Kel79
Kellie Malland Joined: May 10th 2008
Logged in: December 27th 2011
Logged in: December 27th 2011
Travel Blog Posts
12-16/10 This week I spent with Auntie Pam. It was a fairly quiet and relaxing week. We went to Worthing, for me to relive visiting there with Aj 16 years ago. I also visited Auntie Bud in Eastbourne for the day while I was stating with Auntie Pam.... read more
Christ Church
10/10 Landed at Gatwick and I jumped on a train to Oxford. I arrived in Oxford at 2pm and as I walked up to my hostel I bumped into Mandy, an American girl I had met in Munich who was studying in Oxford, we had planned to catch up but to bump into her then was a complete surprise. I chilled out that night. 11/10 Today I jumped on the Open Top tour Bus and had a tour of the city. I jumped off at the Alice in Wonderland Sweet Shop and Christ Church and had a walk around. The rest of the day I wandered around the beautiful city and looked in the shops, it was so cold. Oxford is such a beautiful town. Mandy and I met up tonight and went out and had ... read more
Fountain in Nice
7/10 TRAVEL DAY TO NICE Arrived in Nice at 6pm and went for another group dinner. We had a great night. I met back with Anna who I had met in Munich and we spent the next few days hanging out shoppinng. Nice really surprised me I really liked Nice it had a very Parisian feel to it. 8/10 Today Anna and I shopped till we dropped and went up to a lookout that had amazing views over the city. Today the weather was absolutley beautiful. Anna and I had the best day catching up, shopping and just taking in Nice. 9/10 Today Anna and I decided to head to Monaco after some morning shopping. We went to the train station to get our tickets and were told that there was a train strike on so ... read more
Piza
5/10 TRAVEL DAY TO LA SPEZIA Today we were travelling to LA Spezia where I was catching the train to Cinque Terre. On the way we had a photo stop at Piza where we had fun taking photo's of the leaning tower of Piza, not really much else to do there. I found my way to my hostel in Cinque Terre and dropped off my bags and went for a wander around the town, it is so beautiful here it is just the most amazing place. 6/10 Today I did the walk through the 5 towns of Cinque Terre, it took around 5 hours to complete. It was really quite hard for alot of it very tiny paths and lots of steps carved into the mountians but the views were amazing not even the rain could ... read more
Harrods
17/10 Today I arrived in London dropped my bags at the hostel and then headed into London, I had a wander around Westminster before heading back to the hostel again to check in and have some dinner. 18/10 I went into London today and went to Harrods and shopped around Knightsbridge and then onto Oxford and Regent Street. It was a saturday so it was so busy. I went and had lunch at Cheers in between shopping. Before it was time to head back to the hostel. 19/10 Today I headed to St James Park and had a wander through the park, where I watched lots of sqirrels playing in the fallen leaves. I then walked over to the Horse guards where I was just in time to see the changing of the guards. I then ... read more
Duomo
30/9 TRAVEL DAY TO FLORENCE Arrived in Florence at 3pm. At 5pm we headed into Florence as a group for a walking tour of the city before heading to the House of Sizzle - Red Garter for a group dinner. It was a great dinner. So delicious. 1/10 My first full day in Florence I headed into the city early with Trudy and Melissa and went to see the "David", which surprisingly I didn't have to queue for and I got there at such a great time as there were barely anyone in the musuem so had a great view of the scuplture of "David". It was an amazing scuplture. After seeing the "David" we went for a wander and found some great markets so we wandered around the markets for a while, the markets had ... read more
San Giovanni
29/9 BACK IN ROME. My last day in Rome so I wanted to make the most of the day. Omg so much walking today. First I went to San Giovanni, which I could not get into so I walked across the road to another basillica where there are steps that they climb on the knees while praying and then I wentover to the keyhole view which is a lookout and when you look through the trees it frames St Peters Basillica, its a very pretty view of Rome. I then caught the metro and walked from Piazza del Popolo to Piazza San Clemente which is from one side of the city to past the Colloseum. As I walked down the Via del Corso I stopped for lunch near the Pantheon again and then walked over to ... read more
Pompeii
26/9 Today we left on our 3 Day Italian Adventure. At the beginning of the trip Lia our guide had us play a game of speed dating to get to know one another it was the best fun, 90% of the group are form Sydney and I am the only Perth person. Our first stop of the day is Pompeii, somewhere that I have wanted to go to since I was a little girl. We had a 2 hour guided tour of the site of Pompeii, it was amazing you could really get a feel for how things were there and what it must have felt like for them on that day, Mt Vesuvius is there in the backgroud but looks so far away. After lunch we headed to Sorrento to the Campsite where we would ... read more
Palantine Hill
21/9 FLIGHT BACK TO ROME What a mission..... landed at 5.30pm arrived at Camping Roma at 9pm in so much pain from my knees and ankle after carrying my pack for so long. Thank goodness for Lorissa being there to greet me. 22/9 Today I went into Rome for the first time. I went in for some lunch and a bit of a wander before starting the Walking tour at 2pm. The walking tour was great saw so many of the cities major sites, the guide was awesome. I really enjoy the walking tours adn finding out all the facts of the city, which is helpful in Rome as there is so much to see and its just everywhere through the city so to have it pointed out and explained was great. The walking tour finished ... read more
on the ISTOK heading out of Split
11/9 TRAVEL DAY TO ROME Left Venice today and headed to Rome - just for the night - fly to Croatia in the morning 12/9 FLIGHT TO CROATIA Left Rome and flew to Croatia arriving at 7pm, got a taxi to my hostel and crashed for the night. 13/9 Left the hostel at 10am this morning and headed to the port to find my boat for the 8 day Croatia Sailing. I checked in and found my boat the ISTOK, was a bit disappointed as it was much smaller than the others but we had a smaller group. I put my bags on board and went for a wander around the market stalls on the harbour. We boarded the boat at 12pm and were introduced to everyone and the crew. There were lots of couples and ... read more
