We arrived in California with no real expectations or planning and thought we'd just continue the spontaneous travelling approach and see where we ended up. We arrived at Los Angeles Airport on Christmas day and were shuffled away to the local hire rentals where we picked up a rather super-sized Chevron which strangely enough was the cheapest economy option. The wholde driving on the other side of the road along with six lane roads freaked me out so I left the dr...

We flew into a tiny Pacific island called Rarotonga and were greeted by a local playing some Caribbean type tunes on his stage at Custom immigration control. What a way to be greeted at 23:30 in an airport, we knew we had landed into Island life. We were picked up and were shuffled off a short distance away to an amazing beach bungalow in the middle of nowhere. At first as we were driving, I thought WOW you've done something right in life to end up in a holiday ...

I stopped updating my blog after Australia so in an attemp to complete my journal I have copied Trev's entries and made some ammendments. Pah we were there together : ) We flew into Auckland on a short haul flight where we were kindly greeted by a Taxi shuttle that Trev's Aunt had organised. We were whisked away down south to Hamilton where we stayed with Trev's Aunt Glynis and cousin Terran. They were wonderful and made us feel extremely welcome. Glynis was...

I have been really rubbish and neglected the blog for the past couple of months but will try and remember everything we did whilst in Australia. We had such a lovely welcoming in Brisbane from Trevor's friend Dean who picked us up and took us to his place on the Gold coast. Dean and his beautiful wife Candice have a stunning house just outside Surfers paradice. It was awesome to settle in at theirs for a few days and enjoy the beauty of the gold coast. Despite ...

We spent our last week in Vietnam visiting Halong Bay and Sapa. Halong Bay had a strangely mystical feel about it with it's green waters and limestone islands towering over us. There were 1969 islands altogether, some lived on and some so small that you could walk from end to end in a few short steps. The locals have names for all the islands depending on what they look like or something that has happened on them in the past. One island's called the fighting c***...