Well as you might have guessed, I did head to Scandinavia after Iceland — Copenhagen, to be exact. And Copenhagen is a delightful city!! For one thing, it was WARM and sunny. I was able to wander around without a jacket and still be warm at 10pm. Ah, a lovely change.
have i mentioned how light Read More »
Thursday 17th August
As mentioned already, everything in our time capsule called the Trans Siberian train, operates in MT. At 02h00am [7am actually], we were all woken up to the loud strains of Russian pop songs! In 1hr we arrive in Severobaikalsk at the far northern end of Lake Baikal. The scenery has changed dramatically during Read More »
Sopa. Kaaji encarna Alex. Ainguaa Canada. Kayie etii choo? (How are you? My name is Alex. I am from Canada. Where is the latrine?- is probably the most important combination of phrases to know.) On our last day in the Mara, we combined lectures with game drives, but the day had a surprise in store. Read More »
Prayer request: our health! I can feel the lack of vitamins! This country has obviously never heard of the Atkins diet! Would you like some potatoes with your rice and yuchno….or whatever you call that root thing?
Eddie was really sick yesterday, that’s why we’re still here at the Gray’s house that we were only gonna Read More »
Again, it has been way too long since I have written and I have a million stories I would like to share. First of all, the international yoga conference was great. About half of the participants were Indian, the other half from other places in Europe and Asia. Would you believe I was one of Read More »
After an uneventful boarder crossing, I took a bus for about 3 hours to a town called Otavalo, famous for it Saturday market.
One big shock now being in Ecuador is that you have to pay for everything in dollars. I need to get used to haggling over 50 cents. 1000 Colombian pesos is much easier 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 »
After a long 14 hour flight from LA we finally made it to Taiwan. It was a “red-eye” flight, leaving LA at around 2:00 in the morning on Thursday, October 27. Thanks to crossing the International Date Line, we landed at around 7:00 in the morning on Friday, October 28. The airport is around 30 Read More »
Free Tibet: you see the stickers everywhere (especially living in Santa Cruz), I get a newsletter from the Dalai Lama asking for money and support almost every month (someone sold my name) but until now Free Tibet was just one more cause that I didn’t have the time or money for. Now that I am Read More »
We decided to spend our first week touring Fiji’s main island, Viti Levu, with the Feejee Experience (sister company to the good old Kiwi Experience). Aboard the familiar green bus we set about getting to know our fellow travellers and the crew – comprising of our guide Té, the driver Arvin, 5 trainee guides, and Read More »
