January/Enero 2, 2007 Bangkok
We started our first day in Bangkok anxious to go the its main attractions : Wat Phra Kaeo, Grand Palace, Wat Po, Wat Arun, and all of the Wats possible. However after a big brunch we didn’t bother to ask the people from the hotel for their suggestions. This meant that after 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 »
Flew into Rio and decided after 10 months of roughing it we could spoil ourselves for the last four days of our trip so checked into a very nice hotel on the beach in Ipanema.
Spent a fair bit of time watching pay TV in our room and ordering room service partly due to the fact Read More »
After I wrote my last entry, I met up with Carl (from New York City) and we headed to the International Students reception at Falmer Bar in Falmer House. Free drinks and food were served! My kind of night. I hadn’t eaten much all day so the drinks went to my head REALLY fast. Drinking Read More »
Leaving Santiago we travelled South to the Pacific Coast town of Pichelmu. There´s not much to this place from a tourist perspective, but the big attraction is the surfing. The largest wave surfed in the world last year, over 10 metres high, was located here at the point break of Los Lobos. Having only dipped Read More »
The journey to Da Lat wasn’t great. The bus broke down after the rear had filled up with smoke, we couldn’t go faster than 40 km/hour, and we knew we’d paid far too much for the tickets. But the scenery was good, and we were excited about taking a tour with the Easy Riders.
We’d been Read More »
Arrived in Singapore 30 degrees plus with high humidity. Had a great time with our friends David & Colleen. Did the Night Safari, the Jurong Bird Park and the City Tour today. We had a great breakfast experience walking over to a huge shopping mall early on Sunday morning. Later in the day we had Read More »
Matamata was situated on New Zealand’s North Island, and was our first brush with something “Lord of the Rings” in the country. For those of you who don’t know – probably most of you reading this – a farm just outside Matamata was used as the setting for Hobbiton and The Shire. For those of Read More »
This place absolutely whiffs of rotten eggs – you could fart to your heart’s content here and no one would know (of course I don’t do things like that). People come here to visit areas of thermal activity (hence the sulphur-rich air). Even in the heart of town there are lakes covered in smoke – Read More »
Today I woke up early to make sure that I would make the bus trip, sponsored by Butler, to Bath city. It was a long 3 hr bus ride out to Bath city, all the way across the island. I fell asleep in and out along the trip but the scenery I did see was Read More »
