Hi all!! we are currently at the airport waiting for our flight home... We have had a truly amazing trip!! LA was a little scary after the peaceful bliss or raratonga, but we had fun! we did a great trip all around hollywood, we saw the star homes, went up into the hollywood hills, down the hollywood walk of fame, saw sunset boulevard, Rodeo drive, venice beach and santa monica. The beaches were lovely and there are alot of hippy freaks down there!!!
We then flew to Florida, we have lovely family friends there, so we have just had a blissful end to our trip!! We spent 8nights there. It was very hot and humid, but we spent plenty of time chilling out by the pool and taking their gorgeous lab ollie out for walks!! We flew back to LA yesterday for our flight home today! We spent the night in a gorgeous hotel on venice beach which was fab, a great way to spend our last night!! We went out for a yummy meal by the beach.
We arrive home tomorrow morning, so although we are sad our trip is over we cant wit to see you all so will be in-touch when we get home!!!!
You will probably all ask us what our fave place has been, we cant figure it out as they have all been fab so we will try and decide on out flight home!!!!
So long then and over and out!! Cu all i the UK!!!!
Simon and sophie!!!XXXXX
Saturday, 6 September 2008
Monday, 25 August 2008
Cook Islands - Rarotonga
Hi Again,
Got in early morning and was meeted at the airport by the owner of the hostel we are staying at.
Gorgeous island very small just 32 km's in circumference!! The buses run clockwise and anti clockwise round the island! The hostel is family run by lovely people and a good bunch of people staying there.
The beaches very clear and good for snorkelling. I'm doing an across island hike (Simon). Got an island theme night to go to. Love the relaxing!
Got in early morning and was meeted at the airport by the owner of the hostel we are staying at.
Gorgeous island very small just 32 km's in circumference!! The buses run clockwise and anti clockwise round the island! The hostel is family run by lovely people and a good bunch of people staying there.
The beaches very clear and good for snorkelling. I'm doing an across island hike (Simon). Got an island theme night to go to. Love the relaxing!
Sunday, 10 August 2008
New Zealand!!
Hi all!! We are having an amazing time in NZ, its gorgeous!
We had a fair bit of wind, rain and storms in the north island, but we didnt let it spoil things! The bay of islands were lovely and our day trip up to Cape Reinga, the most northly point was great, we went sandborading down very steep sandunes!!
The magic bus is a great way to travel around NZ, we have met some great people!
We visited Rotarua, Taupo, Waitimo and Wellington in the north island. We loved wellington, great there! Rotarua is full of 'geothermal activity' where there is lots of bubbling mud and smelly water, it stunk of rotten eggs, yukky!
We went on a fantastic mauri cultural night in rotarua, was amazing and they performed the HAKA, very scary!
In the south island we have visited Nelson, Greymouth, Franz josef where we did an amazing glacier hike, Queenstown (where we are now) then we head to dunedun, lake Tekapo and christchurch.
The scenery is breath-taking, huge gorges, mountains, valleys, forests, lakes, coastline, all amazing!
We went up into the mountains today just outside of queenstown, which was stunning. Yesterday we went to Milford sound which is gorgeous national park fjiordland, we saw dolphins and seals on the boatcruise.
We went 'luging' up the mountain in queenstown, you go down a really steep track in a kind of go-cart, very fun!
Simon did a sky dive iver the Fox Glacier which was amazing!! He loved it!
Off to Dunedun tomorrow on the magic bus woo!
Seen lots of scenery from Lord Of The Rings, it really is spectacular.
Off to the Cook islands on Friday.
Hope everyone is ok and the British Summer isnt too rubbish!
XXXX
We had a fair bit of wind, rain and storms in the north island, but we didnt let it spoil things! The bay of islands were lovely and our day trip up to Cape Reinga, the most northly point was great, we went sandborading down very steep sandunes!!
The magic bus is a great way to travel around NZ, we have met some great people!
We visited Rotarua, Taupo, Waitimo and Wellington in the north island. We loved wellington, great there! Rotarua is full of 'geothermal activity' where there is lots of bubbling mud and smelly water, it stunk of rotten eggs, yukky!
We went on a fantastic mauri cultural night in rotarua, was amazing and they performed the HAKA, very scary!
In the south island we have visited Nelson, Greymouth, Franz josef where we did an amazing glacier hike, Queenstown (where we are now) then we head to dunedun, lake Tekapo and christchurch.
The scenery is breath-taking, huge gorges, mountains, valleys, forests, lakes, coastline, all amazing!
We went up into the mountains today just outside of queenstown, which was stunning. Yesterday we went to Milford sound which is gorgeous national park fjiordland, we saw dolphins and seals on the boatcruise.
We went 'luging' up the mountain in queenstown, you go down a really steep track in a kind of go-cart, very fun!
Simon did a sky dive iver the Fox Glacier which was amazing!! He loved it!
Off to Dunedun tomorrow on the magic bus woo!
Seen lots of scenery from Lord Of The Rings, it really is spectacular.
Off to the Cook islands on Friday.
Hope everyone is ok and the British Summer isnt too rubbish!
XXXX
Thursday, 24 July 2008
New Zealand!!
Hello!! We arrived in NZ yesterday, in Aukland at the mo and it seems to be a really great city! We are at a great central backpackers and having fun exploring the city! We have a 'magic' bus pass, which will pretty much take us all over the north and south island, plus right up north to the bay of islands, which we are beginning on saturday. we leave NZ on 15 aug, so the schedule is pretty tight, but its as far as our money would take us.....!
Airlie beach was fab, our 3days sailing ion the whitsundays was an....adventure!!! The first two days involved alot of wind and raind and huge waves coming over the boat, very scary but kinda funny! Luckily the third day was gorgeous and we had some great opportunites to snorkell, laze on the beach and up on deck and the sun came our for our visit to whitehaven beach, it was so beautiful! We had a great group of people on board and had all had a good laugh.
We managed to get up to Cape Tribulation for 3days 2nights, which was also amazing. Its right in the heart of the Daintree Rainforest, and we stayed in a beach house, right by the gorgeous sandy Cape Trib beach, where the rainforest meets the sandy beach. Only trouble was i saw a very very big and long black snake on the path infront of me, when i was on my own at night!! i freaked out a bit needless to say and simon was no-where to be seen!! We went jungle surfing, which was great fun, and a great way to see the amazing rainforest.
Hope all you guys are ok!
Airlie beach was fab, our 3days sailing ion the whitsundays was an....adventure!!! The first two days involved alot of wind and raind and huge waves coming over the boat, very scary but kinda funny! Luckily the third day was gorgeous and we had some great opportunites to snorkell, laze on the beach and up on deck and the sun came our for our visit to whitehaven beach, it was so beautiful! We had a great group of people on board and had all had a good laugh.
We managed to get up to Cape Tribulation for 3days 2nights, which was also amazing. Its right in the heart of the Daintree Rainforest, and we stayed in a beach house, right by the gorgeous sandy Cape Trib beach, where the rainforest meets the sandy beach. Only trouble was i saw a very very big and long black snake on the path infront of me, when i was on my own at night!! i freaked out a bit needless to say and simon was no-where to be seen!! We went jungle surfing, which was great fun, and a great way to see the amazing rainforest.
Hope all you guys are ok!
Friday, 11 July 2008
Queensland!!
Hi all!! Had a great time in Byron Bay, we then headed up to Brisbane, which was lovely.We had 3 nights there, really nice city, despite it raining all day long when we arrived!
We then went up to Noosa, really loved it there, beautiful beaches with lovely rainforest right by the sandy beaches. We went to Australia Zoo for the day (Steve Irwins zoo) was fab!! We saw
Terri Irwin do the croc wrestling show, great! and we saw Bindi Irwin perform her songs with the 'crocmen!' a little strange, but the crowd and all the little kids loved it.
We are now in Rainbow beach, just arrived back from a 2 day trip to Fraser Island, had sooo much fun! Had a great aussie tour guide, his fave word was 'fairdinkum!' Had a really nice group, and the island was amazing. We did a little plane ride over the island and we saw humpback whales splashing about in the ocean!! Swam in lake mckenzie, beautiful, sooo clear although was a little cold!!
We head up to airlie beach tomorrow, (18 hours in the Greyhound!) then go on our whitsundays sailing tour from there. We have booked a few days up in Cape Tribulation, staying in a beach house up there and going 'Jungle surfing' (flying through the canopys in a harness thing apparantly...!)
We head out to NZ on the 23rd from Cairns, a week sooner than planned, money running out so just speeding things up a little ;(
Soph and Si XXX!
We then went up to Noosa, really loved it there, beautiful beaches with lovely rainforest right by the sandy beaches. We went to Australia Zoo for the day (Steve Irwins zoo) was fab!! We saw
Terri Irwin do the croc wrestling show, great! and we saw Bindi Irwin perform her songs with the 'crocmen!' a little strange, but the crowd and all the little kids loved it.
We are now in Rainbow beach, just arrived back from a 2 day trip to Fraser Island, had sooo much fun! Had a great aussie tour guide, his fave word was 'fairdinkum!' Had a really nice group, and the island was amazing. We did a little plane ride over the island and we saw humpback whales splashing about in the ocean!! Swam in lake mckenzie, beautiful, sooo clear although was a little cold!!
We head up to airlie beach tomorrow, (18 hours in the Greyhound!) then go on our whitsundays sailing tour from there. We have booked a few days up in Cape Tribulation, staying in a beach house up there and going 'Jungle surfing' (flying through the canopys in a harness thing apparantly...!)
We head out to NZ on the 23rd from Cairns, a week sooner than planned, money running out so just speeding things up a little ;(
Soph and Si XXX!
Wednesday, 2 July 2008
Byron Bay!!
hi guys!! we are in byron bay- its a great little beach town, very chilled out with a great hippy feel! beautiful beach. We are enjoying being lazy on the beach and not doing alot. The 12 hour greyhound bus journey up here did us in a bit!!
We had an amazing time in sydney, was great. We spent the weekend in the blue mountains which was gorgeous and simon had his birthday up there. Manly was great, as was bondi too. and all the sights, sydney bridge, sydney opera house, the harbour were all great to see.
We are heading up to brisbane tomorrow, then up to rainbow beach where we are doing a fraiser island trip, then up to the whitsundays for a 3 day sailing trip there, cant wait!
Weather gorgeous!!
hope everyone is ok in the uk! enjoy wimbledon!
ciao X
We had an amazing time in sydney, was great. We spent the weekend in the blue mountains which was gorgeous and simon had his birthday up there. Manly was great, as was bondi too. and all the sights, sydney bridge, sydney opera house, the harbour were all great to see.
We are heading up to brisbane tomorrow, then up to rainbow beach where we are doing a fraiser island trip, then up to the whitsundays for a 3 day sailing trip there, cant wait!
Weather gorgeous!!
hope everyone is ok in the uk! enjoy wimbledon!
ciao X
Sunday, 22 June 2008
Sydney!!
Hi all! arrived in sydney last night after 3 weeks with the van.Dropped it off at sydent depot last night. Had an amazing road trip, we drove 3600k's in all! The great ocean road was amazing, sooo beautiful, never seen anything like it. we stopped in melbourne for 6 days, really lovely city.Went on neighbours tour, sooo cheesy but amazing! Went to Ramsey St and then to the neighbour night party, met some actors, including DR.K!! He perfomed with his band and they were actually amazing!!!
We managed to get over to Tasmania for 4 days, could've done with longer but that was all we could manage. Soooo beautiful over there, Hobart was lovely, and we went down to Port Arthur, and all up the east coast, which was lovely.Went on a night time penguin tour! so cute, tiny little penguins, that all come waddling back onto land after a day at sea fishing. They dont have any knees, thats why they waddle!!! Luckily the crossing over to tassy and back wasnt too bumpy!
The trip along from Melbourne to sydney was fab too, stopped at some lovely caost along the way. We went on a whale watching tour at Jervis bay, saw 2 humpback whales, mother and calf, was amazing, so beautiful. we went so far out to sea to find them and it was really choppy, lots of people being sick!! The 'grand pacific drive' from wollongong to sydeny was beautiful too, at one point you are driving on a bridge curving round the cliff edge right over the water, amazing!
Got some time now to chill out and explore sydney.
Be in touch soon.
soph and si !!!!
We managed to get over to Tasmania for 4 days, could've done with longer but that was all we could manage. Soooo beautiful over there, Hobart was lovely, and we went down to Port Arthur, and all up the east coast, which was lovely.Went on a night time penguin tour! so cute, tiny little penguins, that all come waddling back onto land after a day at sea fishing. They dont have any knees, thats why they waddle!!! Luckily the crossing over to tassy and back wasnt too bumpy!
The trip along from Melbourne to sydney was fab too, stopped at some lovely caost along the way. We went on a whale watching tour at Jervis bay, saw 2 humpback whales, mother and calf, was amazing, so beautiful. we went so far out to sea to find them and it was really choppy, lots of people being sick!! The 'grand pacific drive' from wollongong to sydeny was beautiful too, at one point you are driving on a bridge curving round the cliff edge right over the water, amazing!
Got some time now to chill out and explore sydney.
Be in touch soon.
soph and si !!!!
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