hey all, Rickyc here from lil old Waiuku, New Zealand. Hope you like the Blogs of my adventures around the world, starting from Auckland,NZ and hopefully never ending...
Hey there to everyone!!! so i am now in the UK partying it up with my big brother Dan and a whole bunch of kiwis!!! i arrived in heathrow from boston at 6 in the morning and met dan upon landing, we took the train to acton and stayed with some waiukuians for a couple of days of hard partying, (seeing as it was my birthday on wednesday) We also did the tourest thing around london and got some great photos!! its was a blast seeing buckingham palace and the big ben....also did a ferry ride along the thames, from london we took a bus down to plymouth to meet some more of dans mates...was going to be just a stop over on our way down to new quay but ended up staying three nights and ... read more
So i found out another kiwi friend of mine was in north carolina which is only bout a two hour flight away...jo emailed me and i ended up going to visit for the weekend, i had a good time hanging with her friends and being cooked alive by the unbeleavably hot/humid weather!! On the thursday night we went out to a 18's and up club/bar where 18 to 21 year olds got there hands marked with a cross and werent allowed to drink...so naturally i had a beer in each hand for most of the night, stupid concept cos it didnt stop any of us underagers. then friday we (me, jo and the kids) went to the zoo very hung over... was supposed to be a bit cooler but the weather man is never right so ... read more
This was definately the best weekend yet!!! Jolene and Chet (american uni friends) had invited me to there place in upstate New York for their towns annual Harborfest!! Oswego is near Syracuse and right on the edge of Lake Ontario (a huge ass lake that you cant even see the other side!! and no tuffy that dosnt make it the ocean) i took an eight hour bus ride from newton, boston to syracuse new york where i got off and caught another bus to oswego university campus. I had heaps of fun meeting all jo's and chet's friends and drinking lots of beer, cant really say what i got up to as a lot of it is blurry and the rest is better left off the net. so thanks to all the peeps who i met ... read more
This is my first big day out in Boston City, I had to wake up early cos I was taking my lil cousins into the the city on the train, naturally we missed the first one and had to wait around for the next one to come through....but all in all it was a great day, i even met a few other tourists from england and australia!!! it was actually really cool cos i still aint met another kiwi yet... then there were the dark dancers at fanual hall, they were pretty crazy, i hope the pics show how nuts they were... I also got to have breakfast in the Cheers bar!!! that was a real hoot (the lady sitting at the bar isnt my girlfriend either....and yes it is a lady) i also took a ... read more
so on my second day in the USA after spending the night in the marriott hotel i took an early morning train right into New York city's grand central station, a truly awesome place... i had no idea of where anything was so the first thing i did was buy a map...i had my breakfast in one of the thousand starbucks and set off on a day of snapshots and being a tourist... i visited the empire state building, ground zero (twin towers), central park, times square and some other famous places. highlight of the day was getting a photo of brad pitt and seeing heaps of cop cars speed down broadway and then park up, i think it might have been a movie??... read more
OK, hi to all of you's who made it to my first weblog!! i hope i do this properly and it dont end up looking like crap, So i started off from Auckland on june 7th 2005, heading for LAX where (i was asked for money almost as soon as i got off the plane) and had an 8 hour stop over and enough time to get out of the airport and and explore a lil bit. I decided to take a taxi to Venice beach seeing as it was sunny as and not a cloud in the sky. I walked the venice beach boardwalk and ran into some crazy ass dude who i had to put up with telling me that "this is where i live!!, on the street player!!!" whilst he sipped his forty ... read more