Around the world in 80 days (-+ 288)
In and around World
A round the world trip on a 1 year ticket. I'm travelling with 3 didsbury compadres, Ricky B, Patrice and Nikki.
Roughly, our flight itinerary is...
8 August 2006 Manchester TBC Tokyo Hong Kong TBC Hong Kong Delhi TBC Delhi London TBC London Manchester
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler miketong
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1st stop Boston
Well we arrived just in time, literally! The following day was the big scare at London with the scuppered terrorist attacks - that would not h... Continue reading »
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Chic - a - go (AKA Smelly Onions)
The flight to Chicago went pretty hassle free, despite the increased security at the airports. You now can't take any kind of liquid or gel in your... Continue reading »
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Vancouver Island
After Chicago we flew to Seattle (Patrice got her usual extra security check - you can't trust these Irish) we jumped into a cab to catch the Ferry... Continue reading »
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Living the high life
Vancouver has to be up there with Boston as one of my favourite places this trip. our visit started well, on arriving we headed straight to the doc... Continue reading »
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Biking at Whistler
Whistler is a resort town built at the base of Whistler mountain about an hour's drive from Vancouver. Its one of the largest (and best) ski resort... Continue reading »
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Back to the island
We drove back (well Theresa and Darren did) from Whistler to Victoria to stay at Theresa's for another couple of nights. We didn't do much the nigh... Continue reading »
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Seattle on the cheap
Patrice and I arrived in Seattle in the morning after a complex but relatively hassle free journey from Victoria. In an attempt to save some cash w... Continue reading »
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San Francisco
The first day we wandered around the city and headed down to Fisherman's Wharf. Well, I say wandered, it was more of a hike really given the hills... Continue reading »
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Santa Cruz Thrills
We stopped overnight in Santa Cruz, I knew little about the place other than it had a reputation for excentric individuals. It certainly seems to b... Continue reading »
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Like the Murphys
Murphys was a bit of a late addition to our North America tour, originally we had planned to go to Yosemite National Park, however our schedule mea... Continue reading »
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Bakersfield
The drive from Murphys to Vegas was a long one so we decided to stop off roughly half way at Bakersfield. Nothing much went down, we arrived pretty... Continue reading »
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Vegas Baby!
The start of our trip to Vegas started on a solemn note, we heard in the news in the morning, the great Steve Irwin was no more. I couldn't help fe... Continue reading »
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Camping in Zion
We arrived at Zion at around 4pm and tried scouting around a few places to try and find somewhere cheap to stay. We went to 3 or 4 hotels and motel... Continue reading »
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Grand Canyon, it's a biggun
Driving to the Canyon from Zion we ran into a bit of a car problem. When I'm driving at home, I don't generally start worrying about petrol until t... Continue reading »
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Clubbin in LA
Well we're nearing the end of our US leg and how could it be complete without a trip to LA. We still had our hire car which was a godsend here as e... Continue reading »
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Into Mexico, Guadalajara
We arrived in Tijuana around 8am for our flight to Guadalajara. The border control passing from the US into Mexico is laughably relaxed, you pretty... Continue reading »
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Guanajuato
Guanajauto was a really nice nice scenic town, more of a tourist destination than Guadalajara and we straight away took to the place. There were lo... Continue reading »
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Teotihuacan
We went here to see some ancient Mayan Pyramids but a gazillion years ago or thereabouts. Anyway, boring history aside, something much better happe... Continue reading »
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Sao Paulo, briefly
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Her name is Rio
Stayed in a great Hostel called Stone of the Beach. The Beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema are huge, there are massive waves and lots of good looking p... Continue reading » -
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Waterfalls at Iguacu
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Argentina! Spanish again!
Argentina was great and my only regret was that we didn't have enough time to explore any of the country outside of Buenos Aires. The food was fant... Continue reading » -
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Roll on New Zealand
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Skydiving at Taupo
We all did a skydive over Lake Taupo, it was amazing, and I'd love to do one again. Words don't do so well to explain it so here's a video of us ju... Continue reading »
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Wellington, last stop on the North Island
Great city. My favourite in New Zealand and somewhere I could easily see myself living in for a while. Best (and only) Welsh pub in the southern he... Continue reading »
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NZ South Island, Nelson
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Greymouth
A small and fairly dull town. We stayed in a hostel called Noah's ark where all the rooms are themed. We stayed in tiger room. We did a tour of the br... Continue reading » -
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Franz Josef and crappy weather
Really nice hostel, we spent a lot of time in the hot tub waiting for the weather to clear so we could get a helicopter to take us up to the top of... Continue reading »
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Xmas in Queenstown
This is the adventure capital of NZ apparently, however we'd pretty much done all our adventuring in the North Island already so we didn't get up t... Continue reading »
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Dunedin
Went to the swimming baths with Nikki. Did a fun inflatable obstacle course race which I think was probably intended for children. I won, in your face... Continue reading »
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