tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78864012967666283162024-02-19T07:16:43.130+00:00Asia 2011Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-91255770372966498592012-08-24T19:07:00.003+01:002012-08-24T19:12:12.771+01:00Moved to www.nextstopwhoknows.comI've finally gotten around to swapping over from here over to my own hosted domain name at <a href="http://www.nextstopwhoknows.com/" target="_blank">nextstopwhoknows </a><br />
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CarloCarlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-474241920970446202011-12-07T19:40:00.000+00:002011-12-07T19:40:29.368+00:00Trip round up!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I realise that I left the blog in a bit of a loop since I last posted an entry on Sept 10th. This was deliberate on my behalf as I hated coming back to it since we had to cut our trip short by three months.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As most of ye know, I hurt my back while at the end of our three week stint in Australia and it got to the point where the trip was no longer a viable option for us. Long story short, I had a ruptured L5S1 disc which was causing all the problems and this showed up on the MRI scam which I got done in Phuket. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I tried to give it a few extra weeks to clear up while back in Thailand, but it just wasn't to be. Health is wealth as the saying goes, and looking after myself was my number one priority. So we ended up flying back home end of September, much to our dismay. But our insurance company insisted that I fly "first class" due to the nature of my injury. I initially declined as it meant Florence had to travel alone in economy, but the airline wouldn't let me board unless it was in first class. So first class it was ;) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I got an appointment with a Spinal Surgeon in the Galway clinic hospital and few weeks ago, and he looked at my MRI scan and said that an operation was not required, even though it was a pretty large rupture. The pain has reduced a lot in the past five or six weeks and this he said was due to the body forming scar tissue around the ruptured disc and basically eating it away. So the only thing he said I can do is to rest up for 6-8 more to give the body enough time to more or less get rid of the disc, while slowing building up my walks and also my core muscles to help strengthen my back for the future. Swimming is also on the list of activities, but only if it doesn't cause any undue pain.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So that's where I stand at the moment. Not able to do much, but certainly in a lot better condition than I was back in September.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Funnily enough, we were originally scheduled to return to Ireland today(Wednesday 7th Dec). But since we've been back home now for three months, it seems like we were never away.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Asia is just a magical place. And although we didn't get to Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia like we had planned to, the countries we did visit were just spectacular. After spending four months travelling around there I definitely got a good feel for the culture and people along with an even bigger hunger to someday return and finish what we initially set out to do. I'm not going to harper on about Asia, as I've already said enough about it many times.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In saying that, the wheels are in motion already for my next trip, which hopefully will be to South America in Jan 2013 for 6 months. I know it's a long way off, but I like to plan in advance and give myself enough time to both get back to full health and save. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Between now and then there's going to be a lot of online poker played and the occasional live event. :)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Thanks to everyone for all the kind emails, texts and get well wishes over the course of the trip. Keeping a travel blog, or even just a normal blog is great as not only do you get to show off a few exotic locations along the way, but in years to come it will be nice to have both a written and photographic account of some of my travels. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I plan on doing up a slideshow of the four months which I'll add here when I do so. For me a slideshow at the end of a trip ties everything up nicely and brings it to a close.</span><br />
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</span>Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-23604804099305775212011-09-10T14:10:00.001+01:002011-09-20T12:07:19.384+01:00The trip continues!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Its been a rollercoaster of a week since we left Australia to say the least. At this stage I’m very grateful to be still travelling. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">To continue from where I ended the last blog entry, I managed(only just) to make my way from Brisbane to Bangkok without a wheelchair. The pain in my left leg was the worst kind of pain I’ve ever endured period, and only for Florence who was able to help me hobble along the terminals in the airports in Brisbane, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok, I honestly don’t think I’d have made it. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It was obvious by the time we reached our hotel in Bangkok that I needed urgent medical help in order to keep the trip alive. We had two days of a wait in Bangkok before my cousin David Donnelly was flying out to meet us for a week in Phuket. So the plan was to rest up in bed for the two days and then get to a hospital in phuket.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We flew down to Phuket last Friday week after meeting David in Bangkok airport, and headed to Patong beach, where we already had spent a few days earlier in our trip. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After we got settled into a nice hotel just off the beach the first port of call was to get to a hospital, which ended up been in Phuket town (about 25 mins away) from Patong. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Before I go any further, I would like to say just how unbelievable the services were in that hospital. The standard was obviously to international requirements etc, but everything from the staff to decor was out of this world. </span><br />
<h4><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">So I got seen by a G.P who then immediately referred me to the physiotherapy rehab section of the hospital where I got over the course of the week six physio sessions, drugs, x-rays, and a pair of crutches which totalled to 200 euro! I also got seen by a specialist who checked my x-rays and informed me that the pain I was suffering wasn’t from any spinal damage and that it was just a muscular/nerve impingement that more than likely came about from heavy lifting at the gym. Although I did slip coming off a train a week prior, and came down hard on my heels, but I didn't feel any pain at the time.</span></h4><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-h0gLstkQ5os/TmtWcPci7LI/AAAAAAAABns/mKmt5mguPHQ/s1600-h/IMG_2262%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_2262" border="0" height="246" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-cubWBwhM1Bg/TmtWcirS4bI/AAAAAAAABnw/H6zGi6JOWK8/IMG_2262_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_2262" width="185" /></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-20oc7628Rvw/TmtWdxcFaDI/AAAAAAAABn0/MQ9p2nzhKYU/s1600-h/IMG_2263%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_2263" border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4NX-ANE9b4QmsQ5G93fwGEHPvkQ1gyAtpQ-kCg3ERh455iT11Rl-rEE1bUXY0C6lMfQtKMI4910OXeLa_XJcsp5tBhxY-YrG51TrFSjjNTBBcHpIAUJem9irjVUNxV7Ix_T9Ivo0cJ41K/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_2263" width="246" /></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Anyways, to make a long story short I responded well to the treatment after two days that I didn’t need the crutches anymore and was able to hobble around without too much pain. The spinal traction and ultra sound treatment must have released a lot of the pain and that combined with the dry needling definitely took away a lot of the agony.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So as it stands now <img alt="Smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Tp-Vi3f8DvI/TmtWeyGatVI/AAAAAAAABn8/Ztnf7MrOOXM/wlEmoticon-smile%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" /> the trip is still on and even though I definitely can’t move around quick I’m still able to get along and the auld wooden leg is still up for continuing.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">That’s enough about the leg. Back to the week we spent in Patong with David. The weather was the hottest we’d experienced since starting our journey back nearly four months ago and needless to say we loved it. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">That was the last of the drinking for the week as the heat combined with potential hangovers didn’t make sense, especially when David was just out here for a week.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We rented out scooters for the week which allowed us to belt away whenever we wanted and not worry about walking around the place all the time. One of the days, the three of us took a spin up to the big Buddha statue on top of one of the mountains. This thing was massive and can be seen for literally miles in either direction. Its a place of worship and has a lot of stalls and markets there as well as a temple with monks handing out blessings as if they were going out of fashion.</span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The following day myself and David took off again for a long spin up north from Patong. We just rode along the coastline stopping here and there for the odd coffee and photography. Along the way we passed a good few bustling villages which gave a nice glimpse of the non tourist parts of the area. Stunning scenery the whole way. We wanted to see a waterfall along the way and when we got to one we found it was a 2km trek to get to it, so we manned up and hopped back on our scooters and headed back to Patong <img alt="Smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Tp-Vi3f8DvI/TmtWeyGatVI/AAAAAAAABn8/Ztnf7MrOOXM/wlEmoticon-smile%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" />! Fecking leg isn’t that good like!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Koh Phi Phi was a tour that we had planned to do on this trip as its where a lot of people talk about when they visit Thailand. The film “the Beach” starring Mr.Dicaprio was partly filmed on a part of it called Maya beach.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This is not my photo by the way, as our tour boat didn’t bring us to land on the beach due to tide restrictions at this time of year. Very disappointed we were to say the least but we did get a look at the beach from a distance and it looked stunning. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Our boat brought us to a a few islands as well as Phi Phi, namely monkey island and Ki island.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It’s interesting to know that the island of phi phi was more or less completely devastated as a result of the 2004 tsunami. But since then its been more or less rebuilt. Hard to imagine what it must have been like on a tiny island like that when the tsunami hit. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Monkey island was a little cove where monkeys came down when the long tail boats dropped people off to feed them. Flor and David opted to take a swim and snorkel, while I went to get some monkey snaps.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">……and David got eaten by some plant while out galavanting in the water….</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The tour was only a one day tour as we didn’t fancy spending two days on phi phi with our time frame. But one day was plenty, if only we could have landed/seen maya beach up close, then it would have been perfect.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We got fairly toasted during the course of the day as we opted to sit out on top of the boat. The cool breeze was a killer as the wind burnt us just a tad!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Phi Phi is obviously a stunning island and if you ever get near it, then its definitely worth seeing. Its a real relaxed island with a chill out vibe that reminded me of the gili islands off the coast of Bali, Indonesia. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So after Phi Phi, it was time to fly back up to Bangkok as David was flying back home and we had to plan the second part of our journey.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So here we currently are in Chinatown, for a few days while we get our visa’s sorted for Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Its very smelly, sweaty and drizzling at the moment and a far cry from Patong but we love it. Hey, I’m just glad to be able to continue with my travels and for that I’m very thankful!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’ll leave ye with my favourite photo I've taken in the past week….</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ciao!!</span>Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-33205050354522718532011-08-23T15:03:00.000+01:002011-08-23T15:03:54.917+01:00Australia Week 2: The Outback!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It’s been quite the turn-a-round in the past week for the Australian part of the trip. The first week was a little of a disappointment for us in terms of expectations, but the past week has been the total opposite!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We decided after we reached Mackay along the east coast that we had enough, and sat down to see what our next move was going to be for the other two weeks here. I had a look at the map and figured that Alice Springs in the centre of Australia was a bit out of reach for one driver to get over and back to. The outback has long been a travel goal of ours so we decided that we should at least get as far west as we possible could in the time frame we had left.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So off we went from Mackay on the East coast last week and spent a night at Armstrong beach in a little costal town called Sarina before heading for the outback!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After a 400km journey west into the Queensland outback we arrived in a small gold mining town called Clermont. This place was amazing in that it was your typical out of the way ghost town, but it had a population of 1,500 or so. It had a fantastic atmosphere about it and we ended up staying two days there just wandering about a soaking up our first taste of the outback.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The drive into the outback from the coast was really amazing in that the scenery gradually changed from lush sugar cane fields to dry desert wilderness. The red soil that I always associated with the outback was present after a few hours inland. This make for some really spectacular views along the way. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As I said, Clermont was a huge gold mining town way back, and still gold fossicking has a big part in the towns economy. We arrived just in time for the 150th annual celebration of the gold mine rush in Clermont so we made an appearance at the festival which contained a few stalls and a 2 man band that would make an episode of Father Ted on Craggy Island look like a metropolis! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After Clermont we headed to another slightly bigger town called Emerald for a night. This was a modern town and had a lot more to offer the tourist in terms of amenities etc.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We ended up feeding a few wild birds while out for a drive while here and had a really nice time exploring the surrounding gold towns of Rubyvale and Sapphire!</span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After we left Emerald we headed due west another 500km to a really cool town called Barcladine. This town has an immense history and is known as the “Garden city of the West” as its in the heart of the Artesian basin, which provides the land with water. We are told the basin contains more the 200,000 times the amount of water that Sydney bay holds, so they won’t run dry anytime soon!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A lot of the photo’s I’ve taken of the scenery here won’t do the place justice. It’s an extreme environment and although its still basically winter here the sun cracks the stones during the day and it gets very cold at night. Summer would be an altogether different story for travelling in a campervan in my opinion.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Having visited death valley in the Nevada desert on two occasions, both in the extreme heat of the summer I can appreciate how difficult it must be to live out here during the summer months. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">While we were in Barcladine, we did a tour with a bushman who’s lived out here for most of his life. This guy was a real character who would give Bear Gryll’s a run for his money with his survival skills pertaining to the bush anyways.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The tour took us off the beaten track and into the remote parts of the outback. The tour took a full day and was an unbelievable experience to get an insight into the history of the Aborigines and how they lived. We visited some awesome old ruins of towns from the 1800’s. The stories and banter from our guide really made the tour something that we’ll never forget. While tourists come out this far into the outback, very few actually go off the beaten track due to the dangerous nature of doing so. With that in mind, it was a great experience to see as much as we did.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So this morning(Tuesday 23rd August), we left Bracladine and drove 350km south to a complete and utter ghost town called Augathella. It’s just like a town from a movie, one that you see those tumbleweeds crawling across the main street from the light breeze. I’ve no photo’s yet of it as we’ve just arrived and since the camp ground has wifi, I said I better get updating it while I can. Photo’s will be in the update.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So we intend to spend another week exploring various towns here in the outback, before making our way back east to Brisbane in time for our flight back to Asia.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Visiting the Australian outback has long been a travel goal of mine, and one I thought I wouldn’t be able to tick off the bucket list for a long time. And since our initial plan was to just travel the coast and not head inland, its been a real treat for me to finally get the outback beast out of my travel pants <img alt="Smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-qXrj1TgqUEk/TlOwsMmiw1I/AAAAAAAABnQ/y89K3U4TQeM/wlEmoticon-smile2.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" />!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span>Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-54618343902839234332011-08-18T02:57:00.000+01:002011-08-18T02:57:49.378+01:00Australia: Week 1<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Its been a quick week since we arrived in Brisbane on August 9th. We were picked up at the airport by one of Florence’s good friends Deirdre Rynn, who kindly took really good care of us for the two days we stayed with her. She made us feel right at home and went to a lot of trouble to give us the perfect introduction to Oz. If your reading this Dee, then thanks a million to you and Paul for all you did for us. Your a star <img alt="Smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-6dZVJEFyjk8/TkxsIADUdiI/AAAAAAAABbw/x6qjRbjUSwQ/wlEmoticon-smile2.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" /></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The day after we arrived Dee had a day in dreamworld planned for us. Dreamworld is one of those adventure parks that also combines a waterpark. We spent a few hours here and had a great time. The park itself was very quiet and therefore we were able to wander around at ease with no trouble at all.</span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We got to feed Kangaroo’s which was pretty cool and also got to get a few photos taking with a Kuala bear…again very cool in my opinion. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Dee droped us into pick up our campervan/car from Jucy rentals in the city. We rented one of these to serve as both our accommodation and transport for the three weeks we planned on coasting up North towards Cairns. The campervan itself is self contained and despite its small appearances on the outside, its actually a perfect fit for two people. </span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I won’t go into detail about the contents of the camper, needless to say its perfect for what will need it for and its so cool to be able to just pull over and cook up something to eat and even go for a quick nap if needed.</span><br />
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<strong><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Initial plans….</span></u></strong><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Since its just myself who’s doing the driving for the duration of the trip along the east coast, we planned on driving from Brisbane to Cairns and then coming back down to Brisbane to catch our flight back to Asia. This trip is a total of 3,400km! Now I don’t mind long stints driving but when the scenery is so God dame boring for hours on end, then it takes its toll. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After we left Brisbane we drove about 100km north to a little quaint town called Mooloolaba which in pulled up outside a backpackers hostel for the night and slept in our new mobile sleeper!</span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">First thing next morning was the 6 hour drive up to Hervey bay…all of 500km away. This was a really boring drive along the Bruce highway and apart from two pit stops there was nothing to comment about.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Hervey bay as most of ye know is the gateway to the Frazer islands and home to a lot of backpackers. We heard a lot about Frazer island. However, we discovered that although you can get the ferry and self drive on the island, you need a 4x4 vehicle to do so, and our campervan rental company does not allow their campers on the island. That coupled with the fact that it costs a ridiculous amount of money to get their, we felt it was not worth the extra cost. We would have to find a place to park the camper before heading off to Frazer island and it was just too much hassle in our books. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So we spent two days in a camp site in Hervey bay just wandering around the local beaches and chilling. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A lot of you that have travelled along the same route and visited Frazer Island might be thinking that we are absolutely crazy for not going. We just couldn’t justify the costs involved for a tour($200 per person per day). If we hadn’t the camper then we would have gone for sure. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Then what’s the point of going all that way along the coast if we aren’t going to do any island hopping etc I hear you ask? Well, the reason why we even came to Oz, was basically to get a feel for it and to just drive along the coast on a road trip. We never had any intention of doing the whole scenic party island tour as we are on a daily budget designed for 7 months in Asia. Its wild, and I mean wild expensive out here in Oz and we didn’t factor that much into our plans when we booked to travel here at the last minute. In saying that, we are fine just as long as we don’t go blowing everything on trips here that we can do back in Asia for next to nothing. Not the same thing I know, but we have another three months in Asia when we leave here so got to be realistic.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’ll get back to the price of things later on….</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Anyways, so after Hervey bay, we drove up to Rockhampton, which was another 400km drive and equally as boring as before. The only thing of interest along the route was the countless dead kangaroo’s that lay peppered to death after been smashed by vehicles. Not that I liked seeing dead kangaroo’s, its just I ended up counting as many as I could in order to keep me from going insane. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Rockhampton is the beef capital of Australia and has something like over two million cows within a 100 mile radius. The smell of beef in the town is meant to be pretty whiffy! We took one look at the place on arrival and ended up driving about 40km past it, ending up pulling into a rest area off the highway for the night. At this stage we were shattered and hadn’t eaten all day and we were looking forward to a meal of pasta and sausage cooked on our gas stove under the moon and stars. It wasn’t until the sausages were half cooked that our gas ran out! Yes….we forgot to get more gas and so we had to settle for a bowl of cornflakes as our meal! I had no intention of driving in the dark back into beefhampton just to get something to eat after a full days driving already done. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We won’t make that mistake again I may add!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After this overnight stopover it was another few hundred kilometres to a city large town/small city called Mackay. This is where we currently are and will spend a few days here. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Mackay is literally in the middle of nowhere in my opinion. Its home to endless sugarcane fields and I think its the largest sugarcane production location in the world…not sure about this but I think I read it somewhere. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So that’s where we are at on our journey here. I honestly don’t think I can stand another 900km to reach Cairns. It wouldn’t be so bad if we hadn’t to drive all the way back to Brisbane….but we do. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">From here I don’t know what the plan is going to be. Neither of us are interested in going any further north. We might just head inland a little bit and do a kind of loop back down to Brisbane. There’s only so much of that Bruce highway that a man can take in a short period of time.</span><br />
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<u><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Impressions of Oz so far….</span></strong></u><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So as I mentioned early the price of things out here is literally horrific. I say that coming from land of the cheap cheap, aka Asia! It’s a big shock coming here from Asia. I had no idea how expensive it was going to be in relation to back home. With the Australian dollar coming in at $1.35 to the Euro its not a great deal for us. I’m convinced that the Euro is on the way out. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So like I said, everything is a lot more expensive than we’ve grown used to. The minimum wage over here must be around the $30-$40 per hour range. And then its easy to see how things aren’t that expensive. Fuel is $1.45 on average so its ok I guess. For a smoker its $16 a pack. Food is very expensive compared to back home. And drink is along the same lines also. Luckily we got the camper as to eat out all the time would be crazy. <br />
Florence went into a convenient shop the other day and got a can of coke and loaf of bread. $10 please!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So far my impressions of this part of Australia haven’t been what I was hoping they would be. Don’t ask me to try and explain that, as I don’t even know myself what I was expecting. I keep comparing it to the west coast of America road trip we did back in 2008 for a month. Having been the the states numerous times, I love it there and so maybe its a bit unfair to use that as the yardstick for my comparisons to here in Australia. But I can’t help it <img alt="Smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-6dZVJEFyjk8/TkxsIADUdiI/AAAAAAAABbw/x6qjRbjUSwQ/wlEmoticon-smile2.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" />. So far, it doesn’t even compare in my book. Ok, the weather is unreal when you consider its winter time here and we are out sun bathing like the big tourists we are. Anyways, I’m not going to rant and rave about it any more as I’m guessing most of you are thinking I must be gone crazy to be thinking like I am. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So before anyone starts screaming at me for thinking Oz isn’t heaven on earth I’ll sign off. I’ve a dinner to cook and a couple episodes of breaking bad to get though before I call it a night <img alt="Angry smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-angrysmile" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-azVXXkGXGRo/TkxtNrVG9II/AAAAAAAABhI/xOLmGvNYgxQ/wlEmoticon-angrysmile2.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" />!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ciao!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span>Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-60897053042830885092011-08-07T14:57:00.000+01:002011-08-07T14:57:49.969+01:00Australia on the horizon!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We spent our last few days in Koh Samui spinning around the Island on a scooter taking photos of sunsets and whatnot! We managed to circumnavigate the island twice which was well worth the scenic views it produced.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The best sunsets were photographed from the south end of Samui and although not the nicest of beaches we’ve visited on this trip it certainly didn’t disappoint when it came to getting a few snaps in.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Since I’ve gotten into photography a few years ago, I’ve always been fascinated with sunsets, and so whenever the opportunity presents itself and I’ve a camera on queue, I’ll happily fire away.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The hotel we stayed in was a real gem of a place in the middle of the Lamai beach area. Again like a lot of the places we’ve found by chance, they are not mentioned in our “up to date” lonely planet guide book. That’s one tip I would also point out…in that your better off finding places on your own and not to trust the guide book all the time, unless you don’t care or you don’t have time. Obviously the researcher cannot stay in every place there is to stay when he/she is getting the info for the guide book and as such not everywhere gets a mention.</span><br />
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This also means that if you look for a place on your own, your very likely to find cheaper accommodation which is also of a much higher standard than the recommendations in any guide book. This is my own personal opinion and is based on previous trips as well as this one.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So our next stop was back to Bangkok via a combination of bus, boat and overnight train. The journey was a total of around 25 hours when you factor in wait times in between train and bus. Again the journey was fine as we had our cabin beds sorted which allowed us to get some shut eye. </span><br />
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I was awoken at our 7am on the train by a dude wearing one of those surgical masks who was ranting in Thai and pointing at my bed. I was still half asleep and so I was convinced that this fella was trying to tell me get up and let him lie down! I ended up just looking at him as if he had two heads and just kept saying “your mental” to him. He eventually gave up and I then found out that he was just the guy who takes the bed sheets from your bed and gets the train ready for the next journey! Oooops!</span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Arriving in Bangkok we were immediately hit with the steaming humidity combined with about 100 tuk tuk drivers all wanting to bring us to our destination of choice – Khao San road!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-5WOFxISTMmQ/Tj6X8KusZ_I/AAAAAAAABa0/AP2kWfHtxOU/s1600-h/IMG_2819%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_2819" border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia9mt4zB7e_ZrywHAvqF9PRSss42rJAtuqRwc_JAAL3GfEQIWBG4mXtEZvutqZo0PeI4ngtxWu4fXtaAfZN47VuS67FrS8b5HPjZIJ8zDfcCAGxhSQb8wDcSD1-zGC9nbR3XcexTR6mpnl/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_2819" width="246" /></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-sSPnjAOmvjc/Tj6X_NenKxI/AAAAAAAABa8/yhDskBl_yGE/s1600-h/IMG_2820%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_2820" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Kc-9b5gJyFs/Tj6YAwFWC6I/AAAAAAAABbA/ApW9myRmIMc/IMG_2820_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_2820" width="246" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-vd0Xc4HeOoo/Tj6YCN9gISI/AAAAAAAABbE/EuNbwH1nNvY/s1600-h/IMG_2822%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_2822" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-d87OL7LVQ-Y/Tj6YDHQ2ljI/AAAAAAAABbI/kWOehEtgaAU/IMG_2822_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_2822" width="246" /></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Now most of you know what Khao San road is like if you’ve been there so I won’t get into descriptive detail apart from saying its the Backpacking capital of Asia in my eyes. Backpackers in every nock and cranny. If you don’t have a backpack, then your out of place. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Its basically just one long street that’s filled with all sorts of bars, shops, market stands, food vendors and stalls where you can get a fake student card, driver’s licence, and also a certificate to say your a doctor if that takes your fancy. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Khao San road is like the honey where all backpacking bees conglomerate into one mega hive while in Bangkok. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Food and general items are cheap which I thought wouldn’t be the case since its such a tourist hot spot. In saying that, the tuk tuk drivers and taxi drivers will not under no circumstances turn on their meter for foreigners, so that they can squeeze a few extra baht out of you. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I saw something funny yesterday that I wished I’d taken a photo of. There was this 70+ year old man, tall, back with a freddie krugar type of face walking down one of the side streets of Khao San road. He would have been a tank of a chap when he was young I’d say.<br />
Anyways, he was wearing skin tight shorts with an emerald green t-shirt. He was walking kind of like Vince McMahon walks in the WWE for anyone who knows who I’m on about. A real cocky arrogant walk basically! As he got near I saw his t-shirt say in big writing – HATERS GONA LOVE THIS.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I didn’t pass much heed on him until he walked right past me, when I noticed he had a set of breasts on him that would give Pamela Anderson a run for her money!! I couldn’t stop laughing for ages afterwards. He really didn’t give a hoot what anyone thought obviously! I must also point out that he had no other feminine features about him and he was also a westerner!! Haha……mad cunt!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We are flying out to Brisbane on the East coast of Australia tomorrow(Monday) for our three week campervan road trip. This is the reason for coming back to Bangkok this early, as we had to catch our flights. </span><br />
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Both of us are really looking forward to hitting Oz, as we’ve never been there. It will also be touchdown in the five continents for us which is another milestone on my personal bucket list!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We are going to be staying with a good friend of Florence’s – Deirdre Rynn, who’s kindly offered to make us her guests. So we’ll spend two days with her in Brisbane before picking up our campervan and heading North towards Cairns. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’ve not done too much research on the Australian part of the trip as we weren’t sure if we were going to go or not up until we booked our flights a few weeks ago. But I’m sure we’ll figure it out as we go along.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">One things a certainty, its going to be a hell of a lot more expensive than here in Asia!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So in other news, my corrupted cop of a cousin, David Donnelly has finally given into my propaganda and has booked a week in Thailand. He’s going to fly over just as we are back from Australia and we are going to fly down to Phuket for the week to participate in some social drinking coupled with seeing Koh Phi Phi(where the film the beach was filmed). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’ve been sending him photos’ like this one for weeks on facebook and generally wrecking his narrow neck!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So he couldn’t take it any longer and has booked a trip! <img alt="Smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiltlbjgiCYGT3BLdLFKBkUa4Tb6OS6l2ui4sKBV3YJvCaZfRyoQOfhRmaEfSkDwPSyjRbmoh8Pv56OxezbEMCRxt7377QK_iLqefBy5_P6kJz9OGy6JN6thHf1igyHk88vsU8IS9gcUDCt/?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" /></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The next update will be from Australia when we get sorted out. Looking forward to living in the back of a campervan for a few weeks and sleeping under the stars!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span>Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-33174040050146628192011-08-02T12:36:00.000+01:002011-08-02T12:36:28.561+01:00Scam alert!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Since nothing much has happened here in Koh Samuiin the past few days to warrant a blog update, I thought I’d describe some of the local scams that I’ve read and heard about.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I know every country has its own scam artists, and I’m not trying to put Thailand in a bad light or anything because personally I love the country <img alt="Smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-hnZt60WTpr8/TjfevpyDNXI/AAAAAAAABXo/sAuDU5GWEqk/wlEmoticon-smile2.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" />. In saying that thought, there are quite a few local scammers that are trying to rip westerners off which in turn leads tourists to return home with nothing but negative views on Thailand. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Thank god, we’ve not been scammed so far(well not to our knowledge anyways). Yeah we’ve paid a higher price for some items and that, but its not what I would called getting Scammed when compared to some of the stories below. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As I said, my aim is not to cause any negative feelings towards Thailand, only to make anyone who hasn’t been here before aware of a few potential pitfalls.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Most of these stories are available to read on the net and the stories all share a common theme – deceit.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Definition of a Scam:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. A fraudulent business scheme</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2.Deprive of by deceit.</span><br />
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<strong><u><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The two price scam!</span></em></u></strong><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">There are loads of different levels of scams here in Thailand. Some will trick you out of a few baht, while others will gently relieve you of thousands of baht. The amount of money doesn’t really matter, as its the fact that they are taking your money by deceitful means. In Thailand, a perfect example of this can be often seen when they write the real price with Thai numerals, and then another inflated price in Arabic numbers!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This was also the case when we were in Africa volunteering two years ago. The Mzungo(white man) price was always way different to the local price for more or less everything! Here in Thailand, the Farang(westerner) price is certainly not the same as it is for locals. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So obviously then the situations are the same, but there seems to be one thing that Thailand does, which is it tries to hide the deceit(by putting the thai and arabic prices). The feeling among the expats living over here is that they don’t mind the 100% increase in price for items, but that they should be clearly visible for all to see and make it their choice whether or not they want to buy it etc. Not having it cleverly disguised in the Thai language. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I heard of a national park here charging the locals 40 baht admission(1 euro),and foreigners including those living and working in Thailand 400 baht(10 euro). Again we saw this plenty of times while in Africa with the only difference being that in Africa they had the two price system on display for all to see and decide for themselves!</span><br />
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<strong><em><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Tuk-Tuk scam!</span></u></em></strong><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The tuk-tuk scam is one of the most common types of scam here. A tuk-tuk by the way is a form of transport, in the form of a small bus with the back able to accommodate anything from 6 to 6000 people! <br />
For example, most tourists that want to go to see a museum or attraction are often told by the tuk tuk drivers that the museum or whatever attraction they want to visit is closed on that day! Instead the driver will ask you if you’d like him to bring to to see another nearby attraction for a “cheap-cheap price” Tuk-tuk actually means “cheap-cheap” as well <img alt="Smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-hnZt60WTpr8/TjfevpyDNXI/AAAAAAAABXo/sAuDU5GWEqk/wlEmoticon-smile2.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" />! For anybody that falls for this scam, they end up been brought to a tailor shop or gem shop where the driver will get a nice fat commission for getting you there. Its been known as well that the pressure the shop owners put on the tourists that get dropped off here to buy overinflated items can be borderline harassment. Also, if you don’t accept been driven to these shops before the driver brings you to the other attraction he promised you, then he has often just told the people to get out and they end up dropped on the side of the road, sometimes in not so friendly parts of where ever!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This funnily enough happened to us a few weeks ago while in Malaysia. We just got off a boat and had already rang the guest house we wanted to stay in that night. Thought when we got to the taxi stand, we were politely informed that that particular guest house was no longer in operation, and was closed for business!! And I was just after getting off the phone with the owner himself who said he had plenty of room for us!! All because the taxi man wanted to bring us somewhere else that would net him a few extra bob!!</span><br />
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<strong><em><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The cigarette police scam!</span></u></em></strong><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This scam is prevalent in Bangkok. Basically there has been a bit of a crack down in Bangkok the past few years regarding littering on the streets, which is a good thing by all accounts. However, instead of targeting the locals for dumping rubbish on the street the local BMA officials who are known as the “thetsakij” are targeting a much softer, richer fruit, the foreign tourists! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What happens is typically three of these thetsakij police set up a table beside a popular tourist attraction. One of them sits at the table and the other two go and catch their victim who is in the form of a tourist throwing their cigarette butts on the ground. Why would they throw their butts on the ground, well first of all, there’s a sign saying “no smoking” at the area the police are catching them, and also there are zero bins to dump them in. So, when they unsuspecting tourists comes along the no smoking sign they quickly throw the cigarettes on the ground as there are no bins, and they then are quickly reprimanded by the waiting cigarette police!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The tourist is then taken to the table where the other “official” fines them a 2,000(50 euro) on the spot fine with no receipt!! If the tourist doesn’t cooperate they are threatened with been taken to an actual police station where they might have to pay more money! So you can see how profitable a scam like this can be for some of these artists. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Its also interesting to note that if a local Thai person is found dumping rubbish or littering then they are given a warning, or if they are teenage boys, they are made do on the spot push ups!</span><br />
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<strong><em><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Laundry Scam!</span></u></em></strong><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This scam isn’t that popular from what I’ve read and heard about. What happens is when you come back to collect your bundle of clothes at the laundry shop you are missing an item of clothing. The woman of the shop then informs you that she must have gotten them mixed up and gave it to another backpacker who’s now left the area. In turn she then suggests that she bring you to a “friend” who owns a clothes shop nearby by who coincidently will have a few similar items like the ones you lost. If you go there then you will be quoted the foreigner price for the item, but then the lady who lost your clothes will negotiate the Thai price with the owner so that you don’t get ripped off!! Very kind of her, considering she probably gave the owner your item of clothing and in return she gets the Thai price that you paid for the new item in the shop! Very clever scam as a lot of unsuspecting tourists could easily fall for that ploy!</span><br />
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<strong><em><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Jet Ski Scam!</span></u></em></strong><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This scam is one of the BIG money makers here and its the one that should scream “scam alert” in my opinion. This scam is seemingly rampant in the Pattaya area and also very common in Patong beach, down in Phuket.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What happens is as follows:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Tourist can rent a jet ski for 1,500 baht(30 euro) for 20 minutes at many spots along the beach. Before you go out on the jet ski a rental agreement is produced for you to look over and sign. This agreement states in perfect English that you, the renter is responsible for any damages that occur to the jet ski. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After you sign the agreement you are taken to your jet ski and offered to take a good look at it before you take off. Here is where the scam starts!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Since the jet ski is moored in the water you can only visibly inspect the part of the jet ski that is above water! The jet ski operators already know this and they also have a nasty secret, in that the jet ski hull is already damaged, but you can’t see it!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So you sign some document to say that your happy and off you go. You have you 20 mins of fun with no accidents or anything out of the ordinary and then its time to head back to the beach. Where you leave the jet ski where you got it, one of the operators sits on it and drives it up onto the beach so that no water hides anything.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As soon as the underside is exposed one of the operators points at it and exclaims “what did you hit”? Of course you hit nothing, but since you couldn’t see the hull part of the ski before you left you are now left in a very precarious position.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The damage was always there and a lot of tourists have already paid for that same damage on the jet ski.The damage is usually slight hull damage that has the fiberglass chipped. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">By now a few other operators are all around the jet ski and it seems that it will cost between 40,000 – 50,000 baht(about 1000 euros) to fix it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">You start to protest and probably refuse to pay up. This in turn angers the operators and some threaten you with violence. The only thing you can think of is to ring the police!!! Wrong!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Of course they will agree to the police been called and along comes another player in the scam – Mr.Policeman! It may make you feel better that the law is now involved but its nothing but false hope. They always side with the scammers as they also get a cut of the action!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The cop will lead you away from the action and inform you that you signed the agreement and that there no other action apart from you paying the fine. BUT, he will try and negotiate a reduced price you have to pay to the operators for the damage! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Before you know it you are been lead away by the policeman to the nearest conveniently located ATM machine to get your hard earned cash to hand over.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I came across this story a few days ago in a local paper called the Samui Gazette! It recounts the story of one westerner(farang) living in a small ex-pat community near the airport here in Samui, when a business meeting he was having with a Thai colleague in his house, was rudely shattered by a Thai woman, who rushed in a claimed that her van had been touched by his car, whilst driving out of the narrow road in front of their house!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She ranted and raved, and demanded that the meeting be stopped, and everyone look at her van. After recovering from their initial disbelief and astonishment, all three went out to look at the van. There was indeed some light scrape marks, high up on the front wing, probably at least a year or so old.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She claimed that there was a minute amount of coloured paint, which could only belong to the Farang’s car.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She demanded 3,000 baht(75 euro) on the spot. How it was asked, could she possibly know what the price would be, and in any case, no recent damage or contact had been made!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She then flew into a rage, real or contrived, and insisted that she would call the police, and the insurance co</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">mpany and crate real problems for the farang!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">He said that he would deal with the matter a 5pm, when he would be returning from some urgent business meetings.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She refused to accept that, and claimed that the van had to go into the body shop that same day, in order to be repaired. She could not use the van, with those marks on it. The matter was closed and the meeting resumed.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Five minutes later, the same woman began banging on the door again. She demanded the 3,000 baht and would not let up until it was paid.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Thai man went outside, and without consulting the farang, paid her the 3,000 baht, not admitting liability, but just to stop the confrontation, which he claimed was against his Buddhist principles!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The farang was disappointed and amazed, and felt obliged to pay his colleague back the 3,000 baht.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Imagine their total surprise, when 2 months later, they both say the van standing there, without a single attempt to repair anything at all!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Moreover, the garage found evidence that a minute amount of the metallic paint from the farang’s car, had been scraped off with a penknife, and had clearly been impressed into the earlier scratches on the van!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Despite demands for the return of the 3,000 baht the woman hides away and refused to discuss the matter or come to any agreement or compromise. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Beware! Do not allow any friend, however well intentioned to pay an unjustified claim on their behalf!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So you may be thinking that Thailand is full of scams and deceit but in fact its not. All I’m saying is there are a few pitfalls here that can suck the foreigner’s blood quicker that a vampire on crack!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We’ve had zero trouble here and found the locals to be nothing but genuinely nice people. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Its those few bad apples that give Thailand a slight stain but as long as you keep your wits about you, you’ve nothing to worry about <img alt="Angry smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-angrysmile" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-W9ltnCwVxvc/Tjfe1AJoh6I/AAAAAAAABX8/bkY7JD6MUww/wlEmoticon-angrysmile%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span>Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-9113980029186358452011-07-27T05:59:00.000+01:002011-07-27T05:59:41.690+01:00Goodbye Koh Phangan, Hello Koh Samui!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-uaduJuoMrbY/Ti-U7pn-PoI/AAAAAAAABVA/7K4QJU9Wxls/s1600-h/IMG_24393.jpg"><img alt="IMG_2439" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-aRKyO737Mog/Ti-U8igDUtI/AAAAAAAABVE/vshCT-e3BG0/IMG_2439_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_2439" width="246" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-rUXtnMwsWws/Ti-U-DRzJHI/AAAAAAAABVI/b0Tr1fc_-nU/s1600-h/IMG_24703.jpg"><img alt="IMG_2470" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-tTgi5oWaEWk/Ti-U_tyPwfI/AAAAAAAABVM/_94wYjyBSew/IMG_2470_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_2470" width="246" /></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/--TLH7Dr2Nf8/Ti-VBCI9LlI/AAAAAAAABVQ/B4vux7Y8W6I/s1600-h/IMG_24906.jpg"><img alt="IMG_2490" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-vyJZNJZRLJw/Ti-VCI72auI/AAAAAAAABVU/2uUG_J4W8ag/IMG_2490_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_2490" width="246" /></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We left the East coast of Koh Phangan and went to the West coast for our final three days on the Island. We wanted to sample another part of Koh Phangan before we left. So Thongsala on the West coast was our choice. Thongsala is where all the boats to and from the island arrive and depart from. Its a nice spot and has some nice night time markets along with a few nice beaches.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We found a nice hotel right on the beach complete with swimming pool so we nested down there for the three days and we were happy out. All we did was rent a scooter and fly around the town, lazy by the pool and nose around the local markets.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I did come across a funny incident. Just next to our room there was this pig who obviously lived in the one bedroom apartment in which a local man lived. When we’d walk by we could see right in as the door was always open. And you could see the mental pig just slouched on the floor beside the bed, and your man lying on the bed hands behind his head as if it was only a dog!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I managed to get a quick video clip of the pig, who was very interested in me as I approached the gate.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The night before we left Koh Phangan we took a stroll to the local market for a few hours. There was one stall that had a selection of insects/cockroaches and other nasty bugs that you could buy to eat. They were all fried in some sort of oil I think in order to mask the taste. I said before I left Ireland that I intend on sampling a few creatures while in Thailand, and Bangkok especially(since they have the biggest selection I’m told). So I went ahead and tried some weird disgusting looking insects.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It tasted very salty and crunchy, and kind of reminded me of a salted peanut with the skin on it. Me biting and chewing away on the insect brought some smiles from the local men who obviously eat these things as delicacies and see it as no big deal! I got through most of the crunchy legs and back but couldn’t bring myself to chomp down on the head which contained the black gooey brains. I’ll have to leave the really crazy delicacies until Bangkok!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We said adios to Koh Phangan after a wonderful nine days there and headed by boat to the northern island of Koh Samui. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Koh Samui was one of the original islands that kicked off the mainstream backpacker migration to Thailand. There are plenty of international standard hotels to be found on the island along with a bucket full of backpacking amenities. Samui is a strong favourite for honeymoon couples not only because of the hotels, but also because of the crisp hidden beaches. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We headed for Lamai beach, which is a less crowded but equally as touristy part of the island as the famous Chaweng beach is renowned for. Lamai, like Chaweng is on the east coast of the island and is fully fueled with bars, restaurants, shops and a nightclub as well as the obligatory selection of beaches!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We’ve already spent three days here and its a really nice chill out spot. We rented out a scooter for the few days so far and made use of it, spinning around the excellent roads and enjoying the sun. Yesterday morning, we decided to hop on the scooter and hunt out a view point of the island. We found one very easily and after a tough climb up on the scooter to the top we were treated to a fantastic view of the south part of the island all while enjoying our breakfast at a restaurant which was built on the side of the mountain it would seem!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Flying along on a scooter is definitely a thrill for me and brings me back to the days when I first learned to drive a car. That sense of freedom comes flying back to me every time I hop on a scooter. I suppose this is mainly due to the fact that I never piloted a two wheeled vehicle before this trip. The price of renting a scooter for a day is 200bath, so about 5 euro for a twenty four hour period. A full tank of petrol costs 2.50 and lasts forever, so its an ideal way to get from place to place when sightseeing. Taxis are both expensive and extortionate for westerners I may add over here on the islands. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">With less than two weeks before we fly off to Australia it looks like we’ll just spend the next week here before making our way to Bangkok to catch our flight to Brisbane on August 8th! We will more than likely move to a different part of the island before leaving as we want to see as much of it as we can. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">One observation about Koh Samui is that the atmosphere feels very English orientated. Obviously a lot of Brits come here and they make up the majority percentage of the tourist numbers on the island. The atmosphere also reminds me of that in Phuket, with a large number of he/she’s about the place. That may seem standard since its Thailand after all, but we didn’t see one he/she while in Koh Phangan. Well, just because we didn’t see any obvious ladyboy’s doesn’t mean there weren’t any, just that they weren’t in the same quantity as here in Koh Samui!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I also came across an interesting article which listed the main reason’s why people move off of Koh Samui;</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. Got lost too many times as the island has no street signs.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. Blew their retirement money of flights on Bangkok airways and Samui taxis, along with endless shots of tequila at the endless amount of bars.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">3. Met a girl, fell in love, broke up with the girl.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">4. Your ex-wife says all is forgiven – come home!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5. Met a girl, bought a bar for her, lost the girl, lost the bar, lost your money.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">6. Your dreams of a Koh Samui real estate empire crumpled by reality.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">7. Bought a restaurant, lost your restaurant, lost your money.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">8. Met sexy toothless bargirl at Lamai’s world famous happy bar and bringing her home to be your wife!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-SuU6fb6a43U/Ti-VhUmRTnI/AAAAAAAABXM/A4917tb4gP8/s1600-h/IMG_2586%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_2586" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-uApSpS02wCg/Ti-ViS8N2II/AAAAAAAABXQ/z0K6ATuQasM/IMG_2586_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_2586" width="246" /></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-KGL40I7v6oU/Ti-VjUbrWkI/AAAAAAAABXU/74FtJ33s4N4/s1600-h/IMG_2587%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_2587" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Ii98tZSedhI/Ti-VkIlQjJI/AAAAAAAABXY/rTL_rEoRUsY/IMG_2587_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_2587" width="246" /></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-G88-yR-kM9g/Ti-Vlo3kfoI/AAAAAAAABXc/Jkawpl2y8aI/s1600-h/IMG_2588%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_2588" border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsCs9vxThZLjTkacj34ujGvDJN2pc4wokOpg3sJrrWPo5jFQEZTOPjLbtuAzAhjqoA2tWg4VyKb-KoejKUWQYqar8bZZxbdFo6WYhQtQ44Vw8EyNJ3MfSXLXiJ0imMls_4x79gCtgVBW8Y/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_2588" width="246" /></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">To sign off I’ve included another video montage of the few days in Thongsala and the first few days here in Samui. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span>Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-5921287205263298832011-07-25T15:00:00.001+01:002011-07-25T15:04:16.379+01:00Have some; Dim sum yum yum!!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This is the first of two posts in which I’ve been asked give some information about. The other one will be about what I’ve packed in my backpack to last me for the seven months on this trip.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Food! Well I’ve certainly eaten my fair share of it since arriving in Asia. At least 90% of the dishes I’ve sampled have been of the seafood variety. I love fish and you won’t get anything fresher or tastier than you can get in Asia. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Luckily enough, I made a conscious decision at the start of the trip to take a photograph of every dish I eat using my iphone so that somewhere down the blog road I’d be able to provide a photographic food experience of some of the meals I’ve tasted!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So what I’ll do is just include a selection of some of the foods that I’ve consumed so far(as in the last seven weeks). Unfortunately I don’t remember the names of all the dishes so for that reason I won’t provide a name </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Only one dish has caused me a little anxiety while eating it, and that was the Fish Head soup in Singapore(see photos and video in Singapore blog update). Everything else has been absolutely fabulous and really mouth watering. I suppose my favourite dish so far is the Thai Green Curry, which I’ve eaten on many occasions while in Asia.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So for anyone hoping to get the names of the following dishes or the ingredients, then sadly you’ll be disappointed. I’m not the type of person who looks to see what’s in a dish or find out how’s it cooked. I just usually eat and then find out later if I liked it or not!! <img alt="Angry smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-angrysmile" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-TiETjCOgGyQ/TizP1j47KwI/AAAAAAAABPg/M5bBon5Ae00/wlEmoticon-angrysmile2.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" /> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ok, so here’s a sample of what I’ve gulped down….</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So as you can see, there’s a lot of rice and seafood combo dishes. And the above selection is by no means an extensive list of all I’ve eaten, just the few that made the cut so to speak. I eat a lot of the same dishes over and over again as I go through phases like that.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">For those of you that like spices, then you won’t be disappointed with the array of “hot n spicy” menus available in every restaurant over here. Obviously the menus from place to place are very similar as the cuisine is standard, but you can also get restaurants that provide western food along with other varieties of international cuisine. </span><br />
<h4><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">All in all the standard of food is superb and the price is unbelievably cheap compared to back home. The most expensive item of food we’ve eaten was a pizza and that cost around five euros. I figure the reason why pizza’s are so expensive compared to other food here is that the majority of westerners that come to Asia on holidays like the odd “slice of home”! I can’t see it been because the ingredients or method of cooking costs more.</span></h4><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Another example of the cheapness of food here is the other night when there were five of us out eating a meal and we had a total of six drinks, three starters and five main courses which all amounted to just under twenty euros for the lot!! That was a eating local food in a non local restaurant at a beach side resort in Koh Phangan. So the less touristy venues would work out even cheaper. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ok, I’ve rambled on a bit about a subject that might not hit the taste buds(excuse the pun) of everyone reading this so I’ll rap things up.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Needless to say I appreciate the feedback and comments regarding the blog and if you have any other questions then feel free to email me either on facebook or on <a href="mailto:carlocretaro@hotmail.com">carlocretaro@hotmail.com</a>!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The blog update “Asian backpack – what’s in my backpack” will be published in a few days when I’ve finished editing it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">P.S <strong>Dim sum</strong>(as in the title of this post) is a Cantonese term for a type of Chinese meal that involves small individual portions of food, usually food is pushed around on carts by servers and served in a small steamer baskets or on small plates. We had Dim Sum in Singapore and it was fantastic stuff, really was. Thanks to Mr.Sheng Oon aka Dr.Bitchboy for introducing us to Dim Sum <img alt="Smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-6K5PmlGwgEM/TizRlq0SkGI/AAAAAAAABU8/y7qqWXfrK9c/wlEmoticon-smile2.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span>Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-41749602798134248652011-07-22T10:15:00.001+01:002011-07-22T12:01:41.622+01:00Koh Phangan Part 2: Full Moon Party!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-CqxakVPIB9c/TihMGgS1V9I/AAAAAAAABHo/zsdndBd3KtY/s1600-h/IMG_21313.jpg"><img alt="IMG_2131" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-IKBmpG539-8/TihMN4PJXDI/AAAAAAAABHs/2kpzpf23vrA/IMG_2131_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_2131" width="246" /></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-uUqm0nKw8D0/TihMU_lmKPI/AAAAAAAABHw/wZj_-hlBn44/s1600-h/IMG_21343.jpg"><img alt="IMG_2134" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-p1WnMw4aRPg/TihMYuhlWRI/AAAAAAAABH0/Ov8glu8O5Oc/IMG_2134_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_2134" width="246" /></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-bs-vYdmu-SM/TihMnGVxf7I/AAAAAAAABH4/8anmX3tdWBM/s1600-h/IMG_21633.jpg"><img alt="IMG_2163" border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ1WaUUIwSCMsP_EJ_UVPSXOifDp1RAMU7LxXzX7ewFPXKqF4lJykdzZLyBXiwh79RioajQhLMsLeBKMAtFkCs5wvsgBpFfZuovH1C1FOvSKJ-1Ac04BA3x_YY7tw1xK-E3RKJWVv19DsX/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_2163" width="246" /></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“The Full Moon Party is held on Haad Rin’s eastern beach and for those who haven’t been….the party is INSANE! During peak season up to 30,000 revelers descend on Koh Phangan from throughout Asia and further afield to party hard from dusk ‘till dawn in front of massive state of the art sound systems and light shows. Walking from one end of the beach to the other expect a blur of glow sticks and fluorescent body paint with people gyrating to every type of music imaginable”!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">That seems to pretty much sum up nicely the bare bones of a typical monthly full moon party scene!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The July party fell on Sunday 17th and it was no coincident that we landed in Koh Phangan just in time for it, believe me! The full moon party was something which I’d heard a lot about was also an item on my bucket list that needed to be ticked off!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We got a long tail boat from our resort in Thong Nai Pan and along with about fifteen other people we travelled south along the coastline in pitch darkness for forty minutes until we reach Haad Rin. This was a very exciting while all the time dangerous boat trip. The full Moon was coming into view as we reached Haad Rin and was a gorgeous blood red in colour and by the time we got off the boat, it was in full sight.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The scene as we landed on the beach was a pure adrenaline rush, with ropes of fire, fireworks, aluminous hats/shirts/people, and banging dance tunes taking a firm hold of all our senses, with the commonest of senses left behind on the boat! <img alt="Smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-IZGrOxzwXRI/TihNAMee1PI/AAAAAAAABII/Jer9o6sEGzI/wlEmoticon-smile2.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The beach was about a mile in length and had the full spectrum of colourful lights. I took a good few videos which I compiled into a video clip which is at the end of this entry.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The order of events is pretty much standard for everyone that arrives. You get painted up in UV paint if you haven’t already, pick up a few fluorescent items of clothing, then go get a bucket of either a shoulder of whiskey, vodka or bacardi complete with coke and red bull mixer, before banging out some dance grooves along with 30,000 fellow party goers.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We met an Irish couple the day of the full moon who were also staying in our resort and we ended up heading to the party with them. They’re a really cool couple and if ye read this Edwin and Faye, hope ye have a ball in Indonesia and keep in touch! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Speaking of those buckets of whiskey, your talking about a sand castle bucket full of drink and costing between seven and ten euros, which is so cheap when you consider the amount of booze you actually get. Really cheap and delish!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I heard an amazing and scary stat(unofficial). Its that over 200 people die every year at the full moon parties on Koh Phangan! So going by that then an average of 16 people died the other night. I honestly can see how those fatalities occur but its a little freaky to imagine that out of an estimated 30,000, that 16 die each night at the full moon!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">One fact happens for sure though on the night of the monthly party, and that’s that extra morgue is opened! This combined with the amount of mobile medical centres around Haad Rin proves just how crazy the place can get.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Our only criticism was the state of the beach. I mean you have literally thousands of fellas and girls walking into the sea and going to both number ones and number twos!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Its pretty bad when you see a group of three or four girls holding hands walking out so that the water comes up to their waist and them peeing in their pants!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">There was this one girl when we were getting the boat off the island who was hunkering down in the water with her knickers down and making floaters for fun! No shame!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What’s actually worse is that you have loads of people swimming in the same spots a few seconds later. My shorts the next day smelled so bad that I was retching to get sick with the smell of shite and urine. And that was from just hopping in and out of the boat that the end of my shorts got a little wet in the water. Id say that beach is a massive toilet bowl and I can’t see how people could swim in it. Well at least if they are sober anyways!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In all fairness though, its a savage atmosphere and one that should be sampled at least once if you ever get the chance. Koh Phangan really is an island of diversity. Relaxing by day and getting bananas at night can become a very smooth transition!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ciao!!</span>Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-57586227475365062512011-07-22T09:53:00.002+01:002011-07-22T12:00:12.269+01:00Koh Phangan Part 1: When elephants go mad and castaway beaches!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Before I forget, the Full Moon blog report is <a href="http://carlocretaro.blogspot.com/2011/07/koh-phangan-part-2-full-moon-party.html">here</a>. I wanted to give it its own blog update, rather than having this update too long. Also I’ve included a short video clip below from around Koh Phangan.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After a long twelve hour bus/boat journey from Patong in Phuket we reached the party island of Koh Phangan on Friday last both exhausted and excited at the prospect of dreamlike white sandy beaches and luscious green jungle forests. And we weren’t disappointed. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In fact, our expectations of Koh Phangan were more than fulfilled. We had pre-booked our accommodation which was a resort right on the beach on the North Eastern part of the Island, an area known as Haad Thong Nai Pan Noi!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Although Koh Phangan is modernized compared to other islands it still has that rustic and remote vibe to it. Every sunburnt backpacking face you meet around Thailand will instantly tell you about the exotic beaches that Koh Phangan has to offer. And its 100% accurate. Sky-scraping coconut tress, set among ribbons of turquoise white sandy beaches has ensured that Koh Phangan has long held its own as far as the realm of fantasy islands go. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Despite the modernisation of Koh Phangan, it doesn’t have its own domestic airport, which means that travellers can only reach it via boat from either Koh Sumui(which has a domestic airport) or the main land. Not that big of a deal though, as its only hour and thirty minutes on a boat from the main land, and if you got a cheap flight its only half and hour away from the hussle and bussle of Bangkok!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Our first few days on the island entailed lazing around the pool and beach which guaranteed that we all got roasted red raw. I’ve never applied so much suncream over a short period of time and still it wasn’t enough to keep the rays at bay. The heat at one stage felt just as hot as it does in Vegas. One tip I would give anyone coming out here regarding the sun is to pack as high a factor as you can, because 1) they don’t sell much highter than factor 20, and 2) its quite expensive to buy sun cream here. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Myself and Flor went kayaking one of the days with the intention of spending two or three hours out on the sea but lasted only forty minutes due to the currents been that be too strong for non swimmers like us and also the heat was just sizzling our skin. Even though we had life jackets on us, we didn’t feel like it was worth the risk of overturning the kayak in the choppy waters.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">On Tuesday, we went on an all day tour which included elephant treking, a crocodile show, snorkelling and a waterfall visit. This was a pretty awesome day which gave us one hell of a scare while trekking on the elephants!</span><br />
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It started when I was told I’d be sitting on the elephants head and the two girls would be on the seats on the elephants back. Fine, and it was no problem at all and was a pretty cool experience. The elephants are such a gracious creature and even when going down a decline, he would flap his ears back so as to squash my legs(not at all sore), in order to make sure that I didn’t fall over. As I was on his head I’d nothing to hold on to, so this was a nice gesture on behalf of the elephant!</span><br />
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The elephant that was only a few feet in front on us suddenly went crazy and started making that noise it makes(don’t know if that noise has a name, but its the elephant noise from its trunk)! He then turned and started charging towards our elephant which went equally bezerk and started going ballistic. He did a 180 degree turn in one motion which had us all screaming as we didn’t know what the hell was happening, and then started to charge back up the extremely narrow, uneven path we were on. All this while tree’s and branches were smacking us in the face and me with nothing to hold on to only bloody head of the elephant. The girls were in an equally dangerous position as they were thrown around on the seats and only for they managed to hold onto each other they would have fallen off and been in a world of trouble. </span><br />
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I was holding both my phone and camera when the incident happened so I was forced to grab onto the bushes and branches that the elephant was running through as I really believed that it was only a matter of time before I fell off.<br />
The guides were yelling at the elephants and shouting at us to be calm while it happened but calm was far from what we were!</span><br />
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Somehow I took these photos during the incident. Finger must have been pressing the buttons by accident. You can see my hand reaching and grabbing for anything to help keep me balanced!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So what caused the commotion in the first place I hear you ask! Well, as soon as it happened my instinct told me that it was a crocodile on the path that had somehow escaped from the pit we were passing on our left. I was full sure of this as the elephants had gotten such a big obvious fright. All I could think was if I fall off this thing I’d be either mangled by crocs or trampled on by the elephants….either way not good thoughts to have spinning through your mind as you fly through the trees like Tarzan on heroin!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Anyways, it turned out that a little brown horse had come onto the path and gave the first elephant a fright, as horses aren’t usually common around that area.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A fucking horse!!! A horse the size of a child had caused the elephants to go insane with fear and as a result nearly caused us heart failure. When we learned of this, we nervously started laughing in relief, but it still didn’t stop the legs from shaking goodo for a few hours afterwards.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The girls were equally as frightened as they had no idea what was happening. All I could hear was “oh god, oh god” and screams, and all they could hear from me was “oh shit, oh shit”!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So after we got back to the camp we regained some composure before watching a crocodile show in which a man proceeded to taunt the crocs who were obviously under some sort of medication into allowing them to let him put his hand and head into their mouths!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So its six days since we arrived in Koh Phangan and we are still here sunning it up. We are going to move to the west coast of the island for a few days on Thursday.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As I said at the start, I’ll giving the Full Moon Party its own blog entry which will have all the photos and information about it there.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Life’s a pure beach right now guys and I’m loving it!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ciao!!</span>Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-8903515603308705632011-07-16T11:33:00.000+01:002011-07-16T11:33:35.046+01:00Patong - Land of the He/She’s!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/--oTMidlHDPQ/TiFnxIRqeAI/AAAAAAAABGQ/yZqNASo6l6Y/s1600-h/IMG_2041%25255B13%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_2041" border="0" height="240" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-u2nTXfCmk6Y/TiFnyBj6JMI/AAAAAAAABGU/va-aIlcxPq4/IMG_2041_thumb%25255B11%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_2041" width="240" /></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We landed in Phuket from Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday afternoon for three days which started and ended with some drama. We got a taxi from the airport into Phuket town and when we got out of the taxi Aileen discovered that she hadn’t her purse! Panic quickly set in as she had all her money cards and cash in the purse which would lead to a lot of potential trouble. We had gotten a random taxi and she was pretty sure she’d left it in the taxi when she got out. Long story short, I’d luckily kept the receipt(which contained all the info) for the taxi when I paid and so we got the local tourist office to ring the cab office and they were able to get in touch with the driver to check the car and return the purse to us, which he kindly did! Could have been a hell of a situation if the taxi driver wasn’t so honest. He could have easily said there was no purse in the cab and pocketed the money. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So we decided to hit Patong beach on the West coast of Phuket for the three days. As most of ye know, Patong is the main buzzing spot in Phuket with party nights every night of the week. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Patong was also the worst hit part of Phuket when the 2004 Tsunami struck. The resort was more or less completely wiped out and had to be rebuilt from scratch. The reason why Patong was the worst hit, was because of the topography of the land. The beach where all the footage on youtube can be seen is five minutes from where we were staying.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">While lying on the beach it was hard to imagine the devastation that happened <a href="http://youtu.be/faEEx5aQk0g">here</a> seven years ago. I remember watching the footage on youtube back then thinking how crazy the whole disaster was. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-KpY1X7QOFr0/TiFn7TeMBMI/AAAAAAAABGw/NikM8H5DzTE/s1600-h/IMG_2012%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_2012" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-tuIvKhZjE0I/TiFn8rZwX_I/AAAAAAAABG0/r_2TmtMRApw/IMG_2012_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_2012" width="246" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-bTwiwrMrLco/TiFn-3dqg_I/AAAAAAAABG4/y0hJauuxwrM/s1600-h/IMG_2013%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_2013" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-72CNVrVC5CA/TiFoAGn_nlI/AAAAAAAABG8/Wbd2uFLpDew/IMG_2013_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_2013" width="246" /></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-aIzRvjIMu-8/TiFoBnnG4hI/AAAAAAAABHA/rHq107Iw7EU/s1600-h/IMG_2014%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_2014" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/--tNSpQ852gc/TiFoCtks80I/AAAAAAAABHE/TX1hAe8xPm4/IMG_2014_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_2014" width="246" /></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So we lounged around Patong and checked out the local markets and shops. We also had a Thai massage which was well worth the hour it took. Getting walked all over never felt as good! The touts on the street can get very, very annoying with their constant nagging about “want to eat”, or “want a tuk-tuk”(local form of transport). Also, when you go into a shop to buy something you get pestered a lot as they will try and sell you anything. I did come up with a few ways to prevent them from asking us more than once if we wanted to eat in their restaurant. And that’s simply to say that you’ve already eaten! Whether true or not is irrelevant, as they have no comeback! Although a few of them then say “maybe tomorrow, or day after tomorrow”!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">You can also go into a shop and pretend you want to buy an item that they don’t have! For instance I was looking for a pair of shorts the other day and I went into a shop in which I was surrounded immediately by the guy looking to sell me a pair. I saw that they had none with pockets on the sides(cargo style) so I said to him that I was looking for the ones that had the pockets, to which he said he didn’t have any, which I already knew. So I pretended that the ones he had were not what I was looking. In the end I bought a pair acting like I didn’t want them at all, but I got them for like 5 euro’s compared to the 12 they were marked down at. They don’t want to lose any business if they can and they will come down to your way of thinking if you let on your not interested if the items they have. This works for me anyways. My haggling skills, while getting much better, are not to the level that others may possess! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Bangla street in Patong is renowned the world over for its “activities”. You only have to again check it out on youtube to know what I mean. We saw the widely accepted sight of old western men walking hand in hand with teenage girls. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The men obviously head to Patong and other similar places in Thailand for this “Girlfriend experience”, in which some of them get the “wife experience”, then a few get the “divorce experience” before heading home a few months/years later with the ultimate “I’ve got no bloody money experience”! This is very true in a lot of cases. Some of the men are so taking in by these women that they send them money each month from back home, so as to keep them not only off the streets, but also to keep them as their girlfriends! Please!! I mean how gullible are these guys? You can be 100% HIV positive that each of these women have ten or more men on the go at one time, each getting their monthly cheque in the post from each. This is a FACT!.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But in spite of the obvious sleaziness' that goes on in Patong, its really a super little place. Endless activities and things to do insure that its still a modern tourist hotspot. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Patong is also famous for its “ping-pong” shows and ladyboys. The he/she’s as I like to call them are everywhere, from working in shops, bars, restaurants to even just walking down the street dressed as a man, but you know they are he/she’s as they have the implants and the long hair. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A lot of them need a second look to actually detect if they are he/she’s. Obvious signs apart from the masculine physique and voice are; enlarged features such as Adam’s apple, hands, feet, and breasts! There has been more than one occasion where you’d have to take a 50/50 guess as whether or not they are he/she’s or not as its impossible to know.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ohhhh Patong a thong thong thong, where so many tourist men get it so wrong a wrong wrong wrong!! <img alt="Angry smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-angrysmile" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-1T2CbdOWnbg/TiFoMVwnYjI/AAAAAAAABHg/gZT7uy41Jqk/wlEmoticon-angrysmile%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" /></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We did go to a ping pong show the night before we left Patong as its only right to witness this crazy one of a kind show. For everyone who knows what these ping pong shows are about then no explanation is necessary, for those that don’t, then no explanation will suffice! That’s all I will say about the ping pong show!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So next its off to Koh Phangan for the full moon party on Sunday 17th. The next report will be after I recover from it!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’ll leave ye with a short clip from the few days in Patong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span>Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-80078663377254528032011-07-12T18:29:00.000+01:002011-07-12T18:29:48.030+01:00Downtown Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-bE5giGCCplA/ThyAVAM3AcI/AAAAAAAABC4/VmaYyGdhPtE/s1600-h/IMG_20004.jpg"><img alt="IMG_2000" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-_pZX4yPG1mo/ThyAWpFwgNI/AAAAAAAABC8/qvTnzGZpm0g/IMG_2000_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_2000" width="246" /></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We arrived by overnight train from Kota Bharu into Kuala Lumpur Saturday morning after a very comfortable thirteen hour journey. The comfort was attributed to the personal 1 berth bed cabins we each had. We boarded the train at 7pm and I was out for the count by 10pm(thanks to a valium for that)!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The train was a little noisy to begin with as there were at least three young babies with their mothers sleeping underneath and beside us, but thanks to the noise reduction headphones I brought along for the trip….I heard sweet FA!</span><br />
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</div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When we got out of the train terminal in KL, we quickly realised that something was up in the city as there were literally hundreds of cops racing around the place and a chopper hovering over us. It turned out that there was a big NGO protest/march taking place in the city centre from 8am – 6pm that day and that the city was in lock down mode. This meant that no form of transport was able to enter the city centre except trains. Therefore our taxi driver could only leave us at the nearest monorail station. This was fine as we had no where to stay so we ended up getting a nice room bang in the middle of where the protest was going to taking place(i.e the city stadium)! This area is known as Petaling street and it forms the heart of Chinatown in KL.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We were approached by a local media reporter and photographer for a quick interview regarding the protest, in relation to how we viewed this march from a tourist point of view and did we feel threatened etc. We were informed not to wear any items that contained the colour yellow as this was a colour that would offend the protesting party on this very day! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It turned out that there were hundreds of arrests made during the day and the police were forced to use pepper spray and other forceful means to keep control of the situation. The march was basically organised by the people of the city to make a stand against the government as they were getting cheated and deceived over various rights. Sounds like Ireland isn’t the only country getting shafted by the big boys!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Chinatown itself is a bustling vibrant spot and a stark contrast to the area(bukit bintang) we stay in last time we were in KL. Countless markets selling everything and anything, and food stands saturate the whole vicinity of Chinatown and its really an experience just to walk through it. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The street food there is again really cheap and delicious. Chinatown really comes alive at night time though with street vendors moving their “mobile shops” around to get a better spot to catch their prey. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The weather was unpredictable for the three days we spent there so it was hard to plan anything. We wanted to go to a water/adventure park one day but it was teaming down a lot of the day so we ended up not going. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We took a trip to see the KL tower as its called here. The KL tower finished construction in 1996 and until the Pedrona towers were built in 1998, it was the tallest building in Malaysia. Its currently the 5th tallest building in the world and bears a strong resemblance to the Stratosphere tower in Las Vegas!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Overall, Kuala Lumpur is cool city. Plenty of culture to be found and even more nightlife, along with every type of food imaginable. The city is very easily navigated using a simple, efficient monorail system that would give the likes of the German transport system a good run for its money. We had no problems hopping from place to place and the locals were more than willing to help with information. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’m typing up this blog on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Phuket, Thailand. We will stay in Thailand until 8th August after which we fly to Brisbane, Australia. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We will spend one night in Phuket before heading to the islands on the East coast where the madness of the Full Moon Party will take place on July 17th. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’m not liking the turbulence this flight is currently producing so I’m signing off folks!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span>Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-42829732730740161072011-07-07T17:49:00.000+01:002011-07-07T17:49:59.376+01:00Kota Bharu - The Muslim city<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We’ve been in Kota Bharu, since we got back from the Perhentian Islands on Monday. Its now Thursday and we are finally leaving tomorrow. The reason why we ended up staying all four days here was simply because I’d problems with my online banking with Bank of Ireland, which prevented me been able to book flights on my credit card. That combined with the fact that all the trains to Kuala Lumpur were completely booked out until Friday meant we were faced with sticking it out here for a few days.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Kota Bharu isn’t a bad city, its just not a very exciting one. Its main tourist attraction is that its a stop over place for backpackers going/coming from the Perhentians. Its 100% Muslim here, so all the women were the hijabs around their head and there’s strict segregation between the sexes which can be seen in the queues in the shops. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Also there’s not one drop of alcohol to be found in the city. I mean zero. Although, legend has it that the Chinese in the city would be able to silently get you some at the right price! So no alcohol in the city means zero bars and zero nightclubs. I don’t think I’ve ever visited a city in which the evidence of the religion was as apparent as here.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I can’t get used to having to take off my shoes before I enter shops. I plough in as normal and the lady in charge nearly faints when she sees the size 11 trainers in front of her. With that she orders me out and tells me to take them off. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Again the locals are very friendly. We get the distinct impression that they are a lot more amused by westerners here compared to other places. But in saying that its a very cultural experience. However, that’s where the culture ended for us as we are staying in a nice little hotel room for twenty euros for the room, complete with freezer like air con, T.V, hot showers, fridge and the occasional creepy crawly!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The city has a Pizza hut and McDonalds just around the corner from us so we sampled the cuisine there a few times and it was your typical franchise standard as expected like home. The one big difference though was the price! Check this out, two LARGE Big Mac meals and McFlurry ice-creams for 5 euro!! I’m Lovin it!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So the price of food here even in western cafes and eateries is disgustingly cheap. The food is quality and even clothes in the shopping centres have rock bottom price tags. The city is literally covered with Jewellery shops, opticians and shoe shops. And the rats come out in forces that have us all freaked. Big dirty swollen fat rats. The city comes alive with them as soon as the sun starts to disappear. </span><br />
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</div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As far as sights go there are none here. Not unless you like museums and a few temples(which we do not). The one interesting thing this city offers is a vibrant open market which the locals trade from. This we visited one of the mornings and it was very cool. The photos are really colourful with all the variety of fruits and vegetables on display. There was however a really pungent smell of fish, mixed with the heat of the day and combined with the apparent lack of hygiene. Flies hatching their eggs on the chicken meat in sauna temperatures just cannot be ideal conditions! I learned a valuable lesson In Kenya about eating unrefrigerated liver two years ago, and this sight brought back a few not so pleasant memories!</span><br />
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</div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yesterday I spent a while walking around trying to get a few photos, but I felt very conscious of the locals eyeing me up whenever I took out the camera. I did get a few snaps, but the heat was such that my planned walking tour only last about an hour or so before I retreated to the comfort of some air con.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We really had nothing to do for the past few days here so we’re itching to get going. The beach was only a ten miles away but since its frowned upon to sunbathe there by the locals we didn’t bother going.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Thankfully our train departs for Kuala Lumpur tomorrow evening(Friday). We’ve booked 3 single berth cabins for the overnight thirteen hour journey which will take us back through the jungle rainforest before we arrive in Kuala Lumpur Saturday morning.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So that’s it from Muslim city folks. I’m off to have a nice tall glass of “shut the hell up” juice.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ciao!</span>Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-88005445756604087002011-07-05T11:44:00.002+01:002011-07-05T11:48:13.132+01:00Perhentian Islands and the first month review<blockquote></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0SNLAf0hEkplCmw23iBNfX4ZSFf2ABd_ACZsCzojzt_66crJ9F3N0iIO_J6P_BhhEcixFVjF8FzXkJqgEKMXkw8sEgzhooGqbo_rzZK092YbS-Qf3Mj3UgiREH1rWepTbDktcPzmxS-hx/s1600-h/IMG_1709%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1709" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-X69d50VEe00/ThLqHypAVGI/AAAAAAAAA_w/OyxdLqzfz8I/IMG_1709_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1709" width="246" /></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-eqWmx8h6JL0/ThLqJPUuaVI/AAAAAAAAA_0/8AxhU9TOYJA/s1600-h/IMG_1717%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1717" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-eT1c5O9ULok/ThLqKFn238I/AAAAAAAAA_4/PhwbAHOk8nE/IMG_1717_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1717" width="246" /></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Z-T7WifKANo/ThLqL87cXmI/AAAAAAAAA_8/vFVNyTmDB-0/s1600-h/IMG_1719%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1719" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-oV-rNBZ-kQw/ThLqMt1t2KI/AAAAAAAABAA/_NFiNS2FX_Y/IMG_1719_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1719" width="246" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Perhential Islands are a backpacking magnet for those who venture to the East coast of Malaysia. The islands(two of them, one small and one a little bigger) are situated about 40 nautical miles for the mainland in the Northeast. <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We spent three days there after we left the Taman Negara jungle Friday morning last. And if I’m honest, the most exciting part of the islands were the speed boat journies to and from the islands. That’s not to say we didn’t enjoy it there, it just it wasn’t what we had expected. Maybe because we only had Gili Trawangan as our yardstick in which to compare it to.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">To be fair, the Perhential islands are stunning and very quiet. A real picture book chill out heaven. When we landed there we went looking for accommodation and found ourselves a nice little beach hut on stilts about twenty meters from the beach itself which worked out at around twelve euro each per night!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We spent our days walking along the beach and sampling lovely local food in the various beach front restaurants that peppered every nook and cranny. The weather wasn’t exactly excellent apart from a few golden hours here and there, so we didn’t build too many sand castles in the three days.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Since we had no ambitions to do more snorkelling or boat trips here, it gave up plenty of time to plan what our next moves were going to be regarding the trip.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-dCpkRyXABE8/ThLqcqrvvuI/AAAAAAAABAc/NXHBNjUTaZE/s1600-h/IMG_1732%25255B9%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1732" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-iCO812El8_k/ThLqdsSfc_I/AAAAAAAABAg/ircOe_eeqJw/IMG_1732_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1732" width="246" /></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Z9A6fj4pduM/ThLqflooVnI/AAAAAAAABAk/PMAgaCQSeQU/s1600-h/IMG_1733%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1733" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-rSNxp3HQytI/ThLqgafR3BI/AAAAAAAABAo/unoBCkPAhoo/IMG_1733_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1733" width="246" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-0Imdpx-_ov8/ThLqi27BAII/AAAAAAAABAs/DgHcSQWDA0A/s1600-h/IMG_1735%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1735" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Au7DfGz7hl0/ThLqjiIHu4I/AAAAAAAABAw/1qt9H2bA7fs/IMG_1735_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1735" width="246" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Initially, the plan was to travel into Thailand via overland crossing(since its only 60km to the Thai boarder from the mainland), but we found out that Southern Thailand can be somewhat dangerous and travellers were advised not to cross into Thailand via this route.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So with that in mind and also due to the fact that you only get a fifteen day tourist visa when you cross overland into Thailand compared to the 30 day when you arrive by air, we decided that it would be best to return to Kuala Lumpur and get a cheap AirAsia flight into Phuket. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So thats what we are going to do. The full moon party in Ko Phangan is on July 17th and we shall be there in full force complete with UV body paint and buckets of whiskey and red bull!</span><br />
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<u><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">One month review…</span></strong></u><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Time certainly travels fast when your emmm…..travelling! Really can’t believe how quickly the past four weeks have gone. In saying that we’ve already touched base in four of the eight in total countries that we will visit on this trip. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Before I visit a new country or go travelling, I always have preconceptions formed as to how I think the culture will be, what the food will be like and will I end up liking the adventure or not. So far so good concerning Asia. For me its ticked all the boxes so far for the impressions I had already conceived in my mind. <br />
Its cheap, the people are very friendly, the food is delicious, the weather is fantastic and the scenery is stunning. That’s the only way I can describe to those of you that haven’t visited Asia before. In saying that I can only speak of the countries I’ve visited so far in Asia. We still have to hit Thailand(only spent to days outside of Bangkok), Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">To give you an idea of how cheap it is here to eat out in a local restaurant, today we had three main courses, two deserts and five drinks….all for the equivalent of thirteen euros! Taxis are scarily cheap and when you consider the extortion at home it would really make you stop and think. The bus and train transport system is so cheap its almost free!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The next blog update will be from Kota Bharu where will be staying for a few days after the Perhentian islands.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’ll leave ye with a short photo video that I managed to put together using Picasa. I’m limited with what I can do as I don’t have my software with me on the mini laptop for making decent slideshows and the internet connections usually take a long time to upload videos like these.</span><br />
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<h4><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">We landed in KL just after 1am on Sunday night last. The airport is approx 75km outside of the city itself and we missed the last train from the airport so instead of forking out 50 euro for a private taxi we decided to wait and kip in the airport for a few hours and then get the bus into the city at 7am, which is what we did. But sleeping in the airport was a little more difficult than we planned. So we got bugger all sleep.</span></h4><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-BIsI_QmvxTU/Tg6481ORCsI/AAAAAAAAAyk/TThDvBVurJ8/s1600-h/IMG_1377%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1377" border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjQ6_B5FIgTKlaYhK473GPtER0eq25ZR-MZgr-7U-LeO7hdy5TnPNq28R2B352H47g6dLW1YxtHJz-N16NLQ-ITx_N56pPEPN0Cw-scmXx-AhyphenhyphenHWD_dUHL7SDm6bBGDB5Arq6WHMJg3KEq/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1377" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-nFfdwBFsWwM/Tg64-inHumI/AAAAAAAAAys/sSXNJALvXOg/s1600-h/IMG_1380%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1380" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-5vjDDQLWJ0o/Tg65BF_c2II/AAAAAAAAAyw/d8TZ0_Iu640/IMG_1380_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1380" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-k5KmThju8yQ/Tg65Chl0nNI/AAAAAAAAAy0/s95CQqAtUBY/s1600-h/IMG_1383%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1383" border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJNKpdeIErlAopEsS2jXnItr15AoAQtIVONcXaedUe45iMwY6Jz0tk7vMfzXakSjhpsv7BYyG-GOuIMIl8GXtOkM1KZhdg28w6VOaV8g4sTWN7YOGDxUcrH_wBzomX2tc-a22UPcnh76x-/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1383" width="244" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Our hostel(Paradiso) was situated in the middle of the tourist area known as Bukit Bintang. We had easy access to all attractions via a very efficient and easy to use monorail system. Kuala Lumpur is a very modern city much like Singapore with your typical skyscraper view point.<br />
KL also has a very vibrant night life in certain parts of the city. Since Malaysia is mostly Muslim, alcohol cannot be purchased in alot of shops and never in any Muslim owned premises. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">One of the main attractions associated with KL are the Pedronas tower, aka the twin towers. The towers, which are an engineering masterpiece were constructed in 1998 and trump above any other buliding in KL. On Tuesday we made our way to the towers to get our tickets that would allow us to head to the observation deck at the top for a 360 degree view of the city. Unfortunately, by the time we got there around lunch time ll the daily allocated tickets were sold out. Seemingly, you have to get there around 7am and queue up in order to be able to venture up to the top. We didn’t mind as we got the few photos of the building itself and getting to the top wasn’t a priority of ours.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The following day(Wednesday), we had a two day trip to the Taman Negara Jungle planned with meant our short stay in KL was only for two days, and to be honest none of us were too upset to be leaving the city, not that we disliked KL or anything. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So Wednesday morning at 8am we left our hostel and were shuttled in a bus for four hours to a connecting point where we were to travel by boat for another three hours into the thick of the jungle itself!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The journey on these traditional boats was really something else(see photos). The scenery was spectacular as we meandered our way along the timblering river, before we came to our little jungle town in the heart of Taman Negara.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Taman Negara rainforest/jungle is situated roughly in the centre of Malaysia. Its a vast, humongous rainforest which is not only older than the Amazon rainforest, but also the oldest rainforest in the world. It consists of 432 sq miles. Its history spans 250 million years and is host to many forms of wildlife including tigers, elephants and King Cobras!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The area we were staying consisted on a small village which was separated by the Timblering river and which could only be crossed via the local water taxi boats!. The three of us had a dorm room all to ourselves which was part of the tour package. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After we arrived at our accommodation we grabbed a much needed cold shower as we were filthy after our eight hour journey, and then got a water taxi over to “MamaChop’s” floating restaurant for the all inclusive buffet dinner of rice and a small piece of grilled chicken! Still thougjh, was better than a slap in the eye! <br />
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The activity planned that night was a jungle trek so armed with flashlights and a guide we headed into the jungle on a trail, during which time we saw some really cool insects and jungle freaks like scorpions, monkeys and other creatures! (see photos)</span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The humidity in the rainforest as you can guess was something serious. I’ve been in humid tropical climates before but this just took the biscuit. The only way I could describe it is, if you were to take your dry hand and wave it in front of you, then by the time you had it down by your side again it would be soaked wet! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We hit the sack that night exhausted after the long day of travel combined with the humidity. The following day there was two activities planned.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The morning consisted of a canopy walk which is longest in the world through a section of the jungle. This part had me a little freaked out as I’m not good with naked heights. And we were told that anyone who starts the walk won’t be able to turn back until the end as everyone would be held up, so don’t do it if you think you’ll have any problems. I did have a problem and that was the amount of sweat dripping into my eyes for the whole duration of the canopy walk! I got over the feeling of been so hight up but the humidity and constant sweating on my behalf made sure my vision was slightly impaired to say the least. But I really enjoyed it at the end.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The tribe consisted of about 8 families were were told and they are nomads, which basically means they move location frequently and never stay in the one spot for more than a year or so. And if someone dies in the tribe then they will move after the burial, in which they place the dead member in a tree hut as they reckon the earth is full of demons.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The chief of the tribe met us as we got off the boat and gave permission for us to take as many photos as we liked. He then went on to give us a few demonstrations of life in the tribe, which included showing us how to make a blow pipe(for hunting), and how to make fire!</span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Our guide explained to us that the tribe believe that smoke is very good and for that reason we were not to be alarmed if we saw the small children walking around smoking, as it was normal practice! Equally as alarming, we were told that if you see a child running towards you with a machete or knife, that we were not be be scared as it was just local custom! Thankfully no one ran at us with a knife but we did see a small 2/3 year old boy hammering a bit of wood with a butcher type knife!</span><br />
<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-I5d5fRmpazk/Tg68jpK2XoI/AAAAAAAAA7Q/NR3NJ_zZiMw/s1600-h/IMG_1655%25255B17%25255D.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img alt="IMG_1655" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-3Kg62A8BKjo/Tg68kSpCkTI/AAAAAAAAA7U/qJJfke4oApY/IMG_1655_thumb%25255B13%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1655" width="244" /></span></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We then were giving a blow pipe demo and shown how accurate is was. The local hit the target both times from a distance of about 30 feet.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-3ueUYsH7pIU/Tg68lrZTtlI/AAAAAAAAA7Y/KkEDtIo92Ds/s1600-h/IMG_1631%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1631" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-EFPioAwK_18/Tg68pAY4D6I/AAAAAAAAA7c/8MbbL2CuH5c/IMG_1631_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1631" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-TrCkbg7US_o/Tg68qSAj0RI/AAAAAAAAA7g/5D74ip1Dwog/s1600-h/IMG_1633%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1633" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-q5Gv8EssTPo/Tg68rF2GAuI/AAAAAAAAA7k/AiEZ-W2NmY0/IMG_1633_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1633" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-xatJV6WW9jU/Tg68scoS6EI/AAAAAAAAA7o/2nskrl6nA5Y/s1600-h/IMG_1634%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1634" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-bo7HbWdG9R4/Tg68uZznC1I/AAAAAAAAA7s/LzcgQg7ArBo/IMG_1634_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1634" width="244" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I stepped up to see if my mouth could cash the checks it was writing, and tried to hit the target but alas there must have been something wrong with the blow pipe as the aim wasn’t working properly <img alt="Winking smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJVJPFYMITtlkp1g_BLmzwfZlwh6Ncb6nPfwtGY6ub_gf_aLDX3CK7mZjhLLvBzN0LHSwGaJWQ6U4plL7jcciZA4hKcI_LSthohs20FDNPonuPonZ4-4QEMs_zHnhpsDkSJHOrET9q-V2w/?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-kmD1aSIJHas/Tg68w06XxBI/AAAAAAAAA70/dT5OE7OkVxU/s1600-h/IMG_1636%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1636" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-XowPo1JmJK8/Tg68xbLdpSI/AAAAAAAAA74/-96wgi3pbbc/IMG_1636_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1636" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-NIsQ8G-UCbM/Tg68yb9pPlI/AAAAAAAAA78/GcDBM0HvGPI/s1600-h/IMG_1637%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1637" border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGqXDCd_ECKufLZhLcGfMOD7-hS42ekAXTDEsIFf-tcnRbWsvhta1fzCqQcaR7mhIB0dpkdgjMowpU5rHkR2oq-YBHswnzLrjiQSlcQG-GoKtS-FklHzmxSqkQKDytm92vmB4DudFwcOkK/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1637" width="184" /></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-pfVmH-V-z10/Tg69zDAVE4I/AAAAAAAAA-0/ahf48aDES50/s1600-h/IMG_1639%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1639" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-y33EqgYTjYg/Tg69z1nbJlI/AAAAAAAAA-4/3D4FGzmWEEo/IMG_1639_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1639" width="244" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The girls opted out of having a go themselves which was a pity as it was pretty cool.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">On the way back to base we stopped by an area of the river when you could get out and swim and swing off a rope into the river which I did many, many times and loved it. I could have played there for the day I could!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-LpCZq7E0l88/Tg692ZISrbI/AAAAAAAAA-8/rycFYk5C2KE/s1600-h/IMG_1662%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1662" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-gVDPZY1Kdcw/Tg693BsARrI/AAAAAAAAA_A/9lWuVxPa8Vk/IMG_1662_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1662" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-9pia4ZB8rAU/Tg6951qbVmI/AAAAAAAAA_E/OO-00v3NHVs/s1600-h/IMG_1663%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1663" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-QkTYP4eGR7I/Tg696i1Z9NI/AAAAAAAAA_I/79VA2tm9-7A/IMG_1663_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1663" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-JoH3fNugHlo/Tg698XSB3VI/AAAAAAAAA_M/knt7_FsMFMs/s1600-h/IMG_1665%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1665" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-0nX8lQyBUkQ/Tg6997LRPGI/AAAAAAAAA_Q/l06jYZAH50g/IMG_1665_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1665" width="244" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Vdmeg0yIMno/Tg6-A_EyUZI/AAAAAAAAA_U/tCMDkHXouWk/s1600-h/IMG_1672%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1672" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-DjXBjFuIkZY/Tg6-BoohH9I/AAAAAAAAA_Y/z3d4b338d44/IMG_1672_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1672" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-W5z_SqBGPms/Tg6-DjUETmI/AAAAAAAAA_c/jZgV7DSSQhg/s1600-h/IMG_1673%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1673" border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpNY4f0euI_ZMCK6MW5hBquGCdY57Yc7jXSJkDntgzLrX43MjRBfJD24hArZOH-3jEB7i57NaCLrlmsueiYsYyCMD4CdqkjiHSrDY_TaelzpdotEQd9NkWz1fL2SaYuX-iLvp_1TqizsJZ/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1673" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-yrI5Gvj--wk/Tg6-FchryTI/AAAAAAAAA_k/eqhm7T_Zheo/s1600-h/IMG_1674%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1674" border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsdAH-jWr9K4Irlo75Wz4u4UoBySP5QG4ka8b3kZEi0D_V5pDGzLe5XsIBFLNPQG4iTePBwzW-mo4t9NBVSw1FhwdD-SvQiAT2SniUr2LS_PrKVWgbCkTXu3Y59GXN9SZVIfJyiMTpp3hV/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1674" width="244" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We got back to our accommodation after another feed of rice and chicken and had a good wash up before watching a few episodes of “celebrity rehab with Dr.Drew”! Funny reality show by the way! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So that concluded our two day stay in the jungle. We have our next destination planned and its a nine hour journey from here to the East coast where we will catch a speed boat to the luscious Perhentian islands. We have no idea how long we’ll end up staying there but the next blog update will be from there providing theres a decent connection! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Now I’m off to mentally prepare for a nine hour minibus journey!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ciao!!</span>Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-40924899973863505912011-06-26T19:51:00.002+01:002011-06-26T19:52:40.711+01:00Leaving Indonesia–on the move again!<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-wi0RmfGFGv0/Tgd_PcUJyZI/AAAAAAAAAwM/Phu-NKOQg_c/s1600-h/EDIT11.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img alt="EDIT" border="0" height="265" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-4wMVmi7t4IE/Tgd_QBspK0I/AAAAAAAAAwQ/nr7EBjE9h-8/EDIT_thumb8.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="EDIT" width="351" /></span></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After spending a nice long week on the Island of Gili Trawangan, we decided to leave. Not because we were fed up of the endless beach time or the exotic tastes of the local food there, but just because our feet got itchy and we wanted to explore more.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We talked about exploring the island of Java and Sumatra(which was one of the islands badly devastated by the 2004 tsunami) before leaving Indonesia altogether. But after having a chat, all three of us decided that we’d much prefer to head to Malaysia. We know that there’s a lot more of Indonesia that we could have plodded along too, but travelling in Java and Sumatra especially is much tougher we were informed. That coupled with the fact that Aileen is leaving for Australia at the start of August, we didn’t want to just spend all the remaining time here in Indonesia. So Kuala Lumpur is the next port of call. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As I type up this blog entry(Sunday 26th June), we are flying to Kuala Lumpur. With flights been so cheap its a no brainer to fly these long distances rather than bus or train the journey. In saying that, we do plan on using a lot of trains and buses from here on in as we’ll be moving shorter distances.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So what can I say about our few weeks in Indonesia?! Well first off its a fantastic country from what we saw of it. Bali was our host for the duration but it provided a clear cross section of what the Indonesian people are like. Kind, generous, helpful and very friendly are the words I’d use to describe the people. We had zero instances of anyone been rude or troublesome, which is a big factor for me personally when I travel, as with most people.</span><br />
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<h4><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">The cost of living there is extremely low. While alcohol is slightly cheaper than back home in bars, its extremely expensive to buy in shops or off licences here. I’m talking $90 for a normal sized bottle of vodka! Even a basic bottle of wine will set you back $40. The reason I found out is due to the crazy tax that the government put on the drink to buy over the counter. Needless to say we didn’t buy any so it didn’t bother us. </span></h4><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The food was amazing full stop. We ate a lot of the local street food which cost next to nothing and equally as tasty as the food in restaurants. One of their typical staples is “Nasi Goreng” which is fried noodles/rice with chicken. It costs $1 and fills you right up. </span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAV1Gq7GHVbTSyP_2I3yFVcOJp1kz06K7etwQPTsFP6QRvXg52mSkfh4S_czhx1yNNNz8qSu5CXF6lu0y_sA5_ZV2OskqxCtOzHWwZa_PrGn1tZjA3E9a6V5WoCUOMUrA03xi1BeCFFjXO/s1600-h/IMG_12573.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img alt="IMG_1257" border="0" height="246" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-RqXRDJSJSmE/Tgd_USvE08I/AAAAAAAAAwo/ldluVoAg0tE/IMG_1257_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1257" width="186" /></span></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The above photo is from Gili T where the “Fungus” as its known down here is widely available. When your walking around you’ll heard the phrases “want to go to the moon” and “we need more people for a return trip to the moon”. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Aileen and Florence reckon that my haircut and colour attracts the local drug dealers to constantly ask me do I want any drugs!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-9BwvG1pnYVg/Tgd_VFzYE9I/AAAAAAAAAws/cI_sptcE_4A/s1600-h/IMG_12533.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1253" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-ruP7SzfSdW8/Tgd_VkwRm_I/AAAAAAAAAww/GeToDwJo4Xk/IMG_1253_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1253" width="246" /></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-IsRZrEkuy4g/Tgd_WTIogqI/AAAAAAAAAw0/f5_fTFQ46vk/s1600-h/IMG_12563.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1256" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-OX3jqqlTU1w/Tgd_W_xgzyI/AAAAAAAAAw4/2BdJEJXyfok/IMG_1256_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1256" width="246" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ykkzvbbweoOppbjGyZcMT9qznccNte_TqE3wjUg9YRRZ2j9_IH6NQrS7f-FZhVrjabJjfzPAWXNv2YvZrSiiB5n4mBkmPHXXpGVMOpgY0sNRrH52hWeuJzVgWo3zRN_N173I1Iv_IBYS/s1600-h/IMG_12585.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1258" border="0" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdAfoIXx1DGbG-Nl9HSRgOuqTn1JAkLC-lPJJwHGYo22zhNjpgh_THcvXkGweerXy64ELlAwUyYanW2HJ4rHj3cZipxRpDvQB5d3fl1HZxkbfptmzHun-19WdhonixGdRBC3re03kEPBgP/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1258" width="186" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So all in all we loved our time in Bali and Gili T. The Gili islands were absolutely stunning. I can’t emphasise enough how exotic it is as you’d have to visit there to truly experience it. We could have easily spent weeks there no problem. We met one man on the boat back to Bali today who had just spent five weeks there! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I would definitely recommend Bali as a holiday destination to anyone who asked me what I thought. Its got everything all bundled into one amazing Island. The only downside is the thirteen hour flight from Ireland to get there.</span><br />
<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-zfgkTQXaGHI/Tgd_YysHMqI/AAAAAAAAAxE/wvDsnrLIks0/s1600-h/IMG_12814.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img alt="IMG_1281" border="0" height="246" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-gyOr6QVOgxo/Tgd_ZbuRdGI/AAAAAAAAAxI/Ma1nJGz9YQI/IMG_1281_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1281" width="186" /></span></a><br />
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<strong><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Travel plans from here on</span></u></strong><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Kuala Lumpur is our first stop in Malaysia. We will probably head to the East coast for some more beaches and exploring before making our way up north and into Thailand. The full moon party in the Thai islands fall on July 24th so we plan to be there for that. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We booked our flights to Australia the other day <img alt="Open-mouthed smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-openmouthedsmile" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-tZwmAkfGFGc/Tgd_aIb4m7I/AAAAAAAAAxM/45bRKmz66AU/wlEmoticon-openmouthedsmile2.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" />. We didn’t know for sure if we were going to go or not, but we said why not. As we are this far away, it would be a shame not to! So we fly out from Bangkok to Brisbane on August 8th for 23 days. We are undecided yet as whether or not to rent a campervan for a road trip along the East coast or just hostel it combined with the greyhound buses. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-_DFfwAiIXAM/Tgd_a40X0YI/AAAAAAAAAxQ/d1HmdYlYO1E/s1600-h/IMG_12794.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1279" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-FHQIPoiIKXs/Tgd_bMqQG9I/AAAAAAAAAxU/ueFYfZWTwPM/IMG_1279_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1279" width="246" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-vmY4NDkxYkI/Tgd_b9r4HaI/AAAAAAAAAxY/mcHj9VlpD7U/s1600-h/IMG_12863.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1286" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-JbRi2ON5o5E/Tgd_cmINwCI/AAAAAAAAAxc/oCeWM52hgvg/IMG_1286_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1286" width="246" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVF0ROnJsUt98yMO72JJ1IYGllq94tOn_C30RqQC9TkZ6r7ssGmqby1t3UQhF30iwIXAsWftd8vZQGydqXsN9q5h3dUe9yPBmh2DjCNuUNZDrXED6LjPXr5MF3JXQH8QXw3BRwBL0v1Qp7/s1600-h/IMG_12904.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1290" border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEeVEs8TkaRNQx-x8uZuXrbO_lujweIVTTLaHjPWpFydp53AItWnfmpxBae8uMU1c9BhFUQiGVyLM77ec0T4f4Kb5klLiZX36A2LES72JBmSTRLkr-aYKlB9VjWLbGOyFGlUZVDYX5kobq/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1290" width="246" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If anyone has any experience with campervan rental in Oz then I’d really appreciate any info you could give us! We’d prefer to have our own transport while there for the three weeks and don’t mind the idea of sleeping in the back of a van at all. Its the experience and the freedom we’re after. It was mentioned to me that it would be better to buy a cheap car and use that for transport and then sell if off again when finished. But the trouble with that option is we could buy something that could end up breaking down and I ain’t no mechanic!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-ncvWuZ7Ft44/Tgd_ejGOtQI/AAAAAAAAAxo/GymFhFEBhvo/s1600-h/IMG_1359EDIT4.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1359EDIT" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-mnfQrlxaaxo/Tgd_fRnHeYI/AAAAAAAAAxs/FOlWNp7rclQ/IMG_1359EDIT_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1359EDIT" width="246" /></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-TtPzmmgILLU/Tgd_gB61yMI/AAAAAAAAAxw/xaqT4k_7ym8/s1600-h/IMG_13614.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1361" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-JdlFCwBcYdg/Tgd_hcYUh1I/AAAAAAAAAx0/J7cjTy2iFts/IMG_1361_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1361" width="246" /></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-3tMHJd82NNo/Tgd_iCEofBI/AAAAAAAAAx4/WGNjhesP6NM/s1600-h/IMG_1364W4.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1364W" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-iRpH5Mj8b2M/Tgd_isPaVNI/AAAAAAAAAx8/Dqiq06uvUVM/IMG_1364W_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1364W" width="246" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After we return to Bangkok from Australia, we plan on moving up to northern Thailand to Chang Mai and then over to Laos before making our way through Vietnam and Cambodia before returning home. That will give us September, October and November to complete the above and arrive home just in time for the Christmas dinner!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-6MOddfrPqxA/Tgd_jUxw7oI/AAAAAAAAAyA/3Lk8do0ezzg/s1600-h/IMG_13624.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1362" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-x2-80btmtoU/Tgd_kFIA-sI/AAAAAAAAAyE/3nQ56tUxGE0/IMG_1362_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1362" width="246" /></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-LUzUY3tYOWo/Tgd_k8iSZ2I/AAAAAAAAAyI/6E7t1izmBX4/s1600-h/IMG_13714.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1371" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-J5BzzQf6L1w/Tgd_lbVIDqI/AAAAAAAAAyM/RukvZNL-7mI/IMG_1371_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1371" width="246" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-QRpFUGOyDoM/Tgd_mF-_h6I/AAAAAAAAAyQ/uP7XsOMmCXw/s1600-h/IMG_13744.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1374" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-O816Rga_oXI/Tgd_nlB7eZI/AAAAAAAAAyU/tjhLstpUeb0/IMG_1374_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1374" width="246" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As you can see I went a little crazy with the silhouette type shots, but I was determined to get them as I think they make for a real cool effect. I used my miniature tripod for these shots which came in very handy. I’m sure my good mate John MacHale will find a lot of technical issues with them though <img alt="Hot smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-hotsmile" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3JWjWEKC43HZwJBvx2e-ytl0SE8NKueTVDX1Aocl7J8Z-oK0MxPTk3q7_zc8F6VGy9vWnydf0gxvORO8z4avM1i24rkkJyBhwTyIbRzTgINTLLAGyqJ7VF-SOZDqVa__ObS5O-FlOv5cX/?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" />!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I hope anyone that’s following this blog is enjoying it and not getting bored of our travels. We are coming into our fourth week of the twenty seven weeks in total, so there will be a lot more blog entries and photos along the way. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We have about another hour before we land in Kuala Lumpur so I’m going to try and get a few winks of sleep(the girls are out for the count here beside me)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Easy knowing that your getting closer to Thailand when there’s a gruesome LadyBoy sitting across the aisle on the plane! Ugh!!!! She/he looks like that ex WWE wrestler Chyna! No Joke!</span><br />
<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-TbVW0ErSnUE/Tgd_o03OT0I/AAAAAAAAAyc/wXVOqCu9a5A/s1600-h/IMG_13675.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img alt="IMG_1367" border="0" height="322" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-bDEgZdtHObE/Tgd_plGXz2I/AAAAAAAAAyg/79CJeTfAwXU/IMG_1367_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1367" width="422" /></span></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ciao!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span>Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-65395005230049969742011-06-23T10:42:00.003+01:002011-06-23T10:46:49.096+01:00Gili Trawangan<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-1_K8VOwJqTU/TgMJLPrbhgI/AAAAAAAAArI/37uEGsPA-h0/s1600-h/IMG_1107%252520%252528Copy%252529%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1107 (Copy)" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-m6Zm83w8Cxs/TgMJMEzov5I/AAAAAAAAArM/01zF_JdYC-4/IMG_1107%252520%252528Copy%252529_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1107 (Copy)" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-CDVDlGSQz5w/TgMJMq-zV-I/AAAAAAAAArQ/D1FtVR9zXk4/s1600-h/IMG_1158%252520%252528Copy%252529%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1158 (Copy)" border="0" height="181" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-51A-6_8yhso/TgMJNVbKqfI/AAAAAAAAArU/2caXlatF8b0/IMG_1158%252520%252528Copy%252529_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1158 (Copy)" width="184" /></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ngcuYBPkoCY/TgMJOE4N7fI/AAAAAAAAArY/mQ6eFAhfHGc/s1600-h/IMG_1177%252520%252528Copy%252529%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1177 (Copy)" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-E33Hf-UsUTs/TgMJPCpVhWI/AAAAAAAAArc/S86Fl-2KzbQ/IMG_1177%252520%252528Copy%252529_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1177 (Copy)" width="244" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Back when I was starting to plan our trip to Asia, I was surfing the different forums on the net looking at the different locations that people visit. <br />
Initially I really didn’t plan on going to Indonesia but during one online conversation with a forum member on boards.ie, I was informed about the paradise like Gili islands.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It didn’t take me long to figure out that they would be worth a visit, and I knew that Florence wouldn’t need any persuading so I scheduled in a flight to Bali as part of our travels!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Gili islands have long been a magnet for backpackers and tourists alike who have decided to venture away from Bali. Located in the northeastern tip of Lombok the Gilis comprise of 3 small islands namely, Gili Trawangan, Gili Air and Gili Meno. Each has its own different characterisitcs but all having the stunning turquoise-tinted, bathtub warm waters, friendly locals, beachfront bungalows and no motorised vehicles in common.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We left our room in Ubud at 6:30am Sunday morning having spent a lovely 5 days there. We were driven by minibus for over an hour to the area at the docks called Padangai. This was where we would be getting the fast boat across to the Gilis. The fast boat are so called because they travel at 30 knots for 1.5 hours to reach the islands. The slow boat option, while been alot cheaper can take anywhere from 6 to 8 hours to complete and only leave at irregular times. So we definitely said we’d James Bond it in the fast boat for this one <img alt="Smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-av3CJUld3E0/TgMJRjy2PoI/AAAAAAAAAro/BWZcHreEXhQ/wlEmoticon-smile2.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" /></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The journey across was very scenic and the boat was about 75% full. Arriving at Gili T was really like something out of a movie. Endless isolated white sand beaches stretched either side of the dock. The dock itself was brimming with locals all eager for us to use their “cidomo” which is a horse drawn cart. Since the only motorised vehicles on these islands are the boats that come and go the only form of transport around the island are these cidomo’s and bicycles!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Island itself can be walked around by the parameter in 2.5 hours so as you can guess its not really big. Big and busy enough though to be the most visited of the 3 Gili islands.</span><br />
<h4><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">We found ourselves a lovely little room which was only about a 2 minute walk to the beach and cost only 6 euro per person per night! There was only a fan in the room but it worked more the the propeller on an aeroplane so that coupled with the cool breeze coming from the beach ensured that it wasn’t going to be uncomfortably hot at night.</span></h4><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So that was Sunday night and its now Thursday and we are still here in same spot!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We basically spent the first 2 days lapping it up at the beach drinking fresh coconuts and generally lazing about.</span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It can’t be emphasized enough how ridiculously cool these islands are. While its that bit less cheap than the main land its by no means expensive to enjoy the fruits of the islands.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The local people are as friendly as ever and while trying to make a quick buck they never go overboard with their prices and generally will drop their asking price by half straight away if you turn and try to walk away.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">There are some really amazing beach huts which cost around $50 per night that are literally out of this world and include swimming pools, satellite T.V, mini bar, fridge, money safe and air-con. If you were to come to this part of the world on a 2/3 week holiday you would be able to live like royalty for next to nothing. But since we are on an extended backpacking trip we don’t see the point in paying that kind of money per night when we are perfectly comfortable in our 6 euro a night room!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A few days ago we rented some bicycles and cycled around some of the island where we got to see the best sunset I’ve ever witnessed. We laid back while sipping a few drinks at a beach bar and watched the sun magically disappear, lightening fast!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Since I don’t have my SLR camera with me and only a G12(which is equally as good for what I’d need it for), I’m limited to what zoom ranges I can achieve. Basically the G12 has only a 5x digital zoom on it which doesn’t allow really close up images from any great distance. In saying that, its a fantastic camera for me as a substitute to carrying a big SLR around for months.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yesterday(Wednesday), we went on a snorkelling trip on a glass botton boat. It was a 4 hour trip which brought us around the 3 Gili Islands with a snorkel around each of them. This was myself and Florence’s first time to snorkel as we never really wanted to on previous trips….that coupled with the fact that neither of us are really confident in deep waters. But we decided that at a location like this, it would be a shame not to experience it. So off we went and really had a lovely time. I got a bit sea sick for some reason after an hour which rendered me useless after the first snorkel. That combined with the fact I always seem to want to go to the number 2 in situations where I know I can’t, made it a tough first half of a trip until we landed on Gili Air for lunch.</span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So that brings me up to today which is Thursday 23rd June. We are just about to head down to the beach. We have no idea yet when we plan to leave the Gili’s. We have the open return ticket back to Bali, so we can head back whenever we like <img alt="Hot smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-hotsmile" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRiTxOERW-ukWualbphlMfFo7gZcHHYLq0jNnF6DILav29l6HljxHK-wkj_L4EKv82q0MI_u2JLnn4WkZOcMRDD49BrKMgrGG_luOfFkXR9Y06SHHS9zRIGewlh3rJx2xQyiABqcNxtfq8/?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" /></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ciao!</span>Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-88778582868423382952011-06-20T10:31:00.002+01:002011-06-20T10:33:03.346+01:00Mt.Batur Volcano Trek!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Having never trekked a volcano before I was really looking forward to this. We were picked up from our accommodation in Ubud at 2:30am Saturday morning and we drove for a little over 80 minutes at a constant uphill incline the whole way until we reached the foot of Mt.Batur which is located in the northern part of Bali.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The summit of Batur stands at 1717m and is a 2 hour trek from where we were dropped off. Together with our guide we set off at 4am which would give us enough time to reach the top for the 6:20am sunrise.</span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The route up to mountain itself was pretty straight forward but in some spots it was a little hard work, especially the last 30 minutes or so when we were nearing the top. We definitely worked up a good sweat. Our guide informed up that he does this at least twice every week and during the busy season he does it 4 times a week! The local teenage boys who sell you drinks at the top, do this route every single day!!! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The guides made sure to hold onto the girls for most of the way up and we took a few breathers along the way which we were all happy to see. For me personally it was the first bit of cardio that I’ve done in nearly 9 weeks due to the injury I sustained back in April, so I found it a little bit taxing near the end. Florence and Aileen were well able for it as well and they enjoyed the challenge big time. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">At about 6am we finally reached the top and had about 20 minutes to wait until sunrise. <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-yv7u2BKriQc/Tf8SaoZPRHI/AAAAAAAAAnA/dUprP4yc_ew/s1600-h/IMG_09072.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0907" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-2BSSmmGN3vI/Tf8SbZ3sXUI/AAAAAAAAAnE/IdSlUwOCEpU/IMG_0907_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0907" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-uzslydjaAA0/Tf8ScHfTAAI/AAAAAAAAAnI/bU_u8kgrdLk/s1600-h/IMG_09092.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0909" border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKRdBVdcalsj1ZX-aS3ripmtxRajVkpcZ45V9MW9QDhoWj3GZwgbUuINAAig_pmV7G1QPQPdl-UxXdXKM6zuluLTQMuy63ChpkcoQtwph4ggU7sdExorqsijs5obJyQX2xU8dFKmloiyfA/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0909" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-zblbSbltuCg/Tf8SdJ2rbDI/AAAAAAAAAnQ/NACdA_K6ipA/s1600-h/IMG_09102.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0910" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-QyChN1P63XQ/Tf8Sd7wVg1I/AAAAAAAAAnU/fzsckelL370/IMG_0910_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0910" width="244" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-NlxpjGB1qZE/Tf8SeofyAVI/AAAAAAAAAnY/tQDGqVZIIR4/s1600-h/IMG_09162.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0916" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-MbEiPduFgl0/Tf8SfOQcCzI/AAAAAAAAAnc/0a42kUxgwyI/IMG_0916_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0916" width="244" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH1lksWREibI5zdDn3c8BXa9BiXwZyORFofGHF6Q9u42A6W3e06StsX-yCh4X9ohSe8CP0j5ITBBBL3cFeuMIlXiOEmukJfndddWK4pt11Rb49wp2-hxmkCThHSGGJ7B-2EORSH2134ogK/s1600-h/IMG_09252.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0925" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-jkJYzKF9Yy8/Tf8ShYPkaKI/AAAAAAAAAnk/tTotRxa_Bj8/IMG_0925_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0925" width="244" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEI4XF9fauEaybsFADAwaRT-KTG4uOHbS8OJ2RngpQZ_7NfPMSXBPRwRJgmPEtUrpio21NGS5MCQemVxWHkweOJ6fcRCrJU3Z1S-wD3nJD0GklwEdVlys0vLwfEINEii8GTbAD16lemE2v/s1600-h/IMG_09312.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0931" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-49gOCOgOnEQ/Tf8SjgV1xQI/AAAAAAAAAns/4R8Fc_krgcE/IMG_0931_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0931" width="244" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">There were quite a few other tour groups at the top already when we arrived so we got ourselves a good spot to watch the sunrise which surly arrived at 6:21am!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrAaWn9XwxllBL8-8e9YRt2SJQIbX7HhyS6bht_h7TA8UMcUskEtgIZ1kVz2XCL8TA7bqu0Luk7UOTlstNC6HtJIIK-R-qpbSg2f-8Txa_T8H69hqsIqtGA3KbuJjd9K88PYW7bWbaxra8/s1600-h/IMG_09343.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0934" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Jikkg7PwNp8/Tf8Sk9ZDBhI/AAAAAAAAAn0/bgKL4cjSzj0/IMG_0934_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0934" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-FcyhFOz1LXY/Tf8SltecwPI/AAAAAAAAAn4/R8s0qjkFJkY/s1600-h/IMG_09382.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0938" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-pWmKKoY4Ygg/Tf8SmGIfEpI/AAAAAAAAAn8/vpd_bjkscKM/IMG_0938_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0938" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-_fA6a8u6e2c/Tf8SnUbfADI/AAAAAAAAAoA/Ld-UGKTkGo4/s1600-h/IMG_09416.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0941" border="0" height="181" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-VG2UoqrVtgw/Tf8SoIu5N7I/AAAAAAAAAoE/YZ5QdnxudmY/IMG_0941_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0941" width="184" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I tried to get creative with the limited time available so we tried out the following few shots….</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-dclVuXrGUo4/Tf8SogIcYdI/AAAAAAAAAoI/ya7Omd_4Hc4/s1600-h/IMG_09473.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0947" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-g3p8p7rfUuE/Tf8SpAbS8dI/AAAAAAAAAoM/vh_wRV2DuSk/IMG_0947_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0947" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-vy7NgIXP6bA/Tf8SpxDUV_I/AAAAAAAAAoQ/2BBAr7-WqDQ/s1600-h/IMG_09483.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0948" border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdoqDEbyLJZUJ02eqiPCNm754vllm4MRSImuACG90CHlaW7HNMc8IREN5xV_Df5y4pkPeCtrRJlFSWWfLWpW_p4UX-MR2L5yOUmOjaYXQZfjK5bovlY0xmQSS5SIV5lRr4kOSpokLuzqEj/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0948" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-P8ZSwPMWWmU/Tf8Sq6I9gDI/AAAAAAAAAoY/VRU2Qvf31xw/s1600-h/IMG_09493.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0949" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Q6TUr2TXe10/Tf8SrV5YChI/AAAAAAAAAoc/SPdgkmgVAfU/IMG_0949_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0949" width="244" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-lJyL5Q8GK7Y/Tf8Sr0GayBI/AAAAAAAAAog/waErN3J7TT8/s1600-h/IMG_09453.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0945" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-fgMmSDkR1u0/Tf8Ssm1Gv_I/AAAAAAAAAok/atKWtWC0uOc/IMG_0945_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0945" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-bhBO2KmjDwo/Tf8StmSjWnI/AAAAAAAAAoo/qg44RcE0eGE/s1600-h/IMG_09462.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0946" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-jEIai2bFWvU/Tf8SuBA7lqI/AAAAAAAAAos/AtqpRba5W2I/IMG_0946_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0946" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-_nnxN0jMiGw/Tf8Su1m99UI/AAAAAAAAAow/Z6GQv1AkbsY/s1600-h/IMG_09553.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0955" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-i9M0SlLJfn8/Tf8SvZXJR6I/AAAAAAAAAo0/y-h1Wu5SFE8/IMG_0955_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0955" width="244" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">However my favourite photo of the day was this one which was kindly taking by Miss Aileen O Donnell who has an untapped talent she reckons for taking photographs <img alt="Open-mouthed smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-openmouthedsmile" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-aWWnm9rkvUo/Tf8SwLOAAHI/AAAAAAAAAo4/DCVUzqjoON8/wlEmoticon-openmouthedsmile2.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" /></span><br />
<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-gwMOpmdVx0E/Tf8Sxb4ybmI/AAAAAAAAAo8/oep5srnzDr4/s1600-h/IMG_09538.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img alt="IMG_0953" border="0" height="260" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-I8bTC-VOOo0/Tf8SyNXKIbI/AAAAAAAAApA/cQLuJbnK0Xs/IMG_0953_thumb5.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0953" width="345" /></span></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As part of the tour, we were served a simple breakfast after sunrise which consisted of banana sandwiches and hard boiled eggs which were cooked from the steam of the volcano….</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-n5pakLrFuaQ/Tf8Sy_lr_7I/AAAAAAAAApE/AlLVhQakjmc/s1600-h/IMG_09622.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0962" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-0jufkHbyh08/Tf8Szpzio9I/AAAAAAAAApI/hALnWGoqqYk/IMG_0962_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0962" width="244" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhbwQS4AoqK6FiMGOgkRearTSlacWq07hIj2n7-Ss7XrkXoiuMadvAfKmi42lfuD5WlngD4WvwHcoZIsKg2TRsquOB7F2v4z33EC3mgHeCU3XMwTicUEs3pnIfkg5NZCW0Jqg5TGq0elMQ/s1600-h/IMG_09632.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0963" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-wWAqU0v_N7s/Tf8S1WohVXI/AAAAAAAAApQ/cB_ZvEzcl70/IMG_0963_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0963" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-2rbkdp2wRTs/Tf8S2VrqgpI/AAAAAAAAApU/fOhlfGQ6Ilg/s1600-h/IMG_09732.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0973" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-5OKN5XiICTM/Tf8S20BdV-I/AAAAAAAAApY/BbM4VoINsVk/IMG_0973_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0973" width="244" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I forgot to mention that the volcano itself is an active one, which has erupted numerous times over the past 100 years with the most recent explosion been in 2000. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After stuffing the eggs down my neck the guide then brought us to the crater and gave us a brief history of the volcano which was in very hard to understand broken English. Still though we gained enough info the get the bones of what he was saying so that was good enough. </span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-7tgjsJAjXy1SHb6iMBxfU8UGfRGyjhLAsFCPKrxykl4zkRVl8XTkPi4BjXa5G85Jcyx0Op2iDKpqizGDUfP0VTJBMFNOoshfoNk2WEKrEXyjfvj3xunvW9MsNrJpMi86LlFrUehB1FrZ/s1600-h/IMG_09835.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img alt="IMG_0983" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-4251FlMLHnI/Tf8S6CErltI/AAAAAAAAApg/3sxdp7k6kXE/IMG_0983_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0983" width="244" /></span></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The trek back down was a very steep decline at first until we reached an easily route, which would be a very easy walk back the rest of the way. It only took an hour on the way down and much of that time was consumed on the initial decent as it was very awkward footing. Good trekking shoes came in handy for this tour for sure!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-lRsNMtRFPio/Tf8S7ZXHpOI/AAAAAAAAApk/8sXTs7ObFvQ/s1600-h/IMG_09912.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0991" border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Mdln5ndnnz_QBJ_NbvDx7Yhow4vziGGR0N4R-HWW2gfUKHc7nScSVsfnmXrDjrNwBwk-dQzuyQjgfneI_Q9P6o0-Pqm43wCphAaEg-jQZOugLZrLRUM8IHkum69Q6GrVoUCYBwFIH3nL/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0991" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-tcjeOluims8/Tf8S-OhP23I/AAAAAAAAAps/RqbwXMs0lJ0/s1600-h/IMG_09942.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0994" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-2q_QriwUJ8I/Tf8S-4YW95I/AAAAAAAAApw/Mq7Io42CFcw/IMG_0994_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0994" width="244" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivZpaavgX5Cmk7BN5GcTHMgV3roJIWsZrXNJxU9-oBMgGMk7I6-Wdv0uiu0ixHA-wDh5BcMBdeLSsNdoY6kwxK2yzT-_tReP_XBkt8nJqaFxg8iwlskpOd7Etd9jMjs1PQZXVopZiAo6-Q/s1600-h/IMG_10012.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1001" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-yvtDRbgUlRE/Tf8TBiwHpZI/AAAAAAAAAp4/IyDf7HHFbTE/IMG_1001_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1001" width="244" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-HYyLSQbm23w/Tf8TDQ-yomI/AAAAAAAAAp8/FpSO6tdReCQ/s1600-h/IMG_09972.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0997" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Nx_F-CjY4n4/Tf8TEFrHBAI/AAAAAAAAAqA/hjAFay9GGqM/IMG_0997_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0997" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-nF-1Qd4usb0/Tf8TE9xzKpI/AAAAAAAAAqE/GVgz_ifVFBI/s1600-h/IMG_09982.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0998" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-jSijE8Ehrhs/Tf8TF-0I8sI/AAAAAAAAAqI/C8yBlKUx7FQ/IMG_0998_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0998" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-6Gz7cQ8oKCo/Tf8TGx0TWsI/AAAAAAAAAqM/wkWjEev9d7I/s1600-h/IMG_09992.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0999" border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6DXaCfMRZPgmHYCl3FZ5eYwCfWAimC8NInbo1JGRV0kNPBjhVMdoVQPfaeHQSNptVR2wvboUcTFD1QwLDt_YVlFiR3qXroz6azGO-1NNF79JhdR_0PAkstYDNJo5kFmD4QRig1z9_E5x-/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0999" width="244" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When we reached the bottom we all felt totally shattered. Apart from the actual trek we all having been sleeping in what you would call a regular sleep pattern and therefore that combined with the 2:30am start, it really did flake us out. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Looking back at the volcano from below it re ally did look a huge beast in fairness. And since it was our first trek of this trip, hopefully it will stand to us for future treks along the way. The tour cost just $25 per person which was originally priced at $35, but with a bit of haggling we knocked a tenner off it. Excellent value and yet another example of how cheap it is over here.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We got back to our room around 11:30am that morning and just crashed out for a few hours. But before long we were up and on the net getting info for our trip to the Gili Trawangan island off the coast of Lombok. We booked our boat transfer there from Bali and so we are off to the stunning tropical islands Sunday morning with an open return ticket back to Bali! The next update will be from Gili so catch ye all then <img alt="Smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Ulxe1NT5yMs/Tf8TZzmrl3I/AAAAAAAAAqs/mfkem6Wdwtc/wlEmoticon-smile2.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" /></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ciao!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span>Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-40177234867522850692011-06-17T05:15:00.003+01:002011-06-17T05:20:55.946+01:00First few days here in Indonesia!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The land of 17,000 islands as Indonesia is also know as is definitely worth a trip in itself. It’s a vast humongous country that sprawls between Malaysia and Australia, with the equator as its spine.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We landed in Bali late Sunday night with after a short 2.5 hour flight from Singapore. The girls had provisionally booked some accommodation in the middle of kuta(which is an extremely party animal part of Bali, we later found out).<br />
So we left the airport and proceeded to go get a taxi. Now I’d my research done in regards to how much a taxi should cost from the airport to kuta so as not to get completely ripped off. As a westerner in these countries, all they see you for is a quick buck and they will try and do you one whenever possible. But at the end of the day, they will never refuse business, so its a matter of sticking your neck out as long as a giraffes and get a fair price.<br />
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”ah yes, airport to kuta……250,000 rupiah” the first taxi driver quoted! 250,000 equals roughly $25. But I’d found out that its only a 70,000 rupiah journey and not to pay more than that. So with a little laugh we started to move onto the next taxi, only for the 250,000 rupiah taxi to suddenly get all anxious and then asked “ok how much you want to pay"<br />
So in we hopped and off to kuta we went for 70,000 <img alt="Smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-g_FvRhNesh4/TfrS1z99HiI/AAAAAAAAAhE/j1irRpbIw6A/wlEmoticon-smile2.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Some of ye may be familiar with Kuta having maybe visited there but we really didn’t know what to expect. When the taxi dropped us about a few mins walk from where our hotel was meant to be located we were suddenly submerged in the equivalent of Ibiza in Europe, only this place was full to the brim with Aussies! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Now having never been to Ibiza I have no frame of reference, but this is what I’d imagine it to be only on an even bigger level. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We saw numerous girls unconscious from either drink/drugs or both, just lying on the streets. Because we had our backpacks on we were hounded with people asking us do we want a “room room” or “taaaaaxi”……while making the sign of driving a bike!.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It wasn’t the best time to be walking through the party capital of Bali at 12am on a weekend night we later found out!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Eventually after 1.5 hours of trying to find our hotel(it had recently changed ownership so none of the locals knew the new name) we managed to locate it via google maps. We were completely drenched with sweat at this stage as well as ship wrecked from the journey so finding the hotel was a very welcoming site.</span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The hotel was fine and only cost like $32 for the 3 our us. A big dirty cockroach greeted us when we sat down in our room but Flor soon put her foot down pronto. Its no secret that I’m very squeamish when it comes to stuff like that. I’d probably eat the things, but having them walk around the place would freak me the fuck out!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So the following morning I’d arranged to ring Gavin Gallagher(brother of Tom Gallagher) who lives on the east coast of Bali with his family. He wanted us to meet up when he found out we were going to be in Bali.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So we jumped into a taxi and an hour later we were out at the gates of his beach house! Words won’t do this place justice so I’ll go ahead and throw up a few photos to get the ball rolling…..</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Within 10 minutes of arriving we were sitting at the poolside bar sipping fresh coconut juice!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It really was a paradise location and a far cry away from the hussle and bussle of Kuta. None the less, Kuta for a group of guys or girls out for a serious partying holiday would be a dream as its dirt cheap over here along with a vibrant club scene thrown in.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So we stayed with Gavin and his family that night and they make us feel right at home. Needless to say we all got malogined on all sorts of cocktails by the pool, after his wife cooked up a seriously delicious meal of Red Snapper fish! Even Florence tasted fish for the first time ever and she thought it was lovely. I personally have never tasted fish as nice as this…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We then settled into a relaxing evening by the pool.….</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We then left the next day with the kind offer to return whenever we like again. We were heading towards central Bali, to the area called Ubud. And thats where we have been for the past 4 days. <br />
Ubud really is a gorgeous little town about an hour away from Kuta. Its a busy little spot but without all the crazyness of Kuta. Again the place is littered with Aussies, but it doesn’t have the crazy club feel to it. Instead there are plenty of bars, restaurants and whatnot to keep you entertained.</span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It really is extremely cheap over here. For example a packet of cigarettes cost $1.30!! Yes, crazy I know, and it would almost make a non smoker like myself start smoking!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I did however take advantage of the ridiculously cheap massages you can get over here in the numerous spa’s. You can’t walk 10 meters without been offered a massage.<br />
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<h4><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">The other day I decided to go and get one followed by a hot towel shave afterwards. The massage I went for was a traditional full body Balinese one which lasted 1 hour(you can get different types, all lasting min of 1 hour). </span></h4><h4><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">The total cost for the massage and shave was just under $10!<br />
</span></h4><h4><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">All the spa’s have the full works available that you’d get back home at a fraction of the cost literally.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span></span></h4><h4><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">For the ladies, a wash/cut/head massage/blowdry = $3</span></h4><blockquote><h4><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"> pedicure and manicure with polish = $9</span></h4><div align="left"><br />
</div><h4><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span> </span></h4><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"></span></span></span></span></blockquote><h4><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Ubud is also famous for its Monkey forest which is a sanctuary inhabited by a band of grey haired, greedy long-tailed Balinese monkeys who are far from innocent looking! The forest is located about a 2 minute walk from where we are staying so we ventured there a few days ago for a walk.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h4><h4><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></h4><div class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" id="scid:66721397-FF69-4ca6-AEC4-17E6B3208830:073d2c33-da69-48e5-8222-bd2bd92cd9d5" style="display: inline; float: none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">One monkey in particular didn’t like my hair and proceeded to jump on my head and rub a load of shit into it!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">On Wednesday I got a bad dose of the scutters and was bed bound for 24 hours more or less. Im not surprised that I got sick as I’ve been eating all sorts of food since we left home. It was only a matter of time before I got caught!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So that brings me up to today, which is Friday 17th. We have a small volcano trek planned for the early hours of the morning, leaving at 2:30am so as to reach to top of the volcano by 6am for sunrise….should be cool photos from that hopefully. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The next few days will see us plan our trip to the Gili Islands which are also known as the paradise islands….more on that later. Also we will be looking to move on after we come back from the gili’s so we are thinking of maybe travelling west to the island of Java, which has the other major city, Jakarka. From there the island of Sumatra is just another ferry ride westwards….so we could visit there also.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">For now folks, I’m off for another relaxing Balinese massage…..</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ciao!</span><br />
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<h4><span style="font-size: small;"></span></h4><h4><span style="font-size: small;"></span></h4><h4><span style="font-size: small;"></span></h4><h4><span style="font-size: small;"></span></h4><h4><span style="font-size: small;"></span></h4>Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-334158178101996602011-06-15T12:40:00.003+01:002011-06-16T10:54:38.837+01:00Singapore<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-uTAag2crkGM/TfiXy_vxr5I/AAAAAAAAAak/H7zS7di_yjE/s1600-h/IMG_06603.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0660" border="0" height="246" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-98C2b_RkoLg/TfiXz8Xow7I/AAAAAAAAAao/BWkfuw3jsxc/IMG_0660_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0660" width="186" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRKJoIjASRW-g7FM5560jC1Hv_k0evoC2IXUGs75fi0bpvdPcnHhFJ29RaLFndaI2pWY7hp_93SXhYodnsYjBEA2GWVYFa9bqlEKGehzpQ_c3ypUcWkCIP02LhSAG_NXhqoYpHpY1PtMPU/s1600-h/IMG_06197.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0619" border="0" height="244" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-sV9_eoJqt2M/TfiX18q5VnI/AAAAAAAAAaw/D9i0cCuOPlk/IMG_0619_thumb5.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0619" width="246" /></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ZFPUh4DaP8U/TfiX3ODoY7I/AAAAAAAAAa0/8S-OIe2MVRk/s1600-h/IMG_06044.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0604" border="0" height="242" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-p48T3SjWvfU/TfiX4PTMIGI/AAAAAAAAAa4/U9q0eg8CUUA/IMG_0604_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0604" width="246" /></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Wow wow, weeeee wow! That pretty much sums up our 3 days here in Singapore. We arrived on Thursday and got settled into our hostel which was called the Betelbox packpackers hostel. Very cool hostel with easy access to all the cities main attractions.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">My original expectations of Singapore prior to visiting were fairly pessimistic from the reports of what I’ve heard from others who visited. A “lifeless soul” of a city in “immaculate, pristine condition” was just one phase I remember hearing about Singapore. <br />
From my own research, Singapore was more of a layover city on route to/from Australia rather than somewhere people would flock to for a few days to gain some authentic Asian cultural experience. <br />
And in fairness, only for we were kindly invited to a wedding over here by good friends of ours then we’d never have even thought about setting foot here. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yes its expensive. The standard of living is sky high compared to home. Singapore recently moved into 6th spot in the world ranking for most expensive country to live in.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So, the first night we just went out to find somewhere to eat that was close by. We found a local outdoor restaurant(which there were literally hundreds of)! The menu was very limited in that if you didn’t like fish or crazy exotic dishes then you were not going to like it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I ended up choosing the fish head soup, which I was ealger to try since I love fish. Florence decided to go for the safe option of just having a bottle of water!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The soup contained as you would have guessed a concoction of fish heads and other fish parts all mixed with a glupy brown broth. Now, as I said I like fish but when I saw this arriving I wasn’t sure I’d be able to eat it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The texture was very grizzly and fatty which was very off putting at the start but soon I got into the swing of it and finished the whole lot. Florence was retching most of the time and got a little video clip of me munching into something with long tail!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We were meant to go the our friends wedding that evening(Thursday) but we were just shattered still from the jet lag and so we decided to just crash at the hostel. The after party was the following day so we wanted to be in top form for that.<br />
The actual wedding we found out was a surreal event. Sinead O’Donnell from Boyle married Sheng Oon who’s originally Singaporean and he’s family are a very well known family in Singapore, with his father being a top doctor/surgeon in his discipline. <br />
Everyone was treated like royalty we later found out with VIP style treatment getting into clubs etc afterwards along with one club having Fat boy Slim as the DJ there for the night!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We met up with everyone Friday for the second part of the wedding which was a traditional Singaporean banquet at poolside of the Conrad hotel(where the wedding was also held). The view, food and people here was spectacular to say the least. Free bar for everyone and an choice of food that would make your eyes pop out. </span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Before the buffet the Arch Bishop of Singapore gave a blessing to the newly weds and everyone present. During the buffet a bottle of McCallan whiskey was produced by the grooms brother, also named Sheng and we had a good drink from that I can tell ya! I don’t know how much a bottle of that stuff costs but I was later to find out that it goes for a few hundred euro!</span><br />
<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-vvTh2lP_0z4/TfiYEgqbFCI/AAAAAAAAAbs/towwsV7Pv2U/s1600-h/IMG_077510.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img alt="IMG_0775" border="0" height="246" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-TM-BN6JMEJs/TfiYFh0jqBI/AAAAAAAAAbw/Q3oKWVIF8Zw/IMG_0775_thumb8.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0775" width="186" /></span></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After the buffet the party crowd was brought to a roof top bar overlooking the marina and the marina bay sands hotel which is a world famous megastructure as you’ll recognise from the photos. One of the grooms family members owned this bar/club so when we arrived at the lifts to enter we were told the was a couple of tables been set up for us.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The photo’s don’t do the view justice here, but it was magnificent. So the party got under way and these guys out here don’t drink like we do. What I mean by that is when we go to the bar to order a drink we get a shot or bottle of whatever we’re having. Here, these guys just go up to the bar and order a bottle of Jack Daniels if your drinking whiskey or vodka or a bucket of beer if your drinking that. And they don’t spare any thought for the costs involved. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This bottle of vodka that you see Felim trying to drink costs something like s$1000 a pop!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sheng and his family and friends really made up feel very welcome and their generosity when bringing us out to party was nothing like I’ve ever experienced before. Genuinely good people who wanted to show us how to party “Singaporean style”…..and we did!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I want to give a special mention to Jeremy Tan(who’s in the photo above with Flor). This guy along with the others really knows how to party and he was a total funny man, gent, comedian and host all rolled into one. He looked after us after we left the first bar and showed us a few other top spots. At the end of the night he wanted to bring us( Felim, Florence, Aileen and myself) to get some traditional dish called simplely “chicken and rice”. Was delicious by the way, but the interesting thing was that when the taxi man dropped us off at the restaurant he told the cab driver that if he waited for us while we sat down and eat that he’d give him $100 extra! <br />
So low and behold there the cab driver was waiting patiently for us outside an hour later to bring us all home. <br />
Jeremy was first to get dropped off so he tossed the $100 to me in the back and said if this guy doesn’t drop you to the front door of our hostel then don’t give him the money and to ring him and he’ll sort stuff out! <br />
Needless to say the taxi driver more or less dropped us inside the front door!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I liked this guy Jeremy’s style. He also wanted to bring us all out again the following night for a real party that included going to the bar that the facebook guys drink at when in town and when they are there himself and a few other mates compete with them at buying crazy priced drinks. Jeremy admits that he never wins, but its good fun trying!!!<br />
Anyways, we just couldn’t bear the thought of another night’s crazy partying apart from been hungover, our flight to Bali was the following day.<br />
But we definitely will take Jeremy up on his unreal offer if we manage to return to Singapore before we leave Asia in December(somehow I think we will manage to return)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So Saturday we just chilled around the hostel and met up with Felim and Aileen. Felim was heading back home that night and Aileen was coming down to us in the hostel as she’s going to be travelling with us for a few months.<br />
We eat in a Vietnamese restaurant that night and I enjoyed some seriously delicious prawns in noodle soup!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">For our final day in Singapore we decided to go visit the Marina bay sands hotel and casino. This megastructure is pretty awesome and the architecture that went into its design architecture is something to admire. The hotel and casino made a profit of 1 billion within the first 6 months of opening its doors. <br />
At the top of the hotel thres a skywalk which gives a 360 degree view of Singapore.</span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We really enjoyed our 3 days in Singapore and would love to return before we end this trip. The city is really something that you have to see for yourself in order to see how pristine and safe it is. We never once saw one single cop or cop car while there and were told that the crime level is ultra low because of the severe penal system in place. For instance drug trafficking comes with a mandatory death penalty – no get out of jail cards with that one!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">One other point before I sign off. We learned very quickly on arrival that our hostel was located bang in the center of the red light district. Prostitution is legal in Singapore while watching porn or reading porn is Illegal! Tough one to figure out!</span><br />
<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-dbGgn57nJZI/TfiaB8vELLI/AAAAAAAAAg0/qOwm6Y6yEe8/s1600-h/IMG_059115.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img alt="IMG_0591" border="0" height="246" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-YvdE0enllR8/TfiaChi7nPI/AAAAAAAAAg4/bUJfpgn06OY/IMG_0591_thumb12.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0591" width="186" /></span></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">However the red light district wasn’t your typical sleezy scene. Sure there were the girls walking all over the place and going in and out of the pubs to work etc… but they don’t bother people and never approach them. Also we never felt one bit uncomfortable staying there as no one bothered ya.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’m just finishing typing up this blog update as we fly to Bali, Indonesia where we will be really starting to get into the thick our our travels.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ciao!</span>Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-14249555854238888242011-06-09T14:32:00.000+01:002011-06-09T14:32:34.654+01:00Bangkok<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Well we finally made it over to Asia, arriving in Bangkok Tuesday afternoon local time. It was a long haul to get here especially with the 6 hour lay over in Istanbul to add to the 13 hours of flying time. The flight from Istanbul to Bangkok was an overnight one and the plane was less than 50% full, which was surprising.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">About half way into the flight, there was this one gentleman of foreign origin, definitely Asian, who was steaming drunk. I first noticed him when he kept walking up and down the aisle rambling and fist pumping in some sort of rage. He eventually sat down in the seat one row behind me and proceeded to half shout/talk to himself. I didn’t think anything of it until he suddenly started thumping the seat in front of him in which there was a young woman asleep in, using 2 seats to stretch herself out on(due to the plane been half full). The first few times he hit her seat she didn’t seem to wake, but then after a few more belts she hopped up and ran down the aisle to obviously get one of the attendants to do something. But no one returned with her when she came back.<br />
Anyways, he kept this rambling/manic behaviour going for another hour of so until finally he stood up and took off his shirt as if he was hopping into bed! I managed to get a photo of him just to show the state he was in!</span><br />
<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-BKRzegHSOuc/TfDIqNqBHhI/AAAAAAAAAYI/fohXRIhSyUo/s1600-h/IMG_053616.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img alt="IMG_0536" border="0" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHUcngxZ-hsAI3Isl93MHrUhYKuXoymgJeyx_yHPHOXPoDY_6XOtGdg9HeMiB0E86EjwDbR-rPJJUDKWjKrGUCPNa89jJPSqLVgI0lJTjYiX7tALCAaKAIavCyuTqB7q7hYwVy-DVSLhTR/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0536" width="186" /></span></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The state of him in fairness. All he was wearing was a pair of shorts! Don’t think he’d get away with that attire on Ryan Air! Well, not without paying extra for the pleasure!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So we arrived in Bangkok and had pre-arranged a transfer to the hotel we booked into to for the 2 nights we were going to be staying in Bangkok. The hotel was only 10 minutes away from the airport which was what we wanted. As we were only staying 2 nights we just wanted to crash and get over the jet lag. </span><br />
<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-12CVih9niOs/TfDIt_dxO9I/AAAAAAAAAYQ/YQQiooWTAEY/s1600-h/IMG_04949.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img alt="IMG_0494" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-mZDVOQUcSQE/TfDIvBP9zLI/AAAAAAAAAYU/L_a-Q8qJSu8/IMG_0494_thumb7.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0494" width="246" /></span></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Later that night we ate in the restaurant adjacent to the hotel and enjoyed our first meal in Asia.</span><br />
<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-NI2yf6WU4yY/TfDIy_KcVYI/AAAAAAAAAYY/TDGZXKUJSZU/s1600-h/IMG_053811.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img alt="IMG_0538" border="0" height="185" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-sw7SE-YmzM8/TfDI0TI5ZkI/AAAAAAAAAYc/lf_jKSz1dXY/IMG_0538_thumb9.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0538" width="246" /></span></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A 17 hour sleep was then had which was badly needed as we were running on fumes. Since the airport was only a few minutes away the noise of the planes landing and taking off were very loud, but that didn’t stop us snoring like eejits! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Our room was more than we hoped for in fairness. At the end of the day all we are looking for on this trip are rooms that are safe and clean. We had enough bed bugs in Africa to last us a life time so definitely want to avoid them this time around. <br />
The shower unit in the bathroom didn’t really function properly, although Flor did manage to squeeze in a nice hot shower when we arrived. Me on the other hand, well I wasn’t so lucky. So out came my 10 litre dry bag which can be used for 101 different things while travelling, and I used it as a portable shower unit <img alt="Smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-c77n4mhgMEI/TfDI2jj_vjI/AAAAAAAAAYg/ew7y7ms7RTo/wlEmoticon-smile2.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" /> I used a glass as a hose and it did the job nicely…..bear gryll’s style! I didn’t mind if I’m to be totally honest, as its situations like these that all add to the experience of backpacking and travelling in general. </span><br />
<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-gxYyvvK90P8/TfDI5lVFuZI/AAAAAAAAAYk/C7gnedZzAk4/s1600-h/IMG_051720.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Dry bag = shower" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-hQvRI0RGUSY/TfDI7NgDK9I/AAAAAAAAAYo/cUf3zMhabio/IMG_0517_thumb18.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Dry bag!" width="246" /></span></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So what do I think about Bangkok? Well since we only stuck our noses out of the hotel twice in the 2 days and that was only to take a short walk around the area we were in, I can’t really give a verdict as we didn’t venture into Koa San Road or any of the other city center tourist spots. So basically we weren't in the part of Bangkok that many of you will be familiar with.<br />
What I can say is that the people are very friendly and polite which is always a nice thing. I was itching to try some of the local street food which is meant to be legendary but it will have to wait until we return to Bangkok again later on in the trip.<br />
Bangkok has this reputation of been a real smelly shit hole of a spot and while I’m not disputing that fact, I can only say that until you visit some parts of Africa then Bangkok may actually smell quite fresh <img alt="Smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-c77n4mhgMEI/TfDI2jj_vjI/AAAAAAAAAYg/ew7y7ms7RTo/wlEmoticon-smile2.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" />!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We plan on returning to Bangkok at least twice before we head home in December so I’m sure the next visit will be a much more in depth experience.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’m currently typing this blog as we fly to Singapore for our second stop, which will be for 3 days at a wedding reception of a good buddy of mine Sinead O Donnell.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’ll sign off with a couple more photos from the past few days and I’ll catch ye all in Singapore <img alt="Hot smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-hotsmile" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-67enbdaetHc/TfDI8OyVVHI/AAAAAAAAAYs/6-mJEFUvZPQ/wlEmoticon-hotsmile2.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" /></span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ciao!</span>Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-76221919746705883062011-06-05T23:23:00.005+01:002011-09-20T12:00:34.016+01:00Setting off tomorrow!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The time has finally arrived! After an almost unbearable last few months of waiting, researching and what not, the trip starts tomorrow. I’ve already described the bones of the trip in a recent post so I won’t start repeating myself.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Nothing has changed in the itinerary but it now looks very possible that we shall be hitting the east coast of Australia around Sept/Oct for a 3 week road trip in a campervan! Probably do Melbourne to Adelaide or Brisbane to Melbourne. This will certainly be a holiday during a holiday for sure!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The past few months has mainly consisted of organising this and that. While the trip is a 99% open book deal, I still wanted to rigorously research stuff as I just like been prepared as best I can.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The backpack has been sitting in my room the past few weeks looking at me, waiting to be filled but I refuse to give in until the last minute. That’s not to say that I haven’t everything sored – in actual fact I’d my gear/clothes etc sorted and fine tuned since March using a very useful iphone app called “Packing Pro”! A little OTT? Maybe, but that’s the way I roll! I like to be prepared. Florence on the other hand has started to panic over what to bring and not bring. <img alt="Smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-FGl0UlLIGSk/TeqWgH-IDyI/AAAAAAAAAXs/OiT8GmhyvJY/wlEmoticon-smile%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" /><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’ve really skimmed down on the amount of clothes that I’m bringing with me. Even less than I brought for the 3 month African trip. Again its amazing how you get more travel wise the more you travel. I certainly don’t like the idea of travelling around for months with a heavy backpack, so going by the saying Light = right, then lighter = righter!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Instead of a big SLR, I decided to bring something that would take very decent photos and yet allow me to get creative with the photo side of things. The Canon G12 is smaller and lighter than my Nikon D80 SLR so this is my weapon of choice for this battle.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The netbook is jammed packed with literally hundreds of movies and tv shows which I’ve added to the past few months and also thanks to Ivan Lynn for filling up an external hard drive with more stuff. This will certainly help on those endless bus/train journeys for sure. My Ereader is also jammed with enough reading material to last me until 20 years and the iphone has plenty of games and other stuff to keep me occupied. Florence got an iphone at Christmas and I think she now realises how valuable an accessory it will be while away.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So to finish off I’ll include a few photos of my gear that will be with me for the duration of the trip.</span><br />
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Plus<br />
<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-n1AqMPCGqSE/TewAvvQWe5I/AAAAAAAAAX4/_2YoLqoyIcU/s1600-h/IMG_0459%25255B1%25255D%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0459[1]" border="0" height="250" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-sLBPi8GnYZw/TewAwIsbhNI/AAAAAAAAAX8/vOABcniPMQ4/IMG_0459%25255B1%25255D_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0459[1]" width="331" /></a><br />
Equals….<br />
<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-bvRBG3Isitc/TewAxhO3ORI/AAAAAAAAAYA/9O5Ww6JO_OU/s1600-h/IMG_0473%25255B1%25255D%25255B16%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_0473[1]" border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR3ocOub-n-uBGNsHX3nmc2Ra9moI5hOR6_Oy4vDE3nX8KD3nKm0G0gdNhKtTPAbQKezbIV6DxBlABtuL3964jTnb8-S9G-qUmxRqo-AXky1qlnAS8QOelbYxGu2Vz_81OUwxrud3yOqKy/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0473[1]" width="332" /></a><br />
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Ciao!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"></span>Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-73094367639052297672011-02-27T03:23:00.001+00:002011-02-27T03:23:21.432+00:00Youtube Videos<p> </p> <p><font size="4">For this update I thought I’d share some of my favourite photo montage videos that I’ve created over the past few years on youtube.</font></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:b8968b49-582f-4cfe-bcf3-c252f1c82ef2" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div id="fec49e98-514f-4c4a-b7bb-35199aee5a6c" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBeX-g2YCrI&feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_new"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TWnDjrn9AoI/AAAAAAAAAW8/AQ3Bq-CDx1E/video233eb434486e%5B9%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('fec49e98-514f-4c4a-b7bb-35199aee5a6c'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/rBeX-g2YCrI&hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/rBeX-g2YCrI&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div></div> <p><font size="4">This is basically the crunched down collection of photos from the 3 months I spent volunteering in East Africa in 2009. With over 8000 photos from the trip, these are the ones that stick out for me.</font></p> <p><font size="4"></font> </p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:6f912896-c5a7-4645-8e76-af265030cdee" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div id="cce8d247-3f6a-46dc-aa45-29ad86386283" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6GOMwG0h4I&feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_new"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi37bb9ZU6EVKgRdmg4XV71Gs0koSAGlZ_CjR4x_RRyvA0gU-GRLh0q6y02wEAa3fy8hbjDeTmqNQ8Ur05zB0djp6_r-ejDmuWni9KEEuud8SvmVlEMMubjBnfpEjaumjFJWtmzKgcC6SMn/?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('cce8d247-3f6a-46dc-aa45-29ad86386283'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/X6GOMwG0h4I&hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/X6GOMwG0h4I&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div></div> <p><font size="4">Just a few months ago in Oct 2011, the town of Boyle lost a very special lady, Betty Meyler, who lost her battle with Cancer. She was a very close family friend as well as a neighbour. This was my tribute to Betty from all of us who had the honour of knowing her. R.I.P</font></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:5ac59f26-d2bd-4da1-b45f-789e757da39e" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div id="5462b61a-d941-429d-832d-f14fad9212be" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBeZHS8r7z4&feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_new"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TWnDk_ph_qI/AAAAAAAAAXE/U9CBYoQJbi4/video95eed4c62634%5B8%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('5462b61a-d941-429d-832d-f14fad9212be'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/FBeZHS8r7z4&hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/FBeZHS8r7z4&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div></div> <p><font size="4">This is a short collection from my 4th trip to the holy land of Las Vegas. People ask me why do I like it so much. Well if you love poker, blistering heat and endless amounts of crazy things to do then you’d fully understand the attraction Vegas holds for me.</font></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:996af252-30d2-4d94-b597-30283dbe2577" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div id="349b1c0b-20af-4d7d-a50d-bc418083e1a1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uj_r_OAejw&feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_new"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TWnDlVaYYSI/AAAAAAAAAXI/AwD_XKJzUUI/videoe4a848b55211%5B8%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('349b1c0b-20af-4d7d-a50d-bc418083e1a1'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/4Uj_r_OAejw&hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/4Uj_r_OAejw&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div></div> <p><font size="4">This was a Stag weekend in Newcastle, that I’d arranged as best man for my mate Darren Suffin 2 years ago. Quality of photos isn’t the best as I only had a pocket camera, very shaky hands and a mouth full of vodka!</font></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:a014a945-84ac-4ad8-9ee9-40f0fdfd15b3" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div id="39372b75-b262-4251-a92f-514e5e9c9c8c" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DKQOdFtTms&feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_new"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TWnDmDF0DwI/AAAAAAAAAXM/Ljf0aXv0wug/video53eb597cb277%5B7%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('39372b75-b262-4251-a92f-514e5e9c9c8c'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/2DKQOdFtTms&hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/2DKQOdFtTms&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div></div> <p><font size="4">This video shows all the places we visited from Feb 2008 – April 2009 and the idea came from the well known youtube video “Where the hell is Matt” - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY</a></font></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:2fffb23a-34aa-46b4-9f26-ddb9bae1a08f" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div id="517c654b-5264-42e1-bc79-29c83d6ccf74" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHRWOTjglb4&feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_new"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TWnDm7Z49VI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/9fV9qOPXdcU/video71f52032f9d1%5B6%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('517c654b-5264-42e1-bc79-29c83d6ccf74'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/vHRWOTjglb4&hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/vHRWOTjglb4&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div></div> <p><font size="4">I used free software on the internet to make this little poker sketch about poker in Boyle. </font></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:2781ec7b-66e6-4d8d-bdd6-1b6ea0d67e2e" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div id="9e40191c-5042-4aa0-8cc9-13ae5ceb922e" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbpE_2s0Oj8&feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_new"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TWnDnUu2RjI/AAAAAAAAAXU/zQHAXF5qEic/video508cce05b831%5B5%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('9e40191c-5042-4aa0-8cc9-13ae5ceb922e'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/HbpE_2s0Oj8&hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/HbpE_2s0Oj8&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div></div> <p><font size="4">A short collection of photos I took of Beirnie Murphy and her daughter Kayla back in 2008. </font></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:7a82d5f6-db90-4b3d-b2e6-8001c92bf6a6" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div id="45a90ddc-cc43-4baf-8795-99f5d5db19d5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f873uRVqq2g&feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_new"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TWnDn_YqkvI/AAAAAAAAAXY/5RvePya9bms/video9790ccb8a6a2%5B5%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('45a90ddc-cc43-4baf-8795-99f5d5db19d5'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/f873uRVqq2g&hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/f873uRVqq2g&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div></div> <p><font size="4">As I was always interested in the Holocaust, I got to visit Auschwitz in Poland on two separate occasions in 2008. This is a look at the first visit.</font></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:89ff601e-3961-491c-99b9-55f6ef873f61" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div id="9728f52c-d432-470f-8ee0-b346f215ebe3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJCNnqHI2q8&feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_new"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TWnDos4OZzI/AAAAAAAAAXc/P7bcWj3cOfw/videoac80b768433a%5B5%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('9728f52c-d432-470f-8ee0-b346f215ebe3'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/XJCNnqHI2q8&hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/XJCNnqHI2q8&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div></div> <p><font size="4">Prior to visiting Auschwitz, I visited Sachsensausen concentration camp located about an hour outside of Berlin. This was my first time seeing a death camp and personally for me had a bigger impact than Auschwitz did, even though Auschwitz was the grand daddy of them all. </font></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:f4576211-9410-49eb-9481-56d5eb6945a8" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div id="b276234e-43e4-4998-b79b-3565114d908d" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJlDQGpcKO4&feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_new"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TWnDpPCBA8I/AAAAAAAAAXg/atGKlyITh-g/videoaaffbd983bf0%5B5%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('b276234e-43e4-4998-b79b-3565114d908d'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/DJlDQGpcKO4&hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/DJlDQGpcKO4&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div></div> <p><font size="4">A look at a Christmas morning, through the eyes of my lovely God daughter Porcia!</font></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:5c143e82-22d5-4a27-a004-f9131d6e2f13" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div id="921b2010-38a0-40a6-9380-ccb1bc1dcc98" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovbruagR6hg&feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_new"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TWnDp0WWsXI/AAAAAAAAAXk/shHho-THwSk/videocb73d28f077f%5B5%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('921b2010-38a0-40a6-9380-ccb1bc1dcc98'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/ovbruagR6hg&hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/ovbruagR6hg&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div></div> <p><font size="4">A few photos I took of my sister Claudia, on the day of her debs a few years ago.</font></p> <p> </p> <p><font size="4">Ciao!</font></p> Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7886401296766628316.post-23210785796736305752011-02-13T15:07:00.001+00:002011-02-13T15:07:16.032+00:00The bucket list!<p> </p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWMuuMHzKjd9aktENQFf3WTuhH4mp4sBxuK-vzx_2JHQsX7WsI1cfCoSCywC2OLUGUyXY24im5yDhvm3Ash_VA_ahxQB3x1Vt2EO2Jxs8QmbHkJXu8VKmqyS4PCuF3nb1FLfu2DeIr-QdN/s1600-h/3df10m_bucket3.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="3df10m_bucket" border="0" alt="3df10m_bucket" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_H56-gnNaaCRNj9Z91JgId1E8WHOAORJQCgt3bjBOQj_pYA0YWIMne090CDkP1Cu9oiWtCl_FOa95fZZ8iuh9uuAz7GMP82MsnUtIeqkah-DG3idsKkRtuVNJnVIREaCR_R0Y4eXfMcjT/?imgmax=800" width="146" height="150"></a> <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzGMgreWI/AAAAAAAAATE/uCU-u55-RMc/s1600-h/images31.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="images" border="0" alt="images" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzGnqC_GI/AAAAAAAAATI/Oyu9KMBB62A/images_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="211" height="142"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">A bucket list is best described as a list of all the things you want to do, places to see, experience or accomplish before you expire from this earth.</font></p> <p><font size="4">It gets its name from a deviation of the term “kick the bucket” and can also be called a “life to-do list”.</font></p> <p><font size="4">There is also a hollywood film called – wait for it - “The Bucket List”! which stars Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. In the film they leap from planes, drive race cars, eat caviar, motorcycle on the Great Wall of China, and trot by other wonders of the world before they "kick the bucket."</font></p> <p><font size="4">Now, while I have no intention of jumping out of planes, I do have some other ambitions/challenges which for me, form my own personal “do before I reach 101 years of age” list! Some of my list has already been achieved, so I’ll only include the ones which I haven’t yet completed.</font></p> <p><font size="4">In no particular order:</font></p> <p><font size="4">1. Travel to South America</font></p> <p><font size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyKLF-7eCCy3eCbL-HiDnPYNOHC4dJ1WX_q00dIHVEtmkFUwS6pLigsj3n6Vf3p458msVh1x_izEynWu_i0waWJjt5XKQqALGTECKIsn6cZt4jksBMElt_HYSjfm-QlvSu5i4d72g9w7m-/s1600-h/SylvesterStallone43.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Earth boy - South America" border="0" alt="Earth boy - South America" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzHpqX69I/AAAAAAAAATQ/41iryX0aD_Y/SylvesterStallone4_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="118" height="82"></a> </font></p> <p><font size="4">2. Learn enough Italian to be able to hold a conversation and get by</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzIElIjaI/AAAAAAAAATU/f7FxPjhdd98/s1600-h/images5.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="images" border="0" alt="images" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzIgtHccI/AAAAAAAAATY/nm53qlVH--A/images_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="111" height="92"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">3. Climb to Everest base camp</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzJayhKmI/AAAAAAAAATc/5A3sKtLtDj8/s1600-h/everest_base_camp_tibet3.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="everest_base_camp_tibet" border="0" alt="everest_base_camp_tibet" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzJvq30RI/AAAAAAAAATg/LgQDvlYMVeY/everest_base_camp_tibet_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="128" height="92"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">4. Travel on the trans-Siberian express train</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzLHG1fcI/AAAAAAAAATk/cvM2x5ghJ3k/s1600-h/1288448792kcPmWHQ4.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="1288448792kcPmWHQ" border="0" alt="1288448792kcPmWHQ" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzLt4cYPI/AAAAAAAAATo/VxqZy9ouK_Q/1288448792kcPmWHQ_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="192" height="98"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">5. Learn how to swim properly</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzL6nVkSI/AAAAAAAAATs/3UWD6_cbe1Y/s1600-h/images131.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="images (1)" border="0" alt="images (1)" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzMV7D2pI/AAAAAAAAATw/1H6BJpsGCUA/images1_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="155" height="99"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">6. Visit Asia (will do this year)</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzM-H9ktI/AAAAAAAAAT0/9cC2pcxjqug/s1600-h/images23.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="images (2)" border="0" alt="images (2)" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzNIOeGFI/AAAAAAAAAT4/Tdj65ruA668/images2_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="151" height="124"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">7. Bench press 150kg for 6 reps (currently on 110kg)</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzNq7nFxI/AAAAAAAAAT8/9EShoElenE0/s1600-h/images34.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="images (3)" border="0" alt="images (3)" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzOD8H2NI/AAAAAAAAAUA/jHh9GX7A5gQ/images3_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="155" height="129"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">8. Win a 6 figure score in an online poker tournament (still only in the 4 figures)</font></p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdMBxA8zyFqVinh5QOqugxbTjyayB8UOog6AuibgxjUg2yexwgllh-hFiz86wpmnSS-0wPzO6aDKPCpKnlK_nsX3qvNncKETpHyzzxXqScSfv1XtjXqKwXkZ7FkIWYmJ78RjWRoTTzYwwQ/s1600-h/images44.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="images (4)" border="0" alt="images (4)" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzPCTDuuI/AAAAAAAAAUI/e-5qU94aeZU/images4_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="163" height="118"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">9. Eat the bugs/insects found in street stalls in Asia</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzPgvrUBI/AAAAAAAAAUM/oW0idS3uCpw/s1600-h/images53.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="images (5)" border="0" alt="images (5)" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOwC83p64XYVz6kq07_STjWMCal4U_NoiewXmgII59SXr3ghYsg5qGA8bcIpN90-lxl80TsEI8NlnfEcMfwJLEAfhgPj4Y0GKUiTEkT8T9HBsNH6WOwCzFeJN9KVTbuO6uFdYP7hyphenhyphenicK10/?imgmax=800" width="169" height="115"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">10. Write a book</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzQ0I43YI/AAAAAAAAAUU/kQn1yQi7Fnk/s1600-h/images63.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="images (6)" border="0" alt="images (6)" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzRUwoC5I/AAAAAAAAAUY/p6wJP5i4UJ0/images6_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="172" height="116"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">11. Visit Machu Picchu </font></p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBSix0kwfe3wzT4Els9hKOtRq_o9FFTaOjVnj2QH9gnqSjEC1lA8fRVLZD9tPBruaDKL2R1ivfr72YNyXD0PNVtkLfYoae47HNwLiyHyoKgibMLulLG6uoCiOK380L5_ryeBKYhxoqZmD-/s1600-h/images73.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="images (7)" border="0" alt="images (7)" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzSYdyrYI/AAAAAAAAAUg/Qo7kNA7ss1o/images7_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="176" height="133"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">12. Visit Christ the Redeemer (the statue of Jesus Christ in Rio, Brazil)</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzSlD-EDI/AAAAAAAAAUk/FzIHZx_A-t0/s1600-h/images83.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="images (8)" border="0" alt="images (8)" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzTJlus9I/AAAAAAAAAUo/UetM1bfvQIk/images8_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="200" height="200"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">13. Visit the Amazon rainforest</font></p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1whLi_coAv4JAi7QAFpsTLLDo1XrglAeRRBHsXXWlnkmRB30yd-7BC2w2JnZdEyXqLDHGQhNZUkp6mQlOhVhsFb1mG2lU6msms3BHn48zSbiHFYQYuqWufpDi9VmhwxfI7qXnAnNfCYOa/s1600-h/27187854351258482591103.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="2718785435125848259110" border="0" alt="2718785435125848259110" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzUZ7NI4I/AAAAAAAAAUw/d-VnACq_RQg/2718785435125848259110_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="213" height="146"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">14. Visit the outback in Australia</font></p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizWPqdoS8t7BUEF6RWFnu5InH4WYhPTB7aTOHEy_ttj4gD6vx9t3HemH_W7-RA0vem4-wnd-4Vd3ViNVFgJpNDJmKwxgcXgvoJchL244R2zsYdf7qznG-RSjBIr2SMVqvx6kIa7g4kV7ai/s1600-h/images93.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="images (9)" border="0" alt="images (9)" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8jgQXfNPNR7yo_OuSad9jLPt_Ojc-8isQNbCDw1r1iqx-cQUUCGerG9-bZWqERJXr-Vp231isnnG-3wUlQ_WrXWmRyiPLwGKZclM0lDj1uDlhygOb4SkuHmlg0ZLaFAKQaTKSe0yXThxj/?imgmax=800" width="218" height="146"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">15. Complete a 24 hour Sleep out for homeless charity</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzV45OALI/AAAAAAAAAU8/oJ-3IY6MJKk/s1600-h/images102.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="images (10)" border="0" alt="images (10)" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzWXvH9QI/AAAAAAAAAVA/uRgfHE-0m5Y/images10_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="115"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">16. Train in the gym for 60 consecutive days (best so far is 26 days)</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzWxsiftI/AAAAAAAAAVE/uPa03FsgINU/s1600-h/images113.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="images (11)" border="0" alt="images (11)" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzXV3JB3I/AAAAAAAAAVI/jxlibTRc9_4/images11_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="228" height="153"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">17. Visit the Great wall of China</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzX5cHv1I/AAAAAAAAAVM/npmg1kUXLr8/s1600-h/images123.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="images (12)" border="0" alt="images (12)" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzYa4EzLI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/qDFZ7a6G2io/images12_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="230" height="155"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">18. Attend an Oktoberfest, Munich, Germany</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzZWtXaiI/AAAAAAAAAVU/Evk5E2sVPPI/s1600-h/oktoberfest034.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="oktoberfest 03" border="0" alt="oktoberfest 03" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzZz_srKI/AAAAAAAAAVY/Cm17BbWHY8U/oktoberfest03_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="230" height="177"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">19. Visit all 7 continents</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzaXiitzI/AAAAAAAAAVc/lc4zHRs-B6k/s1600-h/images132.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="images (13)" border="0" alt="images (13)" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjouZekxXMddHtRBnGkI8ZqBkmQ7GWkiaIYEquCZpLAuAaBy9o1AcoE1ifZJYbIVFoC4l46S4ldUWYCRBHRrPglfeopr3z_unpXAEI9mNgHcDmICNb1DtjMyTX3-N9iDUEELsdtcFLYS3pe/?imgmax=800" width="244" height="127"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">20. Travel to at least 50 different countries (currently on 19)</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzbaWoGTI/AAAAAAAAAVk/Qrv4odx72hg/s1600-h/images143.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="images (14)" border="0" alt="images (14)" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzcNiYckI/AAAAAAAAAVo/vNjhYPMSW5o/images14_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="223" height="175"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">21. Invent something</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzc5-gDTI/AAAAAAAAAVs/NFpucDEbsUo/s1600-h/mainimage_invent3.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="mainimage_invent" border="0" alt="mainimage_invent" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtasJ0rAq9dy4tJjHbDK_lHGl4IwLzaNhAuNyHdRYcTiqGluA_zLP3b4h4kB-7OQ5iChBWfOhbJFxOMoIIvTvabxZTdFi5jZpFEgLgPrmiUVJp-hp0hHCI-trsnrV8CxRqp0tiB7dgkEkP/?imgmax=800" width="228" height="188"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">22. Make a documentary short film</font></p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBZVQdCuPGh29aIF2ICyzt1w36m4mqWjLvkC4gIA3G5FaQl2l621q2O77r5TGxcywZ5DdcLpkR_gwjbPwkdLBYx49FWk-Wox9XR4bV07Vvs4ZP-L2pnIBsdR4Au8P2Iy_ARGkT1gsuQPk0/s1600-h/images153.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="images (15)" border="0" alt="images (15)" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfze6K-SoI/AAAAAAAAAV4/8E-QP9ZRyG4/images15_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="165" height="179"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">23. Live in Las Vegas for 3 months and survive by playing poker</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzf_HSbDI/AAAAAAAAAV8/xRhVilKZ6W8/s1600-h/DSCF18603.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="DSCF1860" border="0" alt="DSCF1860" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzgTQj6uI/AAAAAAAAAWA/znWFtoQDQlw/DSCF1860_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="168" height="127"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">24. Have a class re-union with my degree year mates from Sligo</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzhI9k26I/AAAAAAAAAWE/fzDScu75V3M/s1600-h/092802_Class_reunion_banner3.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="09-28-02_Class_reunion_banner" border="0" alt="09-28-02_Class_reunion_banner" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzhp36KfI/AAAAAAAAAWI/utEBGPaM42M/092802_Class_reunion_banner_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="168" height="127"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">25. Increase my patience and lower my tilt factor with online poker</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfziUyHP9I/AAAAAAAAAWM/vHVxs_s4ob4/s1600-h/45661.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="4566" border="0" alt="4566" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzi4oCaKI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/codlejWNN0k/4566_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="175" height="138"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">26. Visit Dallas</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzjzLJFfI/AAAAAAAAAWU/50VVdK7Uvm0/s1600-h/dallas_skyline_013.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="dallas_skyline_01" border="0" alt="dallas_skyline_01" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzkSUtKII/AAAAAAAAAWY/At0dSiDrTus/dallas_skyline_01_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="180" height="121"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">27. Run a marathon</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzl3pL59I/AAAAAAAAAWc/MK23qTyEAKI/s1600-h/images163.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="images (16)" border="0" alt="images (16)" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzmbNpXcI/AAAAAAAAAWg/RBe8syDrnr8/images16_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="186" height="125"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">28. Leg press 500kg for 5 reps (personal best is 450kg for 5 reps)</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfzmnmqyvI/AAAAAAAAAWk/bBgS38N9yuc/s1600-h/images173.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="images (17)" border="0" alt="images (17)" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfznEC2i2I/AAAAAAAAAWo/MJx9vLZm4GQ/images17_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="191" height="157"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">29. Meet Maradona</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfznQs5FdI/AAAAAAAAAWs/6s-8yoWNF-A/s1600-h/images184.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="images (18)" border="0" alt="images (18)" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_nHHoVa_GcyE/TVfznxZI8gI/AAAAAAAAAWw/N2VndxUKas0/images18_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="191" height="181"></a> </p> <p><font size="4">30. Attend a full moon party</font></p> <p><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Full_Moon_Party_-731470" border="0" alt="Full_Moon_Party_-731470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4n5annJ5_9NvLMvWhk8nX-Yad48vUuMcbjGs4vhmysTFJzT-JNAiXRCpG7Yr1PzOih7DcDiVU7t4Z9axIbM2MneAsMRzODLIDxQvaYdBaC4-_0eFHwN5KGV7Ql1aWL1fLFa1_08p-my2P/?imgmax=800" width="201" height="152"></p> <p><font size="4"></font> </p> <p><font size="4">I plan to be able to tick off 4 or 5 items from that list by the end of 2011. I’ll also add to the list along the way.</font></p> <p><font size="4">Ciao!</font></p> Carlo Cretarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15674923878734384939noreply@blogger.com2