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31 janvier 2010

Into Bolivia

So, as per my previous post we spent the night in Humahuaca, and the next day we hopped on to another bus, this time to head directly to the Bolivian border. Approx 3 hours to La Quiaca, the last Argentinian town before the border. We expected to spend...

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24 janvier 2010

Last day in Buenos Aires

As I explained in my previous post, we were already suprised by the fact that red lights come after the crossroad. Last night, we spent the evening with some argentinian friends. They came to pick us up by car, and we also noticed that there are no one-way...

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23 janvier 2010

1 week in Argentina

It's just the beginning of a long trip, so we're taking things slooowly. Getting adjusted to the time difference (a whopping 4 hours... you can imagine the terrible jet-lag), and to the heat (that's much more difficult).We've walked up and down the micro-centro,...

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14 janvier 2010

Expensive last name

I should be writing this post from Argentina. However, we've already had to face our first travelling problems. Brussels - Buenos Aires should have consisted in taking a train to Paris, then a plane to Rome and then a plane to Buenos Aires. The train...

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12 juin 2010

Face-lift for the blog

As you can see, being ill yesterday I had a lot of time on my hands... to watch the world cup and then to finally take care of my poor blog's ugly looks. I hope you all like it's face-lift! i am going to be working on it some more, on past posts, to include...

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15 mars 2010

Ica - Huacachina

After the Colca Canyon, we were back in Arequipa. We took a night bus to Nazca. We arrived at 6:30 am, grabbed a taxi to the airport and bought two tickets for a half hour flight over the mysterious Nazca lines. Amazing... really really impressive. Apart...

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11 mars 2010

Canyon de Colca

Just a quick note to say that we just spent two days in the Canyon de Colca. We took a bus to Cabanaconde and went walking down the Canyon, to the river. 2h30 sliding down the rocky trail under a scorching hot sun. When we arrived at the river, we were...

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29 juin 2011

Cambodia with the in-laws

After Pai we rushed back down to Bangkok to pick up the in-laws in. With them we headed straight for Cambodia. Only one stop planned there: Siem Reap (to see the famous Angkor). Angkor is absolutely massive and you could spend weeks visiting every building...

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31 mars 2011

This is the end... of down under

We've booked our tickets for Bali! We land on the 15th of April. We'll be working at the Holiday Inn until the 12th, then off to Darwin to catch our flight and move on to the third and final part of the trip. Very excited. We've gone six months in the...

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22 février 2011

Staying?Leaving?

We love to improvise but these days it's just been ridiculous. Since we haven't worked since mid-December, we've spent nearly all the money we earned while working in Australia. We were hoping to sell the van quickly at a good price in Darwin, and then...

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10 février 2011

The great outback

This is it! With a brand new battery, a new air filter, new engine oil, lots of food and almost 50 liters of water, we started our great journey from Adelaide to Darwin yesterday. That's 3000 kilometers of straight line through the desert. Which is not...

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30 janvier 2011

Australia Day

The 26th of january was Australia Day. We spent the day in Cronulla, a suburb south of Sydney. We were woken up early as some people were already around their bbq, cracking open a beer at eight am. The beach was jam packed with people. Everyone was going...

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20 janvier 2011

And we're back in reality!

The ten day meditation course is over. I am allowed to speak again :D It was a really tough ten days, but overall a wonderful experience that I can only recommend. 17 hour days of which 11 are spent meditating. The rest of the time, no talking and no...

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6 janvier 2011

See you in two weeks!

We've slowly been making our way back towards Sydney, stopping for a rest in Griffith (too hot: 42 degrees) and in Orange (cold and stormy). In 2 days we'll be starting our 10 day meditation course (Vipassana) up in the Blue Mountains, so don't expect...

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2 novembre 2010

Week 4 of grape picking/packing

No I'm not dead, i'm just busy packing grapes! It's been a busy four weeks. work starts at 6am and normally ends at 3pm. We got a lot of rain two weeks ago which meant the boys had the day off, while we girls continued packing what the boys had picked...

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2 octobre 2010

First work experience in Australia

Very positive! We had the chance of working for a very kind farmer called Rowan. His wheat field contained some other crop close to wheat but not exactly wheat (i'm sorry Rowan, I cannot remember the name of the crop!). He needed to get rid of this crop...

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15 septembre 2010

Sydney hesitations

More than ten days in Australia and still no new post ! I didn't want to put up a new post without any photos and truth be told, I took my first australian photos only 4 days ago ! So what have we been up to and what can be said about Australia so far...

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28 août 2010

This is it!

Our last weekend in Latin America! We made it back to Mexico DF this afternoon. We have 3 days to visit the town. Then we'll be off to the second part of our trip: AUSTRALIA! We leave on Tuesday morning and we'll arrive on Thursday morning in Sydney....

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22 août 2010

Cough cough

Not much to tell about the last week... We are laaaazy. Spent a few days in Oaxaca, nice town where people like to party. There's always lots of people in the streets any time of day or night.Then we spent a day in the bus to get to Mexico DF. Spent just...

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9 août 2010

Chiapas

Since arriving at the town of Palenque, we have left the Yucatan region and entered into the Chiapas region. With Tabasco, it is one of the poorest regions of Mexico. And you can tell. Especially when arriving from Yucatan. Things are a little less organised,...

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7 août 2010

Chichen Itza, Campeche

We just arrived today in the city of Palenque. Our friends Pavla and Marc were waiting for us at the bus station. We met Pavla and Marc in Nicaragua and travelled with them for a few weeks. We parted with them in Guatemala, just before my mom arrived....

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2 août 2010

Mexico... Mexiiiiiiiiiiico!

That's it for Central America. We are now in North America, which means that we are getting closer and closer to the end of the first part of our trip! We left Guatemala on the 29th, crossing Belize to go into Mexico. For the first time during our trip,...

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23 juillet 2010

Quick update

More than a week without news! My mum arrived safely and we've been travelling with her since. We spent a few days around the Lago de Atitlan and saw two beatiful markets full of locals in their traditional dresses. We spent a few days in Semuc Champey,...

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13 juillet 2010

Guatemala - Antigua

From Copan, we headed straight into Guatemala. Nothing to say about the border, except that we'd never crossed a border that quickly! very quick and easy, apart from the fact that once again we had to pay a tourist tax despite the fact that the EU has...

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28 juin 2010

First experiences in Honduras

Yesterday we arrived in Honduras. It was a loooong day. A total of 17 hours travelling.The roads are dangerous, as everywhere, and yesterday we got a taste of it... Our bus hit a motocycle. The guy on the motocycle was lucky, his helmet went flying off...

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