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PVI Project 2012

terry — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:41:21 +0000

Project Vietnam Inc – Building Project 11-24 March 2012 The Job This year’s building team project for Project Vietnam was based in Phu Ly, the same as last year’s. Phu Ly is a small provincial town about an hour’s drive South of Hanoi in Ha Nam Province. The actual site was a small kindergarten in [...]

Ninh Binh – Tam Coc

terry — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:13:41 +0000

With Sunday being an official day off work from our PVI project, Christine and I organised to hire a bus and travel South to Ninh Binh, a trip of about an hour.We were only able to get a bus for the morning, Sunday being a very big day for weddings and the driver having already [...]

Vietnam before Our PVI Project

terry — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:23:38 +0000

Our annual building project with the team fro “Project Vietnam” was due to start on 10 March so we flew out of Perth on the 3rd, for an overnight stop in Kuala Lumpur then on to Ho Chi Minh City. THis would give us a week in Vietnam before the work started. We made an [...]

Sentosa, Singapore

terry — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:59:22 +0000

Sentosa Island, Singapore. Originally called Pulau Blakang Mati (Island of Death from Behind), this tiny island had been a British Naval Fortress, home of the British forces in Singapore and a powerful defence against attack from the Straits of Malacca. Unfortunately, it proved to be woefully ineffective against the land-based invasion the Japanese launched in [...]

Ubud

terry — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:01:56 +0000

We spent 4 nights in Ubud, having travelled over from Lombok via air. We had arranged a pickup from Denpasar, a useful move because the price is set at 25,000Rp by the Ubud tourism group anyway and it means we didn’t have to deal with the taxi touts out the front. It took about an [...]

Lombok

terry — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:21:40 +0000

We flew into Lombok on Nov 28th, leaving Perth the night before and flying via Singapore. This is definitely NOT a preferred option, the whole trip taking around 25 hours, only 4 of which could really be counted as sleep. However, circumstances meant that we already had tickets to Singapore so we elected to use [...]

Charnley River Station and Jandamarra

terry — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 02:38:32 +0000

Charnley River Station. What a hidden gem! We have never before ventured off the Gibb River Road and travelled the 47kms North that it takes to reach this delightful station stay. Previously known as Beverley Springs, the station has recently changed hands and the facilities are currently going through a bit of a re-vamp. The [...]

The Thorsby Party – Timber Creek

terry — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:02:49 +0000

Our big destination this trip was to be Timber Creek. For those who don’t know, Timber Creek is a little town on the Victoria Highway in the NT, roughly half way between Kununurra and Katherine. It is quite a historic spot, it being the centre for the booming cattle industry created around the Victoria River [...]

The Duncan Road 10-12 July 2011

terry — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:50:42 +0000

Since our last post, we have driven to Broome, parked the yacht with friends, and headed up the Dampier Peninsular for a week of work at One Arm Point Remote Community School. We thoroughly enjoyed the week, largely helping out in Admin with a whole variety of tasks that badly needed catching up on. The [...]

The North-West is a Windy Place

terry — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:55:06 +0000

Our trips to the Gascoynes and Pilbara so often prove to be a battle with the weather. This year, we have endured both rain and wind, with very few days when the winds have dropped to pleasant levels. We seem to spend much of the day huddled inside the yacht, outside being too bleak to [...]