Travel Adventures

May 20 2013 Chengdu China Yesterday was largely taken up as a travel day getting to Chengdu and settling in to the Hotel Tian Chen Lou on Qing Hua Road. Our hosts graciously met and picked us up at the airport in two large hospital vans for a 30 minute drive to the hotel. The flight was uneventful and our first impression of Chengdu is always from the air as we39re landing the air was mu

As our time restraints with a flight booked out of Brazil we had to also skim this section quite fast also. Mendoza is a wine town with a large party scene and restaurant vibe. You dont often sleep when it is dark and you dont eat before 10pm unless you cook yourself. The best thing about Argentina is the BBQ Culture you can go to the local butcher and pick up huge amazing quality

The snow has definitely stopped us in our tracks. We spent the day and will be here tonight in Corner Brook and knew this morning that we be goin39 nowhere b39y as they say here. If only we had a nicer B B to relax in. We are a little miffed at this place the Bell39s Inn. Sadly it has delivered on NOTHING promised in its website. When we called to book in we weren39t advised that

Today has been a slow day for me in part to recover from my cold. Our ferry didnt leave until 1145 so I slept late ate leisurely finished packing read a little and left with the bus. Others walked into town for more wandering.The ferry is the onward journey of the ferry we took to get to Paros. I took a Dramamine and didnt feel too bad more lethargic than anything. Once again we

Chile has been a highlight so far it was a shame our time frame only permitted us to spend a small amount of time there Santiago itself has a definite Melbourne feel. The food culture and cafs are great The pubs have cheap meals that you order for 2 and are full of the most amazing cooked meats and mushrooms etc. Santiago was the first place we have found a large supermarket with food jus

After the Salt Flats we crossed the Chile border into San Pedro. After 1 month in Bolivia I was exited as I had heard that Chile was very similar to European countries and I was definitely ready for some tar roads and supermarkets and Fridges so the drinks are cold nonexistent in Bolivia There was 2 Australian guys on the bus who had been told the same and was looking forward to it al

This morning began our road trip to Segovia and Avila. We left at 8 in the morning and it took us about two hours to get to Segovia. The city is full of roman architecture and ruins. The city hosts a huge aqueduct that was built in the first century. The aqueduct is still standing and was built without anything like glue or cement to hold it up big rocks are held together by pressure. Even though

A marathon day of driving today probably the longest single stretch we are going to do in one day. We set off in sunshine from Buckingham and the temperature and weather deteriorated from then on. It was not raining at the coast in the UK but soon started spitting on the other side of the Channel.We made good time getting down to Folkestone and had enough time for a break and to stick the antigl

Pfingstsonntag und das Hamburger Wetter ist scheie. Es sind noch etwas ber zwei Wochen bis ich den Zug Richtung Osten besteigen werde. Gerade habe ich ein paar Stunden geschlafen aber dadurch ist es drauen auch nicht schner geworden und Dnemark hat immer noch den Titel im EuroVisionSongContest gewonnen. Ich war fr Island obwohl die Tante aus der Ukraine das krzere Kleid anhat

We did something today we haven39t ever done in 41 years of marriage and travel together................we decided to share a suitcaseNow you probably don39t think that this was a MAJOR decision but think about itmale stuff in with female stuffHoweverwe hope that the need for our winter clothes has passed with the prospect of fine warm weather ahead as the adventure takes us further sou