http://travelblips.com Travel blog by a global nomad Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:12:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://travelblips.com/hiking-to-wedgemount-lake-bc/ http://travelblips.com/hiking-to-wedgemount-lake-bc/#comments Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:32:30 +0000 Travelblips http://travelblips.com/?p=1454
This a a tale of an unrelenting hike up… then an unrelenting hike down. It’s been an abysmal year for me and long distance travelling – very unusual. So you know it’s sad when I view a 2 hour drive as long distance travelling! However, finally circumstances conspired to allow me to do an alpine hike [...]]]> http://travelblips.com/hiking-to-wedgemount-lake-bc/feed/ 0 http://travelblips.com/snorkelling-with-sharks/ http://travelblips.com/snorkelling-with-sharks/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:06:52 +0000 Travelblips http://travelblips.com/?p=1434 I was sitting in a pink bus outside the hotel. This was to be the start of my afternoon of snorkelling with Stuart Cove diving in Nassau, Bahama’s. Turns out I wasn’t the only person staying at the Hilton (ka-puth) – a family of 4 french people got on as well as a young, possibly [...]]]> http://travelblips.com/snorkelling-with-sharks/feed/ 1 http://travelblips.com/a-stroll-to-paradise-island/ http://travelblips.com/a-stroll-to-paradise-island/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:16:59 +0000 Travelblips http://travelblips.com/?p=1428 After a very deep sleep the night before (10 hours, out cold, since I put in earplugs to block out the amorous activities next door to me in the Hilton…), I was up by 10am and wondering what to do before my snorkelling trip. I decided to push on past the seedy limits of the [...]]]> http://travelblips.com/a-stroll-to-paradise-island/feed/ 0 http://travelblips.com/the-love-boat-rolls-ashore/ http://travelblips.com/the-love-boat-rolls-ashore/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:58:15 +0000 Travelblips http://travelblips.com/?p=1426 Too early to go to bed… to late to to not do something… Thus it was I found myself arriving in the Bahama’s at 2ish in the afternoon – absolutely wiped out after my red-eye flight and brief sleep in Toronto airport. Confusion would seem to be the order of the day when I arrived – a [...]]]> http://travelblips.com/the-love-boat-rolls-ashore/feed/ 0 http://travelblips.com/who-takes-red-eye-flights/ http://travelblips.com/who-takes-red-eye-flights/#comments Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:51:37 +0000 Travelblips http://travelblips.com/?p=1419
Apparently parents with young families and idiots like me with ‘Use it or loose it’ unrefundable credit with an airline… But that said, it’s weird that taking a flight for 8, 12 or even 16 hours (as one tortuous flight from Los Angelese to New Zealand once was – yes, I didn’t know planes could stay [...]]]> http://travelblips.com/who-takes-red-eye-flights/feed/ 1