Category: World Trip 1999-2000
A 118-day world trip visiting six countries – New Zealand, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, and Wales between 11 November 1999 and 6 March 2000.
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Thursday 27 January 2000 Highlights: Leaving USA Straight to the airport for an uneventful flight from Los Angels to London (Heathrow) followed by a train trip to gets us to Notting Hill our location for the next few days in a small hotel. It is good to say goodbye to the backpacker hostel for a…
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Wednesday 26 January 2000 Highlights: Venice Beach. We arrived at 4 am and luckily the hostel let us check straight in and crash. The bus trip was mostly fine and I even got some sleep but thank god that is the last overnight bus trip. They save time and money but really knock down your energy…
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Tuesday 25 January 2000 Highlights: Golden Gate Bridge, Girhardelli House Ice cream. For our last day in San Francisco we decided to walk to the Golden Gate Bridge, so called because of the entrance to the bay. We totally misjudged the distance and ended up walking for over 2 hours. I know I felt the…
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Monday 24 January 2000 Highlights: Girhardilli House, Fisherman’s Wharf, Cable Cars We woke to very heavy rain but that is no excuse no to explore. We walked down to Fisherman’s Wharf and split up. Jon visited Alcartz which I skipped having been there only 14 months ago. Instead I explored the local area in particular…
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Sunday 23 January 2000 Highlights: Nothing today. Leaving Los Angeles on the 3 am bus, I’m not sure what we were thinking here, we didn’t get into San Francisco until after 11 am and it was raining heavily. Possibly the worst trip on a Greyhound Bus so far and that is saying something! After arriving…
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Saturday 22 January 2000 Highlights: Six Flags Magic Mountain. After confusion at the hostel over our booking to Magic Mountain we paid an additional $11 (total $71) for transport and entrance. Magic Mountain is purely a roller coaster attraction with a DC Super Hero theme. The best ride was the Riddler’s Revenge. You stand up,…
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Friday 21 January 2000 Highlights: Universal Studios, live taping of ‘Suddenly Susan’ Like the backpackers we are we caught the public bus to Universal Studios saving about $8, every bit counts. The highlight at the park was the Terminator 2 3D show. The show includes live actors plus footage of all the movie stars including…
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Thursday 20 January 2000 Highlights: Mann’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood Walk of Fame We caught the Metro Train system into Los Angeles with a mission to find out how to get to Universal Studios and Magic Mountain. We visited Mann’s Chinese Theatre and the Hollywood Walk of Fame checking out all the famous movie stars’ handprints.…
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Wednesday 19 January 2000 Highlights: Winning a deck of cards 🙂 Before the afternoon express bus to Los Angeles we had time for one last gambling experience. While I didn’t win any money on a free slot machine I won a pack of games, lucky me 🙂 All up we gambled at the Stratosphere, Las…
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Tuesday 18 January 2000 Highlights: Paris Casino, ‘Viv Las Vegas’ show, The Star Trek Experience We slept in today after our 3 am night of gambling and exploring Las Vegas. Today was about visiting more casinos, starting with MGM Grand and moving onto the Stratosphere Casino which was about 6 kms away. At the Stratosphere…
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