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Costa Rica & Panama

Our first stopping point was at Peurto Limon (Lemon Port) in Costa Rica and as we hadn't booked a official tour, Karla and I jumped into a taxi and had a private tour lasting about 3 hours. Our driver Manuel…

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Hong Kong part 2

On Thursday morning I flew from Brisbane to Hong Kong and something told me it would be a good idea to get to the airport over 4 hours before departure. Whatever that "something" was needs a good talking to. I…

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Gold Coast

On Saturday I roused myself at about 8am (still legal in Australia) and got ready for the drive back down south. I had 1200km to drive in total before flying from Brisbane to Hong Kong on Thursday. I had no…

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Queensland

After the Lady C lift encounter I got chatting to a couple in the bar from Australia who asked me about the crowd that had assembled to see the celebs go off for their party. It turned out that they…

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Sydney

Sydney is a very nice city especially where I'm staying in circular quay near to The Rocks. My room has a great view of the cruise terminal and the harbour bridge and I'm staying at the InterContinental (think of the…

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Melbourne

The flight from Bangkok to Melbourne was only 8:40 despite the itinerary saying 10 hours and there were 100 empty seats at the back so I was glad business was full because I would have resented paying an extra grand…

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Bangkok

Thailand has a population of around 70 million and its total area is a little over twice the size of the UK. 93% Buddhist - China has more Buddhists at 20% of the population but it must be second in…

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Krabi

Wednesday Krabi was one of the locations used in The Man With The Golden Gun - Scaramanga's private island and they have tours to "Bond island". I thought I was going to miss out on this place after spending an…

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