http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/wansan/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from wansan en-us Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:47:04 +0000 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:47:04 +0000 hi allwe are in argentina at the moment been here 2 weeks. ill fill you in on the new zealand anticswe arrived in Aukland to be greated by rain and a temp of 10 degreesbit of a change from fiji. 1st job was to get some warm clothes. Aukland is not the prettiest of cities especially in the rain. we had arranged to travel both the north and south island on the Magic Adventures tour bus. so after http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-429802.html hi allsorry its been so long i am so rubbish at keeping you updated and im lazywe have done loads since my last entry from brisbane so again i will try and keep it brief.we had another 8 weeks in oz after my last blog so from brissy we carried on up the coast with the van still working which was very suprising we hit all the lovely beach places Caloundra where we got lost in a maze it was desi http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Greymouth/blog-419943.html hi allagain ive not updated you for ages so here goeswe left sydney and after getting very lost trying to get out of the city we finally made it onto the highway. we have discovered that tores our van does not like going faster then 80kph about 50mph and protests every time we try by flashing the check engine light so we have learnt that if you talk to him like a baby and dont exceed that sp http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Brisbane/blog-394227.html hiwe are still staying with my friend but will be leaving in the next few days. we have bought a camper van. it is very old but it goes the rego runs out out on 24th of may and we are not sure if it will get through the next 1 so we are getting on the road to get our moneys worth.at the moment it is raining here and the highway we need to go on to get up the east coast is partially blocked due to http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Manly/blog-386601.html hi alljust wanted to quickly say thank you to those who are keeping track of us and sorry if this blog is hard to use. i will try to put some more pictures on but it takes soooooo long. Also my phone has broken so can you email your numbers to leannewilbyhotmail.co.uk or you can tx on my oz number 61450084379anyway i last wrote when we were in melbourne and we are now in sydney and have been to http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Manly/blog-382918.html hiwell we have moved to melbourne. After nearly 3 weeks of not doing a great deal in Aldinga Adelaide we hired a relocation van to get us to Melbourne. this basically means we get a camper cheaper then usual as the rental company needs it back at a certain time. so we picked up the van in Adelaide proceeded to get lost trying to get out of the city and finally we hit the road. the coastal route http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/St--Kilda/blog-377206.html hello all were currently in adelaide south australia before anybody worries were a long way from all the bush fires in melbourne victoria although we are heading to melbourne in two weeks but its away from all the devastation that you may be hearing on the news.were heading there for a week then were flying out to tasmania free flights we only have to pay the tax..bargain. any way we http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaide/Onkaparinga/blog-372120.html helloyesterday i finally saw a living kangeroo up to now the only ones we have seen have been dead on the side of the road anyway we were having a swim as it was boiling yesterday and 2 came out of the bushes they were having a good nosey at us then later they were in the camping area presumably looking for food. bless they are so cute.so we drove to esperence after albany its a lovely place w http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Esperance/blog-367540.html hi all lots to report so ill try and keep it brief.we set off in the van wed 14th jan to meet a friend further north of perth there we stayed at his mad aunts house who is way cool and me nick and steve got hammered at this cool club in Leaderville. then we gatecrashed steve and his step dad even further north at their beach house in guilderton. it was gorgeous and very hot so hot 50ks down the http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Albany/blog-365956.html hi allwe we made here to perth. we landed wed 8th jan 3pm local time that was after 3 flights and yet another night with no sleep airport floors are not comfyour friend dave who we met on our last trip picked us up from the airport and we went to stay with him in fremantle. he is house sitting for a lady who is traveling for a while she has 4 dogs and hundreds of birdbudgie things. Finally i http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Fremantle/blog-362929.html we are in singapore airport at the moment waiting for our 3rd flight of the dayits been a long 1so we eventually made it to Probolinggoor pelligrino as nick called it in his last bloghe used to play for liverpoolwe went to the public bus station in Bali which took an hour then waited on the bus for 3hrs until it was full. we arrived in Probolinggo 8.5hrs later with the intention of heading http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/Changi/blog-361215.html hello all this is gonna be short and Sweet as were currently waiting for a bus ltit was supposed to pick us up between 6 and 7 last nightgt but hey ho .were heading north towards pelligrino from there were gonna make our way to mount bromo.mount bromo being one of the largest volcanoes in indonesia and were gonna try and get up it.well ill let you know how we get on take carenick an lea http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/Legian/blog-359496.html hope you all had a great new year we did. nick nick and i went down to our fave bar here calleed little wing where they have a live band on everynight and basically anything goes in there we intended to move on to 1 of the big clubs but never made it as ht e atmosphere was amazing everyone dancing singing swopping drinks and blowing horns we had agreat time the boys nick and nick baught http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/Kuta/blog-358978.html hi allwe made in 1 piece just flight was long with lots of food. got straight here and went out on the raz seen as it was my bday. digs are basic but we are hardcore backpackers now we dont need air con or a sink or a door that is bigger then 4 foot funny will put pics on soonfound a cool bar with live music and buckets my life is complete for those who have never been to asia a bucket is http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/Kuta/blog-353353.html we are still here and yes have had a few more drunken nights haven't actually seen anything apart from the insieds of bars upto now. everybody is so friendly it would be rude not to have a beer with themwe are gonna make our way to the next island Lombok tomorrow which is a 2hr bus ride follwed by a 5 hr boat ride followed by another 2 hr bus journey all for 10 quid. we could have done it quick http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/Kuta/blog-353835.html hi allwell we arrived in lombok 24 hrs after we originally planned as we are lazy but it did take eight hrs so we had to prepare.not a bad journey though we got to see a bit of bali as we drove through u bud the cultural capital basically painting shops and sculptures everywhere it was cool though .then onto our 5 hr slow boat journey from pandang bai to lambar harbour in lombok then a taxi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Lombok/Sengigi/blog-354688.html we actually did something worth writing about today we went to a monkey shrinetemple and they were running about all pver the place we baught bananas and the cheeky things snatched them out of nicks pocket nearly pulling his trousers down in the process it was a good job it was nealr as he was commando i had a mum and tiny baby sit on my knee for ages must be my maternal nature ha ha. the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/blog-358230.html hi everybodyhope alls well back at home were currently having a whale of a time.The past couple of days we felt we should go out and see a bit of bali so me lea my mate craig and his new wife carlie borrowed nicks driver.our other friend from home its like a hull reunion out here.we went out to a monkey sanctuary theres around 300 apparently running free lee had them sat on her lapcraig http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/Legian/blog-358469.html heythis is our first blog as you can see we haven't gone anywhere yet but its not long now http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/blog-326358.html