Bexterwexter

Eighteen months ago in Perth, Australia we rented a house for our stay, supplied with tv, dog and the rest, the lady who's house in which we were living was quite a roamer herself, and had a lovely Moroccan carpet displayed on the floor, It was with this in mind that when we visited Morocco that we wanted to browse, (casually of course) for a traditional - hand made - one of a kind - super-duper carpet. The initial ground work for the going rate is achieved by visiting the Artisan Ensemble, a government run initative with fixed price woods, pottery and textiles, here is probably the only place in Morocco where you can examine local goods without a smiling man in a jellaba appearing to tell you of his excellent price. This is all part ... read more

In December 2001 I visited Grimsby on the East coast of England with my pops for a football match that will live long in the memory... for me and my Dad that is, the reason for this unmemorable event was that we both agreed that it was the coldest we had ever been in our lifetimes. Biting wind, driving rain and sleet, and two seats on row 1 with no roof above us all contributed to a shivery, dithering 2 hours at Blundell Park. Fast forward 8 years and myself and Rebecca booked flights to Riga in Latvia, I was convinced that my Grimsby experience may be beaten, in a "how cold can you get" kind of competition..... Latvia along with neighbours Estonia and Lithuania were accepted into the European Union in 2004, Riga in particular ... read more

Well here we are blogging late again.......it is so hard now we are home to keep up with this writing but we really want to keep blogging!!! So apologies for the confusion in random blogs dated a while ago....... The NZ Jones family came over to visit for Easter, which was fab! We enjoyed every minute of the time we spent with them here, even though it was a little strange to start with as we felt like we should have been ging back to NZ with them!! Anyway for those of you that don't know A Jones family member by the name of cousin Caroline made it to Italy and has settled there and now has a lovely family in a small town about an hour from Venice. The NZ clan went over to visit ... read more

Having finished our 20 month "vacation" six months ago we felt it was time to properly finish our trip by updating the website to reflect our status, why we haven't done it before now I don't know, but here goes..... We checked out of Singapore finally after dashing through the border here on a few occasions,we were the only westerners on our flight with cheap Tiger Airways in Singapore's low cost terminal, unsurprisingly we found no Swimming Pools, wireless Internet or Rolex Watches unlike our last flight from this financial city, what we did find was a plane full of Indian passengers checking in 40 to 50 kilos each, every other passenger checking in Televisions or washing machines, obviously a few folk had been on a shopping trip in Singapore! One plump chap in front of ... read more

Just a quick blog from south Eastern Sabah in Borneo, Becky will add another blog today or tomorrow, after leaving Sandakan and Sepilok Orang-Utan Rehabilitation centre, we heading down to the town of Semporna so i could do some diving, I had read alot about the diving here, especially at the acclaimed island of Sipadan, regarded by many as one of the best dives in the world, I had also read alot about the small harbour town of Semporna, much of it none too complimentary, and 5 Km's out of town with palm trees on either side of the road i was thinking maybe people had been slightly harsh, upon arriving I take it all back..... Semporna is a hole and probably ranked alongside the Cambodian border with Thailand in terms of prettyness..... The towns residents ... read more