Back in good old New Zealand... Excellent to be here, everything looks so clean green and amazing... people talk in NZ accents, AND stop for you at Zebra crossings... Lex definately looking foward to seeing her family (and both of us to seeing Christchurch!)... Merry Christmas! [View Full Entry]

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Hello...just catching up after 4 days in humid buzzing Bangkok... We caught a bus on the 20th (that was 5 hours) to the "nearby" town ofTtrat in the southeast of thailand, quite near to the Cambodian border. It was quite a shock to see hardly any tourists there, and the ratio of Thais to farangs was so refreshing after khao san!! We managed to get ourselves into a lovely guesthouse that was amazingly 100baht a night(about $4 nz) and after checking out the spectacular Trat night market, (and ez sweating and crying from some praticually hot chillies), settling into a night [View Full Entry]

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Ez here... Well here we are back in Bangkok, 3 days before we fly back to Auckland... Decided we'd get near a comp and a proper update with pics on... Lex is going to cover from leaving Bangkok, up to the islands we visited, I'll cover from there back to now! Oh and for everyone whose been asking: We arrive Auckland on the 15th December NZT. We'll then be staying with my grandparents and various extended family for about 2 weeks, and having a North Island Christmas... Then fly back to ChCh on the 29th December sometime in the afternoon/evening - [View Full Entry]

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Small amount of sewage, big amount of curry, huge amount of my sweat... in short Bangkok Yup we're safe n sound in Thailand... resombly painless 10 n a hlf hour flight (except Lex ate too much choccie!) And have even kinda slotted into the new timezone... V proud of us... managed to get ourselves safe and well to Khao San Road... cost us about 1.50NZD each for the 25k busride!! alex here....yea i ate too many bounty bars (bought with our leftover euro) and its comming back to haunt me!bangkok is VERY hot comp. to frankfurt and its a lil hard [View Full Entry]

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Hallo alex here: Saddly we didnt make it to Czech:( It would have cost 250 Euro with trains and accommodation only for one day sightseeing, so its on the agenda next time for sure. We are currently in a student flat of Silvias 20yr old brother Andres, in Frankfurt. Andres is super lovely, and after spending a yr in texas, speaks awesome english. (Its cool, because hes not particulary enchanted with America, gives him and Ez lots of common ground). Spent the last 2 evenings drinking Becks and having no bed. But sleeping on the floor isnt too bad ... Frankfrut [View Full Entry]

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Even if 'y' and 'z' are the wrong way around on their keyboards - so if there are any back to front in this entry thats the cause! Well... Monday 6th was spent on a really comftable 4 hour bus ride and relitively smooth pickup from the bus station, and here we are in Berlin, staying with Jannis and his family (which we appreciate endlessly!) The Hansen family have an amazing house - probably closer to palace really! And for three days we are occupying an entire floor (one of 4!) It also dates back to about 1900 (and think the [View Full Entry]

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Well we've been in Germany 5days!! Difficult bus ride here... over 24hours with lots of pointless waiting, and not sleeping! Borders are a pain... just getting back to almost sleep and everyone off the bus into the cold again while dogs search the bus and we wait in lines for passport control! Slight hicup with the Serbian leaving border... they had never seen a NZ p/port and as ours are relitivly new and don't have too many stamps, they were suspicious - thought that they could be fake etc! However we arrived safe (but tired - espically me - ez - [View Full Entry]

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We leave for Numburg Germany at 9.30am Morning of Sunday 29th October, from the capital Skopje (Скопје in Macedonian - which for some reason reminds me of "cronejay!") That means we have to be up and fully packed at 4.30am to catch the 5am bus the 250km to Skopje from Strumica!! Unfortunately Lex's package from home hasnt arrived... with uni enrollment forms etc... we have waited as long as we really can - the bus only goes once/week and we already only have 19 days in Germany... our flight out booked for 16th, from Frankfurt - Bangkok, Thailand! Anywa [View Full Entry]

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alex here!!!!!!!!!! feeling 100% and thanks to all the nice people for all their cool comments! wow ez is busy playing puter games, and generously let me do a quick blog all on my lonesome, even at risk of mispelling. Just a few things that i really need to get out: expresso coffee (possibily spelt wrong) is quite lovely and my uncle clark would be proud, (although he drinks long black), also that for the last week i have not been allowed to (of all things) sit on cold stones or the ground even in the sun, due to my father [View Full Entry]

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Yes you can judge by the title that Lex is in completely recovered health... otherwise it would be something more serious!! Unfortunately just Ez here again as the internet was down at the internet cafe (comeon... what kinda internet cafe has net that goes down!!) and lex got a bit tired and headed off for bed! As i was saying... she made it through (with the help of a few wee pills called painkillers - marvels of modern science!) as she was in intense pain and we had a few sleepless nights and worried moments! Still not sure on what it [View Full Entry]

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