Winter and Walls Hi guys thanks for the most amazing travel log. Pics are amazing and stories great. Today it is poring with rain in melbourne let's just hope it is hitting the resivours. The local council recently did a new recycle of mobile phones and household goods. very successful, your old council Suz. You are raging across the world quite fast. See you in the next Suz and Dave rage across the world. keep well and look after yourselves
Sally
hello Hi there guys
You're both looking fit and fabulous - walking along the Great Wall must have been fantastic.
Got my birthday pressie from India - THANK YOU!!!!
Jacinta
Just a lil' something 4 u Given your interest in all things green, I thought I'd send u this clip from stuff.....
North Americans who spend their lives reducing, reusing and recycling can keep doing their bit for the environment after they die, if Europe's "green funeral" trend makes its way across the Atlantic.
Canadian activists say green send-offs could help the dead contribute to a sustainable environment, with funerals that use shrouds or biodegradable containers and involve no embalming, no headstones and no grave linings.
"Having a green burial is one more thing a person can do to lessen the impact we're having on our environment," said Dorothy Yada of the Memorial Society of British Columbia.
"Environmental organizations should take it on as something they could add to their list of things to do ... if people asked for it more often, (the cemeteries and funeral parlours) would do it."
Bodies are typically embalmed to preserve the remains for public display at funerals. The results last about 10 days before decomposition begins again.
"Embalming does three things... It requires the body to be worked over, organs sucked out and replaced with carcinogens. Second, it requires workers to be exposed to two potentially toxic chemicals (formaldehyde and glutaraldehyde)," said Joe Sehee of the Green Burial Council in Los Angeles.
He reckons a million gallons of embalming fluid makes its way into North American soil each year.
And when bodies are cremated, mercury mostly from dental fillings can get into the atmosphere and into rivers, said Mary Woodsen, of Greensprings Natural Cemetery in New York.
Currently, there are no green cemeteries in Canada, only small plots within regular cemeteries.
The Royal Oak Burial Park in Victoria, British Columbia, on Canada's Pacific coast, will begin offering the organic option next fall.
"In the last couple of years, there's been substantially more interest," said cemetery spokesman Stephen Olson.
"I think people are looking at every facet of their lives and saying: Is there something I can be doing differently?"
The trend is a lot further along in Britain, where there are some 200 so-called natural burial sites.
"We've done between 80 and 90 burials in the last six or seven years," said Penny Lally of Penwith Woodland Burial Place in Cornwall, England. "I think people like the idea of going back to the earth and creating a tree instead of a crowded cemetery."
hello hey there guys - photos, as usual, are fabulous - i love those coloured buildings - when i am rich and famous i think i'll build myself an enormous villa and paint it pink or blue or yellow :-)
love Jacinta
Great pics hello to both of you - its sounds so fantastic all of your travelling - i can hardly stand to read all the great things you are seeing and doing. I am going through a bit of a bad patch - have lost licence and now my job so will be poor for at least the next 6 months - definately no travelling for me but it does mean i am catching public transport and being far more environmentally sound which is a great thing!
Keep on Rockin' around the world
Luv Linny
Honkers Hi Suz and Dave...lovin ya adventure stories, keep em coming! Shirl's BBQ/Bonfire b'day bash last weekend was enormous...the whole gang partied til' the sun came up! Enjoy, Frog!!!
Pandamonium! Suz and Dave you will know I mean it when I say we are so jealous! We were so close to heading that way with you after Tibet! Pandas are the greatest and you have even managed to capture their personalities in your photos!
About time you were stalked young lady the amount of stalking you have done! As you said in Tibet Snipper Suz is out in force daily!
Glad you are loving it! - K
Shichuan Province Hey Cleary!!! Finally i got the chance to catch up on several blogs.....wow, China looks awesome and I can't believe how close you were to those pandas!! I look forward to reading your Hong Kong + Macau experiences, I'll be heading over there shortly.
Happy travelling and I promise to send u an e-mail soon!! Take Care - Simon
PANDA!!!! I love the baby panda's. They're just so cute! :) Leopard was cool, yak freaky, rhino interesting, but nothing can beat a baby panda....v v cool.
Sorry I had to bail on u the other nite Suz - hopefully world clock and your adventures will align and I'll be able to talk next time you get yourselves connected to the outside world.
Lotsa luv
Fi
Trashbags Hey babe, im finally doing what you wanted me to do and post a comment.love the blog!.dont forget my friend michelle is still in china if ya wanna look her up.The countdown has began. 5 months till we are pissing it up in fab new york,
love ya both, Ads
post-script PS If you like Nepal, I have a friend Nadine, who works at Bass Coast Shire, who was paid to live and travel around Nepal spreading environmental education messages, but I'm not sure which organisation it was for. She went to a lot of events and festivals. Email me for more info. Johanna
Dear Suz - Glad to see that Michael Palin DVD set came in handy for your travels. You look so incredibly happy in all the photos! Am having a scan through your trip journal now - Johanna email jnlvanklav@yahoo.com
Magical Tibet You blog is really fantastic. I'm currently in Tibet as well, north of you, and the images you have captured are really perfect. I hope you continue to have a wonderful time in this amazing and magical country.
I am sitting at work bored senseless when a wee email pops up to tell me that once again you guys have added an anecdote to brighten my day. I open it, only to laugh myself silly at the total visual of Suz's chicken/yak/vegetarian imitations. I look like an idiot laughing at my PC by muself, but I'm pretty sure I don't look quite as bad as a flapping chk imitation!!! Love ya. :) Fi
Yaks WOW what can I say the journey looks spectacular ands you have really shown a diversity of Yaks, they are not all the same. long hair short ahir piebald and fat. But the veiw of Tibet and the history is great. hank you for sharing and I am looking forward to the next instalment of Suz and Daves travels. keep Kool Sally
Bloody hell Suze, you are so talented with your photography. I was reading your blog at work and soon had a gathering around me, all open jawed at your beautiful images. Love you heaps and miss you.
WOW! Just stumbled across your blog, and what a pleasure itis to read. Amazing - Simply amazing! Great journal and gorgeous photos!! Thanks for sharing with us.
An aussie and a kiwi exploring the world ...
"Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away" - Anon
In Jan 2007 we set out on an overland journey from Asia to Europe overland. From India, via Nepal, Tibet, China, Mongolia, Russia and Europe ... destination Ireland, with no flights. Trains, buses, tuk-tuks, boats, bikes, yak, camel, and rickshaws all formed the basis of our travels.
Suze spent a year living and working in Ireland (in between all the long weekends away), Dave returned to Oz for 6 months but re... full info
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Winter and Walls
Hi guys thanks for the most amazing travel log. Pics are amazing and stories great. Today it is poring with rain in melbourne let's just hope it is hitting the resivours. The local council recently did a new recycle of mobile phones and household goods. very successful, your old council Suz. You are raging across the world quite fast. See you in the next Suz and Dave rage across the world. keep well and look after yourselves Sally