Thursday 28.1.210 day 106Monaco changing of the guardsWe checked out of our hotel and headed to Monaco to see the changing of the guards. It was lots of fun with a marching band and lots of guards doing synchronise gun swapping. We then drove to San R…
What to do today I awoke after a good sleep with nothing really planned but couldn’t find Matt. There is a diner just down the road so I headed there thinking he was already up and about. Nope couldn’t find him so I had a nice breakfast then decided I …
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…
Jan 23Day 8Today we had another 3 ish hour drive in a small crampped uncomfortable van to theNkuringo gorrila camp site. The road was dirt cholk full of pot holes rocks and landlides. We all looked like bobble heads because of the constant jerking and …
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 …
Damn it is good to be home. I just love being on the road but nearly four months on the road including two months in India is enough to tire anyone out. Especially since I have not spent more than two nights in the same room with the exception of my ti…
We are having a rest day so while Simon went for another horse ride I went to get dinner tonight it was going to be fish Not from the market but live from a river.Gonzalo picked me up and we set off I thought we would be going a couple of miles down th…
A slightly delayed departure from the hotel this morning … we forgot to empty our safety deposit box Before taking the road to the hills we made a couple of final stops in Vientiane Nicky and James will be delighted to know that we visited the Lao…
In the morning it rained. Pablo was still in a good mood. It was the first time in his life that he cycled over a border. The glacier was out of sight in the clouds. Breakfast was rice with a taste of chicken and an energy bar. The road was very bad bu…
We partly chose Fox over the bigger busier FranzJoseph glacier because of its proximity to Lake Matheson the mirror lake that we has heard was fantastic to run around. Apparently this is best done at 6am but after the previous day’s glacier hiking we …