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Paul Signoretti Joined: March 24th 2006
Logged in: July 20th 2011
Logged in: July 20th 2011
Im an air steward, cabin crew, trolley dolly .. what ever you wanna call me so some of my adventures are work trips spending only a couple of hours in a place or a couple of days.... Hopefully one day I will save enough money to do my round the world trip untill then ..
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“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” - Cesare Pavese
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didnt do more than the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” - Jawaharial Nehru
Travel Blog Posts
Me And Michelle
Day 58 - Tofo - 25/9/09 Woke up a very sleepy Michelle at about 0430 to make sure she would be ready to catch the minibus. I, like always was up earlier then needed, I packed the final little bit into my rucksack and waited in the reception area for the shuttle bus to arrive. The driver came into the reception and beckoned everybody onto the minibus; we all pilled in and set off. We stopped off at the bus stop, I actually use the term bus station very loosely; actually it should be described as a car park with 100's of buses all parked up looking for passengers. We took our seats, leaving our bags on the ground outside, we sat there never seeing our bags being loaded and as a result spending the whole ... read more
The Local Brew
Day 55 - Maputo (Mozambique) - 22/9/09 Woke up at 0700 because Michelle and French needed to leave by 0830 to get to the Mozambique High Commission to get their passport back with their visas. We jumped into the hire car and we were off, we headed down to Mbabane, I remained inside the car with bags whilst the others went and sorted out returning the hire car. This took a while as the hire company had charged French too much for something, I don’t know exactly what. Whilst they sorted this out I went across the road, I went a brought a Swaziland sticker for my work suitcase, I returned and nothing had been sorted. A few heated words were spoken but the company stood firm. We paid and went up to the bus stop, ... read more
Day 53 - Durban - 20/9/09 Up early to get packed and sorted to get the shuttle at midday. Actually wasn’t up that early; about 1000. Aaron and Rachel went to ride a horse for a couple of hours whilst I baked in the sun, still pissed off at the 600 rand being taken out of my wallet. Finished my breakfast and went over to reception to see how much damaged the tab was going to do to my wallet, by itself it came to 800 which would have been about $600, that in itself was pretty good but when you add the $50 stolen, it was pretty expensive.. We jumped into the shuttle and started to drive back to the petrol station where we were being picked up, the journey seemed to go on for ... read more
Buffalo Rules
Day 50 - Coffee Bay - 17/9/09 The Baz Bus journey was the same as yesterday; long and boring. It arrived for me at the backpackers at 0630, the morning was grey and cloudy and that pretty much was exactly the way I felt about everything!! The same people got on at the various places they had been deposited around Port Elizabeth the previous night. We stopped off at various points to pick up extra people who hadn’t been on the bus the previous night; in fact when we left Port Elizabeth it was quite uncomfortable as the bus was completely full. We continued though the Eastern Cape, dropping people off and picking other people up until we reached the town of Mthatha where we passed by the house where Nelson Mandela grew up, the driver ... read more
Welcome To Paarl
Day 47 - Paarl - 14/9/09 Set off from the car hire office at 1000 as we pulled out and made our way to the vineyards. Earlier on that morning I was getting my hair cut I was talking to her about my toe and pick pocketing episode and she told that Cape Town was the 4th most dangerous city in the world, using what stats? In what context? Behind who? Basra? Bagdad? Jo'burg? We hit the road and made our way out of Cape Town, eventually we started to see beautiful vineyards and rolling countryside. We arrived in Paarl, stopping in the town to get a better map of the vineyard region from the tourist information office. The first vineyard we stopped at was the Nederburg vineyard where we were greeted with a glass of ... read more
My Dressed Toe
Day 44 - Cape Town - 11/9/09 I was really excited as Duncan, Cat, Pascal and Danielle were in Cape Town today. I wondered down to the Waterfront, relatively early just to enquire if the ferry to Robben Island was running today. It was and tickets were already sold out up until to the 1500 ferry, so I snapped up a ticket. Walked up the length of Long Street, up Kloof Street to the Ashanti Lodge; which is where the guys were staying, they arrived at midday. Midday rolled around and I quite literally bumped into Duncan, it was really good to see them. I feel like I would really like to stay in touch with them in the future. Duncan asked if I wanted to join them for high tea but having booked Robben Island ... read more
I'm Watching You!
Day 42 - Cape Town -9/9/09 Arrived in Cape Town at 11 and was met by the driver of my transfer to the hostel, we discussed in great details the 2010 World Cup that is being held here in South Africa, about what the locals expect from the national team and his reply was not a lot, we expect to go out in the first round but what we will do very well is hold an excellent party for its duration. Walked into the hostel, which was located in a huge purple high rise building on the 6th floor, it was actually a pretty funky little hostel; defiantly the best one I've stayed in so far, I’m in the 20 bed mixed dorm (good for meeting people) in a room called to Fantasy Forest Room, each ... read more
Cheers!
Day 37 - Swakopmund - 4/9/09 Woke up with added excitement this morning as Pascal, Danielle, Cat and Duncan were getting into Swakopmund this morning. Wondered over to the Swakop Lodge, where they were staying, at 10 and was greeted in reception by a Duncan sized hug. We all chatted, told our stories and what we had been up to since we departed company. We all went into the Far Out Booking Office, which was attached to the Swakop Lodge to see what extreme activities were available to do. In the end we booked some sand boarding, it was about midday by the time we finished so we went out for a spot of lunch. We went to the Lighthouse Cafe for lunch and I ordered a Jaeger Schnitzel; 2 ornx fillets in breadcrumbs in mushroom ... read more
German Sign 1
Day 34 - Windhoek (Namibia) - 1/9/09 Arrived in Windhoek in the early afternoon; making my way outside the terminal to the airport shuttle bus. Like most other buses I've tried to use since I've been here in Africa it wasn’t leaving until it was full. The airport shuttle cost $150NB against the taxi which would cost $280NB, a local lady came out of the airport building; she started rooting around in her handbag looking for a business card for a taxi; I just sat there and watched here waiting for the shuttle bus to fill up. She couldn’t find this business card and didn’t look overly happy. She become doubly unhappy when she heard the price of the taxi so she started trying to negotiate with the taxi driver; she turned round to me and ... read more
Drakensburg Mountains
Day 31 - Molumong (Lesotho) - 29/8/09 We left the Sani Lodge at 0900 with our tour guide Michael, on the tour with me there were 4 Dutch girls who were travelling together. We travelled though the roads of the Drakensburg Mountains to reach the Sani Pass and the Lesotho border pass, we went in a 4X4 as its the only type of vehicle that could make it up there. As a gentlemen and somebody travelling by myself took the back of the 4X4. Proceeding through the mountain range was a slow and very bumpy task, the roads were windy and the scenery getting more and more dramatic the higher and higher we went. The more we went on, the more and more bumpy the road got, with me hitting my head on the roof, the ... read more
