Hello from Ko PhanganI arrived safe and sound after a looooooooong but very comfortable flight and Cristina was there to meet me at the airport. She paged me over the intercom ahaha. It was rather funny to hear a Thai woman attempt to pronounce my nam…
Well our morning started off pretty good as we wandered down to the market for breakfast. After buying a bunch of stuff we headed back to the hostel and cooked a huge breakfast for two bucks each. Following that we switched hostels to one right on the …
It’s time to move on again This time our destination is Monteverde. Not the most exciting day as we were on a bus then boat the bus again for the entire day. The road up to Santa Elaina is nice though with sprawling jungle valleys all around. As we got…
We had a relatively relaxed start to the day since the tour operator had arranged to pick us up from our hostel and there was a small caf serving a reasonable breakfast directly across the road thus saving us a bit of time. We got on a sawngthaew with …
I’ve had a request for some everyday life photos. Hmmm… So I’ll try to find some really quickly and stick them up here.In an hour I am off with the Choral society to Killarney where we’ll stay in a hostel for the weekend have a vocal workshop and pro…
Day 3 New Years Eve Thursday December 31 2009Note Listening to Evita soundtrack as I am writing this so it’s bound to be a great and long entryNew Years Eve in Buenos Aires Not celebrated until well after midnight…..But let’s start in the morning We …
We arrived in Bundaberg and were picked up by the footprints hostel and taken to a place called Mon Repos. The hostel was homely and lived in run by a lovely married couple who devoted their time to charities related to turtles. We set off at 6pm but w…
Arrived in Airlie Beach 15 minutes before schedule dropped off out of town and as we are not due in our hostel til tomorrow our only option was to walk. We got into the centre and had a bite to eat before going to find the sailing office. We were told…
The trekkingWe came to Arequipa at 4 AM and went straight to the hostel were we got a few hours of sleep. The following day we booked the trekking and then went out to have a look at the city of Arequipa. It’s called the White City because of the white…
Come next morning I was not exactly well rested but was keen to get up and check out of the hostel and check into the nice hostel actually called ldquoNice Guest Houserdquo wersquod gone past the previous night. That done we had some breakfast and then…