Aha, I found the red threads connecting the article wrote earlier about Kochi and Lasem! It was the same Admiral Zheng He, who visited Kochi and arrived in Lasem in 1413! Located on the Northern Coastal of Java, Lasem is known as Little China and was one of the gateways to Java for the from China in the century to Indonesia. For a small town so near to the Capital City of Central Java, Lasem rema Read on...
Friday. 03/04022. Santiago. Our main event was a visit to the Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos (Museum of Memory and Human Rights.) It is mainly a museum about the period leading up to the election of the socialist president Salvador Allende, the subsequent coup detat by the fascist general Pinochet and the following 17 years of dictatorship. It included information about Truth and Recon Read on...
A Pamir is a geological formation it is a flat plateau or valley surrounded by mountains. It forms when a glacier or ice field melts leaving a rocky plain (thanks Wikipedia). The scenery we saw today was awe inspiring. We did have a lot of driving but we ended up at Lake Karakul. The Khargush Pamir is south of Lake Karakul. and we saw this along the way. We also stopped at a location where the di Read on...
A little drizzle at breakfast time in our cosy near Portstewart. We set off under a grey sky but dry along the National Cycle Network No 93 through Portstewart and Portrush admiring the bays and harbours before stopping briefly at the remains of Dunluce Castle and chatting to a couple from Sheffield. That is the good thing about cycling where you are always open to chat to people from all over the Read on...
This was a day of villages and fields. We started at for the short walk to Hailes Abbey . Destroyed during the persecution of Roman Catholics by Henry VIII, the building is now a picturesque ruin. Nearby, the older Hailes Parish Church still has original wall paintings and tiles (restored)
We crossed a few fields and came across a village. For the whole day. There were sheep in fields, cows in fi Read on...
Our first stop was the Point Labatt Conservation Park to view the only permanent colony on the Australian Mainland of Australian Sea Lions who share the area with some New Zealand Fur Seals. The easiest way to tell the difference is that the fur seals are a lighter, sandy colour and the sea lions are brown. There are other differentiating characteristics, like the ear flaps on the sea lions, but w Read on...
This morning we woke to a light frost. It was below zero overnight, and that hits you after 5 weeks of warm sunshine. The bags were packed, they were overweight, so some careful rearranging will take place in our hotel room before we go to the airport on Friday. I jettisoned some books, alcohol, and like a boxer weight cutting before a bout, I think we will make it.
Tim and Natalia had to go into Read on...
I know we are in Crediton but we walked to the middle of nowhere and were taxied here. The Contours people we walk with had the directions mixed up, very unusual for them) and when I double checked with a local even she said ‘youre in the middle of nowhere so it‘s been officially confirmed. We waited 35 minutes and only saw 3 people in that time so it certainly wasnt Trafalgar Square!
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La Terre de feu est situe la confluence des ocans Atlantique et Pacifique, lextrme sud du continent amricain, divis entre le Chili et lArgentine. Le Cap Horn nest qu quelques dizaines de kilomtres.
Lexcursion du jour est la Parque Nacional Tierra del f Read on...
Arcos de la Frontera a t notre prochaine tape aprs Almonte. Nous prenons donc la route aprs toutes les bndictions reues de la Vierge del Rocio...
Arcos de la Frontera nest pas facilement accessible en voiture. Il faut donc vraiment vouloir y aller pour y passer une nuit. Le centre historique est interdit aux voitures et cest bien l quil faut sinstaller pour la nuit... Heureusement les htels vous Read on...