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LA, not exactly what I feared

Well I have to say I’ve actually quite liked my few days in LA. Its all pretty much as fake as I always thought. The disparity between Rodeo Drive & Beverley Hills say and parts around Hollywood Blvd & side streets away from Union Station in Downtown LA are stunning. There’s a lot of nutters […]

Aloha!

Well I’m on my last full day and night in Hawaii. Tomorrow night I say “Aloha” to Hawaii for the all out huge madness that will be LA. To be honest talking to other people and their impressions/hatred of LA was making me apprehensive but sure I’ve come to my senses now. If I coped […]

Here we go again…

Well I’m moving on today for Hawaii. I leave NZ at 18:00 on Saturday 26th August and arrive into Hawaii at 09:50 on Saturday 26th August. Hmm, better not to dwell on it at all. Trying to book a hostel online but they unfortunately won’t take my details as its less than 48 hours before […]

The Nam Scam

I am so looking forward to leaving Vietnam for Laos. We’ve had such stress over the last few days we’re all exhausted. We left Hanoi for the Unesco heritage site of Halong Bay on Tuesday expecting a nice relaxing 3 days. What we got was a Gestapo trained guide called Nam and piles of problems […]

Very important rules

Forgot to add the most important rules of all, (isn’t that always the way of things) and that of course is your approach.
When ya go travelling you have to keep an open mind. We can never entirely get past our on bias but we can try to see things from another point of view, be […]

Rules of travel - part one

We meant to put these up when we were in Del Boy Dehli but completely forgot and now they’re sopping wet and I can hardly read them but here goes. They’re in no particular order.
- Be specific about what you want because not everyone understands, “Ah whatever” or you’ll get something particularly over-priced
- Always have […]