Emily May Rainsford

Welcome everybody, to the home of Emily's Quest - around the world in a little more than 80 days! :-) Please feel free to browse my posts and photos, and I always love to get posts or e-mails :-) Over the next 3 months or so, I am going to be travelling around the world before settling down to some hard study at Otago Medical School next year. This is my itinterary. I will be updating this site with posts and photos as often as possible. I hope you enjoy reading about my trip! :-) Wed, Nov 8: I leave Dunedin and Salmond College and head to Geraldine for a couple of days. Fri, Nov 10: Flight from Christchurch to Auckland at 2.50pm, then from Auckland onto Los Angeles, arriving in the City of Angels at 10.30am (before I left home!). Then I jump straight on a bus to San Francisco. Fri Nov 10 - Thur Nov 16: San Francisco Thur Nov 16: Meet Tania in Los Angeles, my fellow RA who will be joining me volunteering in Costa Rica. She's the one in bright pink in my Dunedin photos :-) Thur Nov 16 - Sat Nov 18: Los Angeles Sun Nov 19: Leave LAX just after midnight and arrive in San Jose, Costa Rica, just after 9am. Hopefully we will be picked up by the lovely Global Crossroad people :-) Sun Nov 19 - Fri Dec 22: Costa Rica!! We will be doing a two week Language and Culture course, then volunteering for two weeks at a hospital in Guapiles. After that I have a week to explore Costa Rica before moving on. Fri Dec 22: Leave San Jose in the evening and fly via Guatemala to LA Sat Dec 23: Leave LAX early in the morning and arrive in New York in the early evening. Sat Dec 23 - Thur Dec 28: New York New York! Oh yeah, and Christmas in there somewhere too. Thur Dec 28: Leave New York early and arrive in London in the evening Fri Dec 29: Leave London on a Party Professionals bus for Edinburgh and the Hogmanay New Years extravaganza! Sat Dec 30: Explore Edinburgh and indulge in a New Year's pre-party Sun Dec 31: New Years Eve begins at the NZ/Oz pub celebrating the Australisian New Yearss, then partying on into the evening until the big street party that is Hogmany to welcome in the New Year Mon Jan 1: A tour of a castle and another party! Tue Jan 2: Back on the bus to mother London Wed Jan 3: Happy birthday Jess! A day to recover and explore London if I'm up to it :-) Thur Jan 4 - Tue Jan 9: Ireland, the homeland. Fiddeldiedie potetos. Doing a 3 day Paddy Wagon tour encompassing Galway, the Cliffs of Moher, Killarney and the Blarney Stone, plus a couple of days to explore Dublin afterwards. Tue Jan 9 - Fri Jan 12: A few days to take in London. Leave Heathrow late Friday night. Sat Jan 13: Arrive in Singapore Sun Jan 14 - Sun Jan 28: an Intrepid tour from Singapore through Malaysia and up into Thailand, ending in Bangkok. Sun Jan 28 - Sun Feb 11: another Intrepid tour up into the hills of Chang mai and then coming full circle back to Bangkok again. Mon Feb 12: Leave Bangkok Tue Feb 13: Arrive in Christchurch finally at 9.30pm via Sydney and Auckland. Somehow I then have to make my way to Dunedin...haven't quite figured that bit out yet. Wed Feb 14: Med School orientation starts in Dunedin. Phew!