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It took us 466 days, 5 hours, 45 minutes and 0 seconds
to get from Stockton-on-Tees to Brisbane!
Saturday, October 08, 2005
They think its all over... it is now...
If there's still an audience out there for our musings even when we're not globetrotting, drop on by Bansey.com.
Until then... adieu, ciao, goodbye, etc...
.: posted by Victoria 2:07 PM
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
And now, the end is near...
Great news for fans of meaningless facts and figures as the final stats have been collated.
Visit the Stats Main Page for the overview and the following pages for the specifics.
- Cycling average and top speeds in "Banz Vs The Cheetah"
- Hill climbing fun in "Sherpa Vic's Altitude Sickness"
- Previous poll results in "The Burning Question"
- If you have advice on how to calculate the energy we expended cycling look here and contact us
- See how my physiology changed (until I got sick of doing it) in Boro Bear's Changes page
- How many books we read and what we thought of them in the Book stats page
Labels: stats facts figures
.: posted by Martin 6:17 AM
Monday, August 08, 2005
Hyper Super Mega Gallery update
The settled computing environment here has meant we've been able to upload all the pictures that we had stored offline on the portable harddisk. I have been working night and day to get these done but I reckon it's worth it.
We've got...
- the olde worlde town of Pingyao
- Buddhist caves and the birthplace of kung fu at Luoyang
- Terracotta Warriors at Xi'an
- Our slpendid four-day cruise up the Yangtze river
- Large Chinese mammals, Pandas and the odd Ailuropoda melanoleuca at Chengdu
- New and improved Tibet: The Road To Everest shots
- Tweaked Tibet Part II galleries with fewer Everest shots
EXTRA! EXTRA! Now with expanded India galleries.
- Our return to the "cricket playing, drive on the left" world is celebrated in the Kathmandu gallery
- India 1 is from Delhi to Fatehpur Sikri
- Fatehpur Sikri to Udaipur is seen in India 2
- Our road trip is completed in the Udaipur to Delhi India 3 gallery
Get 'em while they're hot. Labels: gallery pingyao china buddhist kung fu luoyang terracotta warriors xian yangtze chengdu pandas tibet everest india cricket kathmandu nepal delhi fatehpur sikri udaipur
.: posted by Martin 1:55 PM
Friday, August 05, 2005
Straggling Galleries
The second Thailand gallery, from Phuket
and the Malaysia one are now ready to be viewed. Labels: thailand phuket malaysia photo
.: posted by Martin 12:54 PM
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
The Penultimate
When we headed out from Stockton Town Hall all those months ago we really didn't envision what our homecoming would be like.
We are soon going to find out. We are now in Singapore and tonight is our last night abroad as we catch our flight back to Brisbane tomorrow night at 21:20.
Its only a 7 hour flight which will hopefully pass in a blur of great first release movies, delicious food and quiet rest. Generally our flights pass with a straight-to-video film (why is it that the films are always fantastic on the flights going the opposite direction than we are??), inedible food and screaming children kicking the back of our chair. I think we're due one of the former.
Singapore is an island that has a lot of rules. Fined if you don't flush a public toilet, no chewing gum and no urinating in the lift (do you really need to spell that rule out?). As a result it is a very safe destination, but one can't help feeling that they've regulated all the fun out. As a government minister mentioned when trying to dissuade visitors that Singapore was "boring" - "we need to think seriously about the issue of having fun". I think he's missed the point really....
Do we sound jaded? Well, we certainly feel it. We've had a great time, but we've definitely got the back-to-school vibe. The trip back to reality is complete as I may even have a phone interview on Friday afternoon. Oh well, it could be double Maths.... Labels: Stockton Singapore Brisbane flights planes inedible food
.: posted by Victoria 9:20 PM
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
See our India Galleries
Take a whistle-stop tour of Rajasthan at our India 1 and India 2 galleries. Labels: india rajasthan
.: posted by Martin 10:57 AM
Monday, July 04, 2005
Escape from Phuket
We didn't enjoy Phuket quite as much as Samui but that was more us than the island. We had a nice excursion to James Bond island although were disappointed with the size of it. Movie wizardry seems to have pumped up a 30 metre high, 5 metre across rock into a super villain's hideaway. Scaramanga probably bought it sight unseen on the strength of an estate agent's blurb...
"Spacious and secluded Thai island with room for conservatory, high-powered laser, etc. Ideal holiday home or hideaway for international hitman.""
We had hoped to catch the train down from Surat Thani in Thailand there was only one train at 1:30 in the morning. We decided to make it easy on ourselves and get the bus. Three minibuses and ten and a half hours later we were across the border in Butterworth, Malaysia. We knew there were buses every hour so were a bit disappointed to see them coming and going and leaving us behind. We finally snapped when the 4 people who'd arrived after us were placed and we were left behind for the 11:45pm bus. Words were exchanged, temperatures rose; we decided to take our business to the rival firm next door and write off the ticket we had bought. It was then we realised that we were in the grips of the Butterworth Bus Mafia and that the rival company was, in fact, run by the same people. We graciously accepted a place on the 11:45 bus.
And then, at 5am, a mere 20 hours after setting off, we arrived in Kuala Lumpur to take our place on the hostel floor (they were booked solid).
Despite a poor start Malaysia is winning us over. KL is friendly enough and tomorrow we head off to the Cameron Highlands which is, excitingly, tea country.
.: posted by Martin 8:45 AM
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