After the three days in Sydney, we headed up to Townsville to get ready for our dive trip. We were on a live aboard boat operated by Mike Ball. The boat could hold 29 people, but only 21 signed up. We had air-conditioning problems that were pretty bad the first night and 4 people got off, so we only had […]
We left Singapore on Christmas night to go to Sydney. After a flight full of screaming kids, we arrived in Sydney at 6 in the morning. Which meant that we were pretty tired and cranky when we got to our hotel. After catching a little sleep, we decided to wander around a little. Our hotel was in a great location […]
We arrived in Bali on Thanksgiving night and spent one night in the Aston hotel before transferring over to the Ritz-Carlton to meet our friends from Japan, Cas and Michelle. THe Ritz was really nice and with the Indonesian currency hurting so badly, it was pretty reasonable as well. The Ritz-Carlton Bali Us at the Ritz We spent quite a […]
Not all of our Sipidan trip was underwater. Here are some photos from above water. Jill with a baby turtle Releasing the turtles The race for water Finally in the water Sunset in Sipidan The lodge winding down at night Dive boat in front of the drop-off Notice how the color changes in the water just beyond the dive boat. […]
Left for Changi airport straight from the Heerron. Arrived @ the airport an hour early for our 17:45 flight to Bangkok only to find it had been cancelled and replaced with a flight @ 19:10. Having plenty of time after check-in, we wandered to terminal 2 for dinner. We found an American Chili’s and after spending 10 minutes figuring out […]
April 30 – May 3, 1998 We took a little trip up to Phuket for the 3 day holiday weekend (Labour Day in Singapore) just for a little relaxation. We spent the whole weekend just laying around the beach and doing a little wandering through the restaraunts and shops around the beach. And we rented wave runners and did some […]
Wednesday, April 8,1998 We arrive in Venice around 4:30 in the afternoon and spend a while figuring out the vaporetti, or water buses. We take one to the hotel and thankfully we were only a 300 yard walk to the hotel from the stop. We got a decent view of Venice although our water bus didn’t go down the Grand […]
Tuesday, April 7, 1998 We arrive at our hotel in Bologna about 11:30 and spend a little time reading the map and waiting for our room to be ready, then we set out for lunch. Frommer’s didn’t list many dining options or a map with locations, so we decided to pick for ourselves. After walking though Piazza Maggiore (the main […]
Saturday, April 4, 1998 The train pulls into Florence and we take a short taxi ride to the hotel. It’s right in the middle of everything and our room is huge (compared to every other place, but not big by American standards). It even has a TV and a phone (the TV was never even turned on.) Our hotel in […]
Wednesday, April 1, 1998 Got to Rome at 9pm. Bags didn’t make it to the carousel until 9:40. Most frustrating : they didn’t say why! We almost got swindled by a pseudo taxi driver who wanted 150,000 Lira for a ride to Rome (about $80). Instead we got in a taxi line and paid 68,000 Lira to the Hotel Primavera […]