Travel Blogging

Posts on my experiences in travelling

  • Inca Trail – Father & Daughter

    Inca Trail Originally uploaded by sally_in_norfolk A lovely picture taken by sally.

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  • Cycling again after 40 years……

    Its been in my head for a long time to cycle down through France, in fact checking my Quicken I can see that I treated myself to a new bike for £669.98p for my birthday 10 years ago! A bike that has not been used for over 9 years …… Finally I’ve decided to bike…

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  • Quick travelling update

    Sorry to my regular readers about the lack of updates 🙁 It is simply due to me enjoying myself so much and having an active social life. From 26May The fact is I am  simply loving travelling here, especially with beer at $1 a pint, hotel rooms at $8 night and decent meals for less…

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  • Getting around Cristobal

    After 12 hours here in The Galapagos I decided to extend my stay for another week! A quick bike ride to the airport,then about 12 steps from parking the bike to the AeroGal office followed by about 10 clicks on her computer and the job was done, no charge, no fuss. Airports and booking as…

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  • Samara

    Finally made it to Samara at 11pm last night. The bus was totally packed with some folks standing for the five and a half hour journey from San Jose. I was wedged in behind some guy who insisted on reclining his seat 🙁 At the bus station I met a young couple from Switzerland who…

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  • Welney visit

    Sally has been going on and on about seeing the swan feeding at the Welney Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust 🙂 So today was the chosen, freezing cold,day, we picked up Ellee, in the midst of writing her secret book, and drove out to the hides. After getting over the shock of paying over £11 for…

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  • Finding  Heathrow Terminal 5

    Finding Heathrow Terminal 5

    Don’t expect the Ordnance Survey or any of the other professional mappers to help you in finding Terminal 5 at London’s Heathrow airport. Yep, you have to rely on Open Street Map. See how the other’s handle it on the opengeodata blog. Here it is shown copyright free! (Click on map for latest version.)

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