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At the airport, we made our way to the British Airways desk to drop our main backpacks off, and I greeted the gentleman behind the counter with a friendly "ohio gozaimasu." He seemed to take an eternity to look at our passports, and was busy pressing ...
The Great Ocean Road: Warning, Very Wet
Another day, another bus tour! This time only eight of us setting out from Melbourne and only three of us really speak English; there's an Austrian couple, an Indonesian couple, a middle-aged Finnish man, a middle-aged Australian woman on the way to ...
Out of Asia
The next morning (19th) we got up by 10:30 because we had to check out by 12:00 and hadn't packed anything yet. Considering we didn't get to bed until 5 in the morning the few hours of sleep that we got just really didn't cut it ...
London
I met Rick by the London Eye. It was a drizzly, damp, gloomy day. Normal London weather, I suppose, but not exactly promising sweeping vistas of the skyline. Ah well, we boarded our capsule and were bourne up towards the sky. Water droplets stuck to the ...
A new chapter.
So I left you and left my travel blog in March! I was in Agra India and had about of month traveling left in me. So where am i now and why has it taken me 7 months to get back on this web site? First i will start with where i left off. We ...
Weird
Friday we land and go to Barnet for the first time to see unborn Nephew, Ben (and James and Liz). Saturday we realise we don't have a visa for Vietnam and we kind of need one. Shit. Sunday we have lots of family and friends over and they are ...
Returning to old haunts- and some good new ones
I caught the train to Bristol for the weekend. Jacqui greeted me at the station, we picked up some proper West Country doorstep sandwiches and then went to Jacqui's place to eat them, whilst resisting Rosie the beagle's most endearing efforts to look ...
First day in Inverness
We arrived in town at around 2:00pm, June 1, and got settled into our hostel (which was right beside the bus station). We spent the rest of the day just chilling in the t.v. room. We did go on a free walking tour of the city centre of Inverness at ...
We're starting to smell!
Well the overnight flight from Toronto to London went pretty well. We seemed to have been being followed by a screaming baby from the airport terminal to two seats ahead of us on the plane to the bus when we were getting of the plane. (It reminded us of ...
Edinburgh castle
Since we booked our flight out of Scotland with Ryan Air we had to print out our own boarding passes (pain in the butt!) or we would have to pay extra at the airport. We aked the hostel owner where we could print from and she really ...
We're in london still..
Alright? Hope everyone hasn't given up on the blog but not much to report again. Our last few days in London went quite quickly. We visited the National Gallery a few times for the free tours they offer. There was a great selection of paintings ...
Intrepids Explorers Extraordinaires
Impelled with a similar thought; Intrepids of what lies before us, Explorers Extraordinaires, we embark on a journey … And soon the great voyage begins! For the time being, it's a matter of completing the non-cinematographic bores before any ...
Up up and away............
Hello to everyone again. Paul and Ciara are back on their travels again. Hope you all missed our online updates. We left Belfast at 8.10am on an easyjet flight to Luton on 3rd September. As we didn't need to fly out of London Heathrow until 9.30 pm ...
God vs Science
Our train left around 9:00am and we had to transfer before getting to Cardiff but it only took about an hour and a half in total (much different from the 13 hr train rides in China!). It was unfortunetly raining the entire morning so our walk to the ...
Resting at Tara, and preparations for my next trip
I plan on stopping at the Tara Centre for a few weeks to meditate, work on my spiritual journey, buddhism and I have started planning my next trip. Looks like its off to the Alps Around Decemebr, or January for ski mountaineering with ...
First day in Bath
We had to catch our train from London to Bath at 12:00pm so we decided to get to the station around 11:00am because we figure its better to be early than late and we weren't yet sure how the train system in the UK ran. After we arrived at Bath we ...
London Bridge is Falling Down
Our first full day in London we managed to get up at a decent time and were out of the hostel by 9:30 (we're pretty sure the time change helped with that). We took the train into the city centre to the London Bridge station. The Borough Markets are ...
Bon Voyage! Heathrow - day 1
So, the day had finally arrived. In the preceding few days, both Lauren and Ross were still frantically trying to tie-up loose ends in readiness for their flight of freedom. For example, on a day that should have been for quiet time ...
London City
London, a capital of Great Britain, is a place full of magical, details and excitement! I just love it! London Eye The London Eye is one of the largest observation wheels in the world. It stands 135 metres (443 feet) high on the western end of ...
Kings, Queens and Double Decker Buses
Visit Klenske, Ink. It may have took us a bit longer to get here then expected, but we made it, just the next day. We flew out of Dubuque fine, but once we boarded our plane in Chicago, and sat there on the runway for two hours, we were told that it ...
Long Flight to London
Nothing much to write about today. Narita airport is around 90 minutes from Shinjuku station so by the time you add in the train from our hotel to Shinjuku time to get tickets etc, we had to get up at 6:30am for our flight at noon! The flight was ...
Introduction
This travelogue will be the home to my upcoming journey around the world with my pal Vinny. The idea, in it's simplest form, is to go once around the globe without resorting to air travel. Along the way, we plan to watch England beat Brazil in the ...
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
"You know why they put oxygen masks on planes? Oxygen gets you high. In a catastrophic emergency, you're taking giant panicked breaths. Suddenly you become euphoric, docile. You accept your fate. It's all right here. Emergency water landing - 600 miles ...
A day of travels
What to say. First we headed out to New York on the good old AA. The usual rituals, packing the luggage and weighing them to get them as close to 23KG as we can (or a bit over). In New York we camped at the BA lounge for a couple of hours before we ...
Fun and Frustration in England Lake District
So, we set off to do something we'd been anticipating for quite a while. We visited a national park in England called the 'Lakes District’, which often spoken of by our English friends as a beautiful place to go, a ‘must visit’ in ...
Back to Blighty and Bristol beckons
And so we retuned to Blighty*. We arrived at Heathrow airport in glorious sunshine, having flown up the Thames and circled over London for a while, easily identifying the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, London Bridge, the Olympic grounds. It was ...
The Clock In San Dimas
It's weird, you know. Less than three weeks to go before we set off on a journey that could take years. The amount of things there are to do is astounding. I've got to somehow move out of my flat, store my possessions I don't want to throw away at my ...
Beers of the World
A little project during our travels was to sample the beers (and ciders) of the world. Here's some photos of those we loved and loathed, enjoyed and endured. Some photos were just too fuzzy to include. I wonder why?!*$!! Most notable were: ...

