This Travel Life

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  • Nepal Day 4: Getting Straight Into It

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    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…

  • Nepal Day 3: Transferring to Dulikel

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    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…

  • Nepal Day 2: First View Of Kathmandu

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    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…

  • Nepal Day 1: Travelling Through China

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    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…

  • 2011 Christmas Letter

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    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…

  • The Old and the New of Kyoto

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    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,…

  • Hiroshima in Peace

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    Here is the diary of our few days staying in Hiroshima, Japan. We travelled here from Takayama, and will be heading to Kyoto next. Today was mostly a travel day. The train journey was easy and efficient as usual. We left Takayama at 9.45 and arrived in Hiroshima at three in the afternoon. We had a very short stop…

  • Take me to Takayama

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    Here is the diary of our flights to Japan and the first few days in Takayama. After this, we continued on to Hiroshima then Kyoto, spending two weeks in Japan.  Leaving Perth We left Perth at 4 pm, a much more pleasant departure time than for our previous overseas trips, however it meant we had to travel through…

  • 2010 Christmas Letter

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    Hi Everyone. We are getting our Christmas message out early this year as we have gone to Melbourne to spend time with some of Rob’s family. We wanted to share some of the highlights of our year in 2010. For our second year back in Perth, we tried to pack in lots of adventures as usual.…

  • 2010 Wood Family Summit

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    With our family spread all around Australia plus a few in the USA, it is rare for all of us to get together. Since the kids have grown and spread their wings, the brood is getting bigger, so we make the most of any chance we get to spend time together. In 2010 we travelled…