Hi everyone. Peter and I have been hanging out here in the mountains for 8 days now, a cool relaxing departure from our mad week in Delhi (no offence to our lovely hosts in Delhi, but it is a demanding city to be in). It took a bone shaking 12-plus hours bus ride to get Read More »
Friday 14th July Time to move on again. This time to Cesis which is the main town of the Cesis National Park. It’s only a 2hr bus ride from Riga so there was no need to leave too early. We c limbed on the bus at 11am only to find it titally full with only Read More »
Well we decided to head off early, so I met Bobby down at this hostel around 10am, and after packing up the car, which is only just big enough to get one bag in the boot, we headed off. We had an addition to our posse, Phil from essex, who was getting a lift down Read More »
We arrived in Newcastle at dusk and proceeded into the city center to scout a good camping spot. As we stood on a busy street corner trying to decide which way would lead us to a safe night’s sleep, Dave, a fellow traveler stopped to give us some advice. Maybe it was our exhausted blank Read More »
12/13/07 We packed it in around 9:30 and are cruising down route I75 to Florida. Stopped at the Golden Arches and got some breakfast. Time 11:29 and we hit the Florida State line. At 1:30 we were driving into Ocala, FL (mega horse country) the temp was 81 degrees. We arrived at Rock Crusher Canyon Read More »
Before I get to Zion, a quick interlude. Although we are confident many of you have stopped checking this blog since we never update it, we would like to briefly toot our horns. This was our Editor’s Pick write-up: http://blog.realtravel.com/2007/07/04/the-american-road/ Pretty park, but hard to enjoy when you are a sweat factory. Apparently, this site Read More »
Torres del paine national park. the name is not far from the experience.. we started on sunday with a catamarang crossing of lake Pehoe, this sounds pleasant however we were not keen to get off it as there were gale force winds and driving rain…who’s idea was this.. We sat next to a guy on the Read More »
When Jan and I decided to go to South America each of us had a destination in mind that stood out from the rest. For me it was the Amazon. For Jan it was Machu Picchu. I reminded him of this the day before our Inca trek began, as he sat across from me on Read More »
