tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124921056140817692012-01-26T19:46:47.498-08:00Anywhere we are, anytime you want, anything you want to read... Just something small for you - news, photos, stories from somewhere in... from usLenka & Pedronoreply@blogger.comBlogger561100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-612492105614081769.post-21758011692498992642010-03-07T08:18:00.000-08:002010-03-07T08:23:54.833-08:00

Anna-Sofia came to our lives on the 20th February 2010, and we find ourselves yet again in unknown territory. This time, it is not a new place, a country yet to discover, a city yet to explore, but the life-changing experience of parenthood. Anna-Sofia is now two weeks old, and each day we look forward to seeing this gorgeous little one grow up and become increasingly less dependent on us. And

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It has been a long while since we updated this blog and what best excuse than our first wedding anniversary? Yes, it has been one year since that amazing night in the beautiful castle of Palmela. We found ourselves celebrating it in yet another beautiful old historical building, a charming hotel called Parkhotel Adler which has been in the same family since the 15th century, and lies in the

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Yes, the dream came true and I managed to organise trip to the city I always wanted to see. The city of blues, famous pizza and The Bean monument:). Haven't eaten the famous pizza yet, need to plan it soon as I am leaving on Friday afternoon. So it is approximately 5am in Europe and my body is fully awake thinking what a great afternoon. I have warned the trainer that she should ask me questions

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February is almost finished and our travels continued. The trip to Czech Republic was quite successful (or I hope) and all papers and documents were submitted. Of course it didn't help the mood when I went early in the morning to the town- hall and saw a paper on the door - Today closed! (Every last Friday in a month the office is closed). Well lucky me, that they were open on Saturday morning.

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Another Sunday behind us and we are sitting on our white sofa, enjoying being at home and don't have to travel. Well, it will start again, but it was a nice change to stop and just look around, without being part of the crazy world. We couldn't though just sit and do nothing as Pedro would say that I am hyperactive and won't let him in peace for couple of hours, so he took me to a trip to

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... It has been more than a year that we have written an article about our travels. This doesn't mean that we haven't been travelling - may be too much and we have said many times that we need to go back to our lovely blog and create some more tips and stories from our travels. The 2008 was a long and a busy year and it included travels around the world again, though in a different style.

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We have proved that indeed the World is round, and travelling eastwards for the last 8 months, in a journey starting at the end of December, a cold windy day in Frankfurt, Germany, we have ended up back in Europe, in a much sunnier Portugal, a fitting final as a tribute to the first world traveller Ferdinand Magellan (or Fernão de Magalhães) who set this trend which we have now followed!And what

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It is again some time ago since we shared with you our journey. It is not because we are getting lazy or because we stopped caring about you, but believe it or not we were quite busy. In a week's time we will be sitting in the plane which will take us back to Europe, so we are trying to enjoy every single minute of each day.After Quebec we crossed the border back to USA, though the queue was much

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"Bonjour Quebec" we said as we crossed the state line into the province of Quebec, Canada, when all the road signs turned to french only, even the until now universal STOP signs! And this "Nouvelle France" does try to retain much of the Older France culture and language while, at times reluctantly, embracing many features of the nearby English-speaking New World!Our first destination was the big

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We have crossed the border now between the United States and Canada with the first impression immediately that we were in another country - we can understand the temperatures which are in celsius and the distances which are in kilometres! What a beautiful border too, decorated as it is by the famous, and most impressive, Niagara Falls, which we had the chance to experience upclose in the boat "

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We had a successful crossing of the American Continent and arrived at the chaotic JFK, where Ponty, our new hire car, took us through the New York Saturday traffic, across the very busy Brooklynn bridge where we got a taste of the impossible New York traffic. Thank goodness for the invention of the GPS which again saved us from spending most of our trip finding our way! Driving in NY became

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"It looks exactly like a Google earth", said today a five years old kid to his father, when we were enjoying one of the amazing views if Yosemite valley. Oh well, this is one way how one can enjoy the wonders of nature.It is our last day on the West coast and after three weeks of national parks marathon we are flying from San Francisco to the Big Apple and we will start our race across the East

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Nevada, Arizona and Utah followed California, and what a difference they make, much further than the timezone difference! Our first stop out of California was none other than the absolutely crazy Las Vegas, a gambling megalomania, neon lights competing for the gambling dollars in a Stravinskian symphony of light. How could we not enjoy this crazy town, it's hard not to have fun enjoying the weird

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For the U2 fans, I don't have to explain... For those who aren't, all will be explained.We left our gracious hosts Joshua and Dominic in Oakland, San Francisco, and we took the US famous "Pacific Highway" and drove the Pacific coast towards our first national park visit - Sequoia and Kings Canyon national park. Like its australian sibling "Great Ocean Road", this drive must rank among the best

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Yes, we do mean San Francsco, California. After a horrible flight on United Airlines,we arrived to hippie, chilled out (and I mean cold) San Francisco. We loved it from the start, a mixture of hip cafes, expensive shops, many homeless people and poor neighborhoods but also a sophisticated, european charm with its abundant, gorgeous 20s architecture with fire escapes everywhere, the tram-covered

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Aloha from Waikiki beach, where we are relaxing our tired bodies and souls for almost a week now. It seemed to us that we are getting less and less readers as people got used to us being away, but it flattered us when we heard from various sides, that we haven't written for some time and that we still haven't posted photos from Japan! Apologies, apologies to everyone!We have successfully finished

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And so the goodbyes are said to Richard, our travelling, drinking and sushi partner for the past two weeks, and soon we will also be leaving the land of the rising sun.We loved Japan, that is clear! This proud nation surprised first and foremost through its friendly, polite and respectful people. Everywhere we went, be it train stations, restaurants, hostels, supermarkets or simply walking down

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Pedro and Lenka are fast asleep on the train after a busy day in Hiroshima, so I have stolen their computer and am taking over the Blogging duties. In the last exciting installment we had just left Tokyo. The adventure continues........Straying off the Shinkazen Bullet Train main-line we headed up through the Japanese Alps to the historic town of Takayama. The place was a great contrast to the

Lenka & Pedronoreply@blogger.com52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-612492105614081769.post-26601195105906427432007-06-04T07:20:00.000-07:002008-12-09T01:29:35.905-08:00

... With Richard!As always we have changed our plans a little bit and stayed in Seoul for one more day. We couldn't resist the party and the BBQ invitatons from our hosts, and as Richard (who we were meeting in Japan) was arriving two days after us so we had some leeway. We have made it again with Asiana Airines to Tokyo and got 90 days entry visa to Japan without any problems. Another stamp on

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We haven't been in touch with you for a long time, but we didn't know it would be so difficult to find an internet cafe in Beijing! So you would need to be a bit patient to see the lovely photos of Mao or of the Chinese Great Wall which was really amazing. But again I am writing ahead of time... From Taian we took the local train to Jinan, where we waited for a super fast connection to Beijing.

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We have arrived to Shandong, an overnight journey by train which would have been very comfortable - the beds and carriage certainly were -had it not been for the fact that we shared our 4-bed carriage with a guy who must certainly rank amongst the world's loudest snorers. As we tried (unsuccessfully) to sleep through the constant, never-ending rumble, we remembered all the people we met who

Lenka & Pedronoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-612492105614081769.post-31154884922081079332007-05-16T21:12:00.000-07:002008-12-09T01:29:36.702-08:00

So we are moving forward on our journey through this imense country. After our stay in Hangzhou, we took a bus (the tickets are bought in the china post office!) to Suzhou - town famous for its Unesco heritage gardens and beautiful women (as Pedro said, he could see the point about the women. For details please ask him:) We were welcomed into the house of Trevor, the English teacher, who is

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... Or this is at least what the adverts in the TV are saying. To be honest, this regular sized town (6 million people!!) is situated by a beautiful lake surrounded by gardens, small hills and old temples. We are staying in the university campus, in a "hotel" :) for foreign students. So from the expats point of view we are seeing China from the eyes of university students, in particular from

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We are now in the real China, after having made a short stopover at Hong Kong. Hong Kong was very distinct to Macau, certainly a lot less older european architecture, as the British architectural legacy seems to have been less marked than that of the Portuguese in Macau, but such a huge hub of activity! We walked around the streets of Hong Kong for the two days, visiting strange markets of

Lenka & Pedronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-612492105614081769.post-6392612357692114022007-05-02T08:45:00.000-07:002008-12-09T01:29:37.446-08:00

So our chinese adventure has now officially started! Back to the familiar smells of Asia, we are delighted to see again the deliciously looking food stalls, the incense-smelling budhist temples, the extremely useful low prices! But there is more to Macau than its oriental side, the one we had found in Thailand and Malaysia. There are two more sides to Macau in fact: Portugal and Gambling.The

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It has been a long time since we wrote something in our beloved blog, the North Island has been keeping us busy, so much to do in so little time! But our adventure through the Commonwealth islands of Australia and New Zealand has now come to an end, a 12,000km journey through hot and cold weather, tsunamis and snow storms, rain and scorching sun, extremes of a beautiful unique landscape which we

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So here we are again. Driving in New Zealand and following advices from our American friend Daniel living in Thailand and our English friend Will, who is now in Tanzania - this is pretty amazing - so many nationalities! We are in a lovely town in the north of South Island - Kaikoura. You can do whale watching here, swimming with dolpins, but we got a fantastic deal with a backpacker house

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That is much easier than looking for kangaroos in Australia! They are everywhere... With the gorgeous sceneries and deep lakes of New Zealand it is soo easy to look for them... :-) We left Dunedin, where we had a great couch surfing host Anne & Andy and start driving through the national park Caitlins towards our destination Milford Sound. It is soo easy to drive and to navigate in New Zealand

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And now we have passed the Tasman Sea, over to the other Commonwealth, a much colder one, New Zealand! We landed in Christchurch late at night and immediately the fresh brisk kiwi air told us we had left the tropics and were now in a very temperate, european weather, where the early autumn resembles the early autumn back home. But other differences followed, and will surely be made evident to us

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i{content: normal !important}So that's it! Schluss, finito! Six weeks passed and we don't know even how! We caught an early flight from Cairns today morning (waking up time 4.50am!), and departed to Sydney at 6.25am. I know, crazy times, but it was the cheapest (no wonder, with the timing!). Now we are waiting for the flight to our next destination, land of Kiwis and Hobbits - Christchurch, New

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It looks like that waking up at 5:30am will be now something which will happen quite often... but let me start from the beginning.We have left our fantastic hosts in Brisbane and made our journey up to north of Australia (well it is still 1300km:). Passing great beaches and small little towns like Noosa, Collum Beach, Rainbow Beach, driving to 1770 or Agnes Waters. Gorgeous! I just can't describe

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So it really happened after one more day on a beautiful beach in Byron Bay we woke up at 5:30am (the night was still dark with the australian star-field sky above us) and drove in our campervan with a great speed to Brisbane to meet Brian & his cousin Phil... We haven't woken up so early for a long time (even though we were trying to catch up with our alarm clock, which was not so successfull

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Days are flying here in Australia! It has been already three weeks from the time we have arrived and we have travelled thousands (yes, we can say thousands) of kilometers and thousands are in front of us. Coff's Harbour experience was amazing. We have seen the touristic - Big Banana (please don't ask me to explain, I will upload the photos soon:) and mostly important we have visited Caths &

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It is a long time again, when we have uploaded our blog, but this task seems to be more difficult in Australia, than it was in Asia. Not sure if it is because we have less time or because it is more expensive here:) Anyway just a quick update as we are staying in Dairyville, which is approximately 11 km from Coffs Harbour by a lovely couple Cath & Evan! They have this gorgeous huge house, really

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So we have left successfully Adelaide and started our long journey to Melbourne and to Sydney in our new homely campervan "ABBA". We got kind of a decent theme on it, after exchanging it for a "cocky" topic, which might have been offensive to some people:) It is a very basic but as well a great car (it is ours afterall) and it will be our 5star hotel on the 4000km long journey (it is nice change

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To start correctly I would still have to say something about Singapore. It is really a great city and country! It was a lovely place to finish our trip of Asia ( though you can't compare it with Kuala Lumpur or Bangkok). As they say Singapore is a really fine city:) Everything is spotless, big skyscrapers, lots of cafes, bars, restaurants, very very cosmopolitan. It was as well great reminder on

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We owe you short story about Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, but this would have to wait a little bit. We are just waiting for our flight to Adelaide - Australia! We have spend approximately 4 hours at the airport in Singapore. OK, we love it - live jazz band, behind the corner classical concert, free movie, gym and I am writing you these comments from free internet cafe:) Could you wish for more?

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So we have just left the sleepy, friendly town of Melaka. A historical town which makes a huge contrast to the metropolitan Kuala Lumpur, Melaka has gone through many hands, first a sultanate of itsown, then the Portuguese took over in 1511 but only for 130 years when the (evil) dutch came into the scene, followed by the brits in mid 19th century, and back to the Malays with the independence of

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Jenom zkracene...Mili rodicove a biologove,byli byste na me moc moc pysni! Byli tam tarantule a skorpioni a netopyri a ruzna jina havet! Dokonce jsem se nechala i premluvit a sla na nocni vylet dzungli! FUJ! Kolik haveti jsme videli....:) Ale prezila jsem, nic me nekouslo ani neoslizlo a velkym pavoukum jsem se vyhybala. Takze moje trauma ze stuttgartske zoo a pavilonu brouku prekonal vylet do

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We haven't written for a long time. Not because nothing was happening, but we were in places with no internet or mobile access! Yes, such places still exist on this earth:)After Georgetown we sat for 6 hours in the bus, which took us to the Cameron Highlands. Already by the name you could see that it wasn't a place on the beach, but 1500 meters above sea level. Perfect place for tea plantations,

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Yes, we have left our beloved Thailand! My visa has expired and it was time for us to move on. It was very hard and we were speculating at least for 2-3 days if we should stay longer and visit the Full moon party and probably another island Ko Lanta, which looked really fantastic. We thought if we can't keep the timetable of our travel for the first country, we won't get anywhere and that is

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I have completely forgotten to tell you that we have done a proper thai massage in Chiang Mai. It was a recommended place by our american friends ( we got a personal booking by them. The name of the owner was Mr. Nut and Pedro's masseuse was called Big Boy:) ) and it was a thai massage place just with blind people. We didn't believe with Pedro that we have agreed to pay for such a "torture" :)

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We have survived the 24h journey by train! Was an experience which took us through every means of transportation possible - started by a small tuk-tuk (3-wheel moped), then train, then minivan, followed by a ferry and finishing with a songthew (pronnounced song-tao and meaning two benches - a pickup truck with two facing benches at the back, the most common means of transport in Thailand outside

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So we have made it and survived the night train from Ayutthaya to Chiang Mai. It was actually perfect, we slept all night like babies (better than business class in a plane:)... but let's start from the beginning. After Siem Riep (Angkor) we left to the capital city of Cambodia - Phnong Pehn. Here, as it is a big town, you can spot the differences between people even more than in Siem Riep. We

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"Portuguese are very good" confides the tuk-tuk driver with a big toothless smile. He is showing us around the impressive ruins of the ancient Thai capital of Ayutthaya which, like the Portuguese nation, has seen better, glorious days. He takes us to see a giant budha figure carved out in a cave of sandstone, and from there we fed some huge catfish in a tranquil pond nearby. "Portuguese and Thais

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Yes, we haven't eaten or drunk anything strange, we feel great and we didn't forget what year it is (may be what day or date, but not what year!) but we went "back to the future":) According to the thai calendar it is the year 2550, the new years Eve celebration will be in April and this year is a special year for Buddha. So as you can see, we are back in Thailand. The nice thai immigration

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Continuing our adventure in Angkor and exploring the temples all over the place, we have decided as well to visit the "floating village", which is on the biggest lake with sweet water in Asia. Taking bravely our tuk-tuk driver at 7am (like going to the office), we started our journey and we were driving slowly towards the non-existing roads again. The place was rewarding! We felt like in national

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Yesterday we have arrived to Siam Reap, located in Cambodja. Yes, it is a very different country to Thailand, in many respects. Visibly much poorer and disorganised (begging and children working on the streets, non-existent in Thailand, is overwhelming in Cambodja). We are also as tourists strongly recommended to use the american dollar which can make day-to-day expenses significantly more

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This is what our beach looks like... Kwai river will, needless to say, have to wait a bit longer! We have prolonged for a couple of days our stay in the paradisical Ko Chang island in the east of Thailand, bordering Camboda, where we are staying in the Blue Lagoon bungalows, a collection of only 11 bungalows in a wonderful setting of a blue lagoon surrounded by mangrove forest, a very short walk

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Or otherwise called Bangkok (that is part of the official name, which Guiness states that it beats all those strange welsh and german names in terms of length)There has been a slight change of plans - the bridge over the river kwai made famous by the film with Alec Guiness (a different Guiness), will have to wait a few days - we decided enough was enough and we really couldnt wait any longer for

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We are moving hotels today in bangkok... not because there is something wrong with our current one (that is, in spite of the constant din from the bar below thank heavens for the ear plugs we bought before coming), but because Bangkok is big and we want to try living in a new neighbourhood... a quieter one this time, Khao San Road is the infamous backpacker ghetto of Bangkok, with more of an

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And here we are in Bangkok, having spent a different New Years eve party, a very Thai one - we were the only foreigners in the whole bar, a rare thing in Bangkok, so full that it is of tourists! In the photo, one of the new-found friends - his english was not great but he knew Figo and Poborsky, so we got along right from the beginning! Thai people are really amazingly friendly, always smiling

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We're nearly there - I can already smell the Thai food!Precisely in preparation for that, it is time to brush up on my Thai.And for a very simple lesson, here's a Thai joke....For more yummy-looking dishes, and how to pronounce them, check this great link

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... we had a great "leaving do" party before our journey. So here a short note for you - who missed it and for you - who don't remember much:). As most of you have seen the invitation, you remember the main theme of the party - which was: Empty the bar. Of course, there were some people, who didn't read it properly and brought some more bottles with them, which meant, that the bar looked exactly

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... we have realised that it is just one month before the journey. We will be leaving on 21th December for Christmas holidays to see our families and 28th December is the magic date, when we´ll get into the plane and will fly to Bangkok... Almost all is prepared! Which gives me a huge relief! As Pedro is saying I care too much and should relax, but when I see our to-do list getting shorter, I can

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Unbelievable! It is true...! Our 9 months sabbatical leave was approved and we will be leaving soon on our dream journey Around The World... Sounds just great and we were (and are) so happy about it, but afterwards you just start thinking, what all has to be done before the trip (or it is more me who starts thinking...:-) Before letting you know all of this, the most important decision was of

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