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Graduation Complete

In another step towards our travels around SEA I graduated this week from Deakin University in Geelong with a Master of Leadership degree. It took m...

Nick
September 19, 2025
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Geelong for Graduation

We’re on our countdown to our big trip, that’s what this site is really for, but for the next few nights we’re in Geelong for my g...

Nick
September 13, 2025
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Day 8 – Universal Studios Beijing

Today we went to Universal Studios Beijing as we like a theme park, and this one has been built and run like a US theme park; clean, well looked after and generally excellent all round. There isn’t anything we could fault here, other than setting the seed that if we were to pop over to...

Nick
October 23, 2025
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Day 7 – Temple of Heaven

Conveniently located down the road from our hotel, this UNESCO world heritage site (https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/881/) should have been easy to organise a visit to. However, the complexities of arranging anything independently made obtaining tickets a BIG deal…..how hard can it be I hear you ask… well I’ll tell you… Normally a visit to the internet would...

Wendy
October 22, 2025
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Day 6.1 – Beijing, the ‘Inn’ at the Temple of Heaven

It seems to get worse … The taxi drives us from the airport, it’s quite a long drive as the airport is situated someway from the city of Beijing. All is going well and I’m tracking the progress of our taxi using Apple Maps which actually works quite well in Beijing. travelling from south to...

Nick
October 21, 2025
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Day 6 – OMG Beijing Arrival

What a welcome to Beijing!!! NOT!!! The announcement on the aircraft, to my ears, was along the lines of if you don’t record fingerprints when you arrive at Daxing International Airport (Beijing) you are likely to be deported; that didn’t feel like the welcome I was expecting!! Anyway, we are pretty much compliant with authorities...

Nick
October 21, 2025
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Day 5 – Last day in Hong Kong

So, our last day in Hong Kong, and the end of the trip in our first country. We’ve had a great few days here, but took it a little easier on the last day as we’ve worn ourselves out pretty much with all the walking. BTW, we’ve been keeping a track of our steps through...

Nick
October 20, 2025
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