blog-870780.html Itook my time over breakfast and spent it listening to hilarious stories and jokes told by my friends inthe hostel and added my own. When it was a bit cooler I walked around a central park where peoplewere doing lots of exercise. In the evening at 11 l https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-870672.html Id bought an overnight cama bed bus fromCordoba to Mendoza and I got the best nights sleep Id had in 3 nights. It was well air conditionedthey had coffee machines on it and like all the other Argentinians on the bus I put my chair rightback https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-870678.html TheArgentinians Ive met so far all look European and have French or Italian names. Generally theArgentinian people I've met seem to be very expressive they love to talk about everything andanything are inquisitive and very curious about Europeans. https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-870676.html I woke up to hear heavy rain hammering onthe roof of our motel room. Peering through the window we could see lowering skies and a thickblanket of mist obscuring the views. We waited until ten o'clock to leave but as the downpour wasunrelenting we set https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/East-Coast/b-og-870774.html Delaware The First State Welcome to the First State. If you didnt know the statesmotto you will by the time you leave. The motto is plastered everywhere. Delaware was the first toratify the U.S. Constitution which makes Delaware the firs https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/West-Plains/blog-870773.html Finally getting around to typing upthis blog that occurred 2 months ago. Life has been busy and I have had a mental block on writing.

But during the drive from Redding to Sonoma CA I decided to type up the big memories of our tripto Las Vegas.My Hus https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nevada/L-s-Vegas/blog-870770.html Hi8.45PM and here in PortoOn third floor ... attic .... my feet touch theceiling so must remember to not knock my head too much. About 10 in the room but warm and agood blanket and not a bunk so has a lot going for it.Two nights in Fatima myhttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/blog-870768.html Hi8.45PM and here inPortoOn third floor ... attic .... my feet touch the ceiling so must remember to not knock my head toomuch. About 10 in the room but warm and a good blanket and not a bunk so has a lot going forit.Two nights in Fatima my https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/blog-870769.htmlHeads up no pictures today So yesterday I got a tour of the neighbourhood from a friend and...WOWIt turns out I'm within walking distance of parliament museums palaces and embassies. Moreimportantly though I'm within stumbl https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/South-Holland/The-Hague/blog-870767.html Despite having about five hours of interrupted sleep last nightI woke up at 5am excited and ready to get on the road. Our bus left Adelaide at 630 and to mypleasant surprise there was only six of us on the trip. And our tour guide is the spitting imagehttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Grampians/blog-870727.html Day 14We getup early as we have a long drive before we hit Yosemite and lots we want to do once we arethere.The drive feels longer than it is because of how slow you drive given the conditions but theviews definitely make it worthwhile. W https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/California/Yosemite-National-Park/blog-870766.html Day 13The second week of any holidayalways goes so much faster than the first and this is no exception. The realisation we are going homein a few days has hit and the depression has already sunk inWe check out of the hotel and sit by thehttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Mammoth-Lakes/b-og-870763.html Day 12Time for hotel number 72 days ago we were in Arizona yesterday in Nevadaand today we are driving back to California.Tonight we are staying in Bishop and are drivingthrough Death Valley to get there. We had been warned to bring https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Bishop/blog-870762.html Day 11Time for hotel number 6Check outof our hotel and get back in the car and drive back to Nevada. Tonight we will spend the night inHenderson just outside Las Vegas.Another lengthy drive around 230miles. We stop at Kingsman onour https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nevada/Henderson/blog-870761.htmlYou may have guessed where I went next after leaving San Francisco I assume... curse my need toput accurate titles on things...Leaving San Francisco was the group's first taste of long haul drives.We passed lots of the wind farms on route... not over https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Yosemite-National-Park/blog-870641.html Day 10Breakfast wasprovided in the hotel but I personally did not find it at all appetising. The hotel was very busy withGrand Canyon tourists and helicopters continually passed overhead.It isn't a warm day just nice andwe take our time https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Gra-d-Canyon/blog-870760.html Day 9Time to check out and head to hotel number 5 Another long drive5 hours to the Grand Canyon. We stop for a rest and coffee in Kingsman Arizona. There are a fewshops and Safeways has a Starbucks although there is little else I canhttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Grand-Canyon/blog-870758.htmlHi everyoneWell we headed off yesterday to an area in Melbourne called Fitzroy the immediatereaction you would have is it was a right scruffy area watch you're handbag sort of thing but themore you walked down it the more we liked it. It ishttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Port-Melbourne/blog-870759.htmlDay 8This is our only full day in Las Vegas but we know that we have enough time to do all we wantas we had carefully planned everything before we left home.We head out onto the strip first thingand it is already so warm and we know it is https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/Nevada/North-Las-Vegas/blog-870751.html We will begin the Two Tubbies Tour on February1st. We will be cycling from Melbourne to Key West Key West back to Miami Miami to Fort MyersFort Myers to Orlando Orlando to Daytona Beach Daytona Beach to Jacksonville. We expect to take

between 45 a https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/blog-870757.htmlMonday 26thJanuary 2015 ltem stylemsobidifontstyle normalgtNote the last blog had thirtyonephotos so went on to two pages. We dropped anchor in the natural harbour of Port William on EastFalkland at 7 https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Falkland-Islands/East-Falkland/b-og-870756.html Holiday has now started https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-870755.html Of all the former Communist bloc nations inEastern Europe Hungary was the first country I went to. I was expecting it to be a run down placewith grim shades of the Communist era and dour looking people. On the contrary it turned out to bea delightf https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Central-Hungary/Budapest/blog-870749.htmlAre you from the people always planning ahead any important event which may follow in your lifeplaces to visit and things to do and achieve Me definitely and when it comes to countries and placesI would like to visit the list is extremely long and thttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lombardy/Milan/blog-870231.html Hi All So after we caughtup on sleep from our noisy cold train journey that arrived into Chiang Mai at 4am we headed into theold walls around 9am. Its a great atmosphere lots of shops cafes restaurants and cheap massageparlours. We visit https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Northern-Thailand/Chiang-Khong/bl-g-870752.html Hi all We woke up early to head to the bus station in Phitsanulok which was about a20 minute walk from the Royal Place hotel. The bus was 57 baht just over 1 to get to Sukhothaiabout an hour away. We even me some girls from Stroud on the bhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Northern-Thailand/Phitsanulok/blog-870722.html Day7Check out of Ayres and have our last breakfast. Would definitely recommend this hotel to peopleneeding accommodation for Disney.Today we are driving to our 4th hotel in Las Vegas. We haven'tbeen to Vegas since 2003 and I don't really https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/Nevada/North-Las-Vegas/blog-870750.html People say you can't live without love but I thinkoxygen is more important. Good Wednesday Mircoles morning. Another sunny day at the outpost. Afew fluffy clouds in the sky and the birds are singing and the palm trees are gentlhttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-870605.htmlDay 6Despite being utterly exhausted from the long day in California Adventure yesterday and withtired feet excitement levels are still high. California Adventure was a lot of fun yesterday but today ismy favourite Disneyland. After breakfa https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/California/Los-Angeles/blog-870748.html So from Monday we decided we should probablymake a start on our research and sort ourselves out properly. This involved my first exploration ofTrinidad and its public transport system alone as well as signing for our new house and sortingourselves out https://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad--nd-Tobago/Trinidad/blog-870747.html Day 5Anyone who has visited Disney before knows theimportance of any early start especially if you are collecting your tickets from the gates.This year wechose not to hop because we were visiting over Labour weekend major error on our bhttps://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/blog-870746.htmlMil tenia se nm to zd tko uviteln n vlet je u konce. Chystme se na posledn veei popjme rov vno a kmesi jak jsme se tu hezky pomli a jak se tme na Vs echy snh sr vno tichttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-870731.html Day 4After alovely breakfast at our hotel not free we checked out. Not ready to leave LA and drive to our thirdhotel just yet we made our way back to The Commons and The Corner Bakery. This place is alwaysbusy with people of all ages and it https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Unite--States/California/Los-Angeles/blog-870740.html After a really good nights sleep in a very clean andquiet hostel I headed down for breakfast where I met a lady from Montreal who was doing a similartrip to me but starting in Chile and finishing in Argentina. In the past she had spent 3 weeks in Peruhttps://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Santiago-Region/Providencia/blog-870663.html Ithen set out to explore the main historic centre and take some photos of the architecture. I found myway to the central bank via the subway and exchanged my US dollars for Chilean pesos. The Chileanpeople apparently are nicknamed 'the Swiss of South Am https://www.travelblog.org/South-

America/Chile/Santiago-Region/Santiago/blog-870664.html Day 3Yet another warm and sunny day inSouthern California and we are heading to the beach. We drive towards 4th Street in Santa Monicaas we know from experience there are multi story garages for us to park and they are reasonablycheap. The ma https://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/b-og-870739.html I had a delicious set meal in a restaurant I found by chance later I stopped for acreamy cappucino and on the way home I stopped off for a McFlurry ice cream with pieces of Oreosand chocolate sauce on top . The set meal was my favourite meal of the triphttps://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Santiago-Region/Santiago/blog-870665.html When Ilived in France my ex son in law came to visit me nearly every year. Although he is no longermarried to my daughter we still have a cordial relationship up to this day. On each of his visits wewould travel to another European country by air raihttps://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Lisbon-and-Tagus-Valley/Lisbon/blog-870734.html Sothis will be my fourth full day in Dijon Check out these pictures here to see the things that I've beenup to https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Burgundy/Dijon/blog-870737.html This morning Iclimbed up San Cristobal a famous viewpoint looking out over the whole of Santiago and the Andesmountains. Its a dusty steep climb with very little shade and takes about an hour and a half. It wasdifficult in 32 degrees but with regu https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Santiag--Region/Santiago/blog-870660.html Through chatting to Chileans Argentinians and Columbians andjudging by the number of people who are astonished at the fact that I am travelling alone Im startingto notice a theme in Latin American culture. People here seem frightened of being alone.https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Santiago-Region/Providencia/blog-870662.htmlCome Surf in my Turf 2425 January 2015 Fonty's Pool Manjimup Saturday morning was quite chillythe night had been really cool about 12 degrees a big difference from the heat we experienceovernight in Perth we only slept under a very lighthttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Manjimup/blog-870732.html 4.TRAVEL BLOG Karibu Sana Kayanga Here We Are.January 28 2015Sorry for the delay in blogging.Large Internet problems here. Spotty doesn't come close to describing.We are well. We made it toKayanga Tanzania. After a night in Kampala and https://www.travelblog.org/Africa/blog-870438.htmlAfter our shithole experience in Halebid read in our last blog entry we did not feel like stayingovernight in another pilgrimage town. Furthermore the sleeping options in Shravanabelagolahttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Hassan/blog-870627.html We were anchored out ofLabuanbajo LBJ for a couple of weeks a dive focused area with plenty of isolated beaches to choosefrom. This was where I started my PADI Open Water Course thanks to one of our crew instructors. Idid part of it next to a pearl https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Flores/Labuanbajo/blog-870710.html Ive been aboard The Good Ship for just over a month now. Every week somethingamazes me on here whether its the exceptional sites we see an untried activity or simply a bondingsession with the crew. One thing I do know for sure is that I amhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Flores/blog-870709.html We left Padang Bai on SundayDay 3 and set sail for West Timour. In the middle of our working day my boss came to me and saidHey were gonna have our coffee break slightly earlier today cos were gonna take the tender smallboat out and https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Komodo/blog-870708.html Day Two workingand living aboard the biggest privatelyowned sailing yacht in the world It was weekend But becauseIm new I had to work a full day on Saturday. I had the night off and had to be back at work for a fewhours on Sunday at 3pm. Obvio https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/Denpasar/blog-870621.html After a 24 hour trip including a 30min interrogation by immigration for not having thecorrect paperwork I finally made it to my 3masted home in Bali Indonesia.Different Its unlikeanything Ive stepped foot on before. The whole design thhttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/Denpasar/blog-870620.html Arrived into La Paz aftera long journey from Peru via road and sea although the last part we had WiFi on a bus which I wasquite amazed at. La Paz is a very busy noisy city and a bit of a dump to be honest. The only reason togo there is that there are https://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/blog-870728.html Every

weekend evening FridaySunday Jonker Street turns itself from a quaint historic area into an areateeming with life. Every inch of space is used by hawkers vendors and shoppers. I tend to like nightmarkets to I decided to check it out.This https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Melaka/Melaka-City/blog-870072.html All ready to go bags all packed and almost within weight. Just having lightlunch and then wait for taxi to arrive https://www.travelblog.org/Europe/blog-870725.html Travellingto Japanis fascinating and overwhelming too. Before we landed to Japan we though we had it allfigured out only to feel disoriented and as if we had moved to a whole new world. From the welltimehttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/blog-870718.html Hanoi Day 2Being on a tour with a fulltimeguide means that one has a full day and misses none of the important sites. On the other hand theguide's important sites may not be ours but being that we didn't research this trip at all we were athttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Red-River-Delta/Hanoi/blog-870717.html October 16thUpreasonably early today as we'd decided to head out on the train for the 45 minute journey to JurongEast to go to their local water park. I'd found this place whilst researching we could have gone toWet 'n' Wild for about 20 each or https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/blog-868987.htmlEpisode 5 Wednesday 28.01.15 With our remaining days in New Zealand becoming numbered weprogressed from Napier south towards Wellington. We stopped at a little town called Woodville forlunch. While eating in a caf I noticed a dress shop ca https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/Central/blog-870701.html The first stage of upgrading the Troopywas to have the car converted into a pop top camper. This meant the car roof needed to be cut offand then replaced with a fibreglass roof that has an inbuilt tent system. This was a hard decision tomake at the time https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Sunbury-Australia-/bl-g-870702.html We left a still wet Sydney this morning. The rain was still falling the roads quiteflooded and traffic jams everywhere our driver was late apparently caused by a flat battery but wemade it to airport there was about half an hour on the tarmac waitinhttps://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Darwin/blog-870700.html We tookthe air conditioned bus from Penang to Tana Rata in the Cameron Highlands. This took about 5 hrsand cost about 3.50. We passed a lot of areas where there had been landslips. This was caused byrecent heavy rain as well as illegal logging peoplehttps://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/blog-870382.html Last year when we arrived inTonga we were deluged by a rain storm of biblical proportions. This year all was calm and bright. In2011 a new pier was commissioned by King Tupou V and it is a welcomed addition to the island. It issituated in downtown Nuku https://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Caledonia/Sout--Province/Noumea/blog-870690.html

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