http://www.kewltour.com Make Your Next Tour KEWL! Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:45:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Back in Santa Marta, everyone from our tour group and the other one we joined decided that we should go out and have a piss-up to celebrate our trekking achievement – and the fact that alcohol was again easily accessible and reasonably priced. Someone in the other group had a ... http://www.kewltour.com/bad-party-good-party-2/ Back in Santa Marta, everyone from our tour group and the other one we joined decided that we should go out and have a piss-up to celebrate our trekking achievement – and the fact that alcohol was again easily accessible and reasonably priced. Someone in the other group had a ... http://www.kewltour.com/bad-party-good-party/ First meal: Hot Pot. A plate of something mammalian, stibbly* and slimy was brought to the table. I had asked for mushrooms, I thought, but my Chinese is rusty. I sent it back.Might my new word make the dictionary in 2011??? It means piliated in my ... http://www.kewltour.com/feed-me/ First meal: Hot Pot. A plate of something mammalian, stibbly* and slimy was brought to the table. I had asked for mushrooms, I thought, but my Chinese is rusty. I sent it back.Might my new word make the dictionary in 2011??? It means piliated in my ... http://www.kewltour.com/feed-me/ They've fenced it off! The elaborate European style surviving archways and the clam fountain. No more thousands of feet climbing over the 250+ year old ruins. Good plan! I did enjoy climbing on the in the past but fencing off will preserve this historic site much ... http://www.kewltour.com/yuan-ming-yuan-or-old-summer-palace/ They've fenced it off! The elaborate European style surviving archways and the clam fountain. No more thousands of feet climbing over the 250+ year old ruins. Good plan! I did enjoy climbing on the in the past but fencing off will preserve this historic site much ... http://www.kewltour.com/yuan-ming-yuan-or-old-summer-palace/ Antarctica seems but a dream. While some were having a hard time adjusting to civilization, I can’t actually believe I stood at the South Pole. In contrast to our military flight in, which only had two small windows, we flew out on an Airbus and I made sure to ... http://www.kewltour.com/off-the-ice-and-hopefully-into-the-wild/ After a fairly long bus journey south to Franz Josef township, home of the Franz Josef glacier, we dump our bags at the slightly grubby Chateaux Franz hostel. Since the glacier itself is about an hour walk out from the small township, our Magic bus driver takes a group ... http://www.kewltour.com/glaciers-lots-of-rain-and-some-amateur-caving/ Central ParkLincoln CenterThe last time Somchai visited New York, he was terrified of its criminal reputation. As far as I can tell, he took a Circle Line boat tour of the city, then a bus tour of the city, then left, so I don't think his feet ever touched ... http://www.kewltour.com/central-park/ our Soho apartmentour Soho apartmentOur loft was a work in progress. The building is about 175 years old, and used to be a department store, a warehouse and many other things besides. Its most recent reincarnation was as a tobacco warehouse, which tarred the floors dark brown. Like all the ... http://www.kewltour.com/soho-2/