http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/janstad/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from janstad en-us Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:02:14 +0000 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:02:14 +0000 HolaaaaaaaaSo a slight change of plans. No silvermine. When we found out that it would take 1dqy to get there we just went to Kyoto instead. A quite big city which reminded a lot of London. At least what I saw of it. We got a no e room at the. Heapedt hotel in town even cheaper than hostel the out downside with living at Hotel is the lack of Internet and chance to meet other backpackers. But i http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Kyoto/Kyoto/blog-416414.html Off again and the ferry and train. On the ferry a small girl maybe 3 yeas old called me Godzilla and waved very eutusiastic at me a lot of people stare an Im getting tired of it. Kids I can understand but the worst people are old ladys. Maybe changing place on the train platform to have a better look. I just want to tell her yes I'm tall. I am pale and I'm from Sweden Stop staring I als http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Oita/Beppu/blog-415375.html Update 1Day 1 Tanegashima is the first island directly south of japan. We got there today after a long journey from Hiroshima. We read that they have a nice 12km long beach with surfing possibilities. Sea turtles layig their egg there now. Also said to be hot sprigs here were you can relax under a water fall. We walked to thetourist info in Hiro http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/blog-413085.html Today I wake up at 6 it's plus 8h gmt here. Called my girl but he Internet in Osaka was rubbish. So we chatted I've msn instead. It was better. Then I woke up fredrik. We went and bought a couple of rice balls. They like to put things on sticks here aswell. Yesterday I had a sausage on a stick. Nice. After the riceballs we checked of. Walked tofhe station and took the Frau to Hiroshima. Slept 1 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hiroshima/Hiroshima/blog-412815.html So finally it was time to leave new Zealand behind us and after a 3h flight to sidney. A 7h wait and then 10 flight to Tokyo we were exausted. Even though we slept some in the plane. And finally warm air. Ash. The bad thing is that I now have a lot of unnecessary cloths. But I've put them in a sleepingbag case and comprimised them like winrar so they take no space. But still they take up half of http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Osaka/Osaka/blog-412812.html Soooo back in christchurch. Long lazy boring days win not much to do. I get to think a lot. Calm down the lady back home. Mexicana with a temperament she is. That's why I love her. Alwas somethig going on. So tomorrow it's japan then back home in London again. WiiiI cut feddes hair today. Then I shaved his head. Dr evil. Mo Hahahahahaha A HahahahahaGrooveyJust saw surfs up. Penguins surfing. I mi http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Christchurch/blog-411352.html So... Back in queenstown again. I feel like I'm finnished here now and there is not more to do. I'm home sick as well which doesn't makes things easier. Today has been the worst day since I left. Fidde went to Auckland to see cat one last time but it was too much money for me to put down to be the 3d wheel. So today I slept in but couldn't sleep. I just thought of my beautiful girl back home where http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Queenstown/blog-409328.html After a lay day in quenstown with a night out at the pub to say good bye to some new friends we made along the way. We even had custom made shirts saying let's play connected best drinking game ever awesome fun. I'll try to upload some photos when I'm back I queenstown of Christchurch. After 3h of sleep we are of next morning. Fedde has to say a sad goodbye to cat and en we are off down south. W http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Bluff/blog-407888.html Well well here we go again. This time we go go go to queenstown. The bus trip is going fast. A bit too fast according to our calculations. On the website it said the trip would take 17 days. Okey we though so that will give us 1 week in queenstown then we are off to japan. But we are already here in queenstown. We have just the south part of nz left with the bus and that's a 3 days trip. So we hve http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Queenstown/blog-407100.html Leaving the glacier behind and heading foe a small town called makarora. On the way we stopped at fox glacier I have a look from a distance. Fox is just another glacier but boring because it doesn't have the same hilly landscape. And after that we drove down to mirror lake. A lake that reflect everything just like a mirror. It was amazing to we the reflection of he mountains and the pine Forrest. http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Makarora/blog-407058.html Of again to the next town. This time franz josef and the glacier that is located there. The bus made some small stops on touristy places. We stopped by the coast and walked on the hills next to the thundering water 50 meters below us.pretty cool. Fedde and his girl walked and made jokes as usual. A spoke some to markus. An other Swedish dude on the same bus. Got some pretty cool pics. And thy are http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Franz-Josef/blog-406729.html After picton we once again sat is fat asses on the bus to the next town. This time it was marahau. A town next to a national park with amazing nature just around the corner. It was really small and didnt have connection so I couldn't call my beautiful babe waiting back home. By the way. My Swedish phone doesn't have connection anywhere. So if there is something pressing call or text my uk phone. http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/blog-405057.html After a fun night at the hostel with some nice kiwis from christchurch in kiakoura or whatever I went to bed and the next day left for picton. It's really cold and snowing. Even the locals are suprised. I'm not. We drove next to the ocean and magnificant waves crushed into powder as we passed. We stopped for a small hike up to a waterfall. There we found dussins of sealions plying in the small http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Picton/blog-403721.html After a little bus trip we arrive to kaikoura. A small little town by the sea with a view over the mountain. Unreal. Me and fedde went on a little fishing trip today. Fish some cod. We got like 5 each. Our captain missed 1 leg and a couple of fingers. Lost them to a shark the legend says. I didn't dare to ask.Fun fact. Only fedde and the rest of the bus is packed with ladies. Haha. Odds on his sid http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Kaikoura/blog-403477.html After 30h flight and 2 stops in the customs and 1 random bomb search for fedde we arrived to Christchurch. Tired as hell we fell asleep and slept for 16h then just tried to turn the night to day again. worst jetlag ever It's cold here too 10 degrees ajdni isolation in the houses. Rubbish. Now we are just waiting for our bus tour to start on Saturday. We are going to explore. The south island with http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Christchurch/blog-403475.html Finally back in London and with it gorgeous girlfriend again. I missed her a lot and it as great to see her again. Fedde didn't really like it ubt he'll get his time when we to to new Zealand. Everything were the same in good old london. In the days we explored London and in the evenings we spent time at the house or went out. Also saw angels and demons. It was ok and it was good we went to the Va http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-403473.html So after a hungover time in Paris we took the metro with the serial killer to the trainstation. Miraculusly met the Danish guys on the train along with two girls the spoken to. We took in at a lokal hostel and the rest is history. We had some crazy night there including a pubcrswl in the red light district. Truly weird place. Wr drank some foamy beer. Also we can't eat bananas anymore. And it's a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/North-Holland/Amsterdam/blog-403470.html So we went with train from Nice to paris. Said goodbuy to the crazy danish guys and 6h later landed in paris.we are getting used to the life on the road now and found a hostel quite easy. then we relaxed. had a shower and went to eat some stuff. french people are quite rude actually. never look you in the eyes. If you cant speak french they don't speak to you. crazy. the next day we slept longer t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Ile-de-France/Paris/blog-399652.html So its nice here in nice. on the south coast fo france. weather is okey. a bit cloudy but i think im gonna be able to get a lovely suntan anyway. we are staying here for one more night. then its of to paris.Nice is actually quite nice. its nothing to do or to see here so a lot of people tend to hang out in the hostel in the evenings so its a really good atmosphere. yesterday we had a couple of bee http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Provence-Alpes-C-te-d-Azur/Nice/blog-398308.html RomeSo after venice we arrived to rome. A nice day warm day. our hostel was very central 5 minutes from the station and 5 minutes to colusseum. we went to get something to eat and then walk around a bit. we saw the colusseum but we said to eachother. not to take to many pictures. save if for tomorrow. after that we went out and had a beer. also very expensive. but since we didn't drink that much w http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Rome/blog-397963.html