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We’re off to Bali
We have finally made the decision to move to Bali. It is not a decision that has been taken lightly, though to many of our friends and family it has come out of the blue. I don’t expect that many people are that surprised, we do not tend to stay in one place for too…
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Nepal Day 4: Getting Straight Into It
Today is the first action day of my volunteering experience in Nepal. I spent yesterday getting to the town of Dhulikhel, about an hour from Kathmandu. We are staying at a pretty luxurious accommodation, Dhulikhel Mountain Resort. It is much better than the usual places I stay when travelling throughout Asia. Waking up to the…
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Nepal Day 3: Transferring to Dulikel
My second night in Nepal, I slept a bit better, but still woke to the bell ringing by the worshippers at the shrine just outside my window. I was checking out of the hotel today, and moving to the town of Dulikel from where my volunteering work will be based. With the gifts I bought…
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Nepal Day 2: First View Of Kathmandu
After yesterday’s long trip from Perth to Nepal, I had woken in a different hotel to the one I had booked. The staff at my current hotel were not too sure about my situation, but eventually I was able to communicate what I wanted. I was able to visit and have breakfast at the actual hotel I…
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Nepal Day 1: Travelling Through China
The day to travel to Nepal had arrived, quicker than I would have liked. I had signed up to spend a week in Dulikel, a village just outside of Kathmandu, helping to build a house as part of the Habitat for Humanity Everest II Big Build volunteer project. Unfortunately for the kids I had to…
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2011 Christmas Letter
We hope you have enjoyed an exciting 2011. Best wishes for a wonderful Christmas, and we hope you enjoy many happy celebrations for the Festive Season. For many of you it has been a year since you have heard from us (sorry!). The major change for us being the birth of our third child Casper on August 31st. He…
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The Old and the New of Kyoto
After a few days in each of Takayama and Hiroshima, we are at the final destination of our two weeks in Japan. Another fast train got us to the old Japanese capital of Kyoto in an hour from Himeji. We had chosen a hotel near the station for convenience, only a three-minute walk they said,…