McNicol
Colin J Nicol Joined: November 17th 2008
Logged in: March 28th 2011
Logged in: March 28th 2011
Travel Blog Posts
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Brisbane I apologise if these are much shorter than previous blogs im just trying to catch up , I arrived in Brisbane to yet more glorious sunshine and i had book 3nights at the Chill backpackers which was more of a flashpackers , for those of you who dont know what a flashpackers is it is more of a hotel resort than a backpackers much more cleaner and you share with less people , upon arriving i immediately got on the net to find out where the Brisbane RSC was as the on the saturday Rangers played Celtic and i didnt want to miss it , it was in a pub called the pig and whistle and it wasnt to far from where i was staying result !! I also got in contact with a french ... read more
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Hey I left Sydney alone leaving Chris and Ally behind catching a flight to the Gold Coast and then a bus back down to Byron Bay , it was cheaper than the bus so it was a no brainer . Everyone ive met that had been to Byron said how good it was so it wasnt to missed , i had originally planned to stay for 3 nights and then head away . I stayed at Aquarius backpackers and when i went into my room got chatting to a couple of American girls and and English guy whom i ended up hanging out with during my stay there , Byron is a pretty small towm with a friendly really laid back hippy atmosphere , this is where every hippy or dope smoker comes as there are ... read more
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Surfers Paradise Arrived in Surfers Paradise and was recommended to stay at the Sleeping Inn by quite a few people i had met along the way so i stayed there , wasnt the nicest of places but it had a pool was clean and small so it was pretty easy to meet people , the smaller the hostel ive found the easier it is to meet people . I got into my room put my stuff down and there was a couple of German girls Leoine and Helen ,whom i had at the time i had just said hi to and the usual where you from and names ( this will all make sense later in the blogs ) , i then went to go for a walk and see what Surfers Paradise had to offer ... read more
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Arrived in Sydney again this time with Chris and Ally , Ally who i met im Miami was in Melbourne and we all travelled up together and first headed to the Bondi area of Sydney where the famous Bondi Beach was , the weather was pretty poor and for the 3 days we were in Bondi it rained , i wasnt overly impressed with Bondi beach it wasnt as big as i had expected and it just looked like any other beach like maybe blackpool , but i suppose if it was a warm summers day and there where heaps of people sunbathing and surfing it would have been awesome , so off we went and headed into the city and moved to a hostel called the Asylum in Kings Cross ,now KC is famous for ... read more
OZ
Gday ,How you going ? I left a rainy Christchurch and and flew into a sunny Sydney expecting to be grilled at immigration just as i was when i flew into Auckland in NZ, but to my suprise they stamped my passport and in i went ,no proof of visa no proof of funds as you had to have at least $5000 , no dramas i was very suprised , so off i went to catch my connecting flight i had booked to Adelaide, Lauren whom i met in Fiji had picked me up at the airport around 9 pm and i was amazed at how hot it was, they had been having a heat wave and it had been 40oC plus for the past 2 weeks ,but i wasnt complaining :) as i was staying ... read more
NZ
Hey all sorry for the delay finally got the chance to get time and sit down to update ,its been a busy but fantastic 2 months .i arrived in NZ on the 4th Jan so im couple of months behind in my blogs but i will try keep them coming a little quicker than 2 months , i shall do my first OZ one in a few weeks time. Make sure you are sitting comfortably with a cuppa as this is my longest blog yet :) KIA ORA ,I arrived in Auckland to yet another sunny day and although not as humid as it was in Fiji it was still warm as .I had booked accomodation before i left Fiji so i headed off to the hostel which had turned out to be a huge house ... read more
fiji
Hey all or BULA as they say in Fiji , sorry its been so long since my last update but ive been having a ball and hardly had time to sit down and write . Anyways so i left LA on the Air Pacific jumbo jet on a 13 hour flight which was one of the worst flights i have ever experienced , from the start of the flight to the end there was turbulance and im not just talking about a small bit the plane was all over the place and on an aeging plane i was trying to put on a brave face but i was really shitting myself , but i got there in the end arriving at Nadi aiport around 5.30am to 30oc heat and that was early morning , the humidity ... read more
meee
We left Vegas to yet another delay ,4 hours this time and for the 4th time on this trip i was pulled aside for a seperate search asnd as Lisa was with me she also just pulled aside, im begining to think they are picking on me either that or they just want a feel hehe. Arrived at the Beverly Hills Hotel we had booked online at around 7pm feeling very grumpy due to the delay and a bumpy air ride to find that they didnt have our reservation ,so after around 5 minutes of looking for it they said that they could still book us in but it would be more expensive than the online price..........that was it for me ,i went off on one , the poor guy i think he wet himself , ... read more
vegas
So we left San Diego to a rain storm , 24 hours of torrential rain and i got soaked to the skin , we had got to the airport and the flight was delayed to we just pondered around in the airport for a few hours. We arrived in Vegas and it was below freezing but we had expected that as we checked the weather before hand and it was also forecast for snow , snow in Vegas the desert ,exactly what i was thinking no chance, so we got a cab to head to the hotel and was telling the driver that it was forecast for snow he started laughing and said it was just a cold snap and the week before it was warm , he said he had lived here for 30 years ... read more
Me at the zoo
Ladies and Gentleman can i please have you attention ive just been handed an urgent and horrifing new story , and i need all of you to stop what your doing and listen !!!!! CANNONBALL Sorry just had to get the Anchorman quote in there hehe .So off i left the wonderful Miami at 8am and headed to the airpoprt which was a 2 1/2 hour drive away and in a thunder storm , i had 2 flights to get to San Diego the first one was from Fort Myres to Altanta then Atlanta to San diego , as my first flight was delayed due to the weather i was going to be cutting it fine to catch my connecting flight , as we landed i had 5 minutes to catch the flight so i put ... read more
