http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Sazzle Dazzle/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Sazzle Dazzle en-us Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:55:16 BST Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:55:16 BST 13th DecSunshine Horrah Ah man it feels good to have the sun on my face again after those 4 days of non stop rain We spend a full day wondering around this brilliant vibrant Malaysian town learning all about the history of the Malays. We take a walk through a beautiful Malaysian village Kampung Morten just north west of the town we walk along the river down to china town where we wonder a http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Malacca/Malacca-Town/blog-230181.html Its been a while since I updated this site and these nest few hours are dedicted to my rents who keep asking me to upload more photos and diary entries9th DecArrive in Singapore at 6pm and jump on the sky train to Little India. Arrive a little tired unsure of where I am in Little India on a Sunday...market day Crazy ammount of people EVERYWHERE Cars stationary on the street people swarming http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Singapore/Little-India/blog-230178.html Yes thats right tomorrow morning I'm getting the bus back to Christchurch. Still haven't decided what I'm doing once I am there. Might hire a camper van OR might book in on the stray bus...however I really don't want to do a tour I want to go on an adventure but try as I might I can't find any sodding travellers in NZ everyone wants to snowboard Arghhhhh 0 travelling sucks x http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Christchurch/blog-173584.html The morning after I arrived in Queenstown we had a HUGE dump of snow which basically meant I was here to stay. NO traffic coming in no traffic coming out...roads closed due to snow. So I begin my seach of work...not a hope in hell's chance There are people queing for 6 hrs for a cleaning job people fitting over the local paper...people selling themselves for rooms to stay So what do i do De http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Queenstown/blog-173583.html Arrived in Christchurch with the idea in mind that I needed to get to Queenstown urgently so that I could find work apply for a visa and fund my snowboarding season as planned. As all travellers know and hate plans suck having a plan means you miss out on goldne opportunities. So in my haste to get to Queenstown I ignored all the people telling me that I would never find work that I can't ge http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Christchurch/blog-173580.html To those of you who have been to Fiji how many of you have been east on the mainland How many of you have rafted down trepid white water how many of you have visited a local village how many of you have travelled the entire mainland on public transport alone how many of you have watched the all blacks play fiji with a local how many of you have managed to dive for free how many of you have http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Fiji/Viti-Levu/Suva/blog-173578.html As most of you were aware yes I did loose my suitcase yes I did spend three days wearing the same pants jeans and stinky blue top and yes my first three days did suck. I arrived in Nadi on the Thursday and left on the Friday to a beautiful resort south of the main land called Mango Bay Resort. Although a very young place my sanity has resumed along with my backpack and I am now off to discover http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Fiji/Suva/blog-163233.html Whale watchingnbspNorth America raquonbspCanada raquonbspBritish Columbia raquonbspUcluelet By Sazzle DazzleMay 17th 2007Somehow I managed to do all of this for free I love working for Ron so many benefits and so much fun 2 hours of whale watching should have cost us 60 each instead we paid nothing Woohoo It was an absolutely wicked day Kirsty and I had the most amount o http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/Ucluelet/blog-159562.html Chill daynbspNorth America raquonbspCanada raquonbspBritish Columbia raquonbspUcluelet By Sazzle DazzleMay 12th 2007Another blissful day of sunshine in Ucluelet. After work we headed down to Kennedy Lake to chill with the dogs for the afternoon and catch the sunset with a few beers. Kirsty's dog Jeta is just like the little squirel from Ice Age...such a sweet little munchkin Nathan' http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/Ucluelet/blog-159557.html Happy campersnbspNorth America raquonbspCanada raquonbspBritish Columbia raquonbspUcluelet By Sazzle DazzleMay 12th 2007I was so priviledged to be invited on this sunny afternoon to Kennedy Lake. With a fucked clutch and tension in the air we actually made it out here I'm sure it helped that all my fingers and toes were crossed the entire way We stopped to fill the truck with twig http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/Ucluelet/blog-159548.html All in a days work...nbspNorth America raquonbspCanada raquonbspBritish Columbia raquonbspUcluelet By Sazzle DazzleMay 11th 2007Baxter's and I's mission to see the sunset Its a pretty dumb idea to walk 3km in the rainforest to see the sunset as you then have to walk 3km back through the rainforest but in the dark Tourists hey The sunset was worth it though We had a good tim http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/Ucluelet/blog-159543.html Sunsets and SangrianbspNorth America raquonbspCanada raquonbspBritish Columbia raquonbspVancouver Island By Sazzle DazzleMay 9th 2007After too much faffing and disorganisation we never actually made it out on the boat to go fishing So instead we went for another walk to Halfmoon Bay. Yet another amazing trail with beer good company good music and a lot of time to think to chill http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/blog-159540.html Secret of the blowholenbspNorth America raquonbspCanada raquonbspBritish Columbia raquonbspVancouver Island By Sazzle DazzleMay 8th 2007 This was by far the best walk I have ever been on in my life We were supposed to go fishing today however it was too windy so the boats weren't going out. Ron had already closed the cafe for 'Tibeten Easter' so rather than wasting a day we went to http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/blog-159535.html Some of the best...nbspNorth America raquonbspCanada raquonbspBritish Columbia raquonbspVancouver Island By Sazzle DazzleMay 5th 2007I have waaaay to many photos of beaches sunsets rocks and sunsets so here are some of the best http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/blog-159529.html My homenbspNorth America raquonbspCanada raquonbspBritish Columbia raquonbspVancouver Island By Sazzle DazzleMay 4th 2007After what can only be called as the longest day in my life I settled into my new home and new job within 12hours of arriving in the beautiful village of Ucluelet Vancouver Island. Ron is my boss and my sofa owner and I am forever endetted to him He has proved me http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/blog-159525.html Up at 8am in the car by 10am broken down by 12pm We didn't exactly make it very far out of Victoria before there was smoke billowing out from under the bonet of our Toyota 'RentaWreck' So we pull over inpect the damage and make a knowledgeable decision that the car was in desperate need of some water So we fill her up wait a couple of second for the engine to cool and carry on our happy http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/Victoria/blog-159504.html After an emotional and tiring pusuit of happiness I arrived in beautiful Victoria The first thing I did was grab an ice cold beer and endulged in doing absolutely nothing I walked I sketched I listened to some blissfully sweet music and enjoyed Victoria by both day and night My plans were to stay there for 4 days however I struck gold when I met some cool English peeps who were driving to Tof http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/blog-159500.html Good timesnbspNorth America raquonbspCanada raquonbspBritish Columbia By Sazzle DazzleApril 22nd 2007 I see no reason to write about the bad times as that is something that I will only ever to relate to so instead I will tell you about the good times. Christian Lisa and I were inseperable during my 12 day stay at the ranch we ate together we worked together we played together and rod http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/blog-154817.html The horsesnbspNorth America raquonbspCanada raquonbspBritish Columbia By Sazzle DazzleApril 20th 2007This whole blog is dedicated to the horses the beautiful beasts who trek mountains for many years of their life who live off nothing who ask nothing who look out for each other and look after their riders through moose attacks to bee attacks to 12 inch mountainous trails to pulling l http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/blog-154812.html I can't believe I stayed as long as I did 12 days of my western boot camp If it wasn't for little Lisa and Christian I would never have stayed as long as I did The first day of settling in was so hard no one wanted to speak to me due to coming across negatively so I was pretty much on my own for 2 days washing up and hating every second of my work day It was only until we were allowed to play http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/blog-154806.html