1st February - Whangerai and Bay of Islands We drove from their lovely house on the hillside in this sea side town, down to the harbour where Cruzee was moored. The house where I stayed for a day or so with my sisters' friends who I had met many years before in my 20s! I …
Category: Travel Blog 2015-16
Journal entries from my year out solo backpacking round the world August 2015-June 2016
Awesome Auckland!
Auckland Harbour from the harbour cruise to Rangitoto I travelled from Auckland after a few days, where I made some unlikely 'friends' - two guys I started chatting with in an Irish pub on the steep road through Auckland on about day 2. Hoping for some later music, they told me about another pub up …
New Zealand Maps
These are the maps of North and South Islands, and the places I visited. There are blogs on all these places and experiences separately, but this is the overview of my travel around the two vastly different islands that make up this unique country! I left Australia and my family behind at the end of …
Aus Again!
I left Asia totally disoriented and less prepared mentally for Australia and the 'western world' after four months away from it. I think my illness on arriving in Kuala Lumpur didn't help as I was lost, lacked energy to explore and plan, and to get to grips within the first day in a new place. …
Waterfall Dips
Tat Kuang Si Waterfall A most amazing day at Tat Kuang Si waterfalls outside Luang Prabang, Laos! it was breath-taking, unreal - something I've previously only seen pictures of or on TV. Huge amounts of water pouring from a mountain top and steep drop into lots of deep pools you could swim in all …
Historical Travel
History unveils itself as you travel. If you get to know tourist sites, local people (even as a tourist) then you can find out and gain real insights into the places you travel to - or the people in the places! In each country I visited I found this. Sometimes natural history, sometimes political. Nowhere …
4000 Island Adventures!
Don Det is one of three main island people live on and visit in this area. It was like nothing I’d experienced before and I loved it - so did Bex! In fact, everyone did! It was local and village like, cut off from the mainland and other islands other than hours of travel to …
Hola! Como estas?
Hola! Como estas? My llama Julie! De donde eres? Since travelling - and perhaps a little topsy turvy here! - I am now learning Spanish. I could have done with simple phrases I am now learning - above I say "hello, how are you? I'm Julie. Where are you from?" That simple phrasing would have …
New Year Dream?
Well, getting back on to my travel blog, I am currently pulling and tidying my travel journal into a coherent book format - who knows, I might publish this year! It could be my 2017 dream - or for you, maybe travel is that dream this coming year!? If so, please read the journal entries, …
Santiago Sit-in
3/4/16 What to do in Santiago? Most of yesterday, my second full day in this Chilean city, I simply sat in the Plaza des Armas (there's one of these too in Lima, Peru!), in the warm sunshine that arrives later in the day it seems, around 2-3 pm. Why just sit? Well, I was tired, …
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