Travel Adventures

Today we have arrived in Jaipur the pink city. Our drive was relatively long and provided us with a very intimate look at the lives of locals. Driving here is like taking your life in your hands at first then you sort of adopt a fatalismtrust in the clusterfuck of a tornado you see on the roads. It39s madness but it works as our driver informed us you must have four things to drive in Indi

The Taj Mahal is a dream come true. Set in the city of Agra aka the city of love this mausoleum built by Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife is truly one of the few sites around the world that lives up to the hype. Built of beautiful marble the Indian people work diligently to ensure its beauty remains. You39re required to wear booties over your shoes and they don39t allow outside

This is the first motel I stayed in that had a hot tub. I sat in the hot tub instead of writing my blog. Will update when I get a chance.

First and foremost HAPPY 42ND ANNIVERSARY LES AND CAROL CONGRATULATIONS Thank you for sharing your special evening with us xxxDespite the odds with the weather over the last few days we made it to the Atlantic Ocean tonight We are not quite to St. John39s yet or the easternmost point of Canada and North America Cape Spear. We will save that celebration for tomorrow. We are privileged to b

as the morning fog cleared the relatively young troubadours awoke to the reality that battle was imminent. on one side of the battlefield of demise stood the kangakilts on the other the pom tea scones opposing. if it wasnt unpleasant enough to have woken with an irritable battle of death to fight it was amplified by a 30hr flight half way round the world a night full of restless sleep s

Yesterday I took a decidedly harrowing taxi ride from Bouddha to Jocchne Tole or Freak Street as it was called in the 6039s and 7039s. Taxis here are barely distinguishable from regular beatup hunks of junk except that they may say Taxi somewhere on them. They39re tiny seatbeltfree like Thailand Noddy cars from the 8039s that seem like they39re going to fall apart if yo

Taking the boat ride up the Batang Rejang it was indeed 3h in a cramped space shuttle as described by LP before I arrived in the small riverside town of Kapit. Even the business class seat that I took that costs 5 ringgit more barely had enough space for my backpack which I had to lay along the narrow aisle. The boat really did seem narrower and lower than usual but that seemed to be the

Was time to leave Amsterdam for a few days and head to Germany for some beer drinking at the Stuttgart Spring fest.What would normally be an 8 or so hour drive on NZ roads was easily shortened when you drive the autobahn at 160180km We arrived in no time.We made it in time for the festival only to be met by a long line to get into the tent but being the cool kids we are we jumped the cue a

Have I mentioned that I love sea days Day one dawned with the most amazing sunrise I have ever seen. Our cabin is port side aft but I turned on the bow camera and there was the glory. I was a bit concerned that the skies appeared red and you know what that is supposed to mean but the seas were calm all day the temperature mild the sun warm and the breeze soft.At breakfast we chatted with a

After the Niah caves it was a 5h journey southwestwards across a good chunk of the state towards Sibu the confluence of the Batang Rejang Malaysia39s longest river and other major distributaries and also the second largest city of the state. It was from here that I intended to head upriver to one of the riverside towns lying deeper within Malaysian Borneo from where perhaps I could pay a