We said goodbye to our time in Venice with one last stroll along the beach, packed up and thanks to Helen’s cousin; John we had a lift over to La Canada where her Aunt lives with husband Joe. So far it’s been a pretty easy … Read More →
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Yoga Teacher Training with Erich Schiffmann 12-21st August 2011
After Zoe (good friend and yoga teacher from the UK) mentioned Erich Schiffmann’s name to me when we were originally organising the USA part of our trip, it always stuck with me…’Make sure if we go to LA to do a yoga session with Erich … Read More →
USA – Los Angeles – Venice Beach – 19th August
Each Friday in Venice Beach is a small but well rounded Farmers Market (Venice Way & Venice Blvd) which has a great selection of produce. A few of our favorites include home made humus, falafel, salad leaves, fruits and some great tomatoes! Helen has only … Read More →
USA – Los Angeles – Santa Monica & Manhattan Pier – 17th August
We got up early and had the usual breakfast. Every Wednesday in Santa Monica they close off a small section of streets and have a Farmers Market take place. On our way along the beach walk Helen “Hung Tough” and easily beat Dave by going … Read More →
USA – Los Angeles – 12th August
Up at 6am today as we were both feeling jet-lagged, making ourselves stay in bed as long as we could having woken up on the hour since about 3am. The early wake up was good though as it meant we could get to the Venice … Read More →
USA – Los Angeles – 11th August
Part two of notworkrelated begins with an early start in the UK to make our way to Heathrow airport for our noon flight with British Airways to LA. We have decided to this time to purchase a round the world ticket for most of our … Read More →
Editin’ the night away
The MacBook has been working over-time recently, working on some fairly hefty image resolutions and demanding spot removal editing techniques (must remember to always clean the lens!). The 2TB hard drives are filling up fast and our online gallery is slowly increasing in size as … Read More →
Travel Insurance and Accommodation
Travel Insurance We have found a few little gems recently whilst sorting out last minute bits for our trip. After the nightmare we’ve experienced with STA Travel and their very unwillingness to help us with our insurance claim we decided to go a little more … Read More →
From digital negatives to physical prints…
How many people take photographs either back at home or whilst on a round the world travel adventure? And how many actually get them printed rather than leaving them on a hard drive or photo sharing websites? For us; physical prints are a big part … Read More →
My (Our) 7 Links
Recently on Twitter we were asked if we had taken part in the “My 7 Links” feature from Tripbase. A week or so later we appeared in Wired2theworlds post and they nominated us to do exactly the same. So we both sat down together and … Read More →
Notworkrelated Part 2!
Well it’s been just over four months since we returned home from Koh Phangan Island in Thailand due to unexpected circumstances and during this time we have had the chance to rest a little from the stresses of travelling, reminisce about all the great times … Read More →
USA – Sightseeing in Seattle – 25th August
If you were to read ‘things to do in Seattle in one day’ we would probably have ticked nearly all of the boxes! Today was our first day of proper sightseeing fitting in with the tourists so to speak. After spending some time photographing our … Read More →