Welcome

Greetings first time reader! Here´s a quick post to explain what our blog is all about and hopefully ease your journey through our pages.

We set it up in early 2009 to document our round the world trip and put the best of our thousands of photos in one place for friends and family to see. Since starting out with good intentions to blog regularly, our travelling has often taken priority over publishing! You may notice that as we catch up on telling our stories the dates we publish them don't match the actual events, so here is a summary of our travels so far which I hope will help you make sense of the material:

Travel Itinerary 2009-2010

Thailand [May 6th]
Laos [June 6th]
Cambodia [June 19th]
Vietnam [July 5th]
China [July 26th]
Hong Kong [July 30th]
Japan [Aug 4th]
Hong Kong [Aug 13th]
Australia (Sydney) [Aug 15th]
New Zealand [Aug 18th]
Chile [Nov 14th]
Argentina [Nov 17th]
Bolivia [Nov 26th]
Peru [Dec 9th]
Argentina [Dec 17th]

Brazil
UK [29th Jan]




Navigation

Each post has a label giving the country and month that relates to the story. The country labels are summarised in the 'Navigation' box at the top right of the blog so by clicking on a country's name you will be taken to see all the entries for that place. I hope that makes it easier to find the articles you want to read!



Photo galleries

The best of the photos we've taken are held on Picasaweb and a slideshow will be included in each post. If you want to browse the photos on their own just follow the link or click on the slideshow.


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Itinerary

At first I wasn't sure how to start this blog and what the first entry should be - but I figured that you all may be interested (or maybe it is me gloating??) in our itinerary for the next 9 months. So here is our trip.....

On Wednesday we fly to Bangkok where for my birthday Rob has booked us into a rather wonderful hotel called the Lebua at State Tower, where we plan to get our holiday off to a very decadent and relaxing start!

Except for that not much else is planned yet for the SE Asia part, all we know is we have 3 months to get to Hong Kong by what ever means we choose - so civil unrest permitting we should have a chance to check out Thailand - and we hope to do Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and a very small amount of China before finally arriving in Hong Kong.

Once there it is off to Japan - this is one I know Rob is particularly excited about - I think this is likely to be the biggest culture shock of the whole trip!

After Japan we spend 2 days in Sydney and then straight to New Zealand where we are spending 3 months touring by car and tent or campervan - doing plenty of trekking and some high adrenaline activities no doubt!

The final leg of our tour is off the Santiago where we have 3 months to get to Rio. Where to spend new year???? Choices choices choices!!! (it's a hard life!)

Let us know if you have any recommendations from your own travel experiences and we would love to hear from all of you. We will be on Skype a lot so please add Rob's email address to your contacts if you have Skype too.

Anyway signing off for the first entry - more news soon - hopefully with cocktail in hand surveying the Bangkok skyline........