We’ve been in Rotorua now for a couple of days. We called Stray (the tour company) to book our bus out of here, but unfortunately we can’t get out until the 7th. No worries though. I actually really like it here. You do get used to the smell, though sometimes you’ll get a whiff and Read More »
Today began with an 8am departure south via the Southern Motorway through the sprawling suburbs of South Auckland and Manukau City. We crossed the Bombay Hills, an area known for its light volcanic soil and market gardening. Then, we headed east towards Ngatea and Paeroa. A quick stop at the Wilderness Gems factory, River Road, Read More »
Set off from Raglan via the Waitomo glow worm caves, very cold and lots of stalactites and stalagmites as well as the glow worms!!! Arrived in Rotorua and Rosie met me, strange to think we hadn’t seen each other since 1982.!!! Met up with Keith at the house and later Liza and Brent came to Read More »
Our last full day in Seahouses and the wather is not looking good. The boats can’t go out because of the wind and there are showers passing through. Still that doesn’t stop us heading for the beach – albeit for a walk rather than a swim. We are heading north into the cold wind, towards Read More »
Wednesday – Arrived in Perth and its cold and raining. Apparently we have brought the weather with us. Hotel not too great, complained and they moved us into the suite on the top floor. Much more our style. Roamed round the streets of Fremantle at night and found a local bar, a couple of Margaritas Read More »
It took a couple of hours on the Bay to reach Cat Ba, so we were sunning on the deck of the transfer boat (John says: Where very kindly the skipper brought me a cold beer!), until we could bear the heat no more and went downstairs to the shade (John says: Here Lynne said, Read More »
Day 4 Our mutual decision was that the time had come to leave Phuket to find something a little quieter than this bustling tourist hub. It was unbelievably hot, so we took a Tuk Tuk to the bus terminal in Phuket city (Not much to see there) and a 1st class bus to Krabi, around Read More »
Note to self: Make sure you room has air-conditioning to enable three people to sleep in 30oC. We left Pisa after Billy’s orange juice and potato chip breakfast. Chioggi was a beautiful little town, the old section was charming We head north east towards Venice along the Autostrada, and planned to get to a town Read More »
Our ship took us to Rhodes, another Greek island, for the day. Found an internet cafe that was really nice except there were about 10 pigeons in the vent making really creepy coo-ing noises. They were playing some normal music that we hear back home. On the boat they like to play really old music from the Read More »
Yes, Belém is much hotter and much more humid than Manaus! Even though it´s closer to the coast, which provides great breezes, it´s much closer to the equator making the heat and humidity unbearable (and we were there during the “not summer” season). In many places in Brazil the weather is either hot or very Read More »
