Uluru the big red rock

July 31, 2010

UluruAnother day that begins before the sun is even thinking about rising another tour bus another group of temporary friends. The tour leader this time is a fiftyyear old named Lewis who meets me at the entrance to Toddyrsquos with a cheerful and amused expression. On board the twentyfive seater bus I discover that there [...]

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Last Day at Work

July 31, 2010

Last day at work before the big off Got some lovely chocolate cookies and donuts as a treatOut in Gorleston tonight for Bon Voyage drinks then gonna spend the weekend packing then on the ferry Thursday morning for the all day crossing to the Hook of HollandAnd from there…….who knowsx

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Safe but not exactly sound

July 31, 2010

So…. we’re here in Addis not exactly where we expected to be and not exactly on schedule but all in one place and one piece. Couple of comedy taxi rides to locked up premises but hey found a hotel The Simpsons on TV eggs for breakfast and free interent Cool.Should be moving on to [...]

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36 Hours: East Hampton

July 31, 2010

A raft of luxurious boutiques and restaurants have opened, and beloved old hotels and barrooms have been renovated.

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Guernsey Cherbourg … Freakin’ SCARY

July 30, 2010

we left Guernsey early and headed for cherbourg. Mike had been warned that the Alderney Races narrow channel between Alderney and Cap De la Hague notorious for rip tides and dodgy sea could be difficult and should be negotiated a good way from the headland. He set our course for 8 miles off the [...]

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Back to India The journey

July 30, 2010

Touchdown. South India. Summer heat and monsoon rain. We were excited to back back. If we’d known what was in store we might been more apprehensive. Getting out of the airport was easy. It was raining when we got outside though and rickshaw negotiations we were offered a series of random prices ranging from 150 [...]

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Hoi an Nha Trang

July 30, 2010

Hoi anAfter settling into our bunk beds on our comfortable sleeper bus in Hanoi we poured ourselves some drinks and set off for Hoi an catching a connecting bus at Hue. It wasn’t long before disaster struck…. after about an hour into the journey an almighty bang ground the bus to a halt on [...]

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A Year in Retrospect

July 30, 2010

As I sit in the office on my last day of work I ponder the question How many times can one person rewrite their resume Seriously though I can’t even count the hours that I have spent moving things around adding a word here or there bolding unbolding and then rebolding successively. What a nightmare.As [...]

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Luang Prabang Laos

July 30, 2010

The author and his friends had spent long time in Luang Prabang Laos. He would really liked it and he had thought it was a great city.Luang Prabang was another of the places Xan had visited before and hersquod really liked it so we were keen to spend as long there as we could. Loved [...]

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I’ll miss you Malta

July 30, 2010

My last couple of days in Malta I can’t believe it. It has been so busy these past few days. So a very quick update… Last weekend my friend Andrew and I took the ferry over to Sicily. It was amazing. The food was phenomenal and we ate a disgusting amount of gelato pastries cheeses [...]

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