Around the world with scuba and rollerblades.
About this blog
We quit our jobs, sold all our stuff, got a couple of backpacks, and headed west.
Our first train was cancelled due to a fire in the Chunnel. On our first flight Britsh Airways lost all our luggage.
But wait...
There's more to come...
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So, you wanna know who we are? -
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Pre(departure) clearance??? -
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Departure Clearance -
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Katie -
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Leaving for Orlando -
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Arrival in the States -
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More rockets than you can shake a stick at -
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The laptop saga 1 -
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The laptop saga 2 -
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The laptop saga 3 -
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Everglades and the Keys -
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Driving the Keys -
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Key West -
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Key West diving and party time! -
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Sunset at Key West -
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Jules Verne Underwater Lodge -
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Diving for Dummies -
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Driving to Fort Myers -
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There's something crunchy in my chewing gum! -
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Tooth repair in St Petersburg -
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Losing passports: its my hobby! -
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Welcome to Greece -
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A woman with a mission: on our way to Destin -
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Destin and back -
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Cruising the freeway at 70mph -
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Motel rooms in the USA -
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Change planes -
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Mexico City: the arrival: Vodka et al -
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Chasing a bus in Mexico City -
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Mexico City: a day in mineur -
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The pyramids of Teotihuacan -
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Rollerblading? The zoo? HRC! -
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Museo Frida Kahlo -
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Culture, culture and broken camera -
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Mexico City: a new camera and faits divers -
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Acapulco: here we come!!! -
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HRC and beach in Acapulco -
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Earthquake, etc -
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Diving in Acapulco -
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Preparing the next step -
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Get off bus, get on plane -
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To Cancun -
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Am I impressed yet? -
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The backpackers hostel -
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HRC and A/C!!!!! -
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Chichen Itza -
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Diving in Cancun -
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Cancun: another day, another motel -
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The party boat -
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Cancun: the final chapter -
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Get off bus, get on ferry -
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Start of Cozumel: bad end to Cancun -
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First 2 days in Cozumel -
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Tony plays computer games when all of a sudden... -
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Diving at last? -
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Diving days in Cozumel -
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The next 4 days in Cozumel -
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Another lousy day in paradise -
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Love in times of cholera -
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Our last day in Cozumel -
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Get off ferry, get on bus -
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Get off Mexican bus, get on Belizen bus -
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To Belize -
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Welcome to Belize -
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First dives in Belize -
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The Great Blue Hole: the dive of my life!!! -
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Where M hugs a shark and T is scared (AND admits) -
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Change plane -
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Short stopover -
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Bye to Ambergris, hello to Placencia -
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Suckers, that is what... -
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The adventure starts! -
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Say bye to Belize and hi to Guatemala -
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We are in Guatemala! -
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Guatemala day 1 -
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Of mice and pigs -
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Back to Puerto Barrios by ferry -
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Change from minibus to ferry -
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When boats grow wheels ... -
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Honduras, would you believe? -
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I have news for you -
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I wanna go home -
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'I am not coming diving' -
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A lazy day in paradise -
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Diving in Honduras: the procedure -
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Planning to leave Honduras, the whoooole day! -
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Change planes -
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Ladies and gentlemen: the Grand Cayman -
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Hubby, you have huge stingrays on your head -
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3 days diving in Grand Cayman -
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Rest in Grand Cayman? -
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Where Marina asks a security guard if he wants -
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Little Cayman: my best dive ever -
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Hubby's birthday!!! -
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Steak and horror movie day -
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Our last diving day in the Caymans -
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Overnight in Gran Canary -
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Overnight -
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Hedonism III -
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Minibus to plane -
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Hi, Curacao, or not -
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Here Curaçao -
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Discovering Willemstad -
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Big news from Curaçao -
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Midnightswim -
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Where Dr T gets a new hairdo and new sloefkes -
107
North and East of the Island -
108
Things (once again) do not work out as planned -
109
Not naked today or maybe -
110
Another shore dive -
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Bonaire, am I impressed yet??? -
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I am the man -
113
NOT happy holiday homes -
114
My Hubby my Hero -
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No diving but ... -
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Cry baby, cry -
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Our crappy apartment in Aruba -
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Jehovah's witnesses -
119
Hubby, you lost your tank -
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To car or not to car -
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The north of the island -
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1 lazy day, 3 days diving, or not -
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This is goodbye -
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Dr T's goodbye to Aruba -
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Arrive Schiphol, jump on train to Brussels -
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Back in Melsbroek -
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A trip to the spa -
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Goodbye Brussels -
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Tears and overnight at Schiphol -
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At last, its warm again! -
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Jetlag in Singapore -
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Who's the man??? -
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Now: the truth about the wakeboarding -
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Our big rollerblading day -
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Zoo and HRC -
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Harley AND rollerblading -
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Down under -
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Wheels in Perth -
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Luckily we are travelling while we are healthy -
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One week further in Perth -
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Spring in Perth -
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Bye to Down Under, in the middle of the night -
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Must be a safe island: you need 3 keys to get in -
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The weather is perfect, we go diving! -
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The lion sleeps during the day -
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A Mauritius' beach day: it is like a honeymoon !!! -
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'Out of air': a signal no diver wants to give/get -
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Sugar museum: one of the best I have seen EVER! -
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Through the jungle with only... -
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Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanic Gardens, ... -
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Thousands of screaming children Natural Park -
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The graveyard of the forgotten dead -
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The Seychelles. Neither tomatoes nor onions. -
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Whale shark alert in Mahé -
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Floating tank spotted in the Indian Ocean: twice ! -
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Southern coast line of Mahé -
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Lost day in paradise -
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Moving WITHIN the Seychelles -
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The cranky dive mistress, my friend -
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Tilly -
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Visitors in the Seychelles -
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Whose idea was this??? -
163
Thank you, Mark and Linda -
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Hello Mauritius. Bye Mauritius -
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Madagascar: like nothing I have seen before -
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Meet: the lemur -
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Hedonistic experience in Madagascar -
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Where Dr T and M save a pussy cat -
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Nosy Be: Madirokely: who chose this??? -
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Thourista: this time me! -
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Diving at Nosy Be -
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3 more days at Nosy Be -
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Till we meet again -
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Jo'berg -
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Towards Kruger -
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Masodini Private Lodge -
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Kruger: here we come -
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Where we get up early AND do a dusk safari -
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Special entry for my kittie -
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Lower Sabie, Kruger -
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Swaziland: where is that ? -
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Welcome to Zulu Kingdom -
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Http://www.places.co.za/html/1979.html -
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Only one picture today, you must be happy -
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NOTHING is for free in this world -
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Lupus Den -
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More elephants than you can poke a stick at -
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Thank you, Girls -
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Let there be wine -
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And then there WAS wine: lots ! -
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Our fancy apartment in Cape Town -
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Heading towards Namibia -
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Crossing the Namibian border -
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To the capital of Namibia: Windhoek -
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Discovering Windhoek -
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Lazy day at the swimming pool -
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Solitaire village -
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The most beautiful dunes in the world -
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Nieuwjaarswensen -
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New Year Wishes -
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New Year's Eve in Windhoek: Joe's Beer Garden -
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Laziest New Year ever -
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Going to Walvis Bay for a reason -
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Sand boarding ... -
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Flamingos for Michal -
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To jump or not to jump -
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Happy birthday, Broekske -
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Dildo National Park -
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Zebras and more zebras !!! -
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It is OUR lion ! -
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Waving at Angola -
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Waving at Angola, Zambia AND Botswana -
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Arriving in Botswana -
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Victoria Falls: from the ground ... -
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Victoria Falls: ...and the air -
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We eat worms ! -
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My hubby, my hero -
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Where Dr T and M ALMOST rent a toilet -
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Will we have a rim today ??? -
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A Venetian gondola in Africa -
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Capital of Botswana -
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A day talking to you -
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We are backpackers again -
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Happy birthday, Elise -
225
A German and tiger prawns in Maputo -
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Where did you take me now ? -
227
Let me tell you some facts about Mozambique -
228
Sky diving is for pussies, try ... -
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Maputo again, then Witbank -
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Walking through Paris in my shorts -
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Annie meets us with a bottle of Champange -
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The Brother, the Nephew, and the Girls from Gent -
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Back to Brussels for the evening -
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We eat some nice steaks -
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I get my knee removed and put in a jar -
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We rent a castle for the weekend -
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Plaske -
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Party time -
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Carnival !!! -
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The house that Jo built -
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Say goodbye to Belgium -
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Linda: our hero - Linda: onze heldin -
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Salamat Pagi, Kuala Lumpur -
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In case you are wondering about Malaysia: -
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Us, lazy bastards -
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Flor De La Mar -
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A day to forget -
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Culture is NOT that thing between your toes -
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Hawker centre -
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Happy birthday Wes !!! -
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Head cold: it must be the weather ! -
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Jalan Sehala -
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A long and winding road ... -
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Talking about winding roads... -
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AirAsia -
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Our first experience in Borneo -
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Hubby farts his way through the night -
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Stop looking: we found Nemo ! -
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A day at the office -
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One more of the top 100 dive sites in the world -
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Muck diving -
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We got bitten again ! -
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Arriving in Sandakan today, we hope ... -
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18 + only -
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Getting the finger already -
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SPECIAL ENTRY FOR TONY -
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Diving Lankayan Island -
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Sandakan, previous capital of Borneo -
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A room too small to take a picture off -
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The first days in Australia -
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A day in emergency -
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A week sick at home -
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Tim and Crystal -
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Last mail from Australia -
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Welcome to Bali -
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Meet the USAT Liberty -
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We lost our camera ! -
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Wanna see Bali ABOVE water ? -
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Night diving -
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From East to West in 3 hours: find out why -
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3 days diving in Menjangan -
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It is the same Kamikaze driver ! -
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Ear infection, laptop crashes, sunglasses broken: -
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'Honey, you left your t.ts on the balcony !' -
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Http://www.bubbagump.com/locations/bali.html -
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Manneke Pis in Bali -
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31 hours in the Hard Rock Hotel Bali -
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All roads lead to Guam -
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Flying to the Hard Rock Café -
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All roads still lead to Guam -
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Topl.ss girls everywhere,even in church.T l.ves it -
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The weather is Belgium is better ! -
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Jaws !!! -
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Still do not feel well and have a lovely day ! -
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About box fish and rats -
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I am attacked AND bitten ! -
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Meet Yap, above water -
298
To Palau -
299
We dive nr2 of the top 100 dive sites of the world -
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No pictures for a while since ... -
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The most dangerous dive site in the world -
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Breath taking: from the air for a change -
303
Chandelier chambers and blue holes -
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R & R in Guam -
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Is diving supposed to be fun ??? -
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Jumping out of a perfectly good plane -
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Back in Micronesia -
308
Oops, I did it again! -
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Happy birthday, Hubby !!! -
310
Chuuk diving -
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It is a sad day ... -
312
Special entry for Tony's ... euh ... thing -
313
Duuuuuuuuuude -
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Want to come diving in Chuuk ? Read this first ! -
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Back in Guam again -
316
About vegetarian poodles and their nutty mummy -
317
Plane and boat puking -
318
A whale, Marina, right behind you !!! -
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The Dwarf Minke Whale -
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'Abort the dive' sign ... -
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Hotel depression -
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Sky rail, train, Auzzie animals, boomerang lessons -
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Greg advises: waterfall tour/pub crawl -
324
Heading north -
325
(To the) rainforest -
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Lost in Australia -
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Shamrock for good luck -
328
Heart failure on the Yongala -
329
Back to Cairns -
330
Faits divers of Queensland -
331
Two days in Brissie -
332
Happy birthday to Annie!!!! -
333
We are goiiiiiing to Thailand -
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Monkey business,hi-tech, French/Thai hotel,Italian -
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Don't those b.st.rds.... -
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Sight seeing Koh Samui -
337
Our visit to Belgium -
338
You know: what goes on in Hedo, stays on in Hedo -
339
The pleasure of travelling -
340
Aloha !!! -
341
Bula ... -
342
Driving in Fiji -
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Sharks: real ones, no cage, just the adrenaline -
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From Viti Levu to Tavenui -
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Tavenui above water -
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Out of air sign at 5 meter depth ... -
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What are they doing NOW ? -
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2009 -
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2009 -
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May 10, 2009 -
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May 12, 2009 -
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May 13, 2009 -
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May 14, 2009 -
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Jun 26, 2009 -
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Jul 14, 2009 -
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Jul 15, 2009 -
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Met al de Chinezen maar nie me den dezen -
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China on the move -
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Shanghai People -
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Shanghai Cityscapes -
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Lions and Dragons -
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Suzhou -
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Shanghai Food -
364
Beijing -
365
Tiananmen Square -
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The Forbidden City -
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Appt -
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Massage -
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Great Wall of China -
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Acrobats -
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The Summer Palace -
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Peking duck -
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Ming Tombs -
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HRC -
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Pekingese -
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Trying to move -
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Wanfujing Snack Street -
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Food and Drinks -
379
Xi'an Introduction -
380
Getting there and arriving -
381
The Qianling Mausoleum -
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The Terracotta Warriors -
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Showtime -
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Chengdu -
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Chengdu Panda Breeding and Research Center -
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Apartment -
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The cuisine -
388
Leshan Giant Buddha -
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The streets -
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Guilin -
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Cruise on the Li River -
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A show -
393
Huangluo Village -
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Longji Terraced Rice Fields -
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Reed Flute Cave -
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Reflexology -
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Cormorant fishing -
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Old Canton
