It’s the final countdown! Just two more nights in my parent’s home and I’m off to China! Today I have a nice day planned at Matt Wayne Salon where I plan to have my hair cut, colored and highlighted as well as other sundry treatments. After, Dad and I are going to [...]
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°°°American Airlines is my last pick from now on. No more business with the big double A. 0% Co-ordination, confused management…fughedaboutit!
°°°While on the plane, I choose to make an exception to an old rule as specified here. My golden tenet regarding breast feeding shall henceforth be altered as such: When trapped inside a pressurized tube [...]
I rolled off the ferry in Picton at about 5.30am and began the drive towards Nelson. Yeah yeah I know Nelson is a tiny bit out of the way of Christchurch which is where I’d be meeting my sister in a couple of days but despite all this new found inner peace happy happy joy [...]
On account of the fact I’m a cheapskate my ferry to Picton on the south island was the Stupid O Clock ferry due to depart at 1.55am on the Saturday morning which meant I got to spend all of today chatting online, shopping for clothes that don’t smell like eggs (I’m actually having to replace [...]
So I was gonna hang around Taranaki for another couple of nights so I could climb that mountain but eventually I decided against it. Its a big scary mountain and I didn’t want to do it on my own and anyway, Wellington has plenty of hills that resemble mountains so I headed back down to [...]
As well as a bog standard Looky Where I’ve Been travel blog with which to bore my friends and family these pages serve as kind of a diary, sort of something to show the kids when I’m older. By kids or course I actually mean cats which will I shall refer to as “my children” [...]
I arrived in San Diego very late at night (2am), thanks to the Greyhound bus company. They had oversold my bus, so I had to wait for a later one. That will be the last Greyhound trip for me, thankfully! I was staying in a hostel on Ocean Beach (imaginatively titled), which was two blocks [...]
Soms zit het mee, soms zit het tegen. Al mijn bagage is van mijn hotelkamer gestolen. Ik had alles in mijn backpack zitten en ze hebben mijn hele backpack meegenomen :-(. Dus op wat ik bij me droeg (paspoort etc.) na ben ik alles kwijt :-(.
Ook mijn laptop, met iedereens e-mail adressen. Dus als je [...]
Het is hier net nieuwjaar geweest, Chinees Nieuwjaar wel te verstaan. The year of the Ox. Leuk om dat te hebben meegemaakt.
Een paar dagen voor nieuwjaar zijn we met Richard zijn Hong Kongse collega’s naar de Chinese New Year Fair geweest. Een evenement waarbij het letterijk zwart ziet van de Chinezen en ze standjes [...]