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Colin J Nicol Im 27 years old and decided enough was enough in the gold fish bowl of Glasgow , so i decided to go and see what the rest of the world had to offer and see if i could get a nice tan along the way :) first of all i will be heading to NYC then on to Florida , Las Vegas , San Diego , Los Angeles and Fiji for xmas and new year , NZ for 3 weeks then fianally on to OZ ,everyone keeps saying how long are you going to be away for and the truth is i do not know i will take it a day as it comes and see how i get on
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By McNicol
June 3rd 2009
Brisbane Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane
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 [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 3rd 2009 | 58 Views | [diary=404863]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 30th 2009 | 67 Views | [diary=403460]

byron bay
Skydive
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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 [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 3rd 2009 | 46 Views | [diary=403461]

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By McNicol
May 4th 2009
Sydney Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney
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 [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 30th 2009 | 40 Views | [diary=396040]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 5th 2009 | 89 Views | [diary=385942]

Melbourne Docklands
Melbourne
Telstra Dome

By McNicol
March 26th 2009
New Zeland Oceania » New Zealand
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 [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 27th 2009 | 162 Views | [diary=384813]

Hahei Beach
Hoho Rock
Coromandel Peninsula

By McNicol
January 21st 2009
Fiji  Oceania » 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 [View Full Entry]

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Published: January 27th 2009 | 158 Views | [diary=365547]

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sunset at mango bay
underwater antics

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 [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 22nd 2008 | 310 Views | [diary=356276]

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Beverley hills
Hollywood hills

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 [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 19th 2008 | 263 Views | [diary=355501]

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The Strip
MY $700 win

By McNicol
December 14th 2008
San Diego North America » United States » California » San Diego
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 [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 15th 2008 | 214 Views | [diary=354281]

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