Indonesia, located in the Pacific Ring of Fire, has the highest number of active volcanoes in the world. Of the total 147 volcanoes, Indonesia has 129 active volcanoes. Its a shame if I, being Indonesian, had not climbed any volcano. When a friend of mine asked me along trekking to Mt Papandayan, Garut, West Java, early last year, Id thought she was joking. Did she just ask me to go to a mountain? Read on...
The first metro system built in Russia, the Moscow metro glorified the technological progress of the Soviet Union and is today one of the worlds busiest subway systems. It is most famous for its extravagant and unique interior design, exalted as the Palace of the People.
Opened in 1935 with just 13 stations that Moscow Metro just keeps growing and growing - now there are over 180 stops and over n Read on...
The MV World Odyssey arrived at the Croatia port of Dubrovnik yesterday and Maggie will disembark today to begin exploring Croatia. They spent the last 7 days at sea, so we thought it might be fun to share what a day is like on the ship. Heres Maggies description:
I wake up around 9:30 and then I go to Global Studies every day at 10:00am and that goes until 11:00am. Then back to my room for about Read on...
We woke up as the sun shone through the verandah door into our room. After the 400 km North to South drive along the Drakensberg mountain range, we were quite happy to have a day off driving. We also woke up hearing a strange for us unusual noise. Walking out of the room we got a big surprise. A male peacock was courting a female with all his beauty, showing off his wonderful colorful tail and mak Read on...
I read an interesting article this morning about tourist trap restaurants. I think we have all had some experience with such a place. Anytime the chef is more famous than his food, I begin to worry and will not eat there. Places like Wolfgang Puck, Moritmoto, Bobby Flay, Paul Prudhomme, Alain Ducasse. I prefer the places, the authentic recipes. old fashioned style cooking. So, what should the war Read on...
Super day out today. Apologies for rather a lot of photos but we went to so many super places its too hard to chose what to show here so ended up with an overload.
I highlighted Issigeac on the map as yesterday as a lovely village to visit though it is most famed for a superb Sunday market and this was not Sunday. Then circled 2 more places along the route and off we went.
Issigeac first. No mar Read on...
It was afternoon before I started driving up the steep grade on Interstate Hwy. 25 from Raton, New Mexico to Raton Pass at the Colorado State line. Just a short distance (about 100 meters) into Colorado was a nice scenic overlook with a good view of Colorado on the main trail of the Santa Fe Trail connecting Independence, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico. The settlers from Missouri would see the Read on...
Not only did we do 9.25km of walking today, most of it was on the steep inclines of Dover Castle and the white cliffs. Im exhausted!
We headed over the Dover Castle right when it opened at 10:00. Before we got here, we had no idea how big it was. We started our tour with the Saxon church and Roman lighthouse at the Center of the grounds both of which were built AD.
From there we went through th Read on...
When we awoke today in Williamstown Massachusetts, it was 3 degrees C outside. A nice crisp clear autumn morning. We had a motel breakfast and got started about 8.30. By this time, it had warmed to around 5 degrees. As we rode through town and joined the BDR route which climbed Mt Graylock, it went to around 7 degrees. As you can imagine we had many layers on and looked and felt like the Michelin Read on...
We awoke early and ate the delicious breakfast the host cooked. We did a lot of walking this day through the old town.
For dinner, the hosts suggested a few places. One of them was near the Capitol building. It had a wait and the line was out the door so we got on the list. We waited 15 minutes or so and the line seemed to not move. We removed our names from the list and went to see about the oth Read on...