Huntington - Richard Huntington

This is my blog page!! Welcome...

I have set up this page with the intention of keeping in contact with everyone back at home whilst I am off on my travels around the world. I hope that I keep it regularly updated with all my latest stories and blogs, so that you can track my progess and get a taste of my experience. I also want to make you all jealous...

Just to run through the schedule in brief (in case you are not aware) :
Manchester to London - London to Beijing - Beijing overland to Hong Kong - Hong Kong to Bangkok - Bangkok overland to Singapore - Singapore to Cairns - Cairns overland to Sydney - Sydney to Christchurch - Christchurch overland to Auckland - Auckland to Nadi - Nadi to Los Angeles - Los Angeles overland to San Francisco

Undoubtedly you will be reading this whilst taking a quick 10 minute time-out from your everyday life. I decided to take a while longer out of my everyday life (6 months infact) and go and see new places, meet new people, eat new food, drink new beers and basically explore other cultures and burst the Wilmslow bubble...

My fellow comrades are:
Nick Lees
Jonny Lees
James Caroll
Ross Macfarlane

Should I encounter problems in uploading my millions of award-winning photos on TravelBlog I will use my Facebook page - Ricks Facebook

Please leave me some feedback as I most certainly will miss everyone at home, although not nearly as much as you will all miss me!

Enjoy...

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By Huntington
June 26th 2008

Los Angeles

North America » United States » California » Los Angeles

Welcome to Hollywood

Farewell to Fiji and our last country of our GYC adventures :( Our last stop however is "the best country in the world" (or so they think...) and also the land where not only the people are HUGE but everything is. Of course, its the US of A and where better to start our west-coast journey than in 'The City of Angels' - Los Angeles... Before we could plant our feet on American soil we had to endure a long and unconventional day as it had 44 hours in it. We left Fiji at 10pm on a Tuesday and arrived in [View Full Entry]

By Huntington
June 24th 2008

Fiji

Oceania » Fiji

Fun in Fiji

Bula Fiji - the land of the emerald island and turquoise waters. Where life is not governed by time; only by sunshine... The dreams of white sanded beaches was soon to come true. All we had to do first was endure the small flight from the cold New Zealand to Fiji and we would soon be losing the hoodies and trousers and donning the bare chests and flowery shorts. Time for some relaxation... Our island hopping adventures didnt get off to the best of starts. We stayed our first night on Viti Levu (mainland) and then left the next morning to [View Full Entry]

By Huntington
June 9th 2008

Auckland

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland

Auckland Skytower

Travel onwards and Auckland is on the horizon. First though, is a brief stop in the foul odoured Rotorua where we would have stayed if we had slightly more time. We were pretty gutted to be missing the Mauri tribal evening and also our final chance to do some white water rafting which we have now missed Thats life though and unfortunately we cant do everything so we caught a little Mauri talk from some crazy woman who seemed to be a fiend for eating the bark of trees. Nice. We then saw a few of the hot geezers that break [View Full Entry]

By Huntington
June 9th 2008

Wellington and Taupo

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Wellington

All Blacks

Our travel to Wellington involved a bumpy flight through the wind in the early hours. We were all pretty sleepy (even if we did sleep in a bed at the airport!) and so upon arrival in the capital we found a hostel and immediately crashed out before going to explore and attend the one thing we were looking forward to in Wellington - the All Blacks game versus Ireland... Slightly rejuvinated, we wandered down the central street and headed towards the waterfront where we found a free museum (Te Papa) which was pretty cool. A huge government investment has made this [View Full Entry]

By Huntington
May 29th 2008

Queenstown and Wanaka

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Queenstown

Hello Queenstown!

The highlight of this blog is undoubtedly Queenstown - possibly one of the best places on earth. Before I delve into that I will inform you that we spent a rather uneventful night in Wanaka; the town which didnt really have much to it save for a nice lake and a decent curry house. We had a chilled night with the Kiwi crew; playing cards and shooting pool - getting a good sleep ahead of our onward journey to the traveller capital of the south island. After our many single nights along the west coast blessed with fantastic weather we eventually [View Full Entry]

By Huntington
May 27th 2008

Christchurch and Kaikoura

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Kaikoura

Celebratory meal

Our time in Australia has passed and the next destination is of course New Zealand. Our travel plans had been slightly ammended to accomodate the Champions League final and so we arrived in Christchurch 1 day early. However, we were 1 member short. That person being Nick Lees who has foolishly left his passport behind in Byron Bay and therefore had to commute from Sydney all the way back up there - 13 hour bus journey! Consequently he missed the flight and had to join us 1 day later after one of the most nervous football matches ever... We checked into [View Full Entry]

By Huntington
May 27th 2008

Nelson and Westport

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Nelson Region

Sunshine

We left Kaikoura in the early hours on a cold bus and were soon at a bakery where we stocked up for our breakfast - the local traditional pie being my food of choice. The journey then continued onwards to Picton where the folks going to the north island left us to catch the ferry. Our stretch of the journey was then continued by our new driver, Pam. She was to be our driver through the entire west coast as we are more or less moving with the pace of the bus due to limited time. She is pretty cool; an [View Full Entry]

By Huntington
May 27th 2008

Lake Mahinapua and Franz Josef

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Franz Josef

Glacier GYC

Departing from Westport the journey along the coast follows the Tasman sea and its many coves and bays. The road then turns inland and weaves through more mountains and then back out to the sea to Cape Foulwind where New Zealands's largest seal colony call their home. A pretty relaxed life from the seals lounging away on the rocks all day and basking in the sunshine. They seemed to be pretty used to the tourists taking their snaps and did some funny poses especially for us! A short drive further we stop at Punakaiki Pancake rocks for lunch and have a [View Full Entry]

By Huntington
May 19th 2008

Sydney

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

Touchdown in Sydney

Our time in Australia is still passing rapidly and we now have only one last destination and perhaps the place I have been looking forward to seeing most - Sydney. Undoubtedly Australia's most recognisable city was on our horizon. We were nearly there... The last stretch of our Oz Experience adventures involved a stop at Mojo's Surf Camp; inbetween Byron Bay and Sydney. This was a 1 night stop with a free surf lesson. We arrived on our little coach with a great driver (Muddy) who was actually the best driver we have had so far - an absolute legend (you [View Full Entry]

By Huntington
May 15th 2008

Byron Bay

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Byron Bay

Byron Bay surfing

Onwards down the Australian coast and time is still whizzing by. It is amazing that we only have 1 week left before we depart for New Zealand. Six weeks have gone so fast! Leaving Surfers, we crossed the state boarder; leaving Queensland and entering New South Wales... Some more useless facts: Bryon Bay is the most easterly point of Australia and it is home to the southern hemispheres brightest lightbulb which is in its lighthouse! Only about 1 hour south of Surfers, we arrived in Byron Bay in the early evening and checked into our hostel which is over the road [View Full Entry]