An entry in the TFS Travel Journal
Another lovely night of sleep! We spent the morning lounging around this regal garden palace, appreciating the wonderful fresh air blowing in our open balcony doors and the incomparable views from every huge window. Milton then went for a walk (to stretch his driving legs) up to […]

An entry in the TFS Travel Journal
It must be the lack of the need to get up on a schedule, or the abundant clean air, but we can’t seem to wake up since we’ve gotten here. We lounged around reading the Sunday Herald before finally setting off for today’s long drive. But first, […]

An entry in the TFS Travel Journal
This morning was Milton’s turn, and he slept over 9 1/2 hours while Wendy read patiently. We drove off into town for a day of urban exploration. We parked on Queen street and walked around a few stores (boy, there sure are a lot of outdoors-equipment stores […]

An entry in the TFS Travel Journal
Not exactly the post-plane-sleep night we’d wanted, with the clock radio going on at 4:40am, a tennis match going on at 7am, and a call at 8:30 reminding us to bring the box to the front desk. Wendy, at least, managed to overcome all that and slept till […]

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As overnight flights go, this wasn’t all that bad (and certainly beat the overnight, Euro-pass train rides of our college days!) despite an hour layover in Brisbane and annoying flight attendants.
We arrived at the Auckland (”City of the Sail”) airport and by the time we drove away […]

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Another lovely breakfast from our good friends at Room Service, then Milton set off for his kayaking adventure on the Ayung river. It was about a 40 minute drive from the hotel to the put-in point and, as today is a major Hindu holy day, we passed a […]

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We had breakfast (after waking up when we damn well felt like it) on the terrace of the restaurant, enjoying an Indonesian breakfast (noodles, rice cakes), delicious local fruit, some of which was new to us - snake-skin fruit (not so good), mangostines (sweet and juicy, with a lichee-like […]

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We had to get up by 7:30 to meet Wayan, but by the time we actually got up and out, we didn’t have time for breakfast. (normally, if we’re late it’s no big deal, but this morning, being part of the Hindu full moon festival, we had to […]