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/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=516196&go=luandollie A cats eye view of our travels!... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=516196&go=luandollie Thu, 4 Sep 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=515384&go=luandollie Lu: It's less than a week until we fly home :( and life is becoming quite hectic as we try to get as much as we can done in the north island of NZ. We had been told that it was nowhere near as good as the south island, but truly it has a beauty of it's own. OK so it's less in-your-face stunning and there are certainly more people, but outside of the cities, the north island is pretty and full o... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=515384&go=luandollie Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=513073&go=luandollie Lu: So we come to the end of our South Island adventures, and are only two weeks from return time. Very strange, bitter-sweet feeling. Still, lots to do then and even more to report in here since the last entry! Just to recap, last time we wrote we were in Wanaka, which is in the South West of the the South Island, close to Queenstown. We were only really there for an over-night stop before s... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=513073&go=luandollie Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=509739&go=luandollie Lu: At last, after nearly three weeks of waiting, we have the campervan! Well actually, it was a bit of a false start because the first one broke down 20 mins out of Christchurch, but they soon brought us another and so far we've had no problems with it... As you'll see from the pictures, the van is very cool and has moari designs all over it. Sleeping in it is fine, but mostly because we keep... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=509739&go=luandollie Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=507035&go=luandollie Ollie: Wow, this one appeared from nowhere. To say that it happens every year on the same day, I really haven't been thinking about it what with all the other crazy things we've been up to.We booked ourselves into a really nice ensuite room for 2 nights and after 6 nights of dorm sleeping, it made such a lovely change. In the morning, lika a small child, I woke Lu at about half 8 and opened my pre... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=507035&go=luandollie Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=507029&go=luandollie Lu: It's been a while since I got to write first on this thing - I'm a little lost! Since our last entry, we've been in Queenstown - which is in the SW of the South Island of NZ and very alike to Ambleside in the Lake District, only with a much better nightlife and a huge emphasis on extreme sports and bungy! In fact, we are some of the few people that we have met here not to be 'taking a dive'... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=507029&go=luandollie Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=504714&go=luandollie Ollie: and there's not much further we can go...We spent our first week in Christchurch on the East coast of the South island. It has taken quite a bit of time to get used to the weather, but really it's not much different from back home. Kind of.Christchurch is absolutely beautiful, full of gardens and old cultural buildings. It was a really nice place to introduce ourselves to New Zealand (and a... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=504714&go=luandollie Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=502357&go=luandollie Ollie: After 1 month in China and then 4 months in the hot, tropical climate of South East Asia, we're now heading to the much chillier Islands of New Zealand. Despite everyone's warnings of how cold it is, we're still anticipating a shock, although the fact that we get to wear our big coats, jumpers, trousers and trainers is definitely a good thing (It means we don't have to carry them in our bac... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=502357&go=luandollie Wed, 9 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=501121&go=luandollie Ollie: Our first stop from Ubud were the renowned Gili islands - 3 tiny islets just north of Lombok. We stayed on Gili Trawangan, the largest and liveliest of the three. Our first perceptions were a bit dismal, but I think that that was only due to a long boat journey and then a 1 hour trawl through the village in search of accommodation. The island is beautiful and the beach is good, although it ... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=501121&go=luandollie Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.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/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=498451&go=luandollie Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:00:00 GMT