Chicago – The Windy City2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - September 26, 2021October 28, 2022 After a night spent on the outskirts of Detroit in the Hilton Garden Inn in Novi, it was time to venture even further west to Chicago. The journey down through Michigan State was quite entertaining, with us marvelling at place names like Climax, in Kalamazoo County, Sprinkle, Springfield (about the fourth one of those since Cape Cod… and still no Homer Simpson!), Valparaiso and Gary.This was
Hong Kong2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - December 17, 2017April 24, 2018 Hong Kong was to be our final fling - the last stop on our round-the-world jaunt, so as we boarded our plane in Singapore we were both excited, but at the same time a little melancholy at it being our last port of call.After a slightly bumpy landing at Hong Kong airport we hopped on to the Airport Express train for the quick run into
Singapore2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - December 4, 2017April 24, 2018 There are a couple of definites in Singapore. Heat and humidity is one and high-end shopping as far as the eye can see is the other. These were exactly the same when I first visited Singapore way back in the late 70s, but back then there was also still an enormous amount of character. Lots of the old buildings were still standing and it was
Penang – Malaysia2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mrs C - November 30, 2017April 24, 2018 Before we started this round of our travels, we'd decided that we were going to make our visit to Malaysia more of a 'beach break’ than another marathon week of sight-seeing. So before we even arrived in Penang, we were already feeling pretty chilled and relaxed. The flights from Sydney to Singapore and then Singapore to Penang were uneventful and our pre-booked taxi was already waiting
Melbourne and St Kilda2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - November 17, 2017April 24, 2018 Our whistle-stop tour of the Southern Hemisphere took us to the Melbourne area next. Melbourne, Australia's second city has been voted 'The Best City in the World’ to live recently and from a cakes point of view at least, we get it!Before we settled down to a week of chilling, we hired a car for a couple of days and took ourselves off onto the
Sydney – Australia2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mrs C - November 10, 2017September 6, 2022 Auckland to Sydney, just three hours separates them but the difference between the two countries is apparent from the minute you land. New Zealand, stunning as it is, is quiet and chilled. If it was a colour, it would be muted tones and conservative in nature. Sydney, Australia, on the other hand, though similarly relaxed, would be bright orange or pink, and loud, very loud!Sydney's
New Zealand – North Island2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - November 8, 2017April 24, 2018 How were we to top the last few days? What was North Island going to offer? Could it possibly get any better? South Island gave us some of the most impressive, most beautiful and most ‘awesome’ scenery we’ve ever seen. Auckland airport greeted us with grey skies and a cold southerly wind and after a complete fiasco with our car rental booking we were out
New Zealand – South Island2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mrs C - October 26, 2017April 24, 2018 South Island, New Zealand proved to be as idyllic as we'd expected. Apart from our fleeting but gorgeous visit to Cape Cod, the bit of our adventures I'd most been looking forward to was New Zealand. Unfortunately the journey there, all 13 hours of it, had to be borne first. We had the cheapest round-the-world flights we could find so weren't expecting an upgrade. Nonetheless,
Route 66 – Over the Hump2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - October 14, 2017June 19, 2018 Gallup was an unremarkable pivotal point in our Route 66 journey. Our trip switched from a westerly route to a northerly diversion off route. It had been our intention all along to head up into Utah to see the landscapes that had featured on so many books, films, album covers, postcards etc..It's funny how different it becomes leaving one of the main trunk roads and
Route 66 – The Middle Bit2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - October 1, 2017May 20, 2022 Oklahoma behind us, we got back onto Route 66 to see what 'the middle bit' had to offer. An overnight stop in Elk City on the western fringes of Oklahoma was the start of our journey over the plains; miles and miles of flat, straight roads with nothing to see from horizon to horizon except for an occasional grain silo and rows and rows of