http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Dini/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Dini en-us Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:59:03 +0000 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:59:03 +0000 Its time for some sunshine. Next stop Gran Canaria Maspalomas. Flights are booked for the 20th of January with the El Cardanal hotel booked for a total of 6 weeks. First we are spending Xmas and New Year with our families since last year saw us far away in wonderful New Zealand and then its time for sun sea and sand. Well we do intend to find some work and a semipermanent place to stay of cours http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Canary-Islands/Gran-Canaria/blog-461047.html Hello there hope your all keeping well. We've been spending a couple of weeks enjoying the delights of the German Christmas Markets. They really do Christmas well over here.....the smell of roasted almonds is in the air lights are twinkling everywhere and you get to snuggle up under warm blankets with piping hot Glhwein in your hands..... I collected Jaime from Hamburg Airport on the 24th Novem http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-459324.html What a surprise I was having a bit of glum day trying to decide what to do with the rest of my life as usual when my sister Heidi told me to wrap myself up warm grab my camera and hop in the car. She had a surprise planned for me. I've mentioned previously that Heidi's boyfriend owns a restaurant that's situated on a small Airfield and my lovely Sis had arranged for me to partake in a 35 minute http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Schleswig-Holstein/blog-449962.html AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHH http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Schleswig-Holstein/blog-449710.html Hello there Today was a day to breathe some fresh air and visit the Tierpark Hagebeck. A huge animal park on the outskirts of Hamburg. Although I prefer my animals in the wild its an unfortunate fact of life that humans have encroached so much on habitats that some species can only be seen in captivity. Hagebeck does its job of conservation and education very well so I packed myself some lunch an http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/District-of-Hamburg/Hamburg/blog-446946.html Hello Again well my first day was a complete mixture of emotions at the vets. I was thrown in at the deep end which I loved. I was assisting with Ops before I was even introduced to anyone they appeared to have a real staff shortage. Although I must admit that the responsibility felt a little daunting. We performed a total of 12 minor operations undertook a tummy scan on a lovely fluffy ferrel http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Schleswig-Holstein/blog-445154.html Hi Everyone just a quick update....I have received great news today. When I was a wee girlie I really wanted to be a vet but somehow fell into the 'I need to make money in Business Development' trap instead. You may have come across my travel entries where I swoon over pets wildlife I'm a complete nature freak so I have now decided to spend some time double checking if my calling really was http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Schleswig-Holstein/blog-444434.html Hello Everyone today is my birthday and it feels very strange. I usually have plans to throw myself out of planes drive Bigfoot vehicles over clapped out police cars travel to some far distant place to spot an Albratross or well at least put on some high heels and hit the dancefloor for the night but today has been very quiet. As I mentioned previosly I am currently visiting family in Germa http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Schleswig-Holstein/blog-444069.html Hello there I've arrived in sunny Germany to spend some time with my family and figure out what on earth to do with the rest of my life. Temptation calls with far away travels to South America Asia should I spend some time freshing up the finances or just grab my backpack and head for the airport. Who know's. Maybe my 7 and 10 year old nephews have the answer for me kids usually have the wise http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Schleswig-Holstein/blog-443320.html Final Dayrsquos Irsquove just reread my first account of our time in Sierra Nevada and although we have managed to have a couple of nice dayrsquos not much has changed on the negative elements of our stay. We finally caved in last week and made the decision to leave. Things just werenrsquot going to get any better and the whole experience was doing nothing for mine and Jaimersquos healt http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Sierra-Nevada/blog-441999.html Hello AllApologies for neglecting my blog for a while. Jaime is writing a blow by blow account on whatrsquos been happening daily in his diary take a look at his blog under nickname lsquoAberrsquo or search for lsquoJaime Kedgkeyrsquo for a detailed description but below is a quick summary of events to date Its Sunday the 13th September we are full of expectations after setting off a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Sierra-Nevada/blog-440197.html Yipppppppeeeee We've booked the flights. Leaving date is the 13th September Leeds Bradford to Malaga Malaga to Granada and finally Granada to Lajaron Countdown starts now http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Granada/blog-428946.html Its time to dust off our Backpacks I'm so excited. Nothings concrete as usual with us but it looks like we are heading of to volunteer in the Sierra Nevada foothills for around 6 weeks in September. We will be staying on an Organic Farm just outside of a village called Lanjaron. The farm has 4 wonderful casita's and the pictures look simply amazing. Our host has some great reviews from previous http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Granada/blog-427006.html Hello Everyone well it seems like an awfully long time since our trip to New Zealand now. We have been in the UK since January of this year and are itching to get away again. Various reasons have stopped us so far including ill health and the all important penny or two. However new plans have been made and it looks like we are going to be doing some volunteer work in some hot sunny country in Au http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/blog-407199.html So that was our adventure in sunny NZ. We are now back home and I have slept for 18 hours straight. The journey home was not fun but I loved seeing all those amazing airports of Sydney Bangkok and Dubai again. Hope we actually get to stop at some of them on our next travels. I am staying at moms for a few days which is lovely and very comfortable after our two months of camping. For all my frien http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/blog-361453.html Day 66 West to Marocopa Its 2009 Well it is for us you guyrsquos are 11 hours behind and have yet to leave 2008 behind. So happy New Year to come everyone Wersquove spent the day exploring the Waitomo Cave region and had some fun getting very wet and muddy. First we ventured onto the Watomo Bushwalk a beautiful walk through bush obviously with a river gorge and some cool caves thrown in. http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/blog-361448.html Day 63 Three VolcanorsquosWersquove arrived in Whakapapa. A small Ski Village which takes in three stunning volcanorsquos all nestled into National Park Mount Ngauruhoe Tongariro and Mount Ruapehu which some of you may know as Mount Doom from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. All in all a pretty cool place to be. We decided to undertake a guided crater walk on Mount Ruapehu. Ruapehu reac http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/blog-358660.html Day 44 to 54 A bit of a blurHello thereAm sorry to say that we have just experienced the must unexiting part of our trip to date. The past 10 days have really been a bit of blur and I am struggling to find something interesting to tell you about. We decided to drive round the Coromandel peninsular on the east coast of the North Island as many people had described this area to be of exceptional be http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/blog-357220.html Connection not working will be back soon xxxxxxx Happy NEW YEAR http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/blog-357226.html Hello there its actually on the 2nd December that I am writing this so its been catch up time again. How do all these bloggers manage to keep their blogs so up to date We are far too busy with having a fab time and washing our socks. helliphellipspeaking of which have you any idea how long it takes to wash socks without a washing machinehellipno well neither do I we use the machines av http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/blog-353125.html