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I started travelling with a trip to New Zealand..that's when I caught the travel bug. Since then I've travelled regularly overseas and around Australia. I love the adventure and my favourite countries are those with friendly people. But there's always something good about every country.

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A Month in Israel

Every morning we were awoken at 4am by the first of 5 daily calls to prayer. The mosque’s loud hailers were about 50m away. The first mournful cry of a few chanted sentences ending with long drawn out notes was followed 15-20 mins later by a longer ses

Most Recent Entry: Wednesday, October 28, 2009

A job in PNG

One of the guys in the PNG office was taking a month off but the job still had to go out so I was sent up to Port Moresby. Even before I left, they were talking about the security matters of living in Port; all the dos and don'ts, mostly don'ts. Bec

Most Recent Entry: Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Dolphins of Tin Can Bay

We found a motel just around the corner from where the dolphins come to be fed (the far end of Tin Can Bay). Being a Monday night, the pub was the only place open for dinner and we competed with the army and air force guys from the nearby training base

Most Recent Entry: Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Around southern Africa

The mornings were still and sounds carried clearly across the dam. Fish plopped as they splashed at the surface. Hippos grumbling in the shallows on the far bank sounded like they were right below us. Crocs drifted past, motionless as logs. A shag sat

Most Recent Entry: Monday, June 09, 2008

Up thru Central Aus

We’d booked our accommodation at Annies Place, a bright and friendly backpackers. They picked us up from the station and settled us into our room. Their food is cheap good and plentiful. There’s a swimming pool but no one used it while we were there….t

Most Recent Entry: Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Climbing Mountains

I joined several guys from work to climb Mount Beerwah. They were all 10, 20 and 30 years younger than me. At 556m it's the largest of the Glasshouse Mountains. It's also the most popular. The first section at the bottom is long, steep and smooth (...

Most Recent Entry: Saturday, April 21, 2007

Weekend in Bondi

I flew to Sydney in the evening to visit friends living in Bondi. Bus 400 runs from the airport to Bondi Junction where you can pick up a local bus to the beach. Being so popular, it's easy to get from Bondi to Sydney by either bus or train. I stuck to...

Most Recent Entry: Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Going Bush, Central Queensland

We woke to a glorious day to the sound of a baby white cockatoo calling incessantly for food from it’s long suffering parent. Glad we were hiking in the gorge today! The most popular track, criss-crossing Carnarvon Creek many times, goes 10kms up the g...

Most Recent Entry: Sunday, May 28, 2006

Central Europe and Korea

Because Denmark is so small and we had all day, the next morning we drove north to see the coast and Helsinger (where Hamlet's castle is) on our way to visit Daphne, Karin's mum, who lives in the south near where we'd take the ferry to Germany. Through...

Most Recent Entry: Saturday, August 13, 2005

Chinese Adventure

Emei Shan is a very popular destination for the Chinese. We found that out pretty soon. Summer is a busy time. Most people get their holidays then and go visiting or travelling Chinese tour style. Despite the trains and buses always being packed, it wa

Most Recent Entry: Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Beach Camping

After a lazy breakfast, we broke camp and by ten were headed back to Rainbow Beach through the soft dry sand almost getting bogged at the crossing from Teewah to Rainbow. We had to wait an hour for the tide to drop enough to get along the beach and ar...

Most Recent Entry: Sunday, November 09, 2003

Borneo Jungle

Nearly 3 hours winding through jungle and palm oil plantations, sometimes besides rivers, crossed by suspension foot bridges, we arrived at Uncle Tan's B&B from where we would go into the jungle for 4 days. In the morning, we were taken to the S

Most Recent Entry: Friday, August 15, 2003

Wedding in NZ

Mum, Beth and I were going to my cousin's wedding in Nelson. Mum would fly to Nelson while Beth and I went to Auckland and picked up Sally, an old school friend and drove down. After a few days in Auckland catching up we drove down through Rotorua

Most Recent Entry: Thursday, June 19, 2003

Norfolk Island

Popular with honeymooners, Norfolk Island is an interesting place to visit. People generally come for a week and it's easy to fill that time in. Two British attempts at establishing the island as a penal colony (1788-1814 and 1825-55) were ultimate...

Most Recent Entry: Saturday, December 16, 2000

Disneyland....Gateway to the US

Near our hotel was a car rental. We got a good deal on a new mid-sized Chevy. We were upgraded from small and got 1 day free a week. So we headed off down to Newport Beach to visit Larry and Chris. Being my birthday, we had a night on the town. Larr

Most Recent Entry: Friday, July 31, 1998

Eastern Mediteranean

The alarm went off at 2:30am. The mini bus would pick us up at 3 for the trip to Masada. We would hike up to watch the sunrise over the Dead Sea. What a hike! It started out gentle and got steeper and steeper until we were hauling ourselves up the many

Most Recent Entry: Monday, July 24, 1995

Skiing in Austria and random travels

I was staying at Kathe Wolfe's place only because she would pick me up at Innsbruck train station. What a good choice. Her village of Mutters lies halfway up the mountain overlooking Innsbruck to the north. The tram-line runs through it. It's the next

Most Recent Entry: Thursday, April 14, 1988

2 Months in Mexico

Driving our Mazda station wagon my sister and I crossed the border at Tijuana and headed south into the Baja desert. By nightfall we were in the middle of no-where but found somewhere to eat. By good luck we scored a meal of prawns. Finding no-where

Most Recent Entry: Monday, June 21, 1982

Home via North America

Well I was finally on my way. I had bought a Greyhound bus pass for a month and headed for New York. I arrived at midnight and was met with a cool reception at the bus depot so caught the next bus out at dawn. Bus stations can be dodgy places. One guy

Most Recent Entry: Sunday, August 12, 1979

London to Beautiful Italy

Yes you read correctly. Those American girls were getting us into trouble. They were a little older than us, very friendly, but very naïve. We were in a carpark in Varese waiting for the shops to open. 3 Italian guys came over and started talking wi

Most Recent Entry: Wednesday, November 08, 1978

The Trip continues

After leaving Cap Ferret we hitched a ride in a truck with a friendly Spaniard and arrived at the frontier heading for San Sebastian. The country is green and hilly. We catch glimpses of pretty coastline. Farmers are ploughing with donkeys, one lea

Most Recent Entry: Monday, August 14, 1978

The Big OS Trip

It's early summer and the country is full of wildflowers. There are meadows of yellow with patches of white, purple and pink. The dandelions are going to seed and have blanketed the ground like snow. Compared to Russia, Poland is really nice except for