Copenhagen and the area around it was our last stop in Denmark. First up we walked from the main train station to Kingosgade to see Mona and Rene, another set of host parents from when I was an exchange student in 1995. They still live in Odense but the timing didn’t work out for us to catch up there so we saw them while they were on holiday in Copenhagen, staying at their son Klavs’s apartment. Klavs & Anders were away overseas at the […]
Biking
Tel Aviv
Everyone will tell you that Tel Aviv has a completely different feel to Jerusalem – but it’s hard to know just how different it is until you spend time in both cities. Where Jerusalem has religion and history so in your face, Tel Aviv breathes freedom and the future. They couldn’t be more different. As much as we loved our time in Jerusalem, the vibe we got from our short stay in Tel Aviv was that this was a great place to live and […]
Jerusalem – other stuff
So I’ve already written a few posts about Jerusalem… but there is a fair bit more that I want to mention that just doesn’t fit under the city’s history, gates, museum, Jewish, Muslim or Christian posts. So here goes some words about a few random things… Guns. I could not get over the amount of guns everywhere. And we’re not just talking small pistols in holsters attached discretely to the belt but full on semi-automatic weapons flopping over the shoulder as casually as a […]
Krakow (Part 1)
After a pleasant four hour train trip from Warsaw, we arrived in Krakow around 4.30pm on a beautiful sunny spring day. Our BnB was a lovely studio apartment that was completely Ikea furnished and decorated. It was just across the river from the castle and the main part of town. One of the reasons this placed grabbed my attention when booking was that it included the free use of 2 bikes. The men’s bike was really big and the seat was up really high […]
Yuu
Introducing Yuu, the 24 year old Chinese Malaysian who jumped on a bike 18 months ago and just can’t stop cycling… through Asia and beyond. Yuu and his older brother Dar were workawaying at the same time as me in Qeshm, Iran, February 2017 and were just lovely company. Yuu’s home town is Kluang in Southern Malaysia but he hasn’t been there for a few years. He describes Malaysia as very mixed culturally with three main people groups (Indian, Malay and Chinese) living peacefully […]
My big backyard – New Zealand’s South Island
What an incredible country I call home! It was an absolute delight to spend seven weeks on holiday in our own country, exploring new places, catching up with family and friends, seeing cricket games and doing some touristy stuff before our big overseas adventure began. I had hoped to have a blog up and running so I could begin to write of our adventures as we traveled… instead more than 6 months later a mere summary of some highlights will have to suffice! For […]