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End of an era - Back to reality
Published: November 17th 2007Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Perth » Perth City
November 17th 2007
Over the past 12 months I have taken 18 flights visited 13 countries and covered more kilometers than its actually possible to count. After what seems to have been the quickest 9 months of my life I am about to head back to the real world :o( I sometimes wonder why I do all this traveling I am not sure if I know why I think I have the need to balance life between work and play but it doesnt always work like that. Either its all work or all play!!! I also really believe that as you only live once you have to make the most of every day. Anyway I hope you have enjoyed my updates over the last 9 months and that they have brightened up your day. Its impossible to pick a ... read more
October 29th 2007
GDay to you all I hope you are all well.Well since my last update I have walked all over Melbourne and completed a 5 day 1200KM roadtrip around Tasmania. I write today 30/10 from Melbourne but will be flying to Adelaide tomorrow.So what have I been up to in the last two weeks I can hear you asking.I have:-Walked all around central Melbourne;Visited the beach and cake shop suburb of St Kilda;Visited the oldest Melbourne suburb of Williamstown;Took a ferry down the Yarra river;Rode around town on the old city trams;Chilled out in and did a tour of the botanical gardens;Embraced the arts culture of Melbourne by taking in two major concerts Laurie Anderson (she used to work for Nasa) and David Barosa (hes a world famous palestinian musician who has completed 23 albums and he ... read more
Noodles in the park anyone???
Published: October 10th 2007Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney » Sydney Harbour
October 10th 2007
If you hate cooking or cant cook then my advice is to emigrate to Australia. Almost every shop is not a shop its a cafe, bistro, restaraunt, takeaway, coffee shop!!!! Sydneysiders (as the locals are called) really do like their al fresco dining. I have just come from an event (having eaten there) called Noodles in the Park approx 30 stalls selling all possible Asian cusine dishes for ridiculosly low prices and there must have been 3000 locals there. Well I have been on the road now for over two weeks I stopped off in Singapore for 36 hours to break up the plane journey and aclimitised myself with the delights the city had to offer including the world famous Raffles Hotel, the Merlin (water lion) and the bay area where all the bars and restaraunts ... read more
Heading Down Under
Published: September 19th 2007Europe » United Kingdom » England » Derbyshire » DerbySeptember 19th 2007
Would you believe me if I told you its 8 weeks since I came back from China oh how time flies when I am having fun!!! I have been very busy catching up with friends and family since my return and have managed to squeeze in a short trip to Munich in Germany to catch up with some friends I met on my travels in Beijing. I have also spent time in London, Cambridge and Reading aswell as catching up with the jobs around the house. Well I am now entering the final phase of my career break and will be heading off to Australia via Singapore on Sunday for two months. I plan to take in Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania & Perth and catch up with a few people I have met on my travels over ... read more
August 10th 2007
Firstly some of you may have had difficulty accessing my blog site over the past couple of weeks this was due to a major server problem at travelblog.org which has slowly been getting fixed. I am pleased to say its up and running again. Well what a day Saturday 28th July was I finally saw my twin sister Susan married off to her fiancé Wes at long last!!! It was a great day the sun was shinning, everyone stayed fairly calm, the cars (a Rolls-Royce and a Daimler) where fantastic and the venue (Briars Hall) was excellent. The whole event was staged at Briars Hall the civil ceremony, the main reception and the evening reception. It was like a school reunion catching up with so many old friends and family everyone had a great time and ... read more
July 16th 2007
After arriving in Irkutsk we headed out to Lake Baikal the largest freshwater lake in the world it apparently holds 20% of the worlds freshwater supplies and is bigger than all of Americas 5 great lakes put together. Its also very cold at 3 degrees. We stayed in a traditional wooden house in a village called Listvyanka on the shores of Lake Baikal our landlady was very friendly and an excellent cook after having a guided tour of the area we took it easy and had a traditional "Banya" (sauna) in the evening. 02/07 I headed off for a softies trek whilst Dave went scuba diving in Lake Baikal. My trek was far from soft I have never seen so many flies the minute we stopped walking we were surrounded by 1000's of flies. We walked ... read more
June 29th 2007
Hello to everyone back in England and welcome to all my new Russian friends who have now been added to my travelblog. I really dont know where to start!!!!! Where have we been? St Petersburg, Moscow, Ekaterinburg, Altai Region and currently in Novosibirsk. What an amazing place the people are very friendly, the most dangerous Russia gets is when you try to cross the road as all the drivers are crazy and there dont appear to be any rules of the road. What have we done? Walked all over St Petersburg, the Hermiatage Museum (probably the best museum in the word if you are into art), cruised the rivers and canals, visted Peterhoff world famous for its golden coloured statues and something like 145 fountains in the palace gardens, also went inside St Isaccs Catherdral. Moscow ... read more
June 8th 2007
Holiday Boy Route 1 Well its been a while since our last update about 4000KM to be precise!!!! We travelled all the way up to the North Cape the northern most point in Euorpe (that isnt actually the northen most point theres a piece of headland around the corner that sticks out a bit further but thats a 10KM walk to get there!!!!). The Norweigens have tourism sussed though its cost £35 in road tolls to get to the North Cape although I cant complain the road is amazing and even includes a 7KM tunnel under a fjord, that said you then have to pay £20 per person to get into the visitors centre which is a bit of a rip off. After that we headed into Finland as soon as you cross the border ... read more
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