Around the World in 200 days

After the party time we had in Vegas we were ready to head off and do some nature - to have us a honeymoon. We assembled an elite squad for this early part of our honeymoon that consisted of the new Mr & Mrs T and the Freckleton based trio of Mum and Dad Thompson and Auntie Von - all in a ‘big’ mini van. We found our mini van in the car park of the Mirage casino - just like the chap said, a blue Chrysler Town & Country (ok so it‘s not a cool name for a car but that baby packed a punch let us tell ya). After a bit of time and a krypton factor challenge we figured out a way of packing all five of us in the car and a ... read more

Well we had a right good few days out there on the Inca Trail - super perfick it was - top weather, great guides (we never grew tired of our guide calling us his 'super mountain hikers') and a top banana group made for an uber good trek. Each day was pretty hard going what with being up high and with the heat and all that but the trail was excellent and the scenery was amazing pretty much all of the time. We were really well looked after on the trail too. Each day our super porters woke us up with a warm coca tea and then laid on a right good spread of a breakfast - then we would set off on the trail leaving said porters to pack up camp (tents - dining shelter ... read more

We enjoyed some chill out time in Sucre, Bolivia's judicial capital. Bolivia is an incredibly cheap place to travel in - comparable to India and Vietnam - so we treated ourselves to a posh hotel for a few days. Sucre felt like a small town really, not too busy at all with lots of pleasant buildings - a good place to chill. On one day we went to have a look at some dinosaur footprints they have close by that have been jolly well preserved. They have a few different types of footprint but the biggest are 80cm across and belong to the Titanosaurous which is the biggest ever living ´thing´ to have walked the earth! Them greedy Titanosaurous´s used to eat whole forests for themselves! As well as the footprints they have lots of lifesize ... read more

We had a few fun filled non stop action packed crazy days in Buenos Aires. We'd barely landed there and we found ourselves in a transit van winding through the downdown streets of this hugemungous and exciting city. We arrived at our destination and were ushered into a building and up some stairs into a studio, ready to learn some new skills, we were ready to learn Tango! The lesson was great fun but we'd probably need a few more goes before we join the Halifax Tango display team... After our lesson we were seated for a steak and 'drink as much vino as you can' dinner before our Tango show started. In truth we weren't expecting that much of the Tango show - we thought it would just be a bit of cheesy 'for the ... read more

As we write this blog not only are we half way around the world (geographically speaking) but we're also exactly 100 days into our 200 day trip - and as coincidence would have it we're heading back towards Halifax today as our ever eastwards direction of travel starts to bring us home! We left the delights of Napier on the east coast of the north island and headed into the mountainous interior by way of lake Taupo (the biggest lake in Australasia) finally arriving in Whakapapa. Our main reason in being there was to tackle New Zealands so called bestest one day walk, the Tongariro Crossing, an 18km point to point walk taking in super views across the north island - volcanic scenery and emerald lakes and what not. Unfortunately for us the weather was officially ... read more