Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Nigeria V Socceroos
First footy game in England, we had good seats, Australia won and the Stadium is a couple of hundred metres from our place. It was freezing though...
Friday, 9 November 2007
Valencia
Valencia was a pleasant surprise seeing that we booked it 7 months ago. It was a break away from the cold, although still freezing during the night. The city had a great blend of old and new.
Eve caught up with some German friends that she went to high school with in the States- while Hewy and I headed out to Ricardo Tormo Circuit for the last MotoGP race of the Year!!!!
The Old City
Our hostel was in the old quarter, we arrived on a public holiday during siesta, so the city was like the set from a zombie movie, very quite. The spanish have a sleep every day from about 2 til 5pm, so everything is closed. It's a great idea. The architecture is awesome in the old city, everywhere you go in Europe makes Australia seem like a very young country.
The Beach
while Valencia is on the Mediterranean the waves still looked big enough to surf. No bikinis or swimming but Eve was still very happy to see a real beach.
The New City
Valencia's new city IS the future. Really modern huge buildings. Exactly 50 years ago Valencia was flooded, they diverted the river and built a series of sports fields, parks and museums in the old river bed.
MotoGP
Last race of the year, Aussie Casey Stoner had already wrapped up the championship- 135,000 still turn up to cheer on the race. Absolutely amazing.
Eve caught up with some German friends that she went to high school with in the States- while Hewy and I headed out to Ricardo Tormo Circuit for the last MotoGP race of the Year!!!!
The Old City
Our hostel was in the old quarter, we arrived on a public holiday during siesta, so the city was like the set from a zombie movie, very quite. The spanish have a sleep every day from about 2 til 5pm, so everything is closed. It's a great idea. The architecture is awesome in the old city, everywhere you go in Europe makes Australia seem like a very young country.
The Beach
while Valencia is on the Mediterranean the waves still looked big enough to surf. No bikinis or swimming but Eve was still very happy to see a real beach.
The New City
Valencia's new city IS the future. Really modern huge buildings. Exactly 50 years ago Valencia was flooded, they diverted the river and built a series of sports fields, parks and museums in the old river bed.
MotoGP
Last race of the year, Aussie Casey Stoner had already wrapped up the championship- 135,000 still turn up to cheer on the race. Absolutely amazing.
Wednesday, 3 October 2007
London Town
Finally a London update, we have been here for almost 4 weeks now and have gotten through most of the touristy stuff. Read on to see what we've been upto
Hammersmith
We live in Hammersmith. Our house has had a long procession of 4551 migrants in it, it is near the tube station, next to the Apollo Theatre and right on the Thames.
Out and About
Highlights of sigt seeing so far have been The Tate Modern Gallery, Dirty Dancing the stage show (it was an absolute classic, there are some real fanatics out there), the British Museum (were you can see how the poms stole from developing countries before the Yanks even had Thanks Giving) and we have been on the Jack the Ripper tour, which is at night in Whitechapel and its great. Also Camden was cool, Maybe not as cool as in the 80's but worth a few more visits at least.
British Museum
The Theatre district
Tower Hill
Camden
...these were all the punks I saw...
Hammersmith
We live in Hammersmith. Our house has had a long procession of 4551 migrants in it, it is near the tube station, next to the Apollo Theatre and right on the Thames.
Out and About
Highlights of sigt seeing so far have been The Tate Modern Gallery, Dirty Dancing the stage show (it was an absolute classic, there are some real fanatics out there), the British Museum (were you can see how the poms stole from developing countries before the Yanks even had Thanks Giving) and we have been on the Jack the Ripper tour, which is at night in Whitechapel and its great. Also Camden was cool, Maybe not as cool as in the 80's but worth a few more visits at least.
British Museum
The Theatre district
Tower Hill
Camden...these were all the punks I saw...
Sunday, 16 September 2007
Guangzhou
Hong Kong to Guangzhou.
Mitch came to Hong Kong and took us back to his place in mainland China- Guangzhou. In mainland China this blog is banned and that is why I am way behind on updates...
Mitch lives about 40minutes from the centre of the city. The central population is 10 million with a floating population of the greater Guangzhou area standing at about 25million- this is a big city. The estate my brother lives in is a massive gated community with over 100 000 people and a better bus network than Sunny coast Sunbus
Food
The Cantonese are known to eat anything- and yes they really dig dog, but there are mixed opinions about cat. Dog is actually on the menu at most restaurants and even 7 -11 has Dog in their hot pots (a stock broth that you cook balls of meat in), ironically, right next to hot dogs. While in GZ we had Yo-Yo cooking for us, she is an amazing cook and I don't know why my brother and Bull aren't fat. I skirted around the edge of the meat markets where even as late as 1994 you could apparently still get FRESH tiger penis, the cops have cracked down on it now. Even at some supermarkets the meat section has live turtles, frogs, jellyfish and a few other things I wouldnt class as staples.
White Cloud Mountain
When diving between Hong Kong and GZ you will notice the terrain is fairly flat, this is not natural, the government really loves flat cities and blowing up mountains. As you get further away from HongKong you will see half excavated full size mountains, it is crazy. They have left at least one mountain behind in GZ, it is very touristy and groomed at the bottom and gets a bit more natural towards the top...
White Cloud was followed by a touch of karaoke
Mitch came to Hong Kong and took us back to his place in mainland China- Guangzhou. In mainland China this blog is banned and that is why I am way behind on updates...
Mitch lives about 40minutes from the centre of the city. The central population is 10 million with a floating population of the greater Guangzhou area standing at about 25million- this is a big city. The estate my brother lives in is a massive gated community with over 100 000 people and a better bus network than Sunny coast Sunbus
Food
The Cantonese are known to eat anything- and yes they really dig dog, but there are mixed opinions about cat. Dog is actually on the menu at most restaurants and even 7 -11 has Dog in their hot pots (a stock broth that you cook balls of meat in), ironically, right next to hot dogs. While in GZ we had Yo-Yo cooking for us, she is an amazing cook and I don't know why my brother and Bull aren't fat. I skirted around the edge of the meat markets where even as late as 1994 you could apparently still get FRESH tiger penis, the cops have cracked down on it now. Even at some supermarkets the meat section has live turtles, frogs, jellyfish and a few other things I wouldnt class as staples.
White Cloud Mountain
When diving between Hong Kong and GZ you will notice the terrain is fairly flat, this is not natural, the government really loves flat cities and blowing up mountains. As you get further away from HongKong you will see half excavated full size mountains, it is crazy. They have left at least one mountain behind in GZ, it is very touristy and groomed at the bottom and gets a bit more natural towards the top...
White Cloud was followed by a touch of karaoke
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