Travel Adventures

I liked Zhangye. Its a charming little city with many pedestrian streets lined up with colorful oldlooking buildings. It combines modern shopping malls and ancient temples. People there were very welcoming and helpful and the fact that Zhangye is so close to Ma Ti Si and Dan Xia Landform photos to come tells me I will definitely be back here.Unfortunately on my first night in Zhangye I must

Well we are here and the weather is not fantastic but a bit better than what you are expecting in NZ. Arrived Saturday after a good flight through but of course I did my normal no sleep routine and decided to get a head cold to make myself miserable. Helen and Pete picked us up at Heathrow and delivered us to the hotel then spent the rest of the day wonderingas you dowith us around old St Pau

This morning we visited the Cowra Visitors Information Centre to watch the 9 minute hologram which recounts the tragic story of the Cowra POW camp breakout in 1944. This is very interesting and very well done.We then drove out to the remains of the POW camp to have a look. It is hard to imagine the sadness and horror that took place in this peaceful and beautiful area.We set off home driving via

SPHe salido a las 9 hoy luego he ido hacia el noroeste hasta cruzar el rio Lech luego hacia el oeste por la bavaria profunda hasta casa de Kathrin. Mucha gente piensa que Bavaria es plana y el cacho que queda entre los alpes y el Danubio no lo es son todo colinas rompepiernas. Ademas estamos con ola de calor en alemania unos 34 grados hoy.ENI started at 9 todayltspangt then I went no

SPHoy he entragado la casa a eso de las 5 de la tarde despues de varios dias de desmontaje pintar tirar cosas etc... Luego he salido de Munich para Dachau por el camino por el que siempre he ido a trabajar. En Dachau me quedo en casa de YerayENToday I gave the house up at about 5 pmltspangt after several days of removalltspangt paintingltspangt throwing thingsltspangt

On my second day at Ma Ti Si I rode to another grotto 13km away. The Tibetan guesthouse owners had told me there was a road to go to Guan Yin Dong. What they didnt tell me or did I miss it was that the road was unpaved and VERY bumpy It took me 90 minutes to cover the 13km. The scenery was splendid though I took too many pictures and I imagined building a little summer mud house for the

Depart a 10h15 de Las Vegas. 31105 miles au compteur.Nous prenons la direction de Barstow que nous passons rapidement apres etre entre en Californie. Nous nous arretons pour faire le plein 9411 gallons pour 4000 et 31266 miles au compteur c39est ici que nous trouvons l39essence la plus chere.Nous traversons ensuite la fameuse vallee de la mort qui n39a rien de mortel. Il y a une v

BELGIUMThe next day we headed back out to the airport and picked up our hire car a much better idea than trying to negotiate the Paris traffic. From there it was straight onto the motorway and up to the WW1 battlefields of Flanders in Belgium. Unfortunately we didn39t have a map or GPS and so we wasted a lot of time getting lost but finally found our way to Mesen of Messines Ridge fame and

In that order From Melbourne 9 12 hours to HK then 12 hours had us arriving in Frankfurt Main at around 6 am. Shuttle to terminal 2 easily achieved found the Reisezentrum travel centre purchased tickets for Marburg which is a 1 12 hour trip by regional train from Frankfurt Hautbahnhof main station. So train from Airport station then change to regional train for Marburg. Then a leisure

On the roadOn the 8th of june i took the Great ocean road tour was amazing. A few days after that i found a ride to Alice Springs.We headed of at the 11th of june. Long ride of 7 hours to Adelaide with a stop in Port Augusta a quiet place. After arriving in Adelaide Pete and I were looking for a pub to watch the football match of the Socceroos vs Jordan. We ate some food over there and after the