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Hello! Welcome to our Tremendous Travel Blog! The planned route is as follows-

London - India - Singapore - Malaysia - Thailand - Cambodia - Vietnam - China - Sydney - New Zealand - San Francisco - London

We'll try our best to keep this as up to date as possible, with as many pictures and hilaaaarious stories from our adventures as possible, to keep you all entertained - obviously depending how easily accessible tinternet is to us!!

Feel free to email us as much as you like, on our usual email addresses. Again, we'll be checking in on these as often as possible. Likewise, Dannys phone will be active while we're away if you need to contact us!

Love you all xxx

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By Coles and Clayts
May 17th 2009

San Francisco North America » United States » California » San Francisco

San Francisco
Love emanates from Union Square.

Same day, different continent.... 13th May 2009 Now, we realise that on our previous blog we had an entry for the 13th May, but as 'today' ended a mere 43 hours after it started, we felt it deserved another entry! Yes, like Marty McFly, today we went back in time; from being 11 hours ahead of the UK in NZ, we are now 8 hours BEHIND the UK. So, we landed at San Francisco airport - after another very bumpy flight - just after midday. With our suddenly very heavy bags, we made our way onto the BART train and headed [View Full Entry]

By Coles and Clayts
May 13th 2009

Hamilton - Waitomo - Auckland Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland

Auckland
In Minus 5, looking "cool"...

And so into the final Oceania blog, and the home straight! Although it seems only yesterday that we landed in Christchurch, 3,700km later, we leave our beloved Big Fat Neville behind and head to California. We realise that we focussed more on the natural beauty of NZ as opposed to the cultural, but here you can find so much of both and its well worth the 24 hour flight to find out for yourself! Despite only having a couple of weeks on both islands we feel we have experienced alot of this great country - and we've purposely left out some [View Full Entry]

By Coles and Clayts
May 7th 2009

Rotorua Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Rotorua

Rotorua
Its a tough life...

5th May 2009 In high spirits, we loaded Nev back up and left our camp site in Taupo to visit the local Huka Falls, which is an area where the Waikato river narrows from over 100 metres wide, to only 15 metres wide, causing scarily fast rapids (nearly 220,000 litres PER SECOND!) From one extreme to the other, we left the crashing rapids and headed north to what's known as 'the hidden valley', the tranquil Orakei Korako; reputedly one of the best geothermal parks remaining in the world. After a short boat across Lake Ohakuri, we strolled around active geysers, boiling [View Full Entry]

By Coles and Clayts
May 4th 2009

Wellington - Napier - Tongariro Crossing Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Wellington

Tongariro Crossing
Dont. Look. Back...

30th April 2009 Think rain, coldness and a 4.20am start. That was us, and Nev, this morning...and the start of our adventure over to the North Island. We had booked our ferry crossing the day we had arrived in NZ, planning to catch the best sunrise of our trip as we crossed the Cook Strait heading for Wellington. At the time it was the perfect plan, but we hadn't factored in any rain (which was kind of silly as it rains A LOT in this country!) or cloud, and so instead of a glorious sunrise, we made do with spooky, misty [View Full Entry]

By Coles and Clayts
April 28th 2009

Hanmer Springs - Kaikoura - Blenheim Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Blenheim

Kaikoura
Upsidedown sleepy seal!

25th April 2009 A long days drive! We set off from our beach resort and headed first to Cape Foulwind (they have great names for everything over here!) to visit the local seal colony. Apparently we are here at a great time as the pups are being nurtured toward independence, which meant we got to see them 'running' around and playing with each other! Despite their great comouflage, we got to see huge numbers which was cool. Leaving the west coast, we headed in-land along Buller Gorge, which would - in various forms - take us(eventually) all the way to the [View Full Entry]

By Coles and Clayts
April 24th 2009

Mt Aspiring NP - Fox - Franz - Westport Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Glaciers

Carter Beach
Our best sunset yet!

21st April 2009 We woke to mist blanketing our campsite, working its way through the gorge. It was a cold start but we were soon warm when, after a short drive onwards into the park, we stopped to climb the surprisingly steep Haast Pass Walkway. Only a 30 minute round trip but it hurt nonetheless! After taking in the panoramic views at the top we drove northwards continuing to stop intermittently to do the very short walks to Fantail Falls, Thunder Creek and Roaring Billy - all of which had rewarding views at the end of them. We were heading for [View Full Entry]

By Coles and Clayts
April 20th 2009

Queenstown to Wanaka Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Queenstown

Wanaka
The Rob Roy Glacier.

The thrill seeking edition...! 17th April 2009 After waking from our second night in Neville, in Cromwell, we got back on the road and headed towards the infamous Queenstown - adrenaline capital of the world! Another scenic drive took us towards the Kawarau Bridge bungy jump (the worlds first). Finding it too hard not to stop in, we pulled over and watched, with butterflies in our stomachs, as people hurled themselves 43m down into the river below. As Hayley has a partially torn knee ligament we decided to consult the staff about whether she would be able to do a jump. [View Full Entry]

By Coles and Clayts
April 17th 2009

Christchurch - Lake Tekapo - Cromwell Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Christchurch

Aoraki/Mt. Cook
For Ernie.

We know a lot of people who have been excited about reading about our time in NZ, so we shall endeavour to describe as best we can. Already, only a few days in, we think that that may be quite a challenge as everything is so obscenely, surreally, epically beautiful. Because of this, there may be a few hundred scenery pictures over the coming weeks..... but here's our attempt; 13th April 2009 We woke for the last time in our comfy bed in our Sydney suburb - with Rikki at our feet (we fear we may have given him a few [View Full Entry]

By Coles and Clayts
April 12th 2009

Sydney Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney » Mosman

Sydney
The Harbour Bridge at dusk.

A new city, a new country, a new continent. We aren't going to lie to you, hearing English again, recognising all the fruit and veg on sale and understanding a menu isn't something we have been overly excited about. There has been something both fun and terrifying about being in places where you really are an outsider and it almost feels as if our 'travelling' has been put on hold. But we are sure we are just readjusting to being proactive within a community - rather than just allowing situations to happen - and that once we are over our jetlag, [View Full Entry]

By Coles and Clayts
April 4th 2009

Hong Kong & Macau Asia » Hong Kong » Kowloon

Hong Kong
Sending the wishes in Man Mo Temple.

So this is our final blog from China...sob, sob...and marks the end of our time in Asia. This leaves us feeling slightly sad as it has been a great few months, but we still have Oceania to explore so it's not all bad! 1st April 2009 We woke on our final overnight train at around 9am and were expecting a long day of travel down towards Hong Kong. We 'got up' as best we could (we were on the middle tier where you don't actually have enough room to sit up!), prepared our makeshift breakfast and settled down to an anticipated [View Full Entry]

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