http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/h-and-n/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from h and n en-us Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:27:05 +0000 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:27:05 +0000 Hi guys Sorry this last blog is horrifically late we have been a bit sidetracked with jobs apartments and life in general anyway here it is... the New Zealand and Australia blogWe arrived in New Zealand in March flying into Auckland which is located at the top of the North Island. After the usual hassle of finding somewhere to stay we decided to check out some of the night life and fo http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/blog-266174.html Hello everyone sorry we have been a bit slack in the blog department but here it is... it's a long one...click on one of our beautiful photos to see them all in a slideshowSo... after our New Year's celebrations in Quito we took a trip down into the Bellavista Cloud forest in Ecuador for a few days sleeping in a geodesic dome up in the canopy spotting toucans humming birds and yellow brea http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/blog-266133.html Flying over the Galapagos as you arrive is a little disconcerting as the islands just appear to be big uninhabitable volcanic rocks jutting out of the sea. I was living on Santa Cruz the most inhabited island with a lady called Aureola who is the Avon lady of the Galapagos no joke and is completely 100 off her rocker But in a very funny good way for example I got rudely awoken on xma http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/Galapagos/blog-230576.html Said goodbye to Hayley in a taxi she got out in some dodgy down town part of Quito in the poring rain which we still havenrsquot escaped and thatrsquos the last I saw of her. Wersquod spent the day at Mitad del Mundo middle of the world the correct one calculated by GPS a few years ago where there is a small ethnographicastrological museum called Museo Solar Inti an. There is http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/blog-225932.html We arrived in Antigua Guatemala at night in the rain to a dark empty house mortar bombs and what we thought was machine gun fire kept neil from sleeping but Hayley managed to nod off It was the night before the local elections and Guatemala is known to be politically unstable notably one genocidal dictator in the 80s so we were feeling quite sketchy the next morning. However we dis http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/blog-212669.html Hello everybody sorry we have been a bit rubbish getting this going but here it is...A lot has happened since the 6th August so we might be brief about some bits We landed in Calgary and only stayed a matter of hours as it was bleak and quiet it was a bank holiday we got a bus straight to Banff a mountain town in the middle of a beautiful national park the mountains rose up each side of http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/blog-198457.html