http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Tamarin/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Tamarin en-us Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:05:16 +0000 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:05:16 +0000 today i'm writing from colorado where i'm staying with tracey and her family just outside denver. it's pretty warm here comparatively yesterday when we arrived it was 50 degrees farenheit which was nearly tshirt weather compared to all the temperatures i've been in recently though today it's back down to freezing in ann arbor it was the worst days were between 15 and 25 celcius so basi http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Colorado/Denver/blog-366397.html greetings from a very snowy michigan since i arrived in chicago a week ago it has barely stopped snowing which makes for beautiful scenery dangerous roads and wet socks. it's been really freezing today is a chilly 12 degrees. i was under the impression that if it was below zero it was too cold to snow but that theory has definitely been proven wrong as i sit here i can see a squirrel oh http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Michigan/Ann-Arbor/blog-363558.html well it's been a jampacked week since i last wrote last weekend we were still in vancouver and went to visit the capliano suspension bridge which is as the name suggests a huge suspension bridge over a river. it was really beautiful with snow on the ground fog in the mountains and huge fir trees everywhere it was the type of scenery you see in the travel brochures for canada. tuesday we http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/blog-359845.html yesterday i experienced my first white christmas and it was fantastic we woke up and opened the presents in our stockings we had a secret santa then had to get everyone else 5 stocking fillers. my most memorable was an open bag of skittles from greg from which he had removed all the red ones red is my favourite flavour thanks greg haha. then croft cooked us pancakes with real canadian m http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/blog-357469.html today is the coldest day weve had in vancouver so far with a high of 6 and a low of 16 i had to invest in some thermal socks cos my toes have been going numb when we go outside. it hasnt snowed since wednesday but there is still snow on the ground because its been too cold to melt. the other night we went to the shops to try to find makeshift toboggans we bought a christmas tray and a win http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/blog-355696.html hello from snowy vancouver we woke up this morning to snow falling outside our window which was pretty exciting the ground is half green half white now so hopefully itll fall long enough that we can go outside to make snowmenive been here since sunday i arrived in vancouver 10 minutes after i left adelaide though it was the longest 10 minutes of my life so i got to live sunday twice. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/blog-353698.html hello all after writing a big long blog last night i hit publish and the computer crashed and my blog was lost...so here goes again and hopefully this one will work...we've had a busy couple of weeks since i last wrote. we spent 10 days on the south island visiting some great places. first up was christchurch which reminded me a bit of england. it was pretty but not spectacular like i had bee http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Raglan/blog-240084.html hello today i'm writing from our hostel on the seaside at plimmerton which is just out of wellington on the north island of new zealand. ellen bron and i are a week into our monthlong tour of the country and are having a lovely time so far note the new paragraph that's for you lynno we started out in auckland where it was rainy but not cold. our flights were both delayed so only ended up http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Christchurch/blog-235756.html Hello Have had a really busy but hugely fun week Canrsquot remember when I last checked in with you but will try to update you on what wersquove been up to recentlyhellipon Sunday we attended KPC East church one of the 5 they have around kampala. Kpc east is held at the Mandela international stadium which is a huge stadium for track and field stuff. Before the service some of the team d http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Central-Region/Kampala/blog-210443.html Hello Just another quick update from kampalahellipwersquove had a very busy and tiring rest of the week. Each day we were up at 6 to get to the site on time and much to our excitement and satisfaction ended up finishing our house at 4.30pm yesterday Well not quite but as much as they get the teams to do. In the next few weeks the builders will finish the roof and other bits n pieces that http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Central-Region/Kampala/blog-208879.html Hello all Irsquoll try to write a decent length blog today had barely any time the other day and got really frustrated at not being able to say what I wanted to So I think I was up to church on Sunday that was the most amazing service ever We were running late cos our bus driver was caught in traffic so he even took the liberty of driving the wrong way up a one way street to get us there http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Central-Region/Kampala/blog-207686.html hi from uganda am having the best time here so far this country is amazing we finally arrived yesterday afternoon after a day in dubai. to sum up dubai in a word it was HOT we arrived at around 3.30am to 33 degree heat and approximately 110 humidity...you could basically feel the sweat forming the second you stepped off the plane we got to our hotel about 5am got settled in and had brek http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Uganda/Central-Region/Kampala/blog-206913.html i write to you from epsom library where i am listening to a rousing rendition of schoolkids singing there was a farmer had a dog and bingo was his name BINGO etc...it's going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the day i think i have really loved being back in london to see it through the eyes of a visitor instead of a resident makes a world of difference it's been great being here b http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-132028.html hello writing to you from beautiful florence or firenze as it's called here. almost every city is called by an italian name which makes for a confusing time. we have seen a fair bit of italy in a very short time doing a whirlwind tour of the country. we spent a day in rome which was fairly disastrous see previous entry but quickly moved onto venezia vencie where we unknowingly arrived on http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Florence/blog-129087.html oh dear you know it's not good news when i'm writing from the aussie embassy on our wonderful first day in rome mum and i became the latest victims of professional pickpockets and both lost our passports flight tickets credit cards and money...hurrah... we were travelling back to our hotel by bus it was insanely crowded and we were hanging onto our bags so tightly but in all the jostling http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Rome/blog-127297.html back again i write to you bleary eyed and slightly delirious from athens airport where i am camping out for the night...haha now i really feel like a backpacker i left santorini this afternoon and the ferry only gets back round midnight when the metro services have stopped. well that makes sense. all the athenian buses have their destination only written in greek so i had no idea where to go http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Attica/Athens/blog-124431.html paris another city visited another favourite and another on the list of have to come back to one day...although this is my third time here. i think i like it more each time i visit. i'm staying in a decent hostel in 4er right by the river seine. it's an old mansion with ivy growing up the walls pretty cool except for the 4 spiral staircases i have to climb to get to my room...was pretty http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-121273.html hi all i have made it to europe safe and sound just landed in paris and realised i'd forgotten to write down the addy for my hostel so had to buy net time. theres a stupid keyboard where i can't touch type. nyc was good i've decided i have a lovehate relationship with the city i kept deciding i din't like it then would see soething great and like it again the highlight was prob yesterday i http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Ile-de-France/Paris/blog-120951.html hi everyone i write on my last evening in vancouver i've had a great time here freezing my butt off i think the top temperature the last few days has been 1 down to about 10. i cracked out the thermals and have been layering up but nothing can really keep the cold totally out. bought some leather gloves the best investment yet of this trip. the first day i was out in the morning in the sn http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/blog-119207.html hi everyone I've just arrived in vancouver to absolutely freezing weather and heaps of snow the guys at my hostel have assured me that the weather is mild so i have some acclimatising to do i can't tell you much about vancouver yet cos all i saw was out the bus window on the way to my hostel. the whole day has been spent travelling i left san francisco early this morning to catch my flight http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/blog-117976.html