Friday, January 9, 2009

Top Ten Memories of our First Year Travelling

You know as we approach the end of each year, there are programmes and newspaper articles listing the top "x" number of events for the year, i.e. BBC Sports Personality, top news stories and similar, well we decided to do the same. (By the way, who was the Sports Personality of the year?) Below, in no particular order (as we can never get them where we want them), are our top ten pictures showing our favourite memories of the last year.


Carolyn and Farhad's fantastic wedding in Sri Lanka.
This was the champagne cruise, following the wedding ceremony. If you don't remember the original post, it rained all afternoon, but as you can see, we all had a great time.
A memory of travelling in India with Mark and Denise. This was us, on our way out for a night on the town. Just kidding, it was the end of the Colour Festival in Jaipur. Happy Holy!
Wow - the Taj Mahal.
This was the Ko Samui Regatta, in Thailand. Our first sailing experience on this trip.
The Tiger Temple, in Thailand. Who's enjoying this most?


Swimming in lovely warm water.
Another great sailing experience. We helped deliver this boat, Remington and its Captain, from Phuket to Tioman in Malaysia.

Trekking in Thailand. It always rains when we go trekking. Funnily enough, it's raining now as we write this, so we have put off today's trekking until tomorrow.


Mooned by pigs in Cambodia. One of numerous photos showing the different uses for motorbikes.

Playing "What's the time Mr Wolf?" with the kids in Cambodia.

The Angkor Temples in Siem Reap. One of our best memories is of regularly riding our little motorbike round the temples, just like the locals, in nice cool shade with amazing architecture/history.


Our van in New Zealand. On the road to nowhere for Max and Paddy fans. We even found a pig.

Some of our friends that we met along the way and haven't seen for a long time. This is Tanya and Vikas in India.
Mongrel and Bill at the Phuket Regatta.

More friends - Siham and Tony from our time sailing in Thailand.

Scott - from Ko Samui Regatta.

Gary Baguley - owner and skipper of El Coyote. Gary was very good to us and got us out on the water many times. We enjoyed sailing and socialising with him. Gary - hopefully see you soon for more sailing and socialising.
We have met many other fabulous people along the way and certainly our most favourite memory is of these people, too many to mention here.
Gal and Arry's Curry cruise continues and we are working on the next top ten.








































2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi Garry & Alison,
Your blog popped up in our Google alerts because of the mention of the regatta.
Hope you can make it back this year!
Callum
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Chairman
www.samuiregatta.com

Unknown said...

Heya, Toni sent me the link to your blog so have been jealously stalking you and stealing your photos! New Zealand was awesome - glad you can spend a bit more time there than I managed!
Best wishes, Rachael