It was sad to leave India after only 6 weeks, so much more to see and do there, but our flights had been booked for a while and Japan was calling.
From Narita airport we headed into Tokyo on the cheap train into Ueno, where Alex had booked us into what the Lonely Planet apparently calls Read More »
We spent Chinese New Year Holiday traveling to Singapore and Bintan Island, Indonesia. We are all primary school teachers and had the week off from school. Singapore is about a 3 and a half hour flight from Hong Kong. When we arrived, it was almost midnight and we went straight to the hotel. While driving Read More »
I arrived at the Silom Serene Hotel around 8am…..hmmm mainly because the taxi driver couldn’t find it…..I was totally knackered and caught some sleep.
I had arranged to meet Natalia and Natasha later that day and go with them to the hospital so she could get checked out.
First though…..I went to the Central Plaza shopping centre…..hmmmmm Read More »
Hong Kong Day 1 16 May 2009
Our time in Hong Kong began the instant we walked through customs the way the next two days unfolded. Kathy’s friend Su, running towards us with open arms of welcome and excitement, despite the fact that she herself had only just returned from New Zealand on the Read More »
New York gave us a rather frosty reception. Our flight from Panama via Miami had been delayed by five hours so rather than arriving in the early evening, it was gone midnight by the time we left the airport. Walking from the subway to the hotel at that time in the morning, woefully under-dressed without Read More »
7:15 Comenzamos el segundo día con ganas y nos pegamos el madrugón para no perder ni un rayo de sol. Desafortunadamente, lo que nos encontramos tras desayunar y salir a la calle es que está volviendo a llover intensamente. A las 8:15 ya estamos en carretera, y durante las dos primeras horas el chaparrón es Read More »
Helsinki is AMAZING! Such a typical European city. Brilliant architecture, pretty street lanterns, cobble stone streets, pigeons, and talented street musicians. It feels so strange and wonderful to finally be living so near a city líke it! So far I have been there every weekend..in the summer I hope to go there every week-night. ;) Riitta Heilimo (old friend Read More »
My partner and I were in Caracas for the World Social Forum of 2006.
Given the left wing press on Venezuela, particularly Chavez’s socialist allegiances, concern for the poor and stance against US oil interests, we had expected something more akin to a socialist utopia. This was perhaps foolish but while aware of the countries poverty Read More »
As I had a ‘Transfer’ arranged to pick me up at Rio de Janerio today, I needed to get a message to the ‘Transfer” in Rio de Janeiro to pick me up 24 hours later. So, I got in touch with Kate Murphy who arranged my trip to get Ushi Grant who arranged my travel Read More »
This journal entry actually marks the second time we arrived in Hanoi. The first time, if you remember from our journal entry for Tam Coc, we were abandoned in Hanoi by the open bus we took from Hue, all the time thinking we were going to be dropped off in Ninh Binh. We won’t harp Read More »
