2002-2005 (c) GetJealous.com, All rights reserved. http://www.getjealous.com/luandollie/rss.xml Welcome to our travelblog! We've made this site so that all you lovely peeps at home (plus those also out travelling) can keep up to date with where we are and what we are up to. We'll be updating as often as we can, so please do check on us. Also, leave us messages 'cos we'll be getting homesick now and then, so it'll make us feel better. Anyway, enjoy! Lu and Ollie xx http://www.getjealous.com/luandollie http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=498451&go=luandollie Ollie: Having sampled the pleasures (and got quite bored of) Bali's premier beach resort - we headed from Kuta and Nusa Lembongan to Ubud, the second half of Bali's tourism. Up in the hills, Ubud is a wonderfully calm and very chilled out place to stay. We enjoyed it here so much that we would have loved to stay (and in fact are planning on going back for the last 2 nights in Indo to shop and post... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=498451&go=luandollie Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=497205&go=luandollie Firstly, just to apologise for the slow speed at which we are adding photos... Unfortunately the internet around Bali is painfully slow so it can take an hour per photo at worst! They'll be coming - slowly...Ollie: After a gruelling 26 and a half hour bus journey through the night, we finally arrived in the picturesque island of Bali. It's like a whole different world, assoon as you get onto the... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=497205&go=luandollie Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=495412&go=luandollie ... or maybe notOllie: Our train journey from Surabaya to Jogja was lovely, 5 hours flew by and we'd been given more than enough food for our travels. Upon entering the town, we immediately started on a very discerning tour (led by locals) to find the best accommodation. Unfortunatly, it was getting to the busy period and many were full, so we settled for pretty ropey place on the first night, be... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=495412&go=luandollie Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=492880&go=luandollie Lu: How lucky are we, having relatives to stay with on Java! We have had such lovely time and Ollie's family are really very nice and friendly. They went out of our way to make sure we Ollir and I, plus Amy and Franco) all had a great time, and plenty (by which I mean PLENTY) of food.Our first point of call was Jakarta, where one half of the family live: Auntie Sien and Uncle Shungsun, Alice a... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=492880&go=luandollie Sat, 31 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=492871&go=luandollie Lu: I'm so sorry that it's taken so long for us to write this entry! We have spent the last 2 weeks with Ollie's family and we didn't really get time to tend to the blog, but now here we are trying to remember what we did in KL and Singapore....KL was quite a disappointment really. The hostel we were in was horrible (this is where I got my 60 + bed bug bites) and in general there wasn't much to... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=492871&go=luandollie Wed, 28 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=488058&go=luandollie Lu: Malaysia is continuing to be absolutely wonderful... In fact, the Cameron Highlands we so nice that we spent 5 nights there! The Highlands is basically the name of a certain jungly region of the Titiwangsa (ha ha) mountain range, which is quite different to the rest of Malaysia for a number of reasons, the main one being the weather! It is almost impossible to believe that you are in the t... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=488058&go=luandollie Fri, 23 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=486889&go=luandollie Lu: Thanks again for all of the messages on the Message Board (and if you haven't left one yet - do say hello!). Big hellos to Mel (I hope the no 26 is ok) and to the Cornwall-lot (happy birthday David - 30 now is it?).So after Thailand, we headed over by bus to Malaysia. Malaysia was only really a place that we were going to visit for a few days on transit to Indonesia so we don't have much ti... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=486889&go=luandollie Mon, 19 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=485895&go=luandollie Ollie: After the 4 star luxury of Lu's birthday, we were brought back to reality with a bump when we realised that we had to get down to Krabi, but had no real idea of how. 8 stressful hours after check-out, we'd secured a 'VIP' bus and the heavens opened just long enough to soak us through as we were boarding. 1 bus, 1 tuk tuk and 1 minibus across 2 ferries finally saw us in Koh Lanta. Exhausted,... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=485895&go=luandollie Thu, 15 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=483709&go=luandollie It's my birthday and I'll write in pink if I want to.Just be thankful it's not yellow.Firstly, thank you so much for my birthday messages! Thanks to Mum and Dad, Lesley (also for the card!), Pauline, The Jones' Massive and the newly-expanded Simpson family xxSo, on the day before my birthday we headed, armed with my birthday money, to a big posh (4 star) hotel in the shopping centre of Bangkok. ... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=483709&go=luandollie Mon, 12 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=482367&go=luandollie Lu: Lots to write about since our last entry! After Bangkok, we moved up towards Chiang Mai (the place in the North of Thailand that people trek from) via two other towns: Kanchanaburi and Ayutthaya. Kanchanaburi is a really strange place. The reason that people (us included) go there is that it is the site of the Death Railway bridge or Bridge over the River Kwai that the Japanese constructe... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=482367&go=luandollie Sat, 3 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT