We left my home heavy hearted, as all my family really wanted us to stay on longer, well we had originally planned to stay over Christmas, and I woul…

today my brother invited us to joyn on a quick daytrip or shall I say trip in time to eggenburg just about 15km away form home to experiance a town t…

Today we took a ride to the Danube city of Tulln just a short distance from us and vienna to enjoy display of flowers and gardening. Sadly I must sa…

Today we are up to explore the mountains of the Salkammergut in a different way.. Going to see caves.. and mines of salt there a few great spots to…

Today we did again a trip but basically going back home with a vew side trips, first we going tovisit the water schloss in salzburg It was built in…

today we took off on a short trip to and around salzburg, there are plenty of great spots around, still verry warm and subby days ahead, hope Giao wi…

Today we joined my brother and he’s family to watch a local air show. He used to work once for a company who did testing equipment for aircrafts an…

Once again a day trip to one of the many castles around in lower Austria. Records show this castle was built as early as 1120 by Leopold III the sai…

once again we head off to explore a bit more of the lower Austria sights. The drive brings you around the outskirt of the Vienna woods. I choose to …

Today we took a day trip to visit the hunting castle of crown prinz Rudolf where he had spent he's last night of hes life with he's lover... then a …

Mid evil castle built in the 12th century and still in private ownership. Limit amount of English info on the tours.. be careful with tours in Castl…

day trip in to the wine quater of lower austria

Visiting of the City of Telc in Czech Republic, for an exhibition of Austrian / Czech history. It is divided in 3 Cities of which is Horn / Rabbs an…

Visiting of the City of Horn, for an exhibition of Austrian history. It is divided in 3 Cities of which is Horn / Rabbs and Telc in the neighbour co…

hmm, not sure about holiday  at home.. doing a bit of work at home to help mum with her house.. painting , gardening .. little thing, enjoyed a…

    Prince Edward Island. Giao was keen to trace in the steps of Anne Green Gables who’s story had been told here on PEI. So we hired…

Next stop in Nova Scotia , Halifax, we came here to visit Giao’s  friend whom she did travel in New Zealand a few years back. Again a train r…

At first when we got in to Quebec, I felt it a bit intimidating as everything is / was in French.. It’s been a long time that I had spoken French …

We booked form Chicago  on a greyhound bus to get to Chicago… man oh man what a bad trip! It was not too long via Boston but the bus itself is…

After once again a long connecting trip from Alaska we made it in to Chicago. Our hotel was situated close to the airport, using Hotwire or Hostelbo…

We arrived after a scenic drive, passing even a Moos strolling next to the road. Spots where salmon would head up the rivers, Glaciers, and trees wh…

CRUISE PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND & COLLEGE FJORD with it's glaciers

After a full day stop in Juneau we sailed at night to Skagway, which again was built on the lure of Gold. It has a interesting history, and best of …

Still, we are blessed with blue sky’s sunny days and reasonable warm temperatures. This time we are not able to dock on the pier and have to be �…

On the way we got several option of information on what to expect – most was directed though on shopping, Diamonds / jewelry/ souvenirs’. We too …

We knew we would like to visit Alaska but had not set an exact location to go so when I saw the trip offered by Carnival, 7 days from Vancouver to An…

Once again I was “hungry” to get below water.. when in Seattle we had a few days of rain and I actually enjoy diving in the rain so I was wanderi…

Arriving at a sunny day to Vancouver started well as we got free bus rides to the city (ticket machine was broken..) I had enquired prior regardi88ng…

We thought we left the cold and rainy behind us but sadly still cold windy rain.. so what better way of spending a day in bed..lol 2nd day we did ta…

Well hello San Francisco. we managed to get a lovely Hotel, it would have been the Encore Express Hotel which works together with Nob Hill Hotel, an…

Perhaps I’ll reflect a bit first on South America and some thoughts I got , firstly it does help knowing at least a bit of Spanish it will be so mu…

Cancun, Well we found a place to stay close to the Bus station, I was as I say not to keen to just go down on to the Hotel zone,  I think it is…

I  was thinking of spending a few days on the coast before heading back to Cancun, I know Cancun is on the beach but it is a “party town” an…

After spending some time on the coast of Tolum we headed up to Chichen itza to see the ruins and kept going further to Merida, Chichen itza is inte…

Traveling for some time took a bit its toll on all of us, it sounds great at home to do a world trip but when one takes to many destination and does …

First day diving @ Gordon rock, I must admit I had looked around the night before for diving and found only 2 dive operators who charge 145$ for…

got here today actually by luck as we arrived in Guaquill and the airport was / is next to the bus terminal so we just walked over to see if we could…

We got in earlier then expected and the Bus terminal is huge as well practically next to the airport, so since we had hoped to get to Galapagos but n…

meet a lovely loal boy who was collecting old used plastic bottles.. when I gave him mine in the Bus terminal the owner of the coffe shop asked him t…

Old colonial city in the desert on the way to Equador. We got in to actually just stop over and change buses, still had time to look around a bit a…

after getting to Lima and not having booked any type of hostel/ hotel we first ended up in a backpacker but did not liek it much.. then found this on…

Had the pleasure meeting up with TB members who spend some time with us going to the city on a tour and having lunch as well providing information on…

Getting in to Cusco early morning after a harsh times in Bolivia.. after getting in the hostel we had some rest . What a difference from other place…

Our last leg in Bolivia we managed to get in to Lake titikaka, and I must sy what a difference form what we had seen so far.. finally some green area…

La Paz, what a city…. It is true it is hard to get lost in this city as in the middle runs a river and on both sites the mountains climb steeply …

Bolivia..hmm we had higher expectation I guess, surly did not know much about it in advanced other then from books.. We entered Bolivia at “La qui…

What a horrible bus ride from Iguazu to Salta!!! We bought a direct ticket with “Fletcher Bus” but when boarding the bus where told we had to ch…

Once again a long overnight trip by buss, however great services offered during this trip. (look for info on bus travel in my info) Certainly the su…

When looking for connection on Buses to Iguazu, I came across this website and thought it might be of help to TB members: http://www.omnilineas.com/…

After yet another long drive we are getting in to Buenos Aires, the drive in the bus is rather boring nothing  much to see out the windows just …

Puerto Madryn & peninsula Veldez After yet a other long trip on the bus form Ushuaia (about 30.hr) we finally managed to get to Puerto Madryn. …

Today we went on a cruse on the beagle channel to the end passing Sea lion rock, penguins colony, the light house and ended up at the farm house of �…

just some picture of my diving in Ushuaia temp; 15'c abouve water  a cool 9'C below vis, about 6 m depth ~20 m 5mm red neoprene dry suit small…

The getaway to torres del paine. We did not have any reservations for any accommodation and it turned out to be a bit tricky to find a good place. H…

Today we set sail on a 4 day cruise through the fiords of Patagonia, from Puerto Montt to Puerto Natales We are boarding, or at least drop off our l…

Today we once again ventured out in the near by country to explore what’s out there. It’s Sunday and it looks as if all is closed, sadly because…

Day trip to Poerto Varas Today we had a nice start with plenty of sun and we thought we would take a nice trip to Poerto Varas which is about 20 km …

Taking today a stroll through the city to get an idea of it’s beauty and I must say it is more charming then the UNICCO listed city of Valpariso.. …

The hostel is very Clean actually the floors getting polished every day, showers . toilets getting cleaned all the time, kitchen facility is ample wi…

Santiago was just a stop over as we (I) really was looking forward to go to Easter Island, so when the day came getting ready in the morning still ho…

we did stay at this guest house firstly most Hotels where totally booked out and it seem to be the cheapest of the guest houses as it do not charge p…

Should you be in Santiago and looking for a neat hangout for dinner or some cool bars night clubs This street offers the lot! Bars, Restaurants’ a…

Flying with Copa air to Panama, for a quick stop over and change of aircraft. Then heading onwards to Santiago. Arriving late at night there is a ha…

At the foot hill of san cerro there plenty of nice restaurants spread around d in the adjoining streets. As well it is perhaps worth it not getting …

Rodeway Inn LA Located in Huntington park area where a larger Latin community is around. We looked up the Inn on “expedia” and found the locat…

just spending 1 day in LA checking out a few spots driving around holywood, Santa Monica, Santa Ana and the latin quater 4 day's in and around LA/ …

All though the weather was not the best we still did the drive to Hoover dam and Grand canyons We did get up a bit late from the hotel to drive away…

Well today we got in to LA after a 12 hr flight, got straight out to get form National our car, I did notice though much more police on the airport a…

We had booked the hotel online so we got it for only 39$ + Tax for 2 nights, which is for its location pritty good, Sure it was mid week but still.…

well we are finally on our way, today a quick trip down to Auckland to change plane and have a quick stop over in wellington was nice to see the ch…

arriving in "windy" wellington on a lovely afternoon, sunny and very inviting place. when flying in to wellington we are able to overlook the entire…

well bookings are getting better and better we now have our travel insurance  (www.1cover.com.au) as it offered the best deal on cost over 12 mo…