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Sun, 23 Mar 2008 | By angelas_away | Views [795]
After spending a day in Auckland, my first impression was: GET ME OUT OF THIS CITY! There's nothing wrong with Auckland itself, just that being back in a big city was horrible. Traffic, noise, huge busy streets lined with shops, people buzzing around ... Read more >
Sun, 23 Mar 2008 | By soph804 | Photo Gallery
South island photos
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Sat, 22 Mar 2008 | By smileynix | Views [571] | Comments [4]
Hi guys! Well at long last I'm finally doing what I've dreamt
of doing for the past six years or so, I'm finally going travelling. I
know technically, by today's standards,I'm a little old for a gap year
- but better late than never I say! Its ... Read more >
Sat, 22 Mar 2008 | By soph804 | Views [629] | Comments [2]
The South island is definitely better than the North! We started off in Kaikoura with a whale-watching cruise (known as a "sea-sickness cruise" to the locals); after only 10 minutes we saw a sperm whale surface! We watched him for another 10 ... Read more >
Fri, 21 Mar 2008 | By thefuegoproject | Photo Gallery
A 2 year on and off-road journey from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego
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Fri, 21 Mar 2008 | By allwelcome | Views [4873]
Our journal title is inspired by Little Britain . For those uninitiated into the delights of this duo, we have selected a short scene for you reading pleasure. Lou: Right. I've got the brochures here. Now, let's have a look and see where ... Read more >
Tags: florida, humour
Fri, 21 Mar 2008 | By claire-winder | Views [702]
We're in Hampi at the moment, in the state of Karnataka. Hampi has over 3000 temples, everywhere you look there are temple ruins and carvings of the Gods. It's so hot here, and there is no sea nearby to jump into, only a river, but we haven't sen ANY ... Read more >
Fri, 21 Mar 2008 | By tim_and_sam | Views [1385] | Comments [1]
As we boarded train 005 a storm whistled in from the Gobi and cloaked Ulan Baatar in a cold, gritty cloud of yellow dust. Peering from the window of the train we were glad to be out of the action and not exposing ourselves to the sand blasting that the ... Read more >
Fri, 21 Mar 2008 | By thefuegoproject | Photo Gallery
west coast and island ride and Fort William trails
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Thu, 20 Mar 2008 | By nadscol | Views [663] | Comments [2]
Yesterday I had to go to London to apply for my national insurance number (this seems to be like a tax file number). I had to go to a place called Tooting Bec to a Jobcentre there. As you can tell i regard this as 3 hours of my life i will never get ... Read more >
Tags: yuck
Thu, 20 Mar 2008 | By sophinda | Views [760] | Comments [1]
Hi everyone, Firstly – apologies for the strange format of the last installment. I’ve no idea why it did that, bloody computers have a mind of their own, so here’s hoping this one behaves! Thought I should get another installment in as tomorrow I set ... Read more >
Thu, 20 Mar 2008 | By nadscol | Views [437]
I went to Brighton on the weekend. It was a typical english holiday by the seaside. That is, it rained all the time. But honestly i had such an awesome time. Brighton is fantastic! I met Emma there on the friday night, we were staying at a b&b across ... Read more >
Tags: fun in the rain
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 | By angelas_away | Views [630]
I'm actually writing this from New Zealand, having arrived here at 3am this morning (Wednesday). I was really sad to be leaving South America, I've had such an amazing time and feel I have changed and learnt so much in the 4 months I spent there. I have ... Read more >
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 | By magic_johnson | Views [1014]
Arrivivng in Guangzhous (pop 3.2million) it quickly became clear that perhaps we weren't going to like this place. The smog combined with the haze of hummidty makes this place seem very clostrophobic, suphocating in fact. The people of Guangzhous are ... Read more >
Tags: backpacking, budget, five goats statue, football, gunagzhous, haze, sleeper bus, smog, travel writing, travelling
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 | By magic_johnson | Views [740]
Cold?... I cant remember who said it now, but a few people were worried that we weren't packing enough winter clothing. Upon arriving in Hong Kong, and ever since, we found it to be very hummid the heat was particularly obvious when we carried our 20kg ... Read more >
Tags: backpack, british rule, cantonesse, china, culture, hong kong, shenzen, travel, western
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