Travel Blog | Scotty Ness http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Scotty---Ness/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Scotty Ness en-us Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:39:45 +0000 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:39:45 +0000 StockholmNew Years Copenhagen London Well well here we are folks at the end of the trip only 3 more sleeps till the self destructive 24hr flight home to reality...But what a week it has been.Lets start with stockholm in one word magnificent. An amazing archipeligo and beautiful park lands and freezing ing cold. 2 degrees was the average for the weekend that we were there. Seems like a long time ago now but the old town wa http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Westminster/blog-360159.html A Swedish White Christmas Merry Christmas everyoneWe hope you had a lovely day yesterday ours has been truly amazing. After a long journey to Lund on Sunday we arrived in Lund on Monday morning with only one small problem. We had forgottten to write down Stus address...whoops. We headed to a cafe sent many text messages. And tried to rectify the problems which included one flat mobile phone no internet connectiv http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/blog-357090.html Cesky Crumlov Warsaw Hey allWell i am happy to anounce that Cesky Crumlov is my favourite place so far on our trip. A truly beautiful and amazing little town. It was the only town in the region and most of europe that was not damaged during either world wars or communist era and most importantly never had a major fire which for obvious reasons causes mass damage. For this reason it is a UNESCO heritage listed t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/blog-355867.html Bruge Brussels Prague Cesky Crumlov Hello again Well it has been an amazing week. I think i last left off when we were about to head to bruge for a day trip. Bruge was fantastci very cute little town with venice style waterways meandering throught the city. Highlights were the bell tower which almost made me crap my pants when it went off whilst we were enjoying the view. for those who have seen the 'in bruges' movie of late i http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/South-Bohemian-Region/Cesky-Krumlov/blog-354494.html Paris and Brussels Hello again everyone Well therest of my visit to spain went well. Visited Ferrol where SImon works which is basicaly one massize ship yard not a very scenic place but the vino was great. We had a lovely christmasy dinner on our last night with roast and apple crumble and a freshly decorated Xmas tree. On THursday Simon and Mands dropped me at the airport and then i was jetsetting again to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Belgium/Brussels-Capital-Region/Brussels/blog-352976.html La Coruna Spain Hello eveyone Well I have been in Spain for around 5 days now so I thought that I had better send an update and some photos.The trip has been great so far I have seen most of the sights of La Coruna Spain where Simon and Amanda live. The Tower of Hercules which is the oldest functioning light house in the world is in la coruna and we have a lovely view of if from simons lounge room.The weathe http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Galicia/La-Coru-a/blog-350323.html Home Again Hi everyone Well we made it home safe and sound although a little tired and are back at work. We had an amazing time over the trip and can't wait to catch up with everyone over the next few weeks. I just wanted to let everyone know that i have finished putting all the photos up on the blog pages so you can now visualise all the stuff that we did. Hope you enjoy and if you want to see more pho http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Caulfield/blog-166926.html Week 5 The Last Supper Hi guys well its our last day today we are home tomorrow and it hasn't really been the best 24hrs of our trip. Scotty has food poisoning from fried rice with crab and was throwing up all night... poor thing. So last night we hung out in our hostel watching star wars heheheh classic. Anyway so we wont be doing too much today either. But apart from that we have had an absolutely fabulous last http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-165004.html Week 3 Ups and Downs of Travel Hi again eveyone Sorry for the tardyness of our emailing but we haven't had a great amount of free time or any good places with reasonable email facilities. Right now we are sitting at an internet cafe on thebeach at sihanoukville beautiful but i will get to that in a minute. I will start were the last email ended. We headed off the wild and wacky sculpture park in Nong khai The guy who s http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Sihanoukville/blog-161937.html Week 4 Angkor Temples Great Food Hi again Hopefully tyhis can be quicker than the last email. So getting to the cambodian border was easy enough but once there things got a little out of hand. We headed straight to the casino to avoid the taxi touts that follow you around at the border. We had heard people get taxis for about 20US to siam reap and we were aiming to get that or lower but taxi drivers wouldn't budge from 35US. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Sihanoukville/blog-161946.html rocket festival photos here is a link with some photos enjoyhttpwww.yasothon108.comindex.phpoptioncomcontenttaskviewid27Itemid9 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Sihanoukville/blog-161956.html Week 2 Bus rides from hell... Hi again well we have been all over the place this last week from pai to sukhothai then khon kaen and now nong khai. The last day in pai we hired a motorcycle and rode around the local hill tribe villges went up to the pai canyon and then the amazing hot springs which we soaked in for well over an hour. Then back on the bus and on to sukhothai via chiang mai. This first bus ride was the first o http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-East-Thailand/Nong-Khai/blog-156582.html Elephants are so Cool Hello everybody hope you are well sorry for being so late with the writing but we wrote this one last week but coulnt load any photos so we didn't publish it but you can see photos of us on the elephans at httpwww.changthai.comgallerymain.phpg2itemId1704 my mum and sister also did this with us there are some pretty funny ones. So week one of our trip is coming to a close antd the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Pai/blog-154711.html Going Away Drinks Hi Everyone For those of you that don't know we Scotty and Ness are heading overseas to Thailand and Cambodia in 3 weeks We will be staying for just under 6 weeks we are soo excited. Anyway so that you don't keep getting sent really long emails that you may or may not be interested in we have set up this Blog page and you will get a little email when we have updated it so that you can c http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Caulfield/blog-144241.html