Thanks Thanks anthony!
I have followed all your adventures and I loved your way to tell them. Your pictures were great as well.
I lookforward to seing you soon.
Best.
Olivier
Chile Dear Ant
Just hoping you have survived the Carretera! We are thoroughly enjoying your narrative and photographs and feel we are there with you. What a tremendous experience. Spoke with Daphne yesterday. She is following your blog religiously. We are not having the weather we expected but then it seems to be crazy everywhere. Looking forward to the next episode. Lots of Love
Dio Mio! HI Gaucho 2, I understand how you feel about Gaucho 1's truely unbelievable command of the spanish language! He has obviously forgotten all the words and phrases i taught him whilst he and i were travelling thro Argentina! No hope i fear without me to guide him through! Enjoy your last few days and stay safe! xxxxxxxx
Update ... Hi honey, just logged on to see what you are up to at the moment, Chile is looking good and clearly you and Simon are having fun.
NZ was interesting to read about and thanks for the photos that have come through and the info regarding Bobo and Nanna.
Missing speaking to you but delighted you are having such a great time. LOL Suexxx
All the best from Thailand! Hi guys,
Great fun to read and see all the blogs and photos... you're obviously having an amazing time!
I'm also enjoying life here in Thailand - I am now in Chiang Mai and really like this great city. I'm moving into an apartment tomorrow which is short-term until I find a job but nice and also cheap! Then the job-hunting starts and I'll be whizzing around on my bike giving my CV to all the local schools and see what I can turn up... fingers crossed!
Anyway, just a brief one from me... keep having a wonderful time and speak soon!
From Thailand with Love...
Stu x
Hey Gary.
You holyidayed with Freedie here....How good is that.
Just knew you two had been here, past a wooden coffee shed called Colerado and thought of you two.
Feel I am in another planet
Olivier has been following to,,, He is a good man
Best to you both
Ant
Jealous Freddye and I were in Pataogonia three years ago staying here: http://www.explora.com/explora-patagonia/
Highly recommended. Rivals NZ for beauty.
Besafe.
gb
Hi Eileen
Just wonderful to hear from you and thank you for forwarding to Daphne, Nick is following this to.
Has been very heavy with what Matt is doing but now having a blast with my amigo Simon in Chile.
In a few days we go to the bottom of Chile so may have no internet bit will be back with daring tales!!!
say hi to Reg
love
Anthony
New Zealand Dear Ant, Have just read your blog on NZ which brought back happy memories of the visits Reg and I have made. You have given us some wonderful photographs and narrative. Reg was amused to read your comment that NZ is like England was in the 1950's. He lived there for nearly two years in the 1950's and said he thought then that NZ was about 50 years behind England. And so it goes on ..... As soon as I received your first message I forwarded it to Daphne. I don't see any messages from her so will remind her to log in. Like us, I am sure she will find your blog fascinating. Take good care. Love Eileen
Daphne and I We were in Chaing Mai for two wonderful days when we visited Bangkok for Nicholas's wedding way back in 1999. That's when we rode on an elephant !
Olivier, Glad you enjoyed and bought back memories,Robert in NZ would be fun.
Sure French would have made NZ a 1950's France would have been magic.
Anyway Chile now
Best
Anthony
Anthony, thank you for this report that I read in La Tour where the fence you built is still there intact and solid; your travelblog made me remember the 3 fantastic days I spent with Robert visiting Northen Island before the Icom meeting in Auckland some years ago. Sure I will go back there with Corinne one of these days... Regarding your terrible question: what a French NZ would look like? I can only say that I have the feeling that the English did much better than the French with their colonies... see the mess in La Guadeloupe...or in Nouvelle Calédonie...
Enjoy the rest of your trip and see you soon.
Best.
Olivier
Thailand Very much enjoyed Reading your blog.I found the river Quai experience very moving.very nice to have met you on the plane and will keep in touch.Hope you have recovered from journey.Cheers Ian
In New Zealand now Hi Darling have trouble with my PC sending emails so doing this way.
Exhausted from Matt trip,emotionaly and physicaly but would not have missed for the world. Saw Evelyn today bit of a Mum re run, house, blue Jazz, all the same stuff even moaned the same...scarry. She used to look after Mum take her to school and a load more, then all the same pictues as Mums came out plus a few more, including Bobo age six and twenty, Mum about 15, Our great grandmother when young and when she was about 70, that will scare and frighten you! I photographed them and when my PC works will send them. Did you know Nannas surname was Stone.
New Zealand feels 1950's England and slightly colonial here outsde Wellington. Prince William is here to so sure you will see photos of weather and Wellington, Judith lives about 20 miles out in the hills done nothing but rain hard blow at 40 miles an hour and when it stops goes into thick fog, bit like an English Summer
Hope you saw lasted repo went INTO Burma
Love ANT XXXXXX
camara Hi Gary,
Camera is a Sony Cyber shot 7.2mega pixels with a Carl Zeiss Lense, cost about $160, it is one of those small ones, packet if cigs size.
What a trip, Icom showed me Capital cities of the world now I am seeing another more down and dirty world, I did off piste Morocco last year that was an experiance. Plan next year to go into Burma properly and Laos heard interesting reports about the later. Gary the way the world really lives is another planet to us from the west. I am two days behind on my reporting as now in deepest New Zealand seeing my family, this country feels like 1950's England.
Thanks for following me, I am exhausted from my advertures with Matt so hope here will be a rest of sorts.
Best Anthony
Wow ... very moving Hi honey,
Wow, what a blog, I am just recovering from reading about the choir, it must of been so moving and to see the photographs of the beds ... it is true, every picture tells a story and wow do your photos tell a story. I am so proud of my wonderful nephew - Matt it is incredible what you are doing, I know you enjoy it and indeed you are clearly giving much pleasure to all who you help.
Ant, I am going to sort out the skype this week, are you on this or not?
Take care my darling, love and hugs to you both
xx
Gary Burandt
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Thanks
It was a great ride. Thanks for bringing us along. I want to see the pix that were not fit for publication. gb