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Technical back up for IIJCDI is my amazing, dapper brother Rich!
Going into the Nu Art movie theatre in Los Angeles
An adventure to circumnavigate the world by Jeremy Lemarchand
More inspirational to me than Indiana Jones ...
Technical back up for IIJCDI is my amazing, dapper brother Rich!
Current Location
London, England (I'm home ...)
Mileage Checker (It's now just cumulative!)
43,038 Miles Travelled in Circumnavigating The World
And I loved it ...
The best food in the world is ...
- Club sandwich - Moab Diner, Moab, USA
- All you can eat buffet - Main Street Station Casino, Las Vegas, USA
- Llama saltado - Yaku Mama Grill, Cuzco, Peru
- Pork ribs - Hurricanes Bar and Grill, Sydney, Australia
- Tempura burger, fries and melon soda - Mos Burger, Matsumoto, Japan
- Five courses selected by the chef - Cafe Des Amis, Hoi An, Vietnam
- Chicken/Pork Amok - Amok, Siem Reap, Cambodia
- Daal bhat - Various tea houses, Khumbu Region, Nepal
- Vegetarian feast - Ahmed's family house, Luxor, Egypt
The injuries me and my stuff have now acquired ...
What, how and where!
iPod Touch faulty headphone jack - Jez's pocket jangling! - somewhere in Utah, USA
Shortened sleeves of long sleeved tops - jobsworth laundry dryer operator - Santiago, Chile
Lost The North Face hat - one minute it was there, the next minute ... - Wanaka, New Zealand
Scratched face off belt buckle - slamming my body into a rock face - Queenstown Hill, New Zealand
Torn grey The North Face trousers - over active washing machine - YHA Rolleston House in Christchurch, New Zealand
The world's sorest mouth ulcer - Lariam malaria tablets - All over Sydney, Australia (you carry them with you!)
A cruciate-esque knee pain - pounding the streets of Tokyo - Kyoto, Japan
Belt buckle hinge snapped during removal - sadly not in the throws of passion - Nagano, Japan (belt is now retired hurt!)
Comedy finger framed sun burn - not paying enough attention during application of factor 23 - Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
Red ant bites - standing still for too long in one place and taking photographs - The Temples of Angkor, Cambodia
More sun burn but this time blanket coverage - malaria tablet sensitivity induced - Koh Samed, Thailand
Ouchie in growing toe nail - kicking fixed, small boulders - Khumbu Region, Nepal
Belt number two bites the dust - am I getting too fat with this lack of training?! - Cairo, Egypt
Cut head - not crouching low enough to enter Tuthmosis III's roughly hewn tomb in the Valley of the Kings - Luxor, Egypt
Gashed knee - dropping too hastily onto the desert floor to get a great shot from ground level - Petra, Jordan
Last Updated: Sunday 30 November 2008
iPod Touch faulty headphone jack - Jez's pocket jangling! - somewhere in Utah, USA
Shortened sleeves of long sleeved tops - jobsworth laundry dryer operator - Santiago, Chile
Lost The North Face hat - one minute it was there, the next minute ... - Wanaka, New Zealand
Scratched face off belt buckle - slamming my body into a rock face - Queenstown Hill, New Zealand
Torn grey The North Face trousers - over active washing machine - YHA Rolleston House in Christchurch, New Zealand
The world's sorest mouth ulcer - Lariam malaria tablets - All over Sydney, Australia (you carry them with you!)
A cruciate-esque knee pain - pounding the streets of Tokyo - Kyoto, Japan
Belt buckle hinge snapped during removal - sadly not in the throws of passion - Nagano, Japan (belt is now retired hurt!)
Comedy finger framed sun burn - not paying enough attention during application of factor 23 - Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
Red ant bites - standing still for too long in one place and taking photographs - The Temples of Angkor, Cambodia
More sun burn but this time blanket coverage - malaria tablet sensitivity induced - Koh Samed, Thailand
Ouchie in growing toe nail - kicking fixed, small boulders - Khumbu Region, Nepal
Belt number two bites the dust - am I getting too fat with this lack of training?! - Cairo, Egypt
Cut head - not crouching low enough to enter Tuthmosis III's roughly hewn tomb in the Valley of the Kings - Luxor, Egypt
Gashed knee - dropping too hastily onto the desert floor to get a great shot from ground level - Petra, Jordan
Last Updated: Sunday 30 November 2008
The revised route having just bought the Italy to England FINAL flight ... 13 November 2008
London, England - New York City, New York - Washington DC - Chicago, Illinois - Denver, Colorado - Moab, Utah - Las Vegas, Nevada - Los Angeles, California - Lima, Peru - La Paz, Bolivia - Santiago, Chile - Auckland, New Zealand - Christchurch, New Zealand - Melbourne, Australia - Sydney, Australia - Tokyo, Japan - Hong Kong, China - Hanoi, Vietnam - Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Bangkok, Thailand - Kathmandu, Nepal - Delhi, India - Cairo, Egypt - Amman, Jordan - Rome, Italy - Venice, Italy - London, England
Here I am!
Going into the Nu Art movie theatre in Los Angeles
All about ...
- Jeremy Lemarchand
- I guess it's enough to say that I have a blank page in my life right now and I'm off to explore this wonderful world for a year - oh - and finally I think Alias is ace and I'm in love with Jennifer Garner!
Handy web links ... for you and me!
- BBC World News
- BBC World Weather
- Cyber Cafes
- Destination Coupons
- EKit
- Embassy World
- Google Docs
- Google Mail
- Google Maps
- Google Picasa
- Hostelling International
- Hostels
- Imaginative Traveller
- Intrepid Travel
- Kayak's Topper Flights
- Lloyds TSB
- Lonely Planet
- Map Crow
- Nationwide
- Responsible Travel
- Sky Scanner's Cheapy Flights
- Sony Cybershot DSC-W130 Guide
- The Official Kit Supplier - The North Face
- The Official Ticket Supplier - Trailfinders
- Travel Language's Rosetta Stone
- Trip Advisor
- UK Department of Health for Travellers
- UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office LOCATE
- UNESCO World Heritage List
- Visa's ATM Worldwide Locator
- What's On When Events Calendar
- Working and Penna Connect 2009
- Working and Penna Online 2009
Books that have enlightened, entertained or helped me so far ...
- USA - Lonely Planet
- The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
- A Season On The Brink - John Feinstein
- The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
- Turpentine - Spring Warren
- The Art Thief - Noah Charney
- Into The Wild - Jon Krakauer
- Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince - J K Rowling
- South America On A Shoestring - Lonely Planet
- Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - J K Rowling
- Digital Fortress - Dan Brown (Don't waste your life by reading it!)
- New Zealand - Lonely Planet
- Only The Land Endures - Brian Macknell
- The Lord Of The Rings Location Guidebook - Ian Brodie
- Gollum (How We Made Movie Magic) - Andy Serkis
- Between A Rock And A Hard Place - Aron Ralston
- Blindsight - Maurice Gee
- Velocity - Dean Koontz (Instantly forgettable!)
- Down Under - Bill Bryson
- Sydney Encounter - Lonely Planet
- Memoirs Of A Geisha - Arthur Golden
- Travel Photography (A Guide To Taking Better Pictures) - Richard I'Anson
- Japan - Lonely Planet
- Lonely Planet Phrasebooks - Japanese
- (Illustrated) A Look Into Japan
- The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
- The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory (Instantly memorable!)
- The Tutankhamun Affair - Christian Jacq
- Hong Kong Encounter - Lonely Planet
- The Lonely Planet Story - Tony and Maureen Wheeler (Inspirational!)
- Khmer Art in Stone - Pich Keo, National Museum of Cambodia
- Cambodia - Lonely Planet
- Thailand's Islands and Beaches - Lonely Planet
- Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos And The Greater Mekong - Lonely Planet
- Lonely Planet Phrasebooks - South East Asia
- The Ancient Civilisation of Angkor - Christopher Pym
- Travels in Siam, Cambodia, Laos and Annam - Henri Mouhot
- The Snow Leopard - Peter Matthiessen
- My Quest For The Yeti - Reinhold Messner
- High Adventure - Edmund Hillary
- History Of Nepal - Daniel Wright
- The Death Zone - Matt Dickinson
- Short Description Of Gods, Goddesses And Ritual Objects Of Buddhism And Hinduism In Nepal - Handicraft Association Of Nepal
- Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara - Dr Ranjana Bajracharya
- Nepal - Lonely Planet
- Ka - Roberto Calasso
- Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
- India - Lonely Planet
- River God - Wilbur Smith
- How To Read Hieroglyphs - Lehnert and Landrock
- The Search For Ancient Egypt - Thames and Hudson
- Valley of the Kings - Dr Moahmed Nasr
- Egypt - Lonely Planet
- Petra The Rose Red City - Thames and Hudson
- Jordan - Lonely Planet
- Ancient Rome - Collins Gem
- The Uffizi The Official Guide - Firenze Musei
- Italy - Lonely Planet
- The Agony and the Ecstacy - Irving Stone
Here's the new and current motivation ...
And here's the original inspiration ...
A top blog from top traveller Lisa Matthaus
My favourite places in the world that I've explored ...
1 Frisco, Colorado, USA 2 Moab, Utah, USA 3 Ollantaytambo, Cusco Region, Peru 4 Milford Sound, Fiordland National Park, New Zealand * 5 Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan 6 Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan 7 The Temples of Angkor, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia * 8 Kathmandu, The Kathmandu Valley, Nepal 9 Udaipur, Rajasthan, India 10 Petra, Wadi Musa, Jordan 11 Rome, Lazio, Italy
1 comment:
Jez you cheeky sod - I have been tuning in every day for the latest!!!! Missed you loads yesterday at the Jackson's nuptials. I am sure I am the only one feeling fine and fresh today - they were all somewhat tipsy! Wonderful day had by all. Can't wait for the latest
Lots of love
Sally
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