Getting Started

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We aren't very seasoned travellers nor are we "bloggers" but we thought it would be fun to set up a blog so family and friends can share our travel experiences with us while we are away this year. In 2006 we took our first overseas trip together ( Rob had previously been to Malaysia) - we did an organised tour of the south island of New Zealand then hired a car and travelled the north. Then in August 2007 I travelled with a group of girls to Hong Kong - where we took in the sights, Tai O Fishing Village, HK Disneyland, Big Budda etc and shopped until we dropped. We also did a day trip to Shenzhen ( an experience too long to write about here!! ) and another across to Macau. This year were had planned a road trip across to Western Australia but then plans changed and we are now going to Vietnam for 8 nights - 3 in Ho Chi Minh city (Saigon), 3 in Hoi An and 2 in Hanoi....a quick trip but still plenty of time to visit the major sights and take in the culture. We don't leave for a month but that gives me time to give this blogging thing a practise run and work out how to upload photos - no point sharing the trip with you if I don't have photos LOL! - so be patient with me - I am a learner but hopefully I will get the hang of this and you will get to enjoy our trip with us.

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Photos

Aberdeen Harbour
a view of the old and new while taking a trip in one of the tyre festooned sampans

Tai O
this is one of my favourite images of Tai O fishing village this is one of the last places in Hong Kong where you can see the traditional stilt housing

Big Budda
This bronze statue on Lantau Island is 26m ( 85ft ) high.

Travel Mates
most of the HK girls and I crossing the border into China

Shenzhen
inside Luo Hu Commercial City - oh boy! was shopping here an experience!

Macau
Ruinas de Sao Paulo - all that remains of Macau's grandest church that caught fire in 1835 during a massive typhoon...it was raining will I was there too but I still managed to photograph the sight I so wanted to see.

Comments

[Veronica]

Looking good!
Can't wait to read about your travels in Vietnam.

[Judy]

Looks great
What a great idea. It looks good, and I have even subscribed to it, so I get an email whenever you leave a new post ;)

[Jacinta]

WOW!!
Can't wait to see the great photos and hear all about your adventures in Vietnam. This will be just like carrying your suitcase, may be not LOL!!

[Pam]

Very Cool! I'm impressed and wish I had thought about that before going to Vietnam. Have you posted photos and commentary of Vietnam. I can't find it if you have! Thanks,