jmgrieve - Mark Grieve

I'm a South African American Kiwi;-p More kiwi now than anything else or at least that’s what my passport says.

Born in June 1982, growing up my family moved every couple years living all over SA including Swaziland! When I was 10(I think) we moved to the States to California and lived in a great little place up from Nevada city for 6 years, at which point we were forced back home for another 2 years, after failing to gain a green card the family decided to head to New Zealand in 2000 where I have been ever since…

Now after an amazing OE, seeing and experiancing amazing things i am now on to experiancing my own home, bring on NZ travels=p

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By jmgrieve
June 22nd 2007

Hints allegations and things left unsaid(Europe van cheat sheet) Europe

To all who are interested or are going on a van tour this year, here are a few hints that you may enjoy having a look at. I figure share the wealth, I would love for everyone to have as much of a great time as I did traveling around Europe. Getting a Van and touring Europe is by far the best option, Not only is it cheap (cost only 600 for gas and food for 7 weeks travel for 3 people) but you have a much better chance of seeing what a county and culture are really like. Hints: Use [View Full Entry]

By jmgrieve
June 12th 2007

Hawaii North America » United States » Hawaii » Big Island » Hilo

Blog by James Grieve My brother 12th June. Honolulu my first island of Huwaii was way cool! American though and through; big and flash. I stayed at a hostel on Waikiki beach. My hostel was one street back from the beach front and the beach was absolutely kraking! It went off from morning till late into the night! I arrived at the backpackers after lunch and had a well needed and fully deserved shower and a short nap, lugging that baggage around was no mean feet I tell you! I left for the beach that afternoon and spent the rest of [View Full Entry]

By jmgrieve
May 25th 2007

California - Wedding - Ananda North America » United States » California » Nevada City

River

San Francisco Leaving Conors at 7.20 laden with a heavy backpack and my laptop backpack on the back other on the front I headed out the door to face the chaos that is London transport. After an hour an a half and amazingly on parting with 1.80 I was at the airport 2hours early!! Amazing in itself, so I tried to find a bank in the airport to deposit the 1800 pounds I was carrying on me from selling the van, no joy!!! So I have been carrying a ^&O( load of cash with me! All in pound notes on [View Full Entry]

By jmgrieve
May 14th 2007

Amsterdam Europe » Netherlands

Amsterdam

Amsterdam Europe » Netherlands By jmgrieve May 14th 2007 Mark GrieveAmsterdam Parking, trying to meet CouchSurfers, red light district, coffee shops, park and ride, double decker train, tour, tour guide, 9% Netherlands 44% NZ, smokeing, miraculous finding of the car, breakfast, start of the long drive back to London, stoping by the ocean and seeing kits, more driving, Calais and the boy racers, chip din [View Full Entry]

By jmgrieve
May 10th 2007

Germany Europe » Germany » District of Berlin » Berlin

Berlin

Germany Europe » Germany » Berlin By jmgrieve May 10th 2007 Mark Grieve Germany After our Boarder ordeal we were happy to get on the road and stopped at Dresden, So after finding a great parking right in the middle of things we went Drinks by the river, more drinks, Diner, Cards, Berlin - rain, ditching Daniela, happy night, art building, ho [View Full Entry]

By jmgrieve
May 4th 2007

Czech Europe » Czech Republic » Prague

Czech

Czech Europe » Czech Republic » Prague By jmgrieve May 4th 2007 Mark GrieveCzech Big casino’s, shopping tesco’s, gas. Dangerous drivers, truck two head on towards us. Prague crap, cathedral, medieval show, old town, bridge, boring CS, upset van crew, Big que getting out of the boarder, crappy markets to spend rest [View Full Entry]

By jmgrieve
May 1st 2007

Austria Europe » Austria » Vienna State » Vienna

Austria

Austria Europe » Austria » Vienna By jmgrieve May 1st 2007 Mark Grieve Austria After a short drive(Slovenia isn’t that large) we were in Austria with a stamp, I kind asked for one lol, They are some really beautiful mountains! Nick and I weren’t able to find anywhere the whole time we were driving up to meet Daniela we weren’t ab [View Full Entry]

By jmgrieve
April 29th 2007

Slovinia - Ljubliana Europe » Slovenia » Upper Carniola » Ljubljana

ljubljana

Slovenia After a good set of wrong roads and closed motorways we were on our way. We ended up taking a more “scenic” route but was very nice and got so see some really nice valleys and gorges. After a good drive we arrived in Slovenia and neither nick or I got a stamp in our passports what a rip!! But getting over that we arrived in Ljublijan an we txt Matejka the CouchSurfer we were going to be staying with. After receiving some rather incomprehensible directions we headed to the main train station to see if we could book [View Full Entry]

By jmgrieve
April 24th 2007

Croatia - 7 to 1 !!!!! Europe » Croatia » Dalmatia » Zadar

Croatia

After a hot night sleeping in the cargo hold in the van, we woke up at 630 as the boat started pulling into Split harbor. After staking in the beautiful view we jumped in the van and confronted passport control who though it would be a good idea to search the van lol, so after a 15min search of the van we got our passports stamped and we were off. After filling up with cheap gas(about 73 UK cents a liter) we found a great parking spot and went for our first swim in Croatia, it was refreshing but very [View Full Entry]

By jmgrieve
April 15th 2007

italy - Milan, Bolonga, Assisi Europe » Italy » Umbria » Assisi

italy

italy - Milan, Bolonga, Assisi Europe » Italy » Assisi By jmgrieve April 15th 2007 Mark Grievemore about what happened later [View Full Entry]

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