retirement world tour
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NZ2
2nd Three Weeks in New Zealand – this time Greytown Posting this a few weeks after our trip is over and we are back home – mowing lawn, weeding, finding leaks from the rain that visited more than ever whilst away and left our “garden” as an overgrown plot for a Steven King movie. The Continue reading
Carterton Fair, Cobblestones Early Settler Museum, Durie Hill Elevator, Featherston, Fell Locomotive Museum, funicular railway, Gallipoli @ Te Papa Tongarewa Museum, Greytown, Lambton Quay, Makatote Rail viaduct, Martinborough, Mount Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, Pacific Ring of Fire, Taupō Volcanic Zone, Tongarewa Museum, Tongariro, Train to Wellington, tsunami warning, Waiohine Gorge, Waiohine River, Whanganui -
Spain
This is our final instalment of the three- or four-part series on our three-month European whatsup trip. The main focal points being The Netherlands, Berlin, Northern Spain, with a yarn or two about the UK (London, Horsham, Brighton, Portsmouth, and of course our mini-cruise, the ferry). Noja Lovely overnight on the ferry. Pilar and Josera Continue reading
Bilbao, Cantabria, Cave of the Castle, Caves of Monte Castillo, Columbus Day Weekend, Cueva de El Castillo, Día de la Hispanidad, Estación del Norte, Fiesta Nacional de España, Gran Hotel, Guggenheim, Hispanic Day, Joana Vasconcelos, Laredo, Las Arenas, Nervion River, Noja, Northern Spain, Portugalete, Puente Viesgo, Santander, Santona, Spain, The Bride, The Gran Hotel, transporter bridge, Vizcaya Bridge -
UK
Leaving Germany to Horsham, UK 30 September Sunday Goodbye Berlin. It has been an amazing stay. A really nice cosy flat, super hosts, beautiful views, great bikes and easy public transport. I think we’ll be back. Our host, Frank, drove us to Schönefeld Airport (the secondary international airport of Berlin used for these short flights). Continue reading
AmeriCARna Horsham, Arundel Castle, Banksy, Banskey ‘kissing cops’, Brighton, Charles Dickens’ Birthplace Museum, Easy Jet, Frankenstein, Gatwick Airport, Generation XYZ, Gingerbread House, Gunwharf, Horsham, Horsham Museum and Art Gallery., Mary Shelley, Percy B. Shelley, Pont-Aven, Portsmouth, Snailspace sculptures, St. Mary the Virgin, Theobald House, UK -
Berlin
Follow @neuage Tweet to @neuage Holland was a hoot. (previous Europe post) We’ll be back. We said that six times before and sure enough we went back. Seems as if we have a January/February 2020 stay lined up. We did a winter stay two years ago; not sure if it is best for bike riding. Continue reading
Altona Park, Berlin, Brandenburg Gate, Cecilienhof, Checkpoint Charlie, Crown Prince Wilhelm, East Germany museum, Erich Honecker, Germany, Joseph Stalin, Kladow, Kleine Cornelia, Leonid Brezhnev, Peacock Island, Perlin-Spandau, Potsdam, Potsdam Conference, President Harry Truman, Rathaus Spandau, reciprocal health care agreement, Schlachtensee, Spandau Castle, St. Nicholas Church, The Berlin Wall, The Citadel, the Holländerhäuser, The Margraves of Brandenburg, URBAN NATION, Urban Nation Museum, Utrecht Centraal, Wall Museum East Side Gallery, Wannsee, Winston Churchill -
London2018
Kuala Lumpur to London 07/August/2018 11 am – One hour into our flight, Australia all around; sky, land, air, Australian clouds drifting by, sure they are foreign, ruffled refurbished refugee clouds. This sky again – millions of years in the making, I have seen it before, multiple times. Machine learning sky, reformatting to my projections; Continue reading
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Amritsar
Amritsar For some reason, forget why now, we decided we had enough train journeys in India, so we booked round-trip flights between Delhi and Amritsar. The cost was $71.50 round trip for each of us, the train would have taken us six-hours, the plane less that an hour. Getting to the airport was easy, only Continue reading
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Kerala
Kerala is a state on India’s tropical Malabar Coast. Did you know: Kerala has the highest life expectancy at birth (74.9) during 2010-14 among all Indian states. wikipedia.org Narda writing Terrell writing Thiruvananthapuram 20 – February Our hostess is an Indian Jessica. Softly spoken, sweet, helpful and intelligent, with long dark hair and a gentle Continue reading
airbnb, Aussie dollar, Cheranallur, Chinese Fishing Nets, Dhobi Khana, Fort Kochi, god of cricket, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, Kerala, Kingfisher beer, Kovalam, Kundannoor Bridge i, LuLu Mall, Netflix, North Gate, Panampilly Nagar, Panangad Island, Periyar river, Ray Kurzweil, Sachin Tendulkar, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Tamil villagers, The Black Panther, Thiruvananthapuram, Thiruvananthapuram Zoo, tuk tuk, Uber, Valiathura Beach., Varapuzha, Varapuzha bridge, Veli Street, Vembanad, Villa Maya Heritage Restaurant, Vrindavan Restaurant, Yuval Harari -
Mumbai
Mumbai 08 – 13 February 2018Narda writing in italics Terrell – whatever is left Hopefully you caught the one before – The fantastic Blue City of Jodhpur https://neuage.me/2018/02/23/jodhpur/ Things that are surprising. Toilet paper and tissues are cheaper in Australia. Indian food is so good. It’s better than in Australia. Lots better, consistently. That might Continue reading
Apollo Bun, Bentley’s Hotel, Bombay, Cafe-Mondegar, Domino’s pizza, Elephanta Island, John Lennon and Oko, Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, King George V and Queen Mary, Leopold Caf, Mario Miranda, Mumbai, mustard oil, Oberoi Trident, Rajasthan, Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, The Gate of India, Unesco World Heritage Site -
Jodhpur
Jodhpur 05-07/February/2018 We arrived via Indian Railroad from Jaisalmer last night about 11 pm but after getting settled; including having toast with peanut butter and jam (if I were ever caught by a hostile regime and I said I was not an American, and they put out peanut butter and jelly (jam) I would be Continue reading
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Jaisalmer
01 – 04 February 2018 Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India We left Jaipur at midnight to Jaisalmer taking a 2nd class sleeper. First class was filled when we booked three months earlier. Narda took the upper bunk and seemed to sleep more than me. A woman in the bunk across from me snored louder than anyone I Continue reading
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Jaipur
Jaipur in the state of Rajasthan 25 January, Thursday Narda slept most of the way from Agra to Jaipur. We had first class sleepers which were comfortable. I sat up the whole way (six hours) and played with some Photoshop stuff. We got to Jaipur after eleven pm and took the first tuk tuk driver Continue reading
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India2018: Agra
Travels through India with Terrell Neuage and Narda Biemond. India 2018 itinerary Previous blog: Delhi Wednesday 24/01/2018 Agra We were up at five am after not sleeping well all night from waking up constantly to be sure we were awake at five am. We had our phone alarms on (my wake-up ring tone is a Dylan Continue reading
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Terowie
5 April 2017 Terowie, South Australia Robert said he heard his mate calling him from mid-north SA. So he and his wife packed up, and moved there. They bought a house for $90,000 opposite Robert’s mate’s garage. He told us about the murders in Terowie. “Just like Snowtown”, he said, “Maybe worse. These victims were Continue reading
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Two ponts and a castle
30 January Monday DAY 66 of trip Previous to this trip videos: Riding on Rienk’s boat through the canals of Utrecht https://youtu.be/Per0jb8JszU Sep 17, 2012 / ‘Hup Holland Hup’, Narda and friend at the Dalian International School singing the song supporting the Dutch soccer team – https://youtu.be/9rrMeajC6v0 a classic not to be missed / another Continue reading
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Returning Home
Utrecht part 2 See part one toward the end of our last blog Washington DC to Amsterdam and life in between Continue reading
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More of not the same
01 January Sunday DAY 37 of one-hundred fifteen of our round-the-world retirement catching up with family and friends tour and trying to do a low-carb vegetarian diet Back in DC. Great start to the year! Kids went out for New Year’s Eve and we babysit and got to bed by 10pm. Our kind of night Continue reading
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Marijuana friendly-Oregon
E-book storefront http://neuage.papertrell.com/ new photo-textual fun – HERE Sunday 17-12-2016 Day 22 of one-hundred fifteen of our round-the-world retirement catching up with family and friends tour and trying to do a low-carb vegetarian diet Despite dire warnings about the Artic Vortex and freezing rain, our flight to Portland took off right on time. Terrell and Continue reading
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Day 6/7 01 – 02 December: Thursday and Friday 70th Annual Kaimuki Christmas Parade Our last night in Hawaii was as local as you can get. We took the 13 bus. The actual stop, we discovered on our last day was right outside our block of flats; you just had to go to the Continue reading
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Day 5 & 6 of 116 day retirement world-tour > Oahu
Day 5 & 6 of trip or day 4 & 5 in Hawaii 29/11/2016 Tuesday/Wednesday We are getting better at this time zone change situation. I took this picture when we were almost all the way to Hawaii to remind myself which side of the day I was on. Flying over the International Dateline and Continue reading
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Day 4 of 116 day retirement world-tour > Oahu
Nothing says “this is Hawaii” better than having Elvis with some hula girls singing on Waikiki Beach. Yes, it is him – the reason it is blurry is because no one was supposed to have seen this. Like in those UFO photos. What is more iconic in Hawaii than Elvis with hula girls? Well Elvis Continue reading
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Day 3 > Honolulu
Day 3 Sunday 28/11/2016 Honolulu One of my first impressions of Hawaii when I first arrived in December, 1969, was all the images of a cold northern winter. Australia does this too. Both places with no snow in sight for thousands of kilometres unless you go to the mall. Then there are songs about dashing Continue reading
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