August 2011
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testing tumble upload
Testing the iPads upload
April 2011
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August 2010
3 posts
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Short one this. Yesterday saw us visit Corfu town, spending five or six hours wandering around town, shopping, photographing, meandering and, er, more wandering. I took the opportunity to test out the gps on my camera to see if it actually is as accurate as it claims to be. Hopefully as you read this you can go and click on our flickr map and see lots of new pinpricks scattered across Corfu...
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Days 3 and 4 in Corfu
Short one this. Yesterday saw us visit Corfu town, spending five or six hours wandering around town, shopping, photographing, meandering and, er, more wandering. I took the opportunity to test out the gps on my camera to see if it actually is as accurate as it claims to be. Hopefully as you read this you can go and click on our flickr map and see lots of new pinpricks scattered across Corfu...
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We are in Greece!
Day one of our holiday sees me casually blogging on my iPad next to the pool looking out over the sea! Not bad!
I decided to make this the first holiday in a while i didn’t take a laptop/net book on to see just how well this iPad thing works. My objective is to keep myself entertained and informed using the ipad while keeping in touch with folks back home. A little overkill for a week in...
June 2009
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The Last Story
So we’re a LOT behind on blogging… so much so we’re now back home, only just though…kinda! Yes we have been busy since our last blog and for those following this we should tell you what we have actually been up to.
We last left you hanging in suspense… we were supposed to be throwing ourselves out of a plane the next day, in Taupo, New Zealand! Well, sadly, we didn’t due to the rain. However...
April 2009
4 posts
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Rob Falls in Love
Yes, yes. It’s a little late again. We’re sorry.
We are now in the awesome New Zealand, land of the long white cloud. I will, however, pick up where I left you - in the hostile depths of Australia! Wow, we’ve done a whole lot since then…
Sydney and Melbourne
We spent our second day in and around Sydney and their impressive Powerhouse museum which used to hold the...
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A Few Videos
Hey all!
I’ve stuck up a load of photos and a few videos
http://www.backpackgeek.com/photos/album/72157616727522778/videos.html
Enjoy!
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Catching Up!
My, my are we behind on these!!! Elee’s blogged all about Fraser Island (which was awesome), so I guess I’ll bring you up to speed from there!
From Hervey Bay we packed up our stuff and drove down the Steve Irwin’s Zoo just out side of Brisbane. The zoo was fantastic, full of all sorts of random animals I’ve never seen before. There we keepers in the tiger enclosure...
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Fraser Island
Hello everyone! Sorry for the lack of updates on the blog front but hopefully we can now get you up to speed!
Since our last blog we’ve been to Rockhampton, beef capital of Oz, had, just one (much to Rob’s dissapointment), tasty steak between us where we were entertained by some v drunk crazy girls dancng very oddly! We then drove on down to Hervey Bay, Fraser Island stop by point...
March 2009
4 posts
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Roadtrippin'
Hello all!!
This one is coming from the campervan as we travel from Mackay to Rockhampton. We’ve been in the chubby (the campervan) for five days now steadily making our way south along highway one from Cairns. The first two days was spent cruising round the Tablelands to the west of Cairns. This national park was really with some magnificant waterfalls and views as we meandered up and...
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Chang Beer Kicked Rob's Ass
Sorry about the late update! Us geeks havent had as much internet access as we thought we would have!!
So update: Chiang Mai was awesome! The trekking was really good fun and we met some really great people. Shout out to Theresa, Rob, Paul, Thomas and Stefanie! We started the first day around the pool at our hotel (BMP - very good!), then went into the city in the evening to have a look around...
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Oh my Buddha!
NB - This post is now a week old - photos of the trek are up but I’ve not written it all up yet! Coming soon!!
Hello everyone!!
Blog post number two comes from the train from Bangkok to Chiang Mai. We’ve slept the night on board and are now sat on my bed admiring the sceneary as we climb northwards into the jungley area of the northern city.
Our trip to the beach 2 days ago...
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Never Confuse A Caramel Keg with a Brazillian...
Trip blog number one! Today we put the travel in travelling and are about to bust our body clocks as we arrive in Bangkok at 6AM. I’m currently sat at the departures gate in Abu Dhabi. We’re flying with Etihad airways which, so far, has been an absolute pleasure! We had top quality food on the flight just gone, and a selection of about 40 films to watch.
The only downer was Elee...
February 2009
3 posts
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First Video Blog!
Wowzerz!
Three days until we leave! Elee’s packing her bags now, and we made a little, silly, unprepared or rehearsed video. Enjoy!
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New Gear!!!
Wahooo! First blog post for me!!! We have put some pics up of Rob’s backpack and our little computer we are taking with us, she’s called Eee! No not named after me ;) It’s definitely a girl as it’s cute and small so if Rob ever says otherwise he is wrong. Aaaanyway back to things you may be interested in. So you can see Rob’s backpack which is cool, but not as cool as...
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15 Days to Go
15 days until we depart and things are looking, well, OK!
We’re insured now (at last!), we’ve got our backpacks, all our medical stuff, vaccinations, hostels booked, flights, tranportation, some trips, monies..wow!
First things learnt is to understand that there’s a significant expense outside of spending money, flights and accommodation. Sun cream is around about £10 a...
January 2009
2 posts
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Site Launch!
Wah-hey!
The site’s hanging together pretty well at this point. Let me give you a tour:
The Trail Look right. That list of bullet points there is “The Trail”. It shows you exactly what we’ve been up to. It’ll show the images we’ve posted, the tweets we’ve made, the videos we’ve uploaded, the blogs we’ve written and the check-in’s on...
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Web 2.0 Meets Backpacker
Welcome, and thank you for stopping by.
You’ve stumbled upon a website dedicated to tracking and archiving the trip of two backpackers from the UK as they head around the world during 2009. We’re using online technologies and services to record our trip in realtime, posting back comments, photos, videos and blog posts for our families and friends to read.
If you’re interested...