Next and final stop before we arrived in London was New York City. We arrived at the hostel at night on the 18th April and immediately set off for Times Square. Walking the 5/10 minutes from our hostel to Times Square was a pretty surreal experience. Everywhere you are surrounded by huge skyscrapers and the roads and footpaths are in a constant source of craziness. Times Square is just as crazy with lights, people and sounds everywhere so that you never know wh...

Seeing as Paula was tripping down from Vancouver for a catch up with us in San Francisco, Mum & Dad Armstrong decided that it was a good idea for a family catch up and added an extra stop to their Central & South America holiday. We picked them up from the airport in Thursday in the people mover that Paula had hired (big enough to fit ALL our luggage) and set off for Yosemite National Park. Once in the park the drive was amazing with piles of snow all...

Our first stop en route to London was San Francisco. We were going to spend about 6 days in the area staying with Sally and Whit with Miranda also staying for the weekend. We arrived in San Francisco late morning local time where Sally was waiting to pick us all up from the airport. Sally took us back to her and Whit's place in San Ramon - about an hour to an hour and a half out of San Francisco. We spent the Saturday visiting various wineries around the Napa v...