Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Thursday, August 28, 2014 Upon debarking that morning we were entertained by a Military Brass Band on the pier. We also got a traditional Russian ‘bread and salt greeting’ to welcome us all to Korsakov. We got on board buses…
Sea of Okhotsk Expedition Kick-off
Tuesday, August 26, 2014 In the morning we walked over to Hilde and Tricia’s hotel. After a little last minute shopping, mainly for shoes, and some sushi lunch, we took our friends to board The World. We all attended the…
Japan and Friends
Saturday, August 23, 2014 After just under 24 hours traveling by car, train, plane, bus and taxi, we arrived in Hakodate, Japan, where we boarded the good ship The World for 4 weeks of pampering :). It was good to…
Brussel
Thursday, August 21, 2014 We said goodbye to Eeklo for now and took a train to Brussel. We’d never visited Brussel together before so we decided that after seeing lots of new and exotic places a visit to Belgium’s capital…
Arrived in Eeklo
Saturday, August 16, 2014 And then it had arrived, kind of faster than we’d expected, and bitter-sweet: the last driving day of our ‘Overland Adventure’. Sure, we’d still planned to go places before going home to San Francisco, but, as…
Heleen and Mark in Groningen
Thursday and Friday, August 14-15, 2014 It’s always good to take every opportunity to catch up with go0d friends so onto Groningen we went to see our Heleen and Mark.
Ilse and Nils in Hamburg
Monday to Wednesday, August 11-13, 2014 The main reason for stopping in Hamburg was to catching up with Ilse and Nils, and, to give Stephen an extra ‘tick’ in the ‘200 Best Cities Book – Lonely Planet’. We had the…
Arrival in Eeklo / Aankomst in Eeklo!!!!!
Save the Date – August 16 We set out on an Around the World Trip in May/June 2013. The Overland Adventure started for real on September 1, 2013, in Sydney, and will finish in Eeklo on August 16, 2014. In…
Berlin
Saturday, August 9, 2014 It was a 600km drive from Krakow to Berlin and we were back on the good old E40, which was in ‘slightly’ better nick than in some of the other countries we’d been on it, so…
Krakow
Thursday, August 7, 2014 Move day with a drive from Warsaw, south to Krakow. The road was good, fast and most importantly had by-passes around most of the small villages. We got a little rain along the way. Also along…
Warsaw
Monday, August 4, 2014 Hello Poland! It was a long drive, but still managed to make it to Warsaw in time to get into the executive lounge and gobble up a free meal and down a few drinks before closing…
Vilnius
Saturday, August 2, 2014 A move day combined with a number of tourist activities. In fact more tourist activities than we had planned. We left Riga and headed to the Hill of Crosses. Although the hill is modest in size,…
Riga
Thursday, July 31, 2014 Our GPS got a little confused and could not work out the way to Riga. But we didn’t panic! Pulled out the backup paper map and headed on gut feeling and a south westerly bearing. It…
Tartu
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 We said goodbye to Kristin, Jan and Viggo and headed off to Tartu. The drive was pleasant enough and not too long. The road was littered with speed cameras giving us a good reason not to…
Tallinn
Monday, July 28, 2014 As we drove off the ferry, we appeared to be singled out for a little customs check. It was almost like they knew we were coming, with everyone else being waved through. Although the customs check…