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windingwillow - sarah cornell

Hi everyone, this is basically for my family and friends to use and a convienient way to store photo's! Docuementing my trip around the world taking in South East Asia(Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and either Cambodia or the Philipenes) New Zealand, Fiji, Australia, LA and San Francisco with my firends Tom, Ele and Clara (for various parts of the trip. We leave at the beginning of September 2005 and I think I will be gone for about a year - 6 weeks to go, okay now 4 weeks to go! Are we prepared? some might say overly, am just getting my last injections sorted out, can't quite believe am abandoning all possessions and going on an adventure of a life time!

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By windingwillow
December 27th 2006

Farewell Piccadilly, Goodbye Leicester Square............. Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

London, a few hours before I left for the airport
From the top of Lambeth Palace.thanks Ele and Family:)

This is mostly a photo blog with a list of places visited. Some of the photo's have captions and I think there is more than one page of photo's so don't forget to click next and look at the last few photo's - some would say they were the most interesting! London - after Clara's wedding, went back to london with Ele and her mum and spent my last few hours in the UK at Lambeth Palace! not too shabby......Thanks for that Singapore - I did venture out into the city briefly on the way over and would love to go [View Full Entry]

One of the many gardens in singapore airport

First views of sydney as I flew back in!

By windingwillow
August 7th 2006

I love San Francisco!!!!!!!!!!!!!! North America » United States » California » San Francisco

I heart san francisco

Day one: After arriving very early into San Fran I checked into one of the best hostels I have ever stayed in, the Green Tortoise. Its greatest appeal is the free internet and free bagel breakfast every morning but it also has little touches like a sink in the room and every dorm bed has its own indivdual light -seems like heaven to backpackers!They also do other free stuff like meals and live music and films...I could go on but perhaps I should start telling you the other reasons why I love San Francisco! Whilst enjoying my free bagel breakfast (last [View Full Entry]

street performers near pier 39 having a break dancing competition

By windingwillow
August 4th 2006

Viva las vegas and the grand canyon North America » United States » Nevada » Las Vegas

one of the views from the plane over the grand canyon (well a tiny part of it as it is huge)

I was here for two nights and decided to stay at a proper hotel on the famous Las Vegas Strip ....... well when in Vegas...........so I stayed at the Circus Circus Hotel. I met a random girl from hawaii at the airport and we spent the first afternoon and evening together exploring the Las Vegas Strip -this is the collective name for the road where most of the major hotels/casino's are found. Check out the photo's, the hotels are tourist attractions, come to vegas, visit the world, there's an eiffel tower for goodness sake! The next day I took a scenic [View Full Entry]

another view from the air with the colorado carving out the inner canyon

The Hoover Dam and Lake Hart (well, part of it)

By windingwillow
August 4th 2006

All I wanna do is have some fun, and watch the sun come up over santa monica boulevard North America » United States » California » Los Angeles

Standing in Samuel L. Jackson's shoes

Supremely jet lagged and in shock at being in a country with such a huge population again, I checked into a hostel on hollywood boulevard!Ended up staying up to try and power through the jet lag chatting to a nice girl in my room who gave me a bit of advice what to do with my time here. Day one (31st July): So today I explored Hollywood and did all the typical tourist things, the Walk of Fame (all of those stars in the pavement down Hollywood Boulevard - apparently, the stars have to pay for these stars $5000 and then [View Full Entry]

Me and if you look very closely....... the hollywood sign

The Stillers house is in there somewhere

By windingwillow
August 1st 2006

Last week sydney! Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

Roopa, Hannah and Tina at my leaving do

Twas very sad to be leaving although glad about the next adventures of travelling and returning home to see friends and family. These are just a few select pics of my last week in sydney. To tell the truth, I was ill for half of it so didn't get done half the things that I wanted to but it was good to catch up with my sydney based friends before leaving OZ. Also great to be settled for a while after being on the road for a while. Also thanks to Jenny and Chris for letting me stay for free! Was [View Full Entry]

By windingwillow
July 23rd 2006

Aussie rules!!!!!!Melbourne and the great ocean road! Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Great Ocean Road

The view from the top of the Telstra dome

Well thank you very much to Jayne and Glenn who let me stay in their flat whilst I was in Melbourne, especially as it was Jayne's first week back at work! They also took me to see an Aussie rules game at the Telstra Dome which is something I've wanted to do since before I arrived in Australia! It was the Mighty Western Bulldogs vs the Carlton Blues -it was a very tense match and at times very close. The sport it is most closely related to is Gaelic Football but there are one or two differences, for example it is [View Full Entry]

It's hard to see, and you may not believe me but that is a whale and her calf

By windingwillow
July 13th 2006

Alice Springs to Adelaide including Ayers Rock (Uluru) Oceania » Australia » South Australia

Me at Kings Canyon

Really enjoyed this trip -it was an organised 6 day tour with adventure tours and we had a fantastic time Day one: started as was to be the theme for the rest of the trip very early! Not a full minibus but almost full, the lights were off to let people sleep but most people were too excited! We arrive at our first toilet stop and its freezing! I have not been this cold in a long time - time for a hot chocolate! Then more driving and onto Kings Canyon. Kings Canyon: First we had some lunch, then its time [View Full Entry]

By windingwillow
July 6th 2006

Alice Springs Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Alice Springs

Me and Ned Kelly
This is a 7 month old joey (baby kangaroo) which is being sensitively reared (i.e. as close to how its mum would) by humans after his mother was knocked down by a car

I had a lovely day and a half visiting alice springs, I wish i'd had a day or two extra in the murder capital of australia(I'm not being sarcastic!)! There is actually a lot to do considering its in the middle of nowhere and is quite small if you compare it to Sydney. Kangaroo rehab centre: I visited a centre for rescued Kangaroo Joey's (baby kangaroo) which is well worth a visit - basically when kangaroo's get run over the joey often survives in the pouch and if not rescued will be eaten/ die slowly. This centre takes in rescued joeys [View Full Entry]

Wise words from the founder of the royal flying doctors service

By windingwillow
July 5th 2006

Surfers paradise, Byron Bay, Nimbin, Coffs Harbour Oceania » Australia » Queensland

Sunset at Surfers paradise
I love this one, its very apocolyptic

This is the last blog about my trip down the east coast of australia, it's hideously late as i've been on the road so much but here's what I remember and I hope you enjoy it! Well after leaving Noosa, we had literally a whistle stop in Brisbane (an hour between buses) where we met up with my friend Jayne who I had made whilst working in Sydney at the lovely custom call! Was really cool to catch up with her although was very brief. We also randomly bumped into some people we met on our whitsunday island trip! So it [View Full Entry]

By windingwillow
June 27th 2006

Fraser island again, rainbow beach and noosa - Camping, Kayaking and Crocodiles Oceania » Australia » Queensland

The intrepid adventurers
Us at the start of the trip, this is; (bottom row)Dan, Richard, Mirium,Jen, Tabea, Me, (Top row)Tina, Roopa and Eva

Well I've been to Fraser island before but it was part of our package and I just about had time so decided to do it again!obviously i've already done a blog entry for this place so won't say much about it and I think the photo's speak for themselves (not to mention the captions!). Rainbow beach: However this time I went from rainbow beach which is a lovely place and whilst there Eva finally got to do her sky dive and we also went sea kayaking in search of dolphins! The sea kayaking was fun although unfortunately we only saw some [View Full Entry]

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