Some may say the trip of a life time! To retire from work for 2 years and travel the globe. Sounds very tough - NOT! Let us take you through our journey beginning with the Trans Mongoligan Railway from St. Petersburg to Bejing, China, South East Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia), Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and South America, including Antarctica and the Galapagos! When will it end you may ask? Well that's when the money runs out, so lets wait and see.

06 October 2005

Oktoberfest in Villa General Belgrano - Argentina

Just had three days at Oktoberfest, (the 2nd biggest one in the world apparently) a couple of hours from Cordoba, in this funny wooden small German/Swiss town. Loads of beer, fantastic cultural dances from around the world, loads of traditional sausages and of course struddel. Due to the extremely busy time of the year we did have to visit the tourist office daily to try and find new accommodation. After the first two days it did not look like we would be lucky enough to get anything, so we moved on to another town for two nights, and then came back. We had Rebecca with us the first night, and Richard for the whole time. Rebeccas boyfriend is driving overland truck tours in South America, and guess who we managed to bump into, with his tour group! The interesting night I want to tell you about though was the third one. In the festival grounds Rich was drinking like a fish and pegged the pace rather high. The entertainment was again fantastic, and we saw new dancing acts. The crowd went wild for the Scottish band. Quite bizzare really! (Out of a very serious request from Ian, I have edited this part. If you have already read it, you will know why, and if you have not - then never mind. Make it up for yourself.) ................................................................................... I started off the next morning with a photo, (Richard was not able to join me in my search because he had the biggest hang over ever, and was having to use the tiolet to part with his insides!)...............I did actually find him casually walking down the street towards our place. Considering everything that had happened, I´m such a good girlfriend - cooked him and Rich, a huge spag. bog. Which also meant that we stayed yet another night, for the boys to recover! :)

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Lauren ,
Dad calling from Noojee , Primary school . Drove the bus out for Fairview . Hi i'm Mark and my class and i are going to save your site on favorites for further comments and to watch where you travel.

28 October, 2005

 
Blogger Lauren said...

Hi Mark and Noojee Primary School,
Happy to get your message.
Ians site has loads more photos if you want to have a look sometime. It is ianjlaw.blogspot.com

14 November, 2005

 

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