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How long is it possible to sleep?
April 5th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
I’m fortunate in that I’ve always slept well and can more-or-less sleep anywhere at any time. If you’ve followed the blog postings on our round the world trip, you’ll have seen that it was an intense exercise with a lot of early starts and a great deal of travelling, so I haven’t been getting as […]
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Our round the word trip (29): conclusion
April 4th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
The final stages of our journey home involved a flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles of just 50 minutes on an United Boeing 757-200, a period of four hours at LAX airport, and then another flight from LA to London of 10 hrs 40 mins on an Air New Zealand Boeing 777-300. The last […]
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Our round the world trip (28): three icons in San Francisco
April 3rd, 2013 by Roger Darlington
Our last day of the stop-over in San Francisco and the final day of our amazing round the world holiday – Day 29 (Tuesday) – began with another Argonaut Hotel breakfast. You order a ham & cheese omelette and you receive an omelette twice the size of any in Europe (they use three eggs) plus […]
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Our round the world trip (27): two tours in San Francisco
April 2nd, 2013 by Roger Darlington
Arriving at our San Francisco hotel after crossing the Pacific, the first priority was a little sleep in mid afternoon. Then it was out around Fisherman’s Wharf for something to eat. We played safe and went to a very traditional American diner called “Denny’s”, but we had forgotten just how enormous many of the servings […]
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Our round the world trip (26): from Christchurch to San Francisco
March 31st, 2013 by Roger Darlington
Day 27 (Easter Sunday) and the Australia & New Zealand core of our trip is over but, just as we broke our outward journey in Bangkok, so we are breaking our return journey in San Francisco, so the holiday is not quite concluded. As other members of our NZ group departed for early morning flights, […]
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Our round the world trip (25): back to Christchurch
March 30th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
On Friday evening, Roger thought that he could fit in one more experience as he had seen a stargazing option advertised so, while Vee washed her hair (a very important ritual on all our holidays), he was out from about 8-10 pm. The exercise was located at the top of the Skyride Gondola, but the […]
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Our round the world trip (24): Skippers Canyon
March 29th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
Just how many thrills can you experience on one holiday? The answer, in the case of this trip, was: at least one more. Day 25 (Good Friday) was free in the official itinerary, but we were offered various optional extras and most of us – including Roger & Vee – opted for the Skippers Canyon […]
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Our round the world trip (23): Milford Sound
March 28th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
Early starts and full days are now the norm and today – Day 24 (Thursday) – was certainly no exception: we left the hotel in the dark at 7.15 am and arrived back at 6.45 pm but, in the intervening eleven and a half hours, we had a magical time. Our destination was Milford Sound […]
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Our round the world trip (22): from Franz Josef to Queenstown
March 27th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
One morning we might have the chance to stay in bed awhile, but not this morning: Day 23 (Wednesday). We woke at 6 am, showered & dressed, packed again, and left at 7.45 am. It was a day with a lot of travelling (almost nine hours on the road), but we stopped often, the weather […]
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Our round the world trip (21): Franz Josef Glacier
March 26th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
We have now been travelling for three weeks – the longest of any previous holiday together – but we still have a week or so to go on what is now Day 22 (Tuesday). In a sense, the day began sooner than we could possibly have imagined when, about 4 am, Roger was woken by […]
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