There we were, coming back home from a weekend trip to Vienna with my colleagues, thinking which European city would be next to visit. Amsterdam, Rome…And then we suddenly knew - it was going to be Vietnam. I know, sounds random…so let me make it clear. One of our group is a Vietnamese…None of us [...]
It is difficult to relate the absolute hysteria of Carnaval in Barranquilla. Most nations couldn’t handle an equal event without soon collapsing into a frenzied state of all out warfare. But Barranquilla does it, and does it well - pushing all possible boundaries of all out celebration.
Daniel and I joined the festivities late [...]
Munich
So, here we go. We are leaving our home town …well, for some of us the city where we currently live … and we are heading for Munich to catch our firs plane on this trip. All of us in one small car…let’s hope we get there ok.
Today I escaped from Kuta and drove with my motorbike through the capital city of the province Bali, Denpasar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denpasar), to Ubud (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubud).
After arriving Ubud I asked in some shops for a cheap accommodation (guest house) and got a recommendation for a small family guest house in Padang Tegal beside Ubud. The bungalow costs 100.000 [...]
We made it to Palenque with a little sleep on the bus and got a hotel across the street. Most of the hotel have cost around 200-250 Pesoes or - Canadian.
The Resturant we ate Lunch
After sleeping in today we headed for lunch then to the Mayan ruins. We had a terific tour guide named Artero. [...]
This morning we thought we would get an early start but not to early. We left the hotel at 9am went and got breakfast and made it to the bus station by 9:45 fully expecting a 7 hour bus trip to Palenque. Turns out the bus left at 8:30am and there wasn´t another one [...]
A fairly quiet day with a short jaunt to the nearby Norseman Heritage Park in the town of Red Lake, the Norseman Capital of the World in Northern Ontario, Canada.
Today was Em´s B-day. It was a pretty low key day. We had planned on going to Progresso but found out from these travellers we had met at our hotel from Chile that is wasn´t worth the trip. We took their advice. They gave us an alternate plan to go check out the Cenotes (big [...]
Don’t Worry—-I’m ok and there are no injuries to report!!!!
I have an internet friend, Bettina, who used to work at this school. We corresponded before I came over to Tai’an and she told me many things about SEPIS and Tai’an. In her blog I read about two accidents she’d had during her 10 [...]