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ciaranandlisa - Ciaran and Lisa

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By ciaranandlisa
March 25th 2009
Oz so far Oceania » Australia
Well hello there Strangers. We really have taken this slacking off with the blog updates to the extreme of late. Apologies for that. Your requests have not gone unheard and we have been shamed into getting the finger out and updating our loved ones on how the world of travel is going. In a word - TOUGH!!! This ol' economic crisis we now encounter has had a huge impact on not just the value of our savings, in the face of plummeting exchange rates, but the whole idea of finding work in Australia proved to be more of a challenge than [View Full Entry]

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1644 Words | 3 Comment(s) | 79 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: March 25th 2009 | 140 Views | [diary=384554]

Harbour Bridge at Circular Key
The Opera House
Sydney Skyline

Gabrielle
Gabrielle
Some of us really enjoyed letting our hair down and kicking around in jammies all day. Merry Christmas to one and all xxxx
This is a little blog we would like to share with just a select few, who will get the joke. The story goes that we had such a lovely Christmas down at Callala, which I am told is your average Christmas in NSW. From just chilling out, to swimming at the beach, letting your hair down and a little game of cricket here and there. Everyone should try a sunny Chrimbo in sunny down under.... [View Full Entry]

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Published: January 24th 2009 | 79 Views | [diary=366622]

Kelly, Ciaran Kelly
The new Lisa
Michael Clarke

Hi there people! I was going to put "Well sorry we've not been up to date" but Lisa reminded me we've put this on every blog opening so far! Had a great Christmas down in Callala with Maeve, Peter and Finn and the Wilsons as well as a hectic, fun, mental and amazing New Year period! We're just trying to get used to Sydney life with a lot less travelling! Got jobs in Sydney after a real struggle and a lot of worry (Global Financial Crisis + tough job market + temporary workers = VERY HARD to get a job) and [View Full Entry]

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1663 Words | 4 Comment(s) | 83 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: January 22nd 2009 | 150 Views | [diary=364938]

View of Auckland
Auckland at night
Our first night in little sleeper van

Welcome...
Welcome...
...please wipe your feet on the way in
...so you see, it wasn't that I was too lazy to update the blog, it was just that I didn't want people to take our blog for granted, therefore I waited for almost a month (the perfect time between blogs apparently) to put up the Laos and Cambodia pictures, honestly! So when we last checked in, we had spent an amazing weekend at the Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand. We were still absolutely buzzing from that as we set off for the Laos border. We'd enjoyed S.E. Asia a bit too much by this stage and were rapidly running [View Full Entry]

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1723 Words | 6 Comment(s) | 55 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: December 10th 2008 | 284 Views | [diary=346817]

Taxi across the border
I should take beer ad photos for a living...
After a long time without a glass of wine in Thailand

Chaing Mai Market
Chaing Mai Market
ok - where are the food stalls
Hello again from your little dossing amigos. We admit that we are now dragging our heels on this here blog but there seems to be so many things to do and see in S.E Asia that it's been difficult to keep you up to date - end of excuses, we're bone idle... So retracing our steps a little, we're delighted to add this entry to the blog where we had 2 of the most amazing days of the trip and possibly our lives (dramartic??? me??? never...) We came across an entry in our guidebook (a book we have now realised is [View Full Entry]

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935 Words | 10 Comment(s) | 53 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: November 17th 2008 | 89 Views | [diary=345218]

Mmmmmm yum yum
Always game
Ciaran digesting the local delicacies

Bless me father, for I have sinned, it's been three weeks since our last confession (excuse the blasphemy, I had to). But we've just been having too much fun to get a minute to sit down and update the blog. We're now sitting in the hotel room near the airport in Bangkok, getting ready to fly to Phuket to see Billy, Tracey and Taylor, so we've no excuse! Absolutely knackered after some monster journeys over the last four days in which we've clocked up about 1,200km, the bulk of which was in two journeys of 36 and 10 hours each. Up [View Full Entry]

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666 Words | 8 Comment(s) | 12 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: November 8th 2008 | 66 Views | [diary=342910]

On one of the iron girders on the bridge
On your bike hen!
Cheesetastic

Thailand: Islands and Bangkok So here we are again guys with another update of our latest adventures on our doss around the world. After leaving Malaysia we decided to head straight for the islands of Thailand. Thought aboout going to the jungle first, however considering the complaints of leeches (ehh, I'm ok for now thanks) and our no doubt endless comparisons to jungle life in the Amazon - we gave it a miss. So first stop Ko Samui. We had heard a few negative reports about this island "if you never want to eat local food, meet local people or hear [View Full Entry]

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828 Words | 5 Comment(s) | 40 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: October 22nd 2008 | 137 Views | [diary=337265]

Lisa in the Songthaew
Paddle, paddle
Celebrating some good news

Hi All, Our sincere apologies for the delay in updating our little blog here, but we have been tucked away on a beautiful secluded beach, which had electricity now and again and virtually no internet - but that's for another blog update. So we thought we'd better get back on the old t'internet and get blogging. This section has a few pics on Kuala Lumpur and the rest is pretty much dedicated to the islands of Perhentian. I think we may have been very lucky to have had the opportunity to visit both Pulau Perhentian and Pulau Tioman (in the last [View Full Entry]

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817 Words | 8 Comment(s) | 22 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: October 9th 2008 | 141 Views | [diary=332579]

KL Skyline
Because we're very immature
Beautiful sea view from our chalet

Well, what can I say? If you are atall miserable with the dreary weather, hacked off with your busy schedules at work/home or generally just in need for some R & R - TURN AWAY NOW!!!!!!! Crystal clear water, coral that no words can describe and fish that the best artists in the world would struggle to imagine and create... this place was stunning. From sunbathing to snorkelling, eating and sleeping - it was 5 days of total chilling out. The pictures really do tell the story for this one better than we would. The snorkelling experience will be difficult to [View Full Entry]

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297 Words | 3 Comment(s) | 26 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: September 24th 2008 | 235 Views | [diary=327052]

Self explanatory
First glimpse of the island!
Lisa getting excited

So we finally got a chance to finish off our blog on our month and a bit in India. We've just been far too busy over the last week and a half or so, what with gorging ourselves in Singapore and snorkelling off tropical islands in Malaysia, it's been a nightmare (Snarf...)! So after the Himalayas we jumped on a sleeper night train for 14 Indian hours (= add 2 on to that at least!). As you can see from the pics, the gist of it is that there are three bunks on top of each other and everyone crams on [View Full Entry]

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598 Words | 1 Comment(s) | 36 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: September 23rd 2008 | 147 Views | [diary=326663]

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Ciaran unwell at Bikaner fort hiding in the shade!
The local cricket match



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