We all woke up early; breakfast was served at 7.30 am. Just after breakfast we geared up with a wetsuit to protect us against possible jellyfish, masks and fins. The beginners were taken with the small boat to the beach where they had time to fit the mask properly and slowly wade into the water. Read More »
So we headed back north on thursday evening, but before I leave Queenstown, I forgot to mention that Amy P., friend from New York city (no, she’s not my girlfriend) and travel partner met the man of her dreams Thursday night. His name is Taylor, and at the moment he was traveling the world for Read More »
As some of you already know, I spent the last 2 weeks on a road trip in the South Island. The whole trip, while exhausting, was a total blast and absolutely chalked full of incredible scenery. Here’s a rundown of the trips events:
I flew from Auckland into Christchurch on Feb 7th, met up with some Read More »
On Saturday we woke up in the town of Osorno ready to drive several hours to the island of Chiloe. Unfortunately someone on the trip (We´ll just say that his initials are SJ) left the dome light on in the car all night. The car wouldn’t start and we tried pushing it down a hill Read More »
We spent day before out trek packing our bags and as we were taking our day packs this was quite an operation(look at photo’s to see most of stuff was hanging off back our bag)! On the morning of the trek we took our car for its MoT (which we needed to sell it) – Read More »
On to the Transbordadora Austral Broom in the drizzle and the greyness and it seemed I would be in a Pullman seat. There was a long seating area in the accommodation side of the vessel about 8 feet wide so JUST enough room for a narrow aisle and 3 seats across – seating for about Read More »
7 January 2005 Roturua, NZ\r Taryn: As Dad reported, we had a great time surfing (and attempting to surf\133\133) on Tuesday. That evening we drove about 3 hours to the town of Tauranga to spend the night. Many of the places here have Maori names, Read More »
Figures that it would be the wettest summer on record in England. Floods, rail disruptions, and torrential downpours were in the news most days during the last week of our journey. But, hey, we were on a canalboat (more popularly called a narrowboat in these parts) and given that it floats (hopefully), the weather shouldn’t be much Read More »
So after arriving in Nha Trang last night at 10pm, it was to bed, with an early wakeup this morning.
We booked onto a 4-island tour that was really neat. We left at 8:30am, got packed into a bus like sardines, and taken to the boat. A bit crowded, but not too bad. The guy running 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 »
