Travel&Vacation

 After being away from home for over 6 weeks it’d given me time to think about what I really wanted to do, some many times Iv met people who always say ‘i wish id done this’ or ‘i wish i hadnt waited so late’ so I made it my mission to make sure I go get my dreams, im not going to sit around and wait for it to happen! This year had been bad for me, Id just come back from my USA trip with a broken heart, I felt Id lost a part of me, I knew it wasnt the real me. Now it was time to rediscover the joy of life and to follow my dreams and to move on and find new experiences. Hell I was scared but If I dont do it now.. maybe I never will and I dont want my chance to vanish so I say goodbye to the people I know and love and prepare myself for the biggest thing thats ever happened to me.
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Just 10 days before departure for New Zealand, I found out that just a short time ago TomTom released navigation charts for New Zealand. Lots of people have wanted it for their travel to NZ, and I am happy to have succesfully installed it before I leave.  Finding my way around will be much easier, so I can concentrate on all the beautifull things to see. To get the New Zealand map: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0709/S00030.htm Can’t wait to leave, just 1,5 weeks! 

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Inpakken en wegwezen // Let’s get packed and get on our way English version can be found below! Rond 11.00 uur ging ik van huis om mijn zus Ellen op te halen. Een klein uurtje later waren we op weg. We namen de route door de Flevopolder en qua weer hadden we af en toe wat neerslag maar dat mocht geen naam hebben. Bij Nieuweschans gaan we de grens over naar Duitsland waarna we via Oldenburg en Bremen in de richting van Hamburg rijden. Rond half vijf eten we even wat langs de snelweg en daarna gaat het verder. Rond Hamburg blijkt dat de auto toch ook wel wat benzine kan gebruiken en even voor de Elbetunnel gaan we van de snelweg af omdat we bij de afslag een tankstation hadden gezien. Helaas ging die afslag toch iets anders dan verwacht en zaten we, voor we het wisten, in de rij die
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La Chocolateria The days prior to my flight to Spain took me on an emotional roller coaster ride. My boss literally had a heart attack at the office Wednesday morning (2 days before my leaving for Spain). A major artery to the heart was blocked and luckily I was able to get the ambulance there on time. Luckily, they caught and treated it on time. I was a bit uneasy about leaving for Spain being as my boss, the owner of the company, was still in the hospital and normally I am the next in charge. However, he assured me that it was OK for me to go on vacation and I did check up on him and the office several times via email while on vacation.So now that my superhero job of saving lives was on a hiatus, I headed to Newark Airport with Peggy. We arrived fairly early and had 2 hours to
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Ready to get on the road (2007) My aunt is my travel buddy, we have been on vacation several times together.  She likes to take a trip up to the family cabin in Northern Wisconsin at least once a year, and it’s nice to be able to meet her up there.  I didn’t really have any vacations planned for this year, I’ve been saving for a big trip next year.  So, this year (especially with gas prices being so high …) has been limited to a bunch of “staycations” with the dogs and hanging out at home for the most part.  Plus, since I’ve gotten the dogs, I hate leaving them at the kennel … and it’s so expensive to board them for 7-10 days.  Bev was planning on hitting the cabin the week of Labor Day, so I took the week off and decided to throw the dogs in the car
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I have left for Prague!  I will be there officially on the 15th! I am super excited!

View from CN tower Hello – I don’t have many Travbuddy friends who can actually see this blog yet, but for those of you who can, here’s an update on our first few days in Canada! We arrived in Toronto two days ago on a very nice BA flight from Manchester via London Heathrow and were picked up from the airport by Alex’s friend, Maher and his mum in their v.big and v.flash car, who very kindly drove us to our hostel downtown in the middle of rush hour. We’re staying at one of the University of Toronto halls of residence called New College, which is very basic but no worse than Halifax hall! On the first night we went straight to bed at 9pm Toronto time, as it was about 2am England time, and then woke up the next morning at 7am for a halls breakfast of cereal, muffins, toast,
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View from my hotel 1 The day has finally come when my holiday starts. Five weeks in the Philippines. My very first trip to this part of the world so I am kind of exited about the prospect of the trip. It all starts out pretty early – I have to be in the airport way before I really want to be there. It will turn out that this day is setting the norm for my holiday – up too early almost everyday.                           Well I have to fly to London first to catch my plane to Hong Kong and then Manila. Flying to Heathrow is not really one thing I look forward to. Because I have to go to terminal five. View from my hotel 2 Which got almost instant fame as
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Sangam offers dorm and private accommodations at a reasonable cost. There is also a campsite located there. The property sits on a total of 7 acres of land. Meals can be purchased for a nominal fee. Breakfast usually included an egg option. Lunch is Indian vegetarian. Dinner is western style food with an Indian twist; there is a veg and non-veg option at dinner. Bed linens, towels, and blankets are provided. Hot water is not available 24 hours a day during monsoon season but water is heated twice a day for showering purposes. Toilet paper is provided. There are western and Asian style toilets available. Ceiling Fans, mosquito nets and plug in repellent are available in all of the rooms as well. There is a place to hand wash clothes and drying racks provided in every room. There is
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