This was not in the plan but was so glad to get to the warmth and the more chilled out way of pretty much everything...the men still stare but not with as much conviction as the northern counterparts!! We got to Ajanta too late to stay...so did the big haul down to Bombay! we moved form our comfy 3AC sleepr down to sleeper and went to sit with the locals, we even had to share a seat since it was so full! It was a great journey and met a lovely family who tried to give me some bangles, upon me [View Full Entry]

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More pics to follow..... We didnt quite know what to expect when we arrived in India, all we knew was that people we had spoken to seemed to both love and hate the place for so many reasons and that there would be cows everywhere amidst the chaos in the streets and beaches. We had been warned about the many toting stores of the conmen that target you as soon as you set foot on land so we felt semi prepared and little bit anxious and excited!! So first leg complete - we made it from the airport without being scammed, [View Full Entry]

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Saigon - Hanoi - Bac Ha - Motorbike Adventure We started off in Saigon...another city I am sad to say! We maybe didnt give it a chance but we were pretty citied out and ready to get into the rural far reaches!!Crazy busy city!! wespent a nigfht and headed straight out on the train, up to Hanoi! 30 hours later we tumbled out of our train and waited for it to get light, had a mooch aroundthecity and decided that we didnt want much time in another big city so we booked another train out that night to Lao Cai. It [View Full Entry]

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After much deliberation we decided - yep we will head to Cambodia, and we were so glad we did!! The country is amazing and the people are so lovely! Thetrip overthe border was quite an experience and we were so lucky not to get ripped off and actually get ataxi at the otherside to do the 3 hour trip through arough ass dirt track!!fun! The journey was beautiful past lush green farmland, rice paddies and people manually working the fields, rice out to dry on the side of the road and gorge water buffalo's pulling ploughs along!! Siem Reap was much [View Full Entry]

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In to Bangkok, not there long before we head back out! We ran away to a little island to relax for a while...ended up not able to leave for just over a week- pure paradise as the resort name suggests 'Koh Wai Paradise'- our humble abode was a wooden hut 10metres from the sea, great food, beer and great people! Whilst on teh island we managedto do lots of reading, our daily skips and exercises (rather limited due to the size of the island), lots of eating and learnt a couple of recipes, lots of swimming and of course some snorkelling [View Full Entry]

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We headed back to Sydney for the bumpy landing that always seems to occur in to see me old travelling bud and also to catch up with Sam, Matt and Maya (so cute!). A quick summary....so far behind now!! piccys are the main bit! Did a re run of Sydney with Sal which was cool and even managed arun along coogee to Bronte walk!! And of course ice cream and sydney harbour! Then stayed with Matt and Sam, was ace to see Maya too! Highlights were going swimming in an outdoor pool in the rain - awesome and going up to [View Full Entry]

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ok...we have been in Melbourne for over three months and its now time to move on, so I guess we should finally start on the blog updates again!! We are pretty sad to be leaving this place, its such a nice place to live, just so nice and easy! It has pretty much everything one would want in a place and is probably the best city I have been to...and that is me, the girl who hates cities!! The ony thing Melbourne and around is lacking is lots of hills, fair play, it has some, just not quite enough and its [View Full Entry]

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We were here for a few days - enjoyed some long awaited sunshine and beach, met up with Sam, Matt and gorge baby Maya, did the sights then headed down the coast to Melbourne via The Blue Mountains!! Road trip big stylee - long way!! [View Full Entry]

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An overview....we blasted the Glaciers, drove down to Milford Sounds (getting the van stuck on a beach....), beautiful trip through the fjords, donning the snow chains to get through the snow, then on to Queenstown for some much needed skiing and boarding, thena final treat - blow some more money on heading way down near the south pole to Stewart Island, then a final bezz up to Christchurch.....but did Vinny hold out for the duration????? erm no......read on for the full and funny details!! June 18th Next on the hitlist after Fox Glacier was the hike up Franz Josef Glacier, [View Full Entry]

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We arrived into Picton to glorious sunshine - yeyyy!! It was a brilliant journey through the Cook Strait past lots of great land formations and amazing greenery on such steep sided cliffs - wow!! We decided to do a little trip along the coast since we didnt have time to go across to Abel Tasman or Nelson (boo) so we did a coastal drive to havelock which was beautiful but rather windy.... our main aims were to see some Rutherford enrollment for Darren....and also to get some infamous green lipped mussels, which were lovely but I have to say the [View Full Entry]

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