It is 363 days since Marc and I started our travels and our One World flights home expire in 48 hours. This was to be the end of our travels, but neither of us could bring ourselves to stop. So many months ago, we resolved to ignore the return flights and continue on for a further six months, or for as long as Marc´s additional funds would last. However, the thought of the return flights going to waste was too much for me. So I am currently sitting in the departure lounge of Buenos Aires International Airport, having left Marc [View Full Entry]

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First of all new thing a little video for you to watch. So after a wonderful 4 months of easy living, it was time to hit the road again into country's new. New Zealand was to be our next stop, a short flight and a few hours later we arrived in Christchurch, we took an airport shuttle to the YHA, it was opposite the arts center and museum and close to the center of town so we could not of picked a better spot. After dropping our bags in our room we took the short walk across the road and in [View Full Entry]

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So after a long flight we finally arrived in Sydney and we were picked up by David (Emma's father) he drove us back to the house where all the family where gathering for Christmas, it was lovely to catch up with everybody as we have not been overly good at keeping in touch with each other, just as we had finished our evening meal my phone rang (the replacement for the one I had lost in Vietnam), Anne, Emmas mother was ringing from England to tell us that Mama (Emmas grand mother) was very ill, Emma decided without hesitation that she [View Full Entry]

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Whilst I was at home visiting Mama, Claire rang with some amazing news. Due to a spur of the moment offer of a venue, she and Barry were going to get married on the 26th January (Australia Day). I was able to make it back to Sydney two days before the event and had just enough time to join in some of the final touches. On the morning of the wedding Kylie ensured that everything was running smoothly and Claire was relaxed through out. We even managed to spend a little bit of precious time together helping Claire dress, I will [View Full Entry]

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When I was a very young child, I had an irrational fear of Mama (my grandmother and guardian) passing away. So much so, that I would creep into her bedroom early in the morning, to check whether she was still alive. This rather morbid behaviour resulted in Mama giving me some sound advice. She sat me down and asked me whether I would forfeit our good times together, so as to avoid the pain of us being parted when she died in years to come. I gave it some thought and answered that I'd prefer our time together. We hugged, she [View Full Entry]

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So as we had delayed our departure from the Philippines so long we were going to have to make the longest journey ever to Sidney as follows, having spent over three weeks in Iloilo and Manila it was time to leave(December 19th ) and make our way to Australia, the first flight was just a short hop from Iloilo to Manila from where we would transfer to Hong Kong, after arriving in Hong Kong we to the MTR (mass transit railway) from the airport to Hong Kong city where we book the ferry to Macau, when we get to Macau ferry [View Full Entry]

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So having caused no end of trouble, we finally arrived at Iloilo airport, to an extremely warm Philippine welcome. This was the beginning of what was to be a superb visit. Tom met us outside the airport and within seconds our gleaming chariot (in the form of a sturdy land cruiser), arrived with a beaming Paul Measures at the wheel. We climbed in, repeatedly offered our apologies for having caused so much upheaval and Paul being the gentleman that he is, told us to forget about it. After a short drive, we arrived at what would be our beautiful home for [View Full Entry]

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The journey from Bangkok to Iloilo turned out to be the most frustrating of all the trips we have made so far,the day started well with a visit to see the emerald Buddha and the royal palace then back to the tailors to pick up the cloths Emma had ordered, at mid-day back to the Indian embassy to put in our passports for visas, back to our room where Emma starts to pack and I go to the post office to send back all the items that we have collected over the last three country's (7 kg worth), back to the [View Full Entry]

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So we land at the new and very smart Bangkok airport (Suvarnabhumi) and are immediately besieged by a hoard of waiting taxi drivers. All offering to take us into the city via the expressway (all tolls included),in fact I think that there were more taxi drivers than there were people coming off the planes, all the drivers seem to offer a very similar price, which is about three times the amount you should actually pay, if you can find your way to a pre-paid taxi booth. We arrived in Kho San Road and stopped to have a drink before we set [View Full Entry]

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OK, OK, OK, I admit I have been a bit slow in keeping you all upto date with our travels, I promise to try harder in future. So after arriving in Stromtrem only to discover that there are no ATM's (again) and that we cannot change money at the boarder we needed to find a solution , the solution seemed to be to go across the boarder carry on as far as Pakse where there was a bank we could get a cash advance on our cards, the only hiccup in this plan was by the time we paid for the [View Full Entry]

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