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Beijing sightseeing

FionaHandscomb — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:45:00 +0000

OK, so other than just becoming random economo-political creatures, we also actually did/saw stuff in Beijing. Like: - Tiananmen Square. Famous/ infamous for the Tiananmen Square massacres in 1989 (although apparently most of the actual massacring went on outside of the square but hey ho) and the third largest city square in the world. It’s …

50 Bucks in Brisbane

Around the World Travel — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:33:50 +0000

23:00 we land in Australia. Through what we expect to be our most scarey customs yet without a problem. It works in our favour to admit to tea, a few shells and a tent. They don’t even glance at all the weird objects hanging around Al’s neck. Phew! With printed out detailed directions to Andisha’s …

Agra and the Taj

Around the World Travel — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:16:23 +0000

The only issue of our 26 hour delay was the fact that we had 2 days in Agra to see the town. Although we this was the only place that we were going to only see a tourist sight 2 days would have been good. We landed at 12:30pm and had our train out to …

Ellora Caves and around Aurangabad

Around the World Travel — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:38:42 +0000

After a day’s washing, sleeping, getting cash and finding our way around the city we headed out for a day in Dalautabad. Catching the bus was a bit of a nightmare. Feeling a little ropey from food the night before, we managed to squeeze through the massive pushing match, screams and kids being crushed so …