Hotels, Weather and Other Planning
Travel Blog | August 6, 2010 | 5 Comments
I’m in Love Again Having discovered that with a modicum of HTML tagging and a little bit of patience on my part (not a trait that comes easy to me) I can in fact do bold, lists and proper hyperlinks on this blogging tool now. I am therefore officially back in love with the iPad […]
Travel Blog | August 2, 2010 | 5 Comments
You can read this blog in two ways. Either as me showing off that I have all the freedom in the world to go on holiday where I like; or as a useful set of tips and hints for DIY trip planning. Hopefully demonstrating how, with a lot of time and a bit of flexibility, […]
Travel Blog | May 9, 2010 | 0 Comments
tr Will you really need these things? While bouncing around the internet (stumbleupon is a time munching monster) I came across a couple of travel gadgets which led me on to finding out what weird and wonderful things I could find to spend money that I haven’t got. Here are the fruits of my labours. […]
365 days – Not squeezing it all in
Travel Blog | May 8, 2010 | 0 Comments
Take it slowly The world is not your oyster Once you make the decision to travel and set a time frame (a year in our case) you then start to wildly list all the places you want to see and visit. The list becomes very long very quickly. You think a year is loads of […]
And now the devil is in the detail
Travel Blog | May 3, 2010 | 4 Comments
So from making the decision and spending hours and hours looking at other travellers blogs searching for that inspiration to help you make the decision we now move on to spending hours and hours planning what you do next. This involves making numerous lists of things to do before you go, with your house, […]
Travel Blog | December 29, 2009 | 0 Comments
A Pictoral Blog of Sights from this Trip Just a few of my favourite images from this trip featuring places visited in South East Asia. These were taken mostly by Craig and occasionally by John.
A Pictoral People Blog of the trip
Travel Blog | December 29, 2009 | 0 Comments
A selection of my people shots from the trip – enjoy This slideshow is a few of my favourite images of people in South East Asia taken during this trip, focusing on people we stumbled upon.
Travel Blog | December 27, 2009 | 0 Comments
The Final Journey – Home I left you last time as we touched down in Hong Kong for our last leg of the trip. This one would be easy for us to navigate as we had had a nice introduction to HK at the beginning of the Asia trip, so we knew what we were […]
Travel Blog | December 27, 2009 | 0 Comments
Food Food Food The trip has been as much about tasting new things as it has seeing new things. So I felt it only appropriate to include in my final blog of the trip the food and drink special. Its been a real treat, but there are a few stars amongst them: Rijtafel – A […]
Bangkok certainly has Bang and a few K…
Travel Blog | December 23, 2009 | 0 Comments
I liked Bangkok quite a bit Apologies for my somewhat melancholy maudlin mood in the last post, I am back now upbeat after 36 hours in Bangkok. This is definitely not a city on which to waste time staring at ones own navel, there is just too much fun to be had. So where the […]
India Car Rental and Driver Hire
How to Rent a Car and Driver in India We’d like to share our experience, and a few of the stories we learned about renting a car and driver from our two week tour of Rajasthan. Like arranging other things in India, it is not always as simple or easy as you may first imagine. […]
Photo Flashback – Kerala Kathakali Dance
We are not really ones for the cultural shows that you regularly find in travel destinations. Often they are a thin representation of the actual song or dance traditions of a community, overpriced and leave you feeling a little bit cheated. This was certainly the case in Waitangi doing the Haka with some actors. Sometimes […]
Goa Retirement, Revamps and a bit of Home Cooking
We hang about in Goa for our remaining time in India sampling foods from home and join the large expat community and retired folk enjoying what is on offer. We had decided in Udaipur that it was time to invest some time doing some work on the blog. Our traffic has been growing steadily over […]
Udaipur And A Break From Travel Blogging
For those arriving at this travel blog post hoping to find out detailed information about our experiences and things to do in Udaipur, leave now, as you’ll need to look elsewhere instead. The hectic schedule of our last two weeks on the road with our driver had wearied us a little. The thought of seeing […]
India Rajasthan and Golden Triangle Itinerary
Two Week Itinerary for Rajasthan and the Golden Triangle You can get to see some of the top sights in Rajasthan and the Golden Triangle in India in fourteen days or less, it will not be a restful experience, but you will gain a lifetime of memories and images from the magnificent Taj Mahal to […]
Jodhpur and the Road to Udaipur
Jodhpur – The Blue City It was a long drive to Jodhpur, our second to last destination in Rajasthan, before waving off our driver. The three restful days in Jaisalmer and our separation from each other had allowed driver and passenger relations to be restored to more friendly less tense mood levels. So we set off […]
In our last travel blog post I mentioned that I had done another diving course. I’ve included some underwater photographs and videos taken whilst I was on this course. We stayed in Bohol, longer than anywhere else in the Philippines, because of the excellent diving sites at very reasonable prices. Bohol is a magnet […]
A delay in this post has been caused by very slow internet connections throughout the last part of our travels in the Philippines. Apologies. However, it now means you have a fun packed bumper blog of travel frustrations, cute monkeys, the chocolate hills and a small slightly disappointing beach. Weather Retreat Given the weather we […]
Donsol, Whale Sharks and Legazpi
Reluctant as we were to leave the beauty of Saud beach we had a lot more Filipino treasures to explore. From the relaxing, serene shores of Saud beach, we headed south towards Donsol in search of some whale sharks. The weather proved challenging, but the wildlife made it all worthwhile. From Pagudpud we reversed […]
Ilocos Norte, Pagudpud and Saud Beach
The ‘Borocay of the North’ is the strapline trying to attach itself to this beautiful part of Ilocos Norte in the Philippines. While I cannot make the comparison yet, I believe Saud Beach in Pagudpud really is a little hidden gem that may eventually give its more famous southern cousin a run for its peso. We […]
Manila and the road to Pagudpud
We arrived in the Philippines on board another Jetstar flight at around 8pm on a Saturday. Having left Bali we had a brief layover in Singapore before our arrival in Manila. The immigration, customs and baggage pick up went like a dream and we were out of the airport within half an hour of touching down. This […]