well here I am back home in Falkirk and it is as if I've never been away.........it has been the best and quickest ten and a half months ever!! from my travelling experiences I can tell you that, travelling broadens the mind, expands the waist line and finally drains the bank account..........so the next step is a job then the gym. since I've been travelling I've been on 23.5 flights (the half is cause I jumped out of one of the planes) slept in 94 different beds, met hundreds of different people and been in 10 different countries and loads of [View Full Entry]

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after leaving LA, New York was my final stop on my Round the World journey.........and while I've been travelling for the past ten and a half months I've landed on my feet on several occasions including, staying with Mick, Susan and the kids in Melbourne, staying with my mum's friend Pam in Sydney when I fractured my heel and then in LA when I stayed with girls I had met in Mexico........well my luck wasn't to change when staying in NYC.........I travelled with an Irish lad Alan during my time on the east coast of Australia and he has stayed in [View Full Entry]

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after a hard fortnight in Cancun it was time to head to Los Angeles and recover for 8 days.......when I was in Cancun myself and the lads met 2 Brazilian girls that we hung around with for the last 5 days of the holiday.....and they both live in LA and offered me the chance to stay at theirs while I was here.........my first 2 nights were in a hostel in the Venice area of LA......and the 2 nights were terrible....after the 2wks of luxury in Mexico I found myself trying to sleep in a 12 bed dorm on the top bunk [View Full Entry]

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I left Fiji and headed to LA then down to Cancun, Mexico for a 2wk resort holiday with mates from back home.......it took me 38hrs, 4 flights and many hrs waiting in airports to finally arrive in Cancun....well worth it though!! for the past 9 years I've never missed a lads summer holiday, and I said before I left home that if the 10th year was going to be a holiday to Magaluf or Tenerife etc I wouldn't bother making the effort in going.....but once the lads had booked for Mexico my mind was made up that I would make the [View Full Entry]

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I left New Zealand for some tropical heat in Fiji......so it was back to wearing just shorts and relaxing on the beach nursing some hangovers!! the Fiji locals are really cool people......they will do pretty much anything for you and are always smiling!! I headed to Fiji with a few of the Irish I was in NZ with, Gerd, Louise, Darren and Gemma. we got booked up for some of the islands on the west coast.....first island was Beachcomber Island which is the most lively of islands.....a band playin every night and a disco like thing later on. we were stayin [View Full Entry]

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left the south and got a flight up to the capital city of NZ, Wellington. got a flight as the Irish were playing the all blacks on the saturday so we flew up on the friday morning. the city was just full of green......and with me still travelling with 9 irish a went out and bought myself an irish rugby t-shirt to fit in and enjoy the craic!!! went a wander round the city and what a seen it seemed to be a decent place.....not that big for a capital city, and there wasn't that much to see to be honest. [View Full Entry]

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hey, well finally left OZ after about 7months and landed in Christchurch New Zealand to crap weather.....very like Scottish weather.....had a few days in the cold and rain in Christchurch before jumpin on a bus and headin north up the coast to a place called Kaikora......weather was still murder and all the activities were cancelled......bad start to NZ!!! got in toe with another 10 travellers.....7 Irish, 1 N.Irish, 1 English, a Swede and myself. next stop after Kaikora was Nelson, quite a nice city....well what a seen of it, had a few nights there and done a day trip to Abel [View Full Entry]

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hey, well a trip to Australia wouldn't be complete without a trip to Uluru (Ayers Rock), also a felt it would be a good adventure to end my time in OZ........so a jumped on a plane and headed to Alice Springs. a sorted myself out with a 3day 2night Red Centre Adventure Tour....there were 21 of us and all in our 20's except one American who was probably in his 50's and a range of different nationalities on board.....Scottish, Irish, Dutch, American, Canadian, Spanish, Swedish, Japenese, German and of course the token English...haha. the first day a got picked up at [View Full Entry]

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for the past few weeks i've been back in Melbourne working and stayin with my mate Mick and his family again. after my east coast adventure the cash had vanished and the credit card was close to bein maxed out so a headed back to Melbourne for some work, got a start at the place as the last time i was here so it was all good.....apart from the 6am starts......but the 4-30am rises to watch the european football were a bit better!! what about the Gers??.....quite a boring match but at least they got the result they needed and it [View Full Entry]

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next stop on the coast was townville to get the ferry over to 'Maggie', Magnetic Island for three nites.......a really chilled out island and very small, reminded me a bit of Thailand in a way as a just lay on the beach all day and chilled at nite with a few beers!! met up with a lots a folk a met whilst comin up the coast.....so was good to catch up with each other and share a few cold beers!! then after three nites stayin on Maggie next stop was Cairns where the journey up the coast would finally come to [View Full Entry]

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