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GREECE | Sun, 27 Feb 2011 | By true-claims-stories | Views [4826]
What happened? Tell us your tale. I was on the Greek Island of Rhodes. I’d gone alone and a friend was meeting me 2 weeks later. I met some people and got to drinking. At 3am I got on the back of a motorbike with a drunk Greek guy called Dimitri.... Read more >
Tags: drinking, driving, europe, experiences, greece, motorike accident, partying, safety, terrifying travel tales, vehicles
ECUADOR | Tue, 20 Dec 2005 | By ldeutch | Views [4492] | Comments [2]
The first question I was asked when I told the director at the school that I was going to Isinlivi, was Where is that? and second, ¨How do you pronounce that? well the first I can now answer.. the second still remains unclear exactly. I decide to ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
THAILAND | Tue, 3 Jan 2006 | By dan_in_japan | Views [4232] | Comments [4]
A happy 2006 to you all. There are new pictures uploaded to the Thailand file... You know, I wonder why I do it to myself. With a banging hangover thanks to new year's, zero hours sleep for the same reason, I bode farewell to my friends on Pha-Ngan ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
WORLDWIDE | Tue, 7 Sep 2010 | By OffTheBeatenPath | Views [3030] | Comments [1]
The Traveller's Exchange So there are days that I have considered buying a recorder that
would play the following information: “Hi I’m Lauren. From America. New
Jersey. Math teacher. Traveling since July 1 st . Quit my job.
Ha ha yeah ... Read more >
Tags: backpacking, companions, experiences, gap year, off the beaten path, people, travel companions, travel. friendship
INDIA | Fri, 8 Nov 2013 | By tjrossi | Views [2531]
I've been in Delhi more than a month now and many of you are probably wondering what I'm doing here each day. I'm volunteering for an organisation called Salaam Balaak Trust teaching English and trying to support older teenagers in their quest ... Read more >
Tags: begging, child labour, delhi, india, poverty, ragpicking, street children, village
USA | Fri, 8 Feb 2008 | By all_powered_up | Views [2216]
Da-da da-da daaaa-da, da-da da-da daaaa Hawaii five-o? - no? I never originally thought I'd reach here on this trip, i wasn't even sure I'd make it here after catching my flight from New Zealand to Sydney (bizarrely it was cheaper to go this route).... Read more >
Tags: island, volcano
JORDAN | Sat, 14 Jan 2017 | By krodin | Views [1880]
Moses, Monuments and Mosaics – A Journey Through Jordan
The Queen Alia International Airport lies about 30km south of Amman. I picked up the rental car, which was conveniently located inside the terminal and headed south to Madaba, ... Read more >
Tags: archeological site, city visit, museums
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 26 Nov 2009 | By silverlady | Views [1654]
After two days sitting comfortably in Newcastle the weather was looking a lot better. I made a decision to give up rough weather unless i get caught out there unexpectedly. with my new philosophy on cruising being that i dont have plans, i dont ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Fri, 5 Jul 2013 | By cvanwyk | Views [1638]
Dinosaurs fascinated me a kid. I can remember when I was a kid, shortly after moving to Australia from New Zealand, my aunty, always happy to oblige my curiosity of the natural world, brought me to the QLD museum. Looking at the gigantic reconstructions ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Wed, 29 Dec 2010 | By sobrea | Views [1541] | Comments [2]
Our trip has changed quite a bit since the last time I
wrote! We have been spending a lot more time outdoors. We bought camping gear
when we were in Santiago and since then have camped for the last 9 nights. At
first it was hard to get used to the ... Read more >
Tags: argentina, bike tour, lujan de cuyo, malbec, mendoza, vineyards, wine tasting
INDIA | Tue, 1 Jan 2008 | By tim_and_sam | Views [1472] | Comments [1]
Happy New Year to you all! Having spent a very enjoyable and very unusual Christmas in Pondicherry we have come down to the southern tip of the subcontinent to the beaches around Trivananthapuram (try saying that after a couple of beers, or in fact ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
DENMARK | Sun, 14 Oct 2007 | By spongey | Views [1466] | Comments [1]
Sunday the day of rest, as i demonstrated by sleeping in until almost midday! though i hadn't intended too and didn't realise it until i woke up. Quick brunch and then we were off on a car trip, we went to the Lejre research center, which is a place ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
CHINA | Tue, 8 Nov 2011 | By leanneensly | Views [1096]
I have just been travelling with two lovely Dutch girls –
Judith and Marjolein (I had to call her May) they were great fun to be around
and not just for their keen sense of humour but also it was a chance to observe
how two gorgeous 20 something girls ... Read more >
MEXICO | Thu, 15 Sep 2011 | By dannygoesdiving | Views [986]
With the roadtrip at an end I headed to San Francisco airport for a flight to San Diego, arriving 2 hours early I was told my flight had been cancelled ! I was rushed through onto a flight that was leaving in 20 minutes, I made it but my luggage didn't, ... Read more >
THAILAND | Mon, 18 Feb 2008 | By chitlin5 | Views [816] | Comments [1]
AHHHHH!!! incredible. we have just returned from koh tao to bangkok, 1am on the 17th. i think i really dislike the looong bus trips and since flying seems to be even cheaper, chang mai will be by flight. Diving was great and we have a video of our ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
UNITED KINGDOM | Mon, 25 May 2015 | By davidpearlman | Views [773]
I spent a quick night in London in a hotel. As you probably know by now, if I am staying at a Marriott, Hilton, etc, it is by accident. I can't afford those places so mine are much more economincal. (plus the UK is expensive period). And after ... Read more >
THAILAND | Thu, 4 Feb 2010 | By ashleyheilmann | Views [706]
Fortunately, we got some really cheap bus tickets while we were on Ton Sai that would take us all the way to Bangkok. Unfortunately, these were the famed "Joint Tickets" that Alex had painfully experienced on his last trip to Thailand. Basically ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Mon, 18 Feb 2008 | By xocolata | Views [692]
i just finished creating my timetable, later i'll have to go to university to get it approved by a paper counsellor. hope it'll work out just fine. i'm still at the hostel (a very cool one, btw) and jenny is, too. we got into the same one just as everybody ... Read more >
Tags: life, planning phase
INDONESIA | Sun, 13 Jan 2013 | By andikabakti | Views [676]
I am a communication science student at University of Sumatera Utara, one of the biggest university in Sumatera . I am a photographer editor at SUARA USU Student Press that publish tabloid monthly, magazine, and news online. Even I must study hard ... Read more >
Tags: graphic design, photography, reading, travelling, writing
JAPAN | Mon, 29 Jun 2009 | By peter_allen | Views [664]
It's a little before 8AM, I have a flight from Palm Springs at 10:12, have to breakfast and go. Yesterday I got up at 4:45 AM to go for a drive to an inland lake called the Salton Sea with some people I met here. It was way too early, I had about 4 ... Read more >
USA | Fri, 17 Jul 2009 | By plandro | Views [647]
Well no trip of mine is complete witout getting sick and not 1 day went by after arriving in Auckland, NZ before I was sneazing, coughing, chills, fever... full on sick. Angela and I spent a few days in Auckland exploring and actually weren't that impressed, ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Sat, 10 Aug 2013 | By lhartjen | Views [573]
Tonight the stars are out, the moon illuminates my keys and there's a sweet Summer breeze at my back. Yes, I've returned home,
and I'm no longer sure where home is.
That I miss New Zealand is an understatement. This means that I will ... Read more >
Tags: #art, #auckland, #bungee, #ecotourism, #recycling, #sailing, #swimming, #wildlife
AUSTRALIA | Wed, 1 May 2019 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [498]
Flight A349 has crashed and there's a lofty task ahead. It's my job to figure out where it crashed and recover the cockpit voice recorder (CVR). The doomed plane would have gone down anywhere in Victoria so it's a very large search area. The black box ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Sat, 28 Mar 2009 | By obonini | Views [431] | Comments [5]
Oh yes, today, for the first time in my life, I did all of my own ironing. My crash course from nana Moira payed off. I was so proud of myself that I decided to take a picture so that I never forget this day. I wont be able to see how well I've done ... Read more >
GERMANY | Sun, 7 Jul 2013 | By europe2013 | Views [329]
Would have been happy to stay for a while in Munich. But Berlin beckons. Caught another of the very quick trains which did speeds of 200km and then dawdled for bits. The countryside was much less changing than the last trip. It was mainly flat, flat ... Read more >