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brucemoon - Dr Bruce Moon

A retired 'person' - and with my significant other - we are exploring life's wonderful opportunities.

From Currumbin - on the Gold Coast - in Australia.
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National Gallery - London
National Gallery - London
Overlooking Trafalgar Square
Caerdydd (Wales) to London via Lincoln Overview This commentary describes the last 10 days in our month long journey - that part of the journey from Wales to London via the Midlands, Lincolnshire, and Oxfordshire. As we’d explained in our previous two ‘travelogues’, (1st) we’d arrived at Stansted Airport and travelled to Cambridge for a couple of days, before collecting a car and heading north-east to Norwich via Ely - after which we turned south to London, and (2nd), travelled on via Wiltshire (the Cotswolds), Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, [View Full Entry]

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2841 Words | 2 Comment(s) | 11 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: November 22nd 2009 | 24 Views | [diary=454989]

English period house
Brecon Beacons NP (Wales)
Birmingham canal

Jokers Farm (Box)
Jokers Farm (Box)
View from the B&B
London to Trefynwy (Wales) via Lands End Overview This commentary describes 12 days in our month long journey - that part of the journey from London to Wales via Wiltshire (the Cotswolds), Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Gloucestershire. As we’d explained in our last ‘travelogue’, we’d arrived at Stansted Airport a week earlier, and travelled to Cambridge for a couple of days, before collecting a car and heading north-east to Norwich via Ely - after which we turned south to London. This segment of our journey takes us from Londo [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 14th 2009 | 28 Views | [diary=453090]

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Thames River
Windsor Castle

Cambridge Streetscape
Cambridge Streetscape
One of many we passed
Stansted to London This ‘travelogue’ describes that part of our journey from arrival at Stansted Airport (nth London) to our ‘entry’ to London (some 6 days later) via Cambridgshire, Norfolk (East Anglia) and Suffolk. In Flight We departed KL airport about an hour late - around 4pm. The AirAsia A340 plane had been procured from Air Canada and was pained in the livery of a Canadian football team (doesn‘t quite look right at KL airport). The pilot announced we’d be travelling over Iran, Khazekastan (or one of those &r [View Full Entry]

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3237 Words | 1 Comment(s) | 42 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: November 5th 2009 | 44 Views | [diary=450770]

Cambridge
Cambridge Reserve
Cambridge - Kings College

By brucemoon
October 25th 2009
Miri - Marvellous! Asia » Malaysia » Sarawak » Miri
Marvellous Miri
Marvellous Miri
Miri is located in Sarawak (next to Brunei) in Borneo, and faces the Sth China Sea.
Prologue With a couple of days to kill between Gold Coast & London (the el cheapo flight schedules didn’t work our way) we headed to Miri (in Sarawak, Borneo). When booking, we’d not a clue about the place. Later, we read up and came to the conclusion it was merely an ’industrial’ town servicing the oil industry. How wrong we were. The Journey We left GC early and had a 4 hour layover @ KL before connecting to the Miri flight. We hopped onto the LCCT - KLIA shuttle and had a wander around KLIA, also enjoying aircon, a few beers [View Full Entry]

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1211 Words | 2 Comment(s) | 13 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: October 25th 2009 | 95 Views | [diary=448034]

Adventure Wheels
Jungle vegetation
Lambir Hills NP Waterfall

Hello This is another of 'our' travel stories. It describes our journey from our arrival in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand in April 2009, as we journey east through northern Laos and on to Vietnam. In this 'blog', we 'connect' many of the emails we sent while away and add further material to make it a comprehensive 'whole' of our journey. We write of our travel enjoyment/s within part of northern Thailand, our travel overland to Laos and our involvement with the wonderful adventure known as the "Gibbon Experience", our time in and around Luang Nam Tha, and our journey to [View Full Entry]

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10071 Words | 3 Comment(s) | 48 Photo(s) | 16 Video(s)
Published: May 1st 2009 | 791 Views | [diary=395112]

Lowland north Thailand scrub in the dry
Vachiratharn waterfall
Doi Poi NP

Hello This is another of 'our' travel stories. 'Our', being 'us' - Judy & Bruce It describes our journey from our arrival in HaNoi (in October 2008) to our departure some 6 weeks later from Siem Reap. For us, we wanted to 'do' the tourist circuit from HaNoi, through the north-west, Halong Bay, and south through the tourist 'icon' places. That we had a visa for 4 weeks, but gave ourselves 6 weeks in the region, we decided to head over the border to Cambodia: essentially to view the Angkor ruins Essentially, we travelled what is called the 'banana pancake r [View Full Entry]

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10758 Words | 1 Comment(s) | 73 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: February 15th 2009 | 1283 Views | [diary=373859]

HaNoi Traffic
Family travel - HaNoi style
Around HaNoi district