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Charlie and Owen s world tour - Charlie Horton

After 1 year of travelling around S.E.Asia and up the east coast Australia, having the best time of my life, i have now been back in the UK for 10 months filling up the travel pot again. Sod all this cold weather and escallating prices!! ive booked my tickets and am off to the USA for 2 weeks on the 7th Sept en route to New Zealand for as long as I possibly can make it last. I have no particullar plan and only a one-way ticket to the other side of the world, Got places to go and people to see and god knows whats gonna happen - i can't wait.
So back after popular demand this travelblog will be up and running again once i arrive it NZ. Watch this space!!

New zealand watch out here i come lol!

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By Charlie and Owen s world tour
November 30th 2008

Birthdays in the sun - Awesome!!

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland » Mount Eden

One box of beer down and it's still the middle of the day

After nearly a whole year later than I planned I arrived in Auckland and have been able to catch up with my old school mate from Pewsey School, Dan. Since I was in Oz over a year ago Dan has been expecting me in Auckland but I have been pushing the date further and further back due to unforeseen circumstances. I told him I would be there in March, and then June, July etc I kept pushing back the date, I don’t know who was more impressed that I finally made it. Dan lives just south of the center of the [View Full Entry]

By Charlie and Owen s world tour
November 19th 2008

And I thought New Zealand was a safe country to visit!!

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island

Crates and holes from the escaping volcanic activity

A big sorry to everyone as I have been getting really behind in my blogs, as most of you know I am in Auckland and have been here a while now. I have been doing a lot of job searching and haven’t had the time (OK, as well as being plain lazy!!) to catching up on them. Well after having a lovely scenic cruise from the South Island through the Marlborough sounds, I finally arrived in Wellington the capital city of NZ later that afternoon, but being typical me I hadn’t booked any kind of accommodation so ended up walking around [View Full Entry]

By Charlie and Owen s world tour
November 1st 2008

North up the West coast to the NOT so sunniest place in NZ

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Nelson Region » Nelson

More amazing rocks at Punakaiki

Having spent the past week on the West Coast suffering the bad weather that batters this part of New Zealand, I made the decision to head to the Northern part of the South island to a little city named Nelson, which is disputed to be the sunniest place in NZ which should have been a complete contrast to where I was now! All that stood in my way was a small 10.5 hours bus journey!! I forgotten what this amount of time on a bus was like, it’s so bloody boring and tiring! I have never understood that I can walk [View Full Entry]

The power of the sea never ceases to amaze

By Charlie and Owen s world tour
October 30th 2008

On the WET West coast helihiking up glaciers

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » West Coast

Me in a crazy blue ice cave

The last night that I had in Queenstown turned out to be a great evening, although I got quite drunk and didn’t go to bed till 5.30am, which consequently gave me 1.5 hours of sleep before I had to get up again, pack my bags and head of to the bus station to catch the bus up the West coast to Fox Glacier. I woke up feeling so rough and wished straight away that I had gone to bed earlier - but what the hell I’m travelling!!! So I just jumped on the bus and slept for the first few hours. [View Full Entry]

Franz Glacier forcing it way through the mountain

By Charlie and Owen s world tour
October 14th 2008

How to fall backwards off a chair over a 109 meter canyon!!

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Queenstown

The view back over Queenstown
What a lovely view hey!

Well after my nice peaceful time in Wanaka I now headed south towards the self proclaimed 'Adventure capital of the world' and judging by the number of shops I seen when I arrived offering everything from - skydiving, bungee jumping, canyon swinging, lugging, white water rafting, jet boating, paragliding, skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, never mind all the different walks and boats trips etc etc!!!! I really didn’t think I was going to be getting bored to quickly lol. The biggest problem I had was that when I started looking into the price of the activities it was so expensive. I [View Full Entry]

By Charlie and Owen s world tour
October 5th 2008

Snow capped mountains, beautiful lakes and a crazy Brit!

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Wanaka

One of the ways to pass the time in Wanaka

Finally after nearly a year later I have arrived back in New Zealand! I had a long 13.5 hour flight from San Francisco to Auckland, followed by a 2 hour stop over then a connecting flight to Christchurch. So this now technically means I have been around the whole world, I had to fly here last year and than back through Singapore last time but now having come back here through the USA I have now circled the whole world - Wahoo!! So anyway I was feeling tired after flying all through the night but was eager to get to Wanaka, [View Full Entry]

One of the amazingly blue lakes on the way to Mt Cook

By Charlie and Owen s world tour
September 21st 2008

Between a Rock and a red bridge

North America » United States » California » San Francisco

My favorite picture of the golden gate bridge
Was well worth the walk up the hill to get this, although Dee and Lauren took some presauding!

God I had forgotten how bad over night bus trips were!! I left Las Vegas at 6pm and arrived at San Francisco at 7am the following day, with very little sleep, it’s funny how a year back home makes you forget about something’s lol. The other funny thing about traveling on these buses is that I reckon that I must met half the ex-convicts from California, as all the locals I met on the greyhound buses seemed to have some story about when they did time inside! I think I must have had 6 separate conversations with people and all of [View Full Entry]

By Charlie and Owen s world tour
September 21st 2008

Deep into the wilderness and looking for bears

North America » United States » California » Yosemite National Park

My postcard pic
With Half dome in the background

With the whole week to spend in San Francisco I had decided to head to the amazing Yosemite national park, which judging by the pictures I kept seeing everywhere was due to be incredible. I had booked a 3 day and 2 night tour at the Yosemite 'BUG' hostel complex which is deep in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada but just on the out skirts of the national park. It was a good 3.5 hours drive inland from San Francisco which took us through some amazing countryside. The 10 of us on the trip arrived at the "BUG' early [View Full Entry]

The cheeky fur-ball that kept trying to eat my lunch!

By Charlie and Owen s world tour
September 13th 2008

Las Vegas

North America » United States » Nevada » Las Vegas

How impressive is that!!
Even seeing from the helicopter its hard to grasp how vast this is

Well now with Hollywood done, I was now on my way to the one and only city of Las Vegas aka 'Sin City'. I had booked a greyhound bus to take me there, but as the bus station was miles from where I was staying, I had spoken to the tourist information the previous evening and they had suggested that I could take 2 different local buses to the bus station. But after talking to the bloke at reception in the morning just before leaving, he strongly disagreed as he said that it meant that I would have to walk straight [View Full Entry]

Look the Eivel tower.....but also in Vegas!!

By Charlie and Owen s world tour
September 10th 2008

Hanging out in Hollywood

North America » United States » California » Los Angeles » Hollywood

Universal Studios

Well back by popular request, Charlie and Owen world tour is back up and running, only problem is Owen is still at home, so its ‘Charlie and Owens world tour’ without the Owen! So to all of you that know I flew out to the USA 2 weeks ago and its taken me this long to finally update this blog, I apologize, it's just that the internet here has been so dammed expensive, and in my hostel at the moment its free, which is great but it means there’s a time limit and everyone is using it, so it s real [View Full Entry]