We had a little holiday in Rhodes at the beginning of September to coencide with Lara's Google AGM. We stayed in Ixia, near Rhodes town for one week and then in Lindos for the second week. It was a really relaxing holiday in which we did nothing at all exciting. Except watch a whole season of Prison Break on DVD! Check out the snaps. [View Full Entry]

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I have just realized that I never finished uploading these S. America photos, which is a shame because there are some beauties in here! First was the bus from Cuzco, across the mountains to the Bolivian border at Lake Titicaca. Then from the border to La Paz - the capital city at the highest altitude in the world, incidently. We stayed in La Paz a day too long by accident because we missed the bus to Salar. But it was not the end of the world because a day of down time in between these excrutiating long jouries was actually a [View Full Entry]

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Check out the pictures - a picture does after all speak a thousand words. The Inca Trail is 49 KM of steep up and down trekking taking 4 days to reach Machu Picchu - the Inca's "Lost City". We got up very early (5am) and went to bed shockingly early (9pm), filling the hours inbetween with walking, drinking coca tea and taking photos. For those looking do this too I can gladdly recomend SAS. Excellent guids, plenty plenty food and decent equipment..... What more do you want. [View Full Entry]

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So, here we are, home at last. It seems fitting to end our blog with another first.. I am sitting on the sofa in my PJ’s writing this blog on my laptop back in blighty..yep…no more fancy (Japan) or not so fancy (India) t’internet cafes for us. In fact the only cafs we will see for the foreseeable future are the greasy trucker spoon types, and indeed my very favourite caf in Walford on the tele. This behemoth of a trip is finally over. In a pre-emptive strike we are going to sum up, add our highlights and some of our [View Full Entry]

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We are clearly not the hardened travellers that used to be. Once upon a time a night bus was regarded with excitement. Nowadays with memories of refridgeration in Thailand and of sharing the back seat with fat snoring men in China, we look upon them as an evil necessity. Add to the mix Americans, and suddenly it could be the worse journey ever. Greyhound buses have quite a bad reputation in the US and understandably so. We rocked up mid town LA to get the bus at 11. At 9 they turf you out of the station to wait outside the [View Full Entry]

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LA. The City of Angels. A comically large white sign, the club that killed River Phoenix, the B'ball courts on the beach from White Men Can't Jump and those huts from Baywatch, Beverley Hills, South Central gangland and, of course, Rodeo Drive, Baby. How can you see all this in just one day. The city is almost as big as London - and you don't do all that in a day, do you? Well, We had a good tip for a tour guided by a bloke called Benny D, or Kenny G, oh yeah, Micky Z, that's it. The tour covered [View Full Entry]

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Apres the Shark dive we took the rickety open sided local bus back to Nadi. Being a Sunday morning it was filled with locals on their way to and from Church. Sundays in Fiji are all about the church. Nothing is really open and all around you the churches which line the fields and beachsides are in full song literally. It is really nice and something different to see a real sense of culture still pervades this tourist hotspot. In fact the whole of fiji oozes this laid back local feel in abundance. It is like a step back in time. [View Full Entry]

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In the words of the Kaiser Chiefs...."Oh my god I cant believe it, i've never been this far away from home!" Well, we are now officially the furthest we have been away with a whopping 11 hour time difference and a mental 13000 miles from home. Weird, considering last week when we were in Indo we were comparitively close - just a direct flight from Singapore in fact. To get to Fiji we had to cross into New Zealand briefly, just for a few hours and long enough to get a warning for joking about bombing planes. Suffice to say Lara [View Full Entry]

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G'day G'day...we are back! There is a significant blog-lag here because we have been having a pretty lazy time in Indonesia since our last post way back in August! So, we left Darwin for a 10 day holiday from our, erm, holiday. It's hot in the Territory - I started to find that my speech was going. When asked the simplest question..usually would you like a beer (they like to drink up here, now so do I), I found myself replying with a yeah, no, yeah answer. Plus, there is only so much sunbathing you can do around the pool eh. [View Full Entry]

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Yes, back again. We liked it soooo much the first time (bar the disgusting dorm) that we had to come back for more. This time we opted to stay in a much nicer hostel that we found with cleaners, a pool and only 6, not 16, to a room. That does not meen, however, that Lara and I are staying in the same room. oh no. It is peak season here with not a cloud in the sky and not a degree below 30. This is proper weather and a welcome change from that crap out East. the place is packed [View Full Entry]

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