We made it to Trelew and travelled by local bus to Gaiman where we were staying. We checked into the Gwesty Tywi and headed straight out for a ´Welsh tea´ or Te Cymreig. We found a small place aptly called Ty Cymraeg (The Welsh Tea House) and headed in. Nobody spoke Welsh there but i Read More »
DAY 48 – 20 JANUARY 2008 Well yet another Groundhog Day. We headed out from the hotel for desayno and almost unbelievably found a place that actually served cafe con leche that wasn’t Nescafe. That must be a first here in South America. The falls are spectacular and you need to see them from Argentina Read More »
For my last adventure in San Francisco, I headed off to Yosemite National Park for a day trip. After a very early start we hit the freeway and were in the park by mid-morning. We headed straight to what Yosemite is famous for, El Capitano and Half Dome. These are 2 huge granite rocks that Read More »
Fairly freezy in November, but still a very enjoyable experience to see the Falls. An added bonus for us is getting to experience a bit of the Canadian life in the few hours we spent in Ontario, Canada. Just getting to the Falls was an adventure… I’ll just say that Mapquest is somewhat challenged when Read More »
This city is know as the Geothermal Wonderland what with all the surrounding areas covered in volcanic activity. And ya it sure is and that attracts plenty of tourists but oh my does the place stink or what! Every few minutes you get a whiff of rotten eggs and apparently it aint the local cafes Read More »
Do you ever wonder whether there is someone out there who looks exactly like you and even more freakier, maybe even have characteristics exactly like yourself????? Now I never really thought about this until we met this guy on the Magic Bus on leaving Wellington. Now this guy is the spitting image of Michelle’s friend Read More »
Well it didn’t look all that promising this morning. It was grey and overcast but warm, so ideal really for a walk. My brother had decided to head off to the Yorkshire Dales, a beautiful part of the county made famous by television programmes like All Creatures Great and Small and Last of the Summer Read More »
After an excellent night’s sleep (it must have been down to my new, improved roommate) we had an enormous full English breakfast courtesy of Angus (as we were all now calling her). We needed the fuel as we were starting the trip with an ambitious eleven mile walk from Bolton Abbey back to Grassington. We Read More »
We threw open the curtains and … it was very, very wet outside. Worse still, our clothes were also very, very wet. Evidently the radiators hadn’t come on over night. In the end we resorted to drying clothes and boots with the two mini hairdryers in our rooms. J’s waterproof trousers inflated like a balloon, Read More »
“For sheer downright misery, give me a hurricane, not too warm, the yard of a sailing ship, a wet sail and a bout of sea sickness.” Apsley Cherry Garrard, with Scott’s Expedition A couple other cool out-of-the-way places on South Georgia are Moltke Harbour and Gold Harbour, where we anchored and landed by our now-trusty Read More »
