Destination: United Kingdom

Chinese Whispers

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 | By an_oliver | Views [585]

16 th November 2007: - Today we have decided to hire bikes & make a journey to Baisa about 7 km out of town.   Our journey is easy enough with no hills, thank goodness & majority of the time we are quiet roads.   One of the reasons we are ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

Bear country

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 | By jule5 | Views [400]

After a great  couple of days in San Francisco, it's a joy to be in the country. San Fran was  good, got to fulfill  an ambition to  hang off the side of a cable car, walk the Golden Gate bridge, see Lombard St where the cars zig  zag down, and yesterday ... Read more >

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Jolly Old England

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 | By rtumicki | Views [679]

I am ready to start another walk now that I have been sitting and eating for the last week.  Coming to England has been a great rest spot.  Hamid is a wonderful host and an excellent cook.  He lives in Windsor and since Windsor is small you always have ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

Gallery: Piers and Proposals

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 | By sean_and_liana | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Lovely London

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 | By stanzz | Photo Gallery

London to LAX

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 | By jule5 | Views [435]

Before we start, just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who sent best wishes and made such an effort to say bon voyage. Monday the 19th was crazy, as usual 'Last minute Jules' came into action. Spent all day racing around tidying up admin, eventually ... Read more >

Tags: planes trains & automobiles

Gruezi from the Land of Chocolate

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 | By whiteelephant | Views [3851]

Monday morning’s commute to my daily grind was a real bitch.....I flew in from Switzerland! While my head is still spinning from the fact that you can actually do that over here, I thought it was about time to give you an update on the last few ... Read more >

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BFG's!

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 | By sassybabe | Views [627] | Comments [1]

Yet another early start for our trip elephant trekking. It was again a very very hot day and this time our transport was a Songthaew with other people from the lodge. As we haired off to the place for the elephant trekking we did wonder if we could ... Read more >

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Kayaking like pro's!

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 | By sassybabe | Views [762]

This morning saw us heading off at 8am for a guided kayak tour of the lake. I had never done this before and Clair had limited experience that said we mastered it very quickly to our amazement!  It's fair to say it did give me a buzz!! While on our ... Read more >

Tags: The Great Outdoors

My year abroad - Statistically speaking

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 | By jonnygo | Views [1454]

Below are the stats on my travels over the last 9 months Favourite country - Vietnam (phenominally rich in culture, colours and people) Hippest city - Rio (a natural wonder) Hottest girls - Brasil and Vietnam (quite different but both stunningly ... Read more >

Tags: Travel Tips

Randomness in Lima

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 | By angelas_away | Views [438] | Comments [1]

So today I arrived in Lima, had to get up at 4am for a 7:30am flight. I arrived at the airport and suddenly realised it was very different from Brazil, which I had started to get used to over the last 2 weeks. So an awkward hour or so hanging around ... Read more >

Tags: Food & eating

Wilderness!

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 | By sassybabe | Views [554] | Comments [1]

OMG 4 o' clock!.......there is more than one 4 in the day!.....who knew! After only 5 hours sleep we heaved our heavy aching bodies out of bed and got ourselves ready to go to the airport. We checked out and jumped in a cab and sped off to the airport ... Read more >

Tags: The Great Outdoors

Big BankOk!!

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 | By sassybabe | Views [600]

Our big quest for today was trying to find a Bangkok bank as it turns out we had each bought enough Baht to employ a person for a year! We decided that the most sensible move was to first go to the Royal Palace to have a nose around.  So once again ... Read more >

Tags: Snow

Watch Out Bangkok....We're Here!!!!!!

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 | By sassybabe | Views [832] | Comments [2]

Upon our arrival in Bangkok we were instantly hit by the 33 degree heat....let's face it when you come from a country basking in a glorious winter sun that places the surrounding air at a refreshing -3 it's a bit of a shock to the system to land tired ... Read more >

Tags: planes trains & automobiles

Salvador and Sao Paulo

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 | By angelas_away | Views [463] | Comments [1]

I love Salvador! I was gutted to leave on Saturday, and if I´d been able to change my flights and just stopped off at Sao Paulo on the way to Peru, I would´ve done. Had so much fun there - I met three girls at the hostel and we took off for 2 days to ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures