Bucket list

After a long haul starting with overnight stay in Bribane, 7am flight to Sydney, rush through to iternational terminal to catch our 14 hour flight to Johannesburg, 3hours in J/burg airport and then 4hr flight to Nairobi, we finally arrived 26 hours later in the capital of Kenya at 1.30am. The hotel picked us up from the airport and we finally got to bed around 3am. Ian was up at 6 and I slept til 8. We walked into the city and found ourselves the target of many men trying to coax us to their market stores and story tellers acting like they were interested in where we were from but were really beggars. the city markets were really interesting with butchers, florists, fruit, art, jewelery and carving stalls. I controlled myself from buy anthing as ... read more

Sat: Our final Vancouver morning saw us up and exploring Stanley Park. We only had 2 hours so we couldn’t walk around the whole park, but it was wonderful to see. The beaver dam was impressive as the thickness of the trees this little beaver had managed to cut down was far greater than I ever thought possible. We then set off for the cruise terminal at midday. On arriving at the cruise terminal we were met with a very long queue. It took us 2 hours to get through security check only to find they then would have us seated in a customs hall for hours. After almost 6 hours of customs and processing we finally boarded the boat. What a joke! Once on the boat we found our room and headed to straight the ... read more

Perth On arriving in Perth I decided to ride around the city. I hired a bike for 24 hours (he was about to shut shop so anything less wasn't going to work). I took myself along the river path and was hoping to ride to Kings park. I found the signage to be pretty poor and ended up in a few dead ends, unable to cross major roads and on off road tracks. However I finally made it and was very impressed by the park and the fabulous playgrounds and activity areas. everyone was out enjoying a beautiful day. Sunday I took off at 6am to head to the train station. I was riding, but didn't think of the Saturday night revellers who were just heading home. Was asked a couple of times if I could ... read more

After a long flight we finally arrived at 11pm Friday in Beijing. Our cab could not get into the area of our hotel due to city being closed off for some student exercise. 100,000 students had been brought in to practice for national day march on Oct 1 at 11pm at night. We had to go to another hotel at midnight. After driving us for nearly 80 minutes we had no idea how much to pay him but the hotel told us it was $25 US. He did not seem happy but they said that was right and he left. Saturday: We were up early and moved to the Harmony Hotel as we had booked. They refunded our accommodation from the night before and the hotel was so much nicer: we were very happy. After checking ... read more

After a long flight we finally arrived at 11pm Friday in Beijing. Our cab could not get into the area of our hotel due to city being closed off for some student exercise. 100,000 students had been brought in to practice for national day march on Oct 1 at 11pm at night. We had to go to another hotel at midnight. After driving us for nearly 80 minutes we had no idea how much to pay him but the hotel told us it was $25 US. He did not seem happy but they said that was right and he left. Saturday: We were up early and moved to the Harmony Hotel as we had booked. They refunded our accommodation from the night before and the hotel was so much nicer: we were very happy. After checking ... read more