Nick and Elle World Tour
In and around World
England sucks. Goodbye
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler Elle and Nick
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Juicy Beef Steaks
Two reasons why Buenos Aires got its name: the fair winds that got the spanish here or the good air that rid them of syphilis. We like both,... Continue reading »
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Wine Country
A wonderful town in the middle of a desert thatjust happens to have an enourmous river running thrugh it from the melting snow in the andes.
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The arse end of nowhere
Its likea bus stop, and a crossroads and the kinda place where people die horribly in Stephen King books. We spent two days here and met the whole... Continue reading »
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Elle can ski
I know. Its unbelievable.
Lift passes and gear costs about 40 quid for the day - way cheaper than Europe. And now we can say we s... Continue reading »
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Whales. Wales. Wahey´lls
Whales. Shit loads. There are 8,000 Southern Rigth Whales in existence. About 500 of them are chilling with their bad selves in a... Continue reading »
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Jungles and Waterfalls
So NIck has gone back to England for a wedding for a few days and left me here in Argentina. As we´d missed out the Iguazu Falls on our trip I deci... Continue reading »
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forth to Darkest Peru.....
Lima, well, having been back and forth to Buenos Aires to meet up with Nick again we finally arrived in Lima totally knackered. I`ve been told Lima... Continue reading »
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Swallowing the Amazon
Iquitos is the Peruvian base for exporing the Amazon river and surrounding jungle. Suddenly it`s 30 degrees at 7am and 40-45 later on, and th... Continue reading »
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Sunbathing in the desert
We arrived in Nasca at night. There seemed to be a certain amount of vegetation in the town. It was cold and we had travelled south fro... Continue reading »
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The strangest Convent in the world?
There is a convent the size of a town that is walled in and really luxurious. It was built and run for about three centuries by rich women fr... Continue reading »
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Riding with the Incas
Riding with the Incas - The best road on Earth?
For $25 a day we hired each we hired 2 Honda NX250s and rode them up a 2.5km near vertical... Continue reading »
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The Curse of Machu Picchu
Aah, Machu Picchu, the great symbol of inca innovation and civilisation. Also, the reason for our numerous near death experiences: this place is cu... Continue reading »
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Nada mas
Puno is where you need to change to get to Bolivia. To avoid turning up in Copacabana at night you stay the night. Its got a cathedral... Continue reading »
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Goodbye Peru, Hello Bolivia. Blimey its cheap
GBP 3,50 for a double room with private bathroom. Happy days for Nick indeed.
We got the exchange rate wrong by a third and still thou... Continue reading »
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llama foetus and quite a nice city
Once you get over the fact the witches market sells stuff to witches in order to cast spells (probably on the gringos) its a fairly normal town.&nb... Continue reading »
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Pink flamingoes, geysers and the race to chile
We are the desert masters after all....
How could we resist a chance to cross the worlds largest salt flat (100 km across... flat blinding wh... Continue reading »
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You mean thats it?
Oh my god. We´re experts on desert towns but this was out there. Diificult to work out what was desert and what was hut. Like the st... Continue reading » -
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McDisney Desert world. 10 Quid to use the bog
San Pedro is very expensive and full of North Americans of the invading iraq variety who think chile is the third world and would never consider... Continue reading » -
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RAIN.
Its a North American ski resort type town set up for hiking and outdoor sports with prices to match. But at the office of turismo they confes... Continue reading »
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The Argentinian Lake District
We arrived in Bariloche from the picturesque setting of San Martin de los Andes expecting some more of the same - small town feel on a lake shore.&... Continue reading »
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Rickety Lifts on the Cerro Alegre
Chile gets saved by a late winner from Valparaiso.
Its dirty. In decline. A port full of prostitutes and nasty bars (well it would be buit t... Continue reading »
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Brave new continent
Some serious jet lag and a new pin and we're in New Zealand!!
And we cant resist an aquarium.
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Standing on Ice for 8 hours in the pouring rain
There are two ways of looking at this.- The most unforgettable day of your life. A glacier that is advancing 1-5m a day and c... Continue reading »
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Three duvets and what a view to wake up to
First night in the van and we love it. Three duvets and a view of the mountians. This is so cool and people speak English to.
Ell... Continue reading »
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Nick catches a monster trout!
OK. I know you ahve all been fishing with me when I catch nothing. Thats the regular event to be honest. This time tho... Continue reading »
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Nick bungies
We have some cool photos of this, that will end up here if we can find an internet connection fast enough.
We went to Queenstown, in the pou... Continue reading »
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There's gold in them hills
We escape the holiday camp hell of Queenstown and head to Arrowntown, a gold mining 'historic' (ie over 50 years old) town down the road. It tur... Continue reading » -
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Bonfires by the river. No idea where though
freedom camping. only problem is no idea where
We have driven up the whole of the east coast of the South Island as far as Oamaru, visited th... Continue reading »
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Hanging with the Mathers!
A Home in New Zealand
A massive thanks to Rich and Sarah who put us up in their home in Cashmere in a wonderful room light years nicer than... Continue reading »
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Dolphins!!!!
happy days with dolphins!
So far the East coast of the South Island had proved somewhat disappointing after the rugged West coast adn its t... Continue reading »
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OOPS
The lady at the rental shop looks a bit confused. Arent you due tomorrow?
Er no we're going tomorrow. We argue and we get the refund.Continue reading »
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The Dolphin Death Match
The Dolphin Death Match
Ok so dolphins are cute and we all love them but its time to put the lovable mammals to the test. Its time fo... Continue reading »
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The Dulce thief
some inward looking fascist small minded b4stard custom officer confiscated my dulce de leche. enough said. i'm never coming back to Oz Continue reading » -
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Barmy Army
Barmy Army Barmy Army
We arrived in Brissie for the evening of the final day of the first test and werejust in time to meet the throbbing hor... Continue reading »
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H O L E
Its hot, humid and full of man eating crocs. If we spend another day here we are gonna feed ourselves to some.
Neither of us had been h... Continue reading »
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We love Asia
OK so I know its bad to start talking about money straight up like I did in Bolivia but you cant get over the comparison of Australia and Bali.&nbs... Continue reading »
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The Big Durian
The place is completly insane. We go through streets of desolation to an old colonial house bar that makes us uncomfortable and end up in Pizza... Continue reading » -
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Uh oh almost working
Almost work!
Nick almost has a heart attack when he realises that all the meetings he has set up might actually mean work at some point in... Continue reading »
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Da thrilla in...
If anyone ever suggests a trip to Manila say "no"
WE were personally brutally attacked by four kids demanding hot fudge sundaes from mc donal... Continue reading »
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Diving Mecca, Could Be Betta
Diving
Having bought the SE Asia dive sites book at Bali airport we went straight out to try a hot spot near Manila. Unfortunately the... Continue reading »
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coming back more
Back in Hong Kong on the way to Bangkok. We've changed our flights but no one is really around and itsall quiet. Spent today buying a lapt... Continue reading » -
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Making a home
This process is so stressful that we have forgetten the blog and forgetten we are on holiday inany shape or frm. Worse still Nick is job hu... Continue reading » -
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Shopping - the first of many
Having seen the wonders that Krabi offers we have been forced to make a 6 hour journey to Phuket town. He day starts well with a blown front tyre,... Continue reading »
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Nice place but no fun outside of fun zone
So much more relaxed than HK and a nice comparison. The cafes on the river side are cool, like somewhere in Europe. We stayed in the Fo... Continue reading »
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KL - kinda cool
KL was way less stressful than we expected. The place is buzzing with great food courts and large shopping malls. Tried to sort out the tr... Continue reading » -
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Wales in Malaysia
Yup thats right another place almost identica to Wales but bloody miles from England. How wierd is this place - cold and wet in the midde of... Continue reading »
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Awesome place, crazy old style
We only get to stay for one day unforts but the place is humming and good value too. Theres a little India and China ad it feels like oold bligh... Continue reading » -
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Home again for the last time
We're back and still nothing works. The pool still leaks and we are feeling a bit bored of it all. Whats more Nick has to leave earlyfor intervi... Continue reading »
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