The Rimmer Family on Tour

Since I can’t upload all of our photos to Flickr just yet, I thought I would upload a few to give a taste of the things we saw. Click them for larger versions.

Filed under : brazil, rtw

3 Comments »

We’re back from five days spent in the Pantanal. We have a ton of photos, but the hotel internet connections we’ve had since are not going to cope with my trying to upload them all. So they’ll have to wait for now. We stayed in a lodge which was really in the back of beyond. [...]

Filed under : brazil, rtw

1 Comment »

I’ve been so busy travelling recently that I’ve had no time to record my thoughts. Now however the opportunity presents itself – I am taking a siesta in the cool of our room while the hot Pantanal sun beats down outside.
There is a lot to talk about.
In this post I’ll talk about New Zealand. [...]

Filed under : newzealand, rtw

1 Comment »

We’ve been enjoying our time in Rio. It’s just like you’d expect. The traffic is a bit crazy, the beaches are lovely and there are lots of beautiful tanned people jogging along them. We’ve had no problems with beggars and haven’t felt unduly worried about crime. It’s fun just relaxing, having breakfast in a juice [...]

Filed under : brazil, rtw

2 Comments »

Rio can be so many places all moulded into one. Hong Kong, Brisbane, Dunedin and yet when you look at the beaches you feel like you are on one of those far off islands in the middle of the ocean where it is always sweltering hot!!! Due to the fact that we have friends living [...]

Filed under : rtw

2 Comments »

We’re now in South America. The contrast with New Zealand has taken some getting used to. It could have been a bigger shock as we are in Santiago and Chile feels quite European in many ways. (Imagine a version of Spain that took an extra 15 years to emerge from dictatorship and never joined the [...]

Filed under : chile, rtw

2 Comments »

We are in Santiago and everywhere we go they give us this enormas meal that you can never finish.

Filed under : chile, rtw

7 Comments »

Why did the geyser feel good about himself?
Because he was full of sulphur steam!
Why did the bubbling mud get a girlfriend quickly?
Because he was sooooo hot!
Hope you like them

Filed under : newzealand, rtw

9 Comments »

Champagne Pool, originally uploaded by Chrstopher.

We are now up in the North of New Zealand. Our first destination was Rotorua, which is famous for its geothermal activity. It’s not half as smelly as it was when I visited as a child. Apparently so many homes and businesses have tapped into the hot energy below the [...]

Filed under : newzealand, rtw

1 Comment »