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28 avril 2010

Vilcabamba - Guayaquil

So from Tumbes in Peru, we crossed the border into Ecuador. It's pretty straightforward on the peruvian side, but on the Ecuadorian side, you walk into the first town and no immigration post. It's actually 2km away, you have to get a taxi to get there!...

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15 décembre 2010

Holidays!

We left St George on Sunday morning. We drove to Brisbane. It was quite strange seeing real motorways and lots of cars again. We hadn't seen so many cars since we left Sydney mid-september! We just stayed overnight in Brisbane. Just enough to see the...

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6 décembre 2010

Still in St George

So the time has passed, and not that many melons have been packed! The weather in Queensland this year is just completely off the charts. They have never had this much rain in years. Which makes picking melons difficult. So we've had a lot of days off,...

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16 août 2010

Diving, shopping...

After spending a few days in San Cristobal de las Casas, a pretty colonial town where we lazed about not doing much, we moved on to Puerto Escondido. It took a a long 12 hour night bus ride. It had been a while since we had taken night buses and it brought...

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16 juin 2010

Nosara

Yesterday we left Monteverde and made our way to Nosara. We had been told that we would have to take 4 different buses to get to our destination, so we were ready for a long, tiring day. However, after taking the first bus and getting off on the Panamerican...

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21 mai 2010

LAS VEGAS

What can I say about Las Vegas? The city where everything is just too much! We took a greyhound bus to get to Vegas. We had booked a room at the Imperial Palace. We had a suite with a "luv tub", we werent sure what that meant. That meant we had a huge...

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6 janvier 2010

D - 7

This is it! In just 1 week, the trip begins! The plan is simple: 3 continents, 18 months. Itinerary- South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico (6 months)Australia (6 months)Asia : Philipines, Indonesia, Malaysia,...

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11 novembre 2010

Arrival in St George

The work was coming to an end at Charters Towers, so we decided it was time to look for another job in order to jump from this one to the next. It turned out that one of the couples working with us had a job lined up but that they weren't going to take,...

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23 octobre 2011

After 15 years!

15 years after I left Japan and said goodbye to my nanny... we met again in her home country, the Philippines, and I got to meet her beautiful daughter. I never thought we would meet again but I have to say that this is thanks to social networks! It was...

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12 septembre 2011

First impressions of the Philippines

So far, so good! The immigration police was very friendly although they couldn't give us a visa of more than 21 days, they were able to tell us that there was an immigration office in the town where we were heading that could do this for us. We took a...

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22 avril 2011

Padang Bai - Bali

As of today I am certified as an Open Water Diver :D I was quite nervous about taking the course but I'm happy I did it. It takes three days, 1 dive in a pool and 4 dives in the sea. It takes time to get relaxed about breathing underwater. It was only...

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3 juillet 2011

Pai, Chiang Mai and election day with the in-laws

After these three intense days we headed back to Thailand and decided to go straight back up north. Which meant a journey of over 24 hours. We took the bus from Siem Reap to Bangkok (leaving at 8 am, arriving at 7 pm), then from Bangkok to Chiang Mai...

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5 mars 2011

Staying it is!

We landed the job at the Holiday Inn in the Kakadu National Park. We started work on Wednesday already. Thomas is in charge of cleaning all public areas (reception, staircases, conference rooms, toilets etc) and I am waitressing in the hotel restaurant....

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19 février 2011

End of Red Center

We finished the crossing of Australia under the rain! Turns out a cyclone was forming above Darwin, just as we were arriving. So unfortunately the visits we wanted to do on the last two days of the road trip had to be cancelled - no Litchfield National...

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6 février 2011

Great Ocean Road

Since Thursday we have left Melbourne, heading towards Adelaide via the Great Ocean Road. It's a great drive, with beautiful views of the coast. Just to drop a few names : Great Otway national park (did some ziplining there, thank you family for a great...

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25 décembre 2010

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Merry Christmas! I hope everyone had a very merry christmas and was not stuck in some snowed-in airport across Europe! Thomas and I spent Christmas in Temora, a small country town about 1h away from Wagga-Wagga. We are staying with my friend Kristy and...

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12 octobre 2010

Road trip to Queensland and grape work

After our three days work in Victoria we decided that we would have more luck finding work in Queensland... which is up North of Sydney :s We called up the national harvest line and managed to get a grape picking job up in Queensland. So we hopped in...

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28 septembre 2010

First time real camping

Wednesday afternoon we finally took the road with our fully equipped van. Headed for Waikerie as we knew there were some orange picking jobs open and we had to get there fast before they ran out. After few hours of driving and with the sun having set,...

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20 septembre 2010

Our super equipped van!

I'll start with our van since in my last post I promised that I'd put up some photos. We went shopping to buy all the stuff we would need for living on the road: cutlery, pots and pans, camping stove, solar shower, jerrycan of water and petrol, dry foods...

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3 septembre 2010

Sydney

We finally arrived in Sydney after a long journey of 39hours. Surprisingly we are not too jet-lagged. During our 12 hour stop in Los Angeles, we managed to check in our luggage early and go into town. We went to Santa Monica beach. Proof here below with...

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27 juillet 2010

15/07-28/07

Helloooo! I have very much left the blog to itself lately but it's only because access to the Internet has not been available. So here's the full recap of the past two weeks: - arrival of my mum in Guatemala City - three days spent around the Lago de...

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8 juillet 2010

First Maya ruins!

Today 8th of July, we went to see our first Mayan ruins of the trip. We are in Copan, just by the border between Guatemala and Honduras. What a difference to Inca ruins! There are sculptures everywhere, and despite strong erosion from the rain, you can...

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3 juillet 2010

Utila

So here we are on Utila island in Honduras. It is called Honduras but it doesn't really feel like it. First of all the main language here is English, Spanish is only the second language to the locals. The local's accent has a strong jamaican feel (ya...

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20 juin 2010

Isla de Ometepe

Change of country! We are now in Nicaragua since Thursday afternoon. After a day full of buses and one boat, we arrived on the Island of Ometepe. The island is in fact 2 volcanoes in the middle of Lake Nicaragua, that are now linked together, by the lava...

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13 juin 2010

Canopy in Monteverde

So today's big activity of the day was Canopy. We don't usually do these gringo style activities during the trip, but this time we thought "what the heck, this looks quite fun". We were booked to go on the canopy tour at 10:30 am and at 9 o'clock it was...

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