tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51263498824325690092011-09-15T19:24:19.382+01:00Speaks for itself. This is going to be my online diary of my overland trip from London to Sydney then on to New Zealand before returning home.Matt's Big Triphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14426862700526287350noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5126349882432569009.post-57274655902616181402010-12-23T08:46:00.000Z2010-12-23T08:46:23.931Z

As you may know, dear reader, my big trip officially finished in Sydney but as I was in this neck of the woods I had decided to append a New Zealand excursion to make this an even bigger trip.  What you probably don't know is that my gorgeous work colleague Louise was joining me for this.   What you also probably don't know is that some of my colleagues at work nick named me Hagar after Hagar the

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Well here we are in Sydney having reached the destination of our UK to OZ adventure.  As you know, dear reader, I left Kuta in Bali before the rest of the Motley Crew to spend some additional time in Kakadu and Arnhem land before we trolled on through the Northern Territory to South Australia then via the Great Ocean Road to Sydney. I arrived in Darwin early in the morning and spent much of that

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Well dear reader here we are in OZ ready to start the last leg of our London to Sydney trip and the penultimate country in my big trip.  Since leaving Vietnam a number of countries have been visited, one missed altogether and one where I spent only a day in before moving on.  We left Vietnam and crossed into Cambodia in what had to  be the quickest and easiest border crossing ever.  We paid $25

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So, if you remember I mentioned about the hellish train journey from Xian to Beiging and the just as hellish return despite our having seats well I thought that I'd borrow one of Neil's photos to give you an idea of how bad this really was.  If you can believe it trollies were wheeled through every half an hour or so until about midnight.  Anyway that's all behind me now. The look says it all!

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So dear reader here we are again me writing about my trip and you becoming more envious as time goes on.  However not everything is enviable.  The trip from Pokhara to Kathmandu took nearly ten hours rather than the expected seven and I can tell you that this was the road trip from hell but we did eventually arrive in Kathmandu where I spent three days catching up on times gone by.  Did all the

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So avid readers I am now about a third of the way through my big trip and am ending this update fromm Pokhara as I won't have time when I get to Kathmandu.  As you may have been able to tell the last update was finished off in a bit of a rush as Internet access was sketchy and I had delayed publishing until I could hold off no longer knowing how you, dear reader, was being starved of information

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It has been increasingly difficult to get Internet connectivity and as there has beeen no free Wi-Fi and the keyboards in the Internet Cafes don't seem to have all the letters where you would expect them. In fact some have more characters than you know what do with. As a consequence and also because I'm having too much fun this update has been some time coming. Our journey in Turkey continued

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Once again I find myself with a little time on my hands and have decided to update my avid readers on what has been happening since Bucharest (Nothing much!).  We left Bucharest on a miserable morning (drizzling heavily) which brightened up as we got closer to Bulgaria.  After crossing the border we stopped of at Velika Tarnova which as you all know was the capital of Bulgaria before it was moved

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Last time I wrote we had just reached Prague (Czech Republic for those who don't know).  It had started raining when we left Prague and so conditions were pretty damp for the next few days.  From the Czech Republic we drove into Austria and arrived in Vienna in the rain.  As we got to Vienna Saturday evening we got to see the city while it was both shut and raining. Spanish Riding Schools

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Met with my fellow travellers early on the 6th.  There are 40 of us in total (lots of people to piss off!, maybe too many).  After mucking about for some time we left for Dover and the ferry to the continent. The Motley Crew Made good time and got to Dover only to discover Sea France on strike so no ferry!! Managed to get another one and so no major problems, well not until just outside

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When people knew I was departing on a big trip many were over joyed (can't understand why!) but almost all of them asked 'are you going to run a blog?'  My initial response was that I couldn't be bothered but I'd add their names to my list of trip watchers and I'd send regular updates (or maybe not!). As I now have a bit of time on my hands getting ready for the off I decided to look at what was

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