The Harley & Santa Monica
05/03/2008, 11:00 | TravBuddy - Travel Buddies | Travel Blogs | Travel Reviews
Santa Monica, California, Oct 01, 2005
This morning it was time to pick up the Harley. A brand new Electroglide. Andrew was excited but I was not. I don't like motorbikes so was not looking forward to this part. Andrew got a map with suggested travel and approxamate times that each route would take. We headed towards Lincoln Blvd to a Chopper shop first. Then it was on to Santa Monica on the way back to our hotel. After lunch I asked Andrew which route he had decided we go on. Andrew said that as the shortest ride was about 1 hour and I wouldn't like to travel too far, we would just go back to Santa Monica. We knew that it would only be a half hour ride. Sounds good but Andrew took a wrong turn, I think we were on Ventura Hwy? Know we were on Coldwater Canyon Rd! Then Mullholland Drive. Two hours later, we got to Santa Monica Beach. We had a nice stroll, it is an interesting place. We did go back to the hotel the right way though, via Rodeo Drive. I'm sure we were smiled at by one of the shop assistants. I guess she thought we had some money to spend. Definately not my idea of good comfortable transport but it was an interesting day.
Love Music...
05/03/2008, 10:57 | TravBuddy - Travel Buddies | Travel Blogs | Travel Reviews
London, England, Apr 27, 2008
...HATE RACISM!
This was the war-cry for the free charity concert in Victoria Park, held to raise awareness and money in the fight against racism in London. I went with Lori (lovely_lori88) and Ruby (2win) and Loris Canadian friend. We marched through the park (yay for pickets!) and then entered the fenced off bit, after being removed of bottle-lids...
I had an awesome time at the concert, great music combined with the warm-fuzzy feeling asociated with charity! We took shelter from the rain in the Dance Tent, ate mayonaise with a side of chips and moshed to Hard Fi!
Dagje uit naar het dolfinarium
05/03/2008, 10:55 | TravBuddy - Travel Buddies | Travel Blogs | Travel Reviews
Harderwijk, Netherlands, May 01, 2008
Jaja wij zijn op 1 mei naar het dolfinarium geweest :P
Het was al zo lang geleden ik denk wel 6 jaar, dus ik had er wel zin in!
Ik ben echt helemaal gek van dolfijnen (ben ook wel eens met een dolfijne boot mee geweest in portugal, geweldig!)
We zijn naar het dolfijndomijn geweest, hele leuke show met dolfijnen. We hebbe zeeleeuwen en zeehonden shows gezien wat ook erg grappig was om te zien! we hebben de roggen en haaien geaaid.
Ik heb ook besloten dat ik mijn volgende stage daar ga lopen ;)
(Ik doe een opleiding dierenverzorging)
Zijn er mensen die daar stage hebben gelopen? Zoja, vertel mij jou bevindingen!!
Groetjess :D
Los Angeles
05/03/2008, 10:55 | TravBuddy - Travel Buddies | Travel Blogs | Travel Reviews
Los Angeles, California, Sep 30, 2005
Our ship has docked and we wait out turn to disembark. Not too painful. The wait for the taxi was painful though, 1 hour. We got a great driver though. It was too early too check in to our hotel so we left our luggage their and went for a walk. Eventually we found somewhere to have lunch. Back to the hotel and they let us check in a little bit early. We asked the consierge if there was a late highlights tour that we could go on. He said there were bus tours but they had gone, or there was a chauffered town car, so we said that would suit us. After making a number of calls to drivers who were all busy, he found one that was not busy and had just returned from holiday and could use the income. It was arranged, the price that had been quoted for a town car was good but the driver didn't own a town car, he only owned a stretch limo! It was a great 2 hours! Then we went to Factors Famous Deli, on Pico, for dinner. We went back to the hotel to have a few drinks and met up with a couple from Fresno. It was a fun night.
Easy Rider!
05/03/2008, 10:49 | TravBuddy - Travel Buddies | Travel Blogs | Travel Reviews
Da Lat, Vietnam, May 03, 2008
Blog to follow ASAP....
BLONDE Düsseldorf, mystery revealed!
05/03/2008, 10:42 | TravBuddy - Travel Buddies | Travel Blogs | Travel Reviews
Dusseldorf, Germany, Apr 18, 2008
Does BLONDE stand for only blondes allowed? Does it stand for Berlin London Osaka New-York Düsseldorf Eccentrics? Does it stand for Biggest Little Off Nocturnal Dude Ever? Is it a chat-room accidentally posted in the meetup part? Is it a pillow fight game with TravBuddy's? Is it a shoe-fettish meetup? Is it a beach party?
This topic raised a lot of questions. What is this all about? Have I missed something? And especially, why you would have had to be there?
It all started after the Amsterdam meetup January 26th this year. 35 TravBuddy's attended at this meetup. Soon after this meetup Lauro came up with the idea to organize a mini meetup in Düsseldorf. To give a farewell party for Bennie (BMatital) who's leaving for 3 month's to Brazil and as well for Charlotte's (vosking) upcoming birthday.
The first post was in the Amsterdam meetup topic wich was still used as a chat-room after the meetup. A new topic had to be made. Being blonde, Charlotte (vosking) came up with the idea of the BLONDE forum. The thought was by using a topic name without the city name in it, it would stay a mini-meetup. The result however was the opposite.
A lot of TravBuddy's got curious where this was all about. Many questions where asked. Surprising to notice that only a few took the effort to go to page 1 of the topic. So a mystery for many remained. But eventually a lot of TravBuddy's find their way to Düsseldorf. Many of them already joined the 18th of April. On the 19th there where 57 TravBuddy's together.
I had a great time that weekend in Düsseldorf. Together with TravBuddy's I already met in Amsterdam and many new TravBuddy's I met for the first time. To all of you, thanks for this marvellous meetup! To Lauro in particular, thanks my friend for all the effort you put in to make this a succesfull and unforgettable meetup.
London for the day!
05/03/2008, 10:39 | TravBuddy - Travel Buddies | Travel Blogs | Travel Reviews
London, England, Apr 24, 2008
My exact thoughts when I stepped out of the Piccadilly Tube Station were: Hell Yes, I'm in LONDON!
On the Thursday that I went I was assuming that I wouldn't get another opportunity in the near future to look around, so I basically just tried to see everything I could think of! I think this tactic worked quite well, I saw all the iconic symbols of London and had a few nice surprises along the way. My method of tourism is this: forgot my guidebook at home, was too cheap to buy a tourist map, didn't remember to read up on London before I went. So I spun in a circle, picked a direction and started walking (it also helps to follow gift shops, they tend to make a trail of keyrings and Union Jacks between the touristy spots). As a result, I walked around Piccadilly for a while, looking at theatres and old buildings, giggling at the occasional passing double-decker or policeman.
By pure luck, or maybe I was a local in a past life, I ended up in St James Park. This gave me the option of walking one direction to Buckingham Palace, or alternatively to Trafalgar Square. I chose Trafalgar purely because I happened to be closer to that end of the Mall. It was pretty cool, though I didn't have any Mary Poppins flashbacks (apart from humming feed the birds...) and was guiltily disappointed at the lack of pigeons. Still, pigeons are gross and probably would have shat on me so I'm not devastated.
From Trafalgar, after a proper amount of ohhing and ahhing at the big lions and the Museum (which I didn't enter due to a strong aversion borne of culture-freak parents), I walked down to Parliament House and Westminster Abbey. Big Ben is cool! Thankfully, most things that you have seen a million times before are still way cooler in real life. On the way down I passed the Guard Palace where they were doing the changing ceremony with the horses and the cool hats but I was on the wrong side of a road which is impossible to cross so that was a bit disappointing.
I decided to walk down along Parliament House to take more photos (and get a loser look at the hippies camped in the park across the road, protesting war I believe) and then would cross the road and look at the Abbey. I got about halfway down when the sky opened up and it began to POUR. Not polite, English drizzle, this was like being sprayed with a hose. Unpleasant! And of course there was absolutely no where remotely sheltered within 100m of me. I do accept some responsibility for going to London without any wet weather gear, but in my defense it was a lovely day! So i am huddled against a wall with my handbag on my head when it lightens slightly, so I make a break for a doorway across the street (as did everyone else in the vicinity) when I think, why is someone throwing shit at me? Then I realise it is HAIL. AUSTRALIA DOES NOT HAVE SUNSHINE AND HAIL IN THE SAME DAY. I think that in the 4 years I have lived in Perth, it hailed maybe twice. This country is mad, no wonder the Brits are obsessed with the weather.
So I hurried back past Westminster, which was all fenced off so I didn't bother finding out if I could go inside, would have been packed anyway. I was going to head for the London Eye, then I get a call fro my would-be guide to meet him at the nearest tube station. This needs a bit of explaining. Seb was supposed to drive to the outermost tube station, park and both of us go into London. Due to a spirited discussion in the car on the M11, we missed the exit and ended up on something exotically named the London Orbital. This is a bad plan, driving in London is a Bad Plan. So he dropped me at Finsbury Station and I headed to the centre alone. Anyway, he got in touch so we agreed to meet at Westminster, and the weather was still horrible anyway, so I passed the time in the Parliamentary Bookshop reading about the worlds most famous speeches (my only objection was to the inclusion of George Bush, who should be actively excluded from everything). Then, after several phone calls describing our position in relation to Big Ben, we met up and it was vote: Lunch!
Getting on the tube in Westminster and then getting off at Leicester Square and stepping into blazing sunshine is a weird experience (Perth doesn't have an Underground ok!). We had Pizza from the Slicery, another thing Perth lacks, and went for a wander in the Square. I did make a bit of a fool out of myself because I saw some British TV stars (Syd and Chris from Skins) and I just had to go up and introduce myself and ask for a photo! Haha!
From there we walked to Covent Gardens, which I really enjoyed! I saw the massive tea shop, was tempted t buy some but I couldnt justify the expense expecially since my mum packed me off to France with a lifetime supply of tea (Not enough TimTams though!!). So we just browsed, watched some buski...
A NIGHT IN MILAN,FOR LAURA PAUSINI CONCERT!
05/03/2008, 10:35 | TravBuddy - Travel Buddies | Travel Blogs | Travel Reviews
Milan, Italy, Jun 02, 2007
From Follonica,my home town,to Milan we have to do 5 hours with train.The journey begun in the worst way,Train is late!We left Follonica and we changed train in Genova,afte,Wer we did a bad impression to a Sister,we talked about Papamobile and laughing of it, arrived in Milan at 5 o clock.It was raining,and we have to spend the night outside!We took metro to go to San Siro Stadium,Laura Pausini was the first women that singed there.We retired our tickets...We ate sandwiches and at 9 the concert begun,all under rain!!She was good,also with water on head!at 11.30 the concert finished..and now...What do we do?..We went in Duomo place with metro,it would be white night of sports,but the bad wheather riuned all the programs!We decided to go in a bar,in galleria vittorio emanuele,and we spent a part of the night there,and at Sforzesco Castle and Madonnina!then we wanted to go at station,but,at 1.30 pm the metro is just closed.We wait for a taxi and after a long queue(Thanks to this wonderful milan guy who came with us and made us save money) we arrived at station at 3.15 pm...the night is so long..we had morning train at 6 am.but surprise..the station is closed until 4,policemen controlled and nobody couldn't enter!!We remained out with some people that were like us,for the concert...and after that and after a rest on the floor of waiting room we started to back.We changed train in Pisa and at 12 am we arrived.
It was an amazing experience,an afterhour in Milan with rain doesn't happent all day!
Wintersport 2008!
05/03/2008, 10:26 | TravBuddy - Travel Buddies | Travel Blogs | Travel Reviews
Steinach, Austria, Feb 10, 2008
In februari ben ik op wintersport geweest met me moeder en een stel vrienden.
Me moeder en ik zijn samen in een keer naar oostenrijk gereden (steinach, aan de brennerpas).
We zijn een ruime week geweest en het was heerlijk weer.
De jaren ervoor was het wat minder weer, dus we hadden geluk.
In het dal lag er geen sneeuw maar op de piste gelukkig genoeg.
Me moeder en ik hadden samen een gezellige kamer met alles erop, en we hadden ook een aparte keuken die we met een groepje vrienden deelde. We aten sochtends gezellig met z'n alle en savonds gingen we soms uit eten en soms gezellig in het huisje.
De hele week was heerlijk, we waren eerst van plan om zaterdags naar huis te gaan maar omdat me moeder en ik nog zin hadden om nog een dag te blijven dus besloten we op zondag te gaan. Zaterdag middag kregen we een telefoontje van kennise die wel op zaterdag weg waren gegaan en die nog vast zaten bij Munchen door bomen op de snelweg want er was een hevige storm!
Wij zaten die middag in het restaurant op de piste wat te eten en te drinken en toen hoorde we allemaal mensen praten over een orkaan die op komst was.. wij gingen even informeren bij de mensen van het restaurant en ja hoor er kwam een orkaan aan, hij had zelfs al een naam gehad (ben um ff vergeten) maar nu was t probleem om heelhuids naar beneden te komen.. wij moesten van het restaurant naar het middenstation skieen/snowboarden voor zover het kon. Het waaide als een gek en het regende niet normaal. Wij daar aangekomen allemaal hordes mensen, alle liften waren gesloten want niemand mocht meer naar boven. De hele piste werd geevacueerd. We konden ook niet meer met het gondeltje naar beneden omdat het gewoon te hard waaide. We hadden de keus om met een gids naar beneden te skieen/snowboarden of om met de skibully naar beneden te gaan. Zoals je al raad moesten alle kinderen op de bully en mensen die het niet zagen zitten om in die omstandigheden naar beneden te gaan. Ik ben dus samen met het zoontje van een kennis op de bully mee naar beneden gegaan. We moesten wel halfuur wachten voordat we eindelijk een plekje hadden op een bully maar we waren uiteindelijk wel veilig beneden gekomen! Er werd geadviseerd om voorzichtig naar ons huisje te rijden en daar binnen te blijven..
De volgende dag was het gelukkig wel weer wat rustiger geworden kwa wind en regen, en zijn me moeder en ik rustig aan naar huis gereden..
Wat een avontuur he ;)
Zie de foto's!
Groetjess
Vernadsky bar
05/03/2008, 10:24 | TravBuddy - Travel Buddies | Travel Blogs | Travel Reviews
Vernadsky, Antarctica, Feb 15, 2007
So remote, you always have fun! Especially, when bra's are donated at the bar for free Vodka:-)
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