After arriving in London on Saturday afternoon, we went and had an early dinner, and wandered along Gloucester Road, and looked at all the houses and wondered who might live in them. They cost a fortune to rent, or buy (or buy a lease of). They would have to be so rich! Most of them Read More »
Wednesday December 6th 2006: London my journey starts way back on the 6th December 2006… it was a nice sunny day, a typical hot aussie summer day (why did i trade aussie weather for british weather!) but i did, and after being dropped off at the airport by my parents i was off…long plane flight, Read More »
Well, friends, about a week or so has passed since I’ve last managed to write on this blog. The main mental block about doing so comes down to one thing: the internet. My connection here is slow, if present at all—which is rare. Pictures take even longer, as I generally want to throw my computer Read More »
It was so tough to leave Pengadaran, even tougher because it meant that we needed to get back on the god awful train. And it was god awful, as before. Luckily, it was only 4 hours, so we survived. Barely… lol I can say that I was honestly a little concerned to be going to Read More »
We’d liked to have written a bit sooner about Dubai, but the place we were staying had all these controls on the internet, and our host was never there for us to get him to relax some of them. So here we are, now in the UK, writing about what we got up to in Read More »
Finally got some sleep last night. Even though it was only about 5 hours I felt so much better! Kong and I started off our day by heading off to the south part of Hong Kong Island. It was a lovely drive with winding roads and ocean views. First stop was the Stanley Market area. Read More »
My second day in Dubai was lots of fun. It started with another drive through Dubai. This time Ursh and I wanted to check out some of the souks (markets). The traffic here is terrible though, and it took over an hour to get somewhere that in Sydney probably would have only taken 10 minutes. Read More »
Nath and I decided to visit Dubai to get away from London’s freezing tempatures over Christmas.. and we had an awsome time! It was so great to be back in t-shirts and shorts. We spent a few of the mornings lazing about the hotel pool, soaking up the sun and water! We visited Jumeriah beach Read More »
after a long journey from Sydney…. I was greeted by warm dusty weather and also truly warm people of dubai (actually 80% of the population is immigrants from all over the world) must say from the airport you see the construction labor work force standing in ques for their visas and job contracts… only place Read More »
Well what do you do with a day off in a foreign city… That’s right EXPLORE! I headed to Bur Dubai, this is the old part of town, located on the “creek.” This is were the first build in Dubai was built, which is now the Museum. The cab took me right into the heart Read More »
