Grant's Long service

141 day family adventure through Asia, from Sri Lankan beaches to Japanese snow fields Meer informatie

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Het begin van de reis
11 september 2024
Grant's Long service
Packed and ready to go... 141 days
11 september 2024, Australië ⋅ 🌙 28 °C
First stop Bali, then Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore then back to Bali
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First stop. Beach and Bintangs
12 september 2024, Indonesië ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
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Y bar and NRL Finals
15 september 2024, Indonesië ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
C'mon Manly
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Unexpected sleep over in KL
17 september 2024, Maleisië ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Feels like proper travel starts today...look out Sri Lanka.
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Passed My Sri Lankan TukTuk License
17 september 2024, Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Navigated a 1 hour Negombo to Colombo traffic without incident (just)
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ReizigerGo you!! Keep safe!
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Reiziger This looks rad!!!
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ReizigerLooks like fun!
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$4 Tallies and trainspotting
18 september 2024, Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
In Bentota. Our villa is 50m from the beach across the train line. Beers and trainspotting might be my new hobby
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Covert beer
18 september 2024, Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
When your restaurant hasn't paid their liquour license. Hide it in a giant Lion cooler that you can't drink out of. For scale that's a 500ml can
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ReizigerLol, too funny 😁 😂
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Class M4 #746
18 september 2024, Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
My trainspotting has started
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ReizigerEye roll....
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Reiziger😆 🤣
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Traffic navigation 101
19 september 2024, Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
The buses are psycho, but it is the varied speed between cars, buses, scooters, trucks and bicycles that test your gross motor skills
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School is in session
20 september 2024, Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Suspended in the first week and the principal and teacher want to quit
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ReizigerCall in teacher Miss Maryann
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Reiziger😂😝 who wouldnt want to get suspended with that view though. More time for the beach
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ReizigerLol, and only 5 months to go🤣😂
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Trainspotting continues
20 september 2024, Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Class S13 #969 and Class M7 #802
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Sri Lanka test match
22 september 2024, Sri Lanka ⋅ 🌬 30 °C
Currently at the Sri Lanka vs New Zealand test match at Galle Cricket ground. Very weird as currently only foreigners are allowed in (for free) due to a nationwide curfew currently being imposed as a result of yesterday's federal election (fears of unrest/protests). Total audience of 6. A couple from the gold coast and us. Currently the curfew is scheduled to end in a couple of hours but could be extended.Meer informatie
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ReizigerNo line up at the bar then?
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Sri Lanka Test Match Galle Cricket Club
22 september 2024, Sri Lanka ⋅ 🌬 30 °C
Got into the members club / grandstand. Too good. And they finally finished the curfew so the Sri Lankans could get into the ground and build the atmosphere. NZ needing 68 to win with 2 in the shed
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Finally feels like travel
23 september 2024, Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Weligama. Glad to show the kids proper travel outside of tourist restaurants etc. Beer - $1.50. Dinner (kottu and hoppers - $1.50) and finally some surf...videos to follow. Loving the chaos but it helps when you are Australian and they love usMeer informatie
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Weligama Surf
24 september 2024, Sri Lanka ⋅ 🌬 30 °C
Some videos and pics from a full day at the beach. The kids were keen for a surf. Not a bad little break next to a small island about 200m from our accommodation. FYI the island has a villa on it owned by some English bloke, prices start at $1000US/night.Meer informatie
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ReizigerGreat photo of the kids on the same wave
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More surf Videos
24 september 2024, Sri Lanka ⋅ 🌬 30 °C
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Last night in Mirissa
27 september 2024, Sri Lanka ⋅ 🌬 30 °C
Sad to be leaving probably our best spot of the trip so far but hopefully on to better things tomorrow with a 2.5 hour drive to Udawalawe National Park for some elephant spotting (and hopefully more). Last surf for the kids today until our next surf stop at Hiriketiya beach. Also our last lunch at Jesmin restaurant. I say restaurant but just a tiny local joint with great local food. Lunch cost $6 for everyone. Curry, roti, kottu, hoppers, drinks. Also a great afternoon with Froggo watching the Storm / Roosters final on 9Now thanks to my VPN purchaseMeer informatie
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Bit of rain
29 september 2024, Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
We have been so lucky with the weather. Dry 2.5 hour drive inland to our accommodation...10 mins later the skies opened. Early start in the morning for our safari with clear skies apart from about 20 mins around lunchtime. Back at the hotel and it has poured all afternoon. Our hotel is right where 2 rivers meet and the view from our room is amazing. Watching the rain has been awesomeMeer informatie
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Reiziger Even looks amazing in a storm.
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Udawalawe NP Safari
29 september 2024, Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
I can't say much more than what the photos already say. I think the kids really enjoyed their first safari. Elephants, spotted deer, 2 types of monkeys, mongoose, hornbills, crocodiles, 1 million peacocks, monitors...the list goes on. The weather helped us out alot...only a little bit of rain right at the end of the safari and it has been pissing down since we got back to our hotelMeer informatie
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ReizigerWow! No words. Amazing!
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Hiriketiya (Hipster beach)
1 oktober 2024, Sri Lanka ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Quite a nice little bay with reasonable surf but it felt a bit like it's more for the influenzas... a bit much for someone with grey in his beard. Which reminds me.... 2 twenty somethings from NZ at the cricket in Galle stopped me and said, "excuse me sir, would you mind taking a photo of us". Give me strength. The night finished well as frog and I got a couple of 8 ball games on albeit on a snooker table.Meer informatie
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Tissa Lake
2 oktober 2024, Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
Sensational hotel on Tissa Lake, our base for Yala National Park. Great pool, awesome dinner (finally some meat) and had the place almost to ourselves until sunset when a tour group rolled in.
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ReizigerThat looks hard to handle 😝
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Yala National Park
3 oktober 2024, Sri Lanka ⋅ 🌬 32 °C
Got very lucky today starting with a freak sighting of a sloth bear (only about 20 in the park) topped off by an even rarer, luckier sighting of a Leopard (only about 20 in the whole park). Also managed elephants, spotted deer, crocodiles, chamelion, monitors, monkeys, boar, jackals (hunting and catching a rabbit), buffalos and others I can't recall at the moment. Only hiccup was national temperance day... No bottle shops open....temperance my arse....lost my temperance (maybe that's what it means)Meer informatie
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Elephant Highway B35
4 oktober 2024, Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 34 °C
Took a chance driving on the highway through Yala National Park (there is a history of elephants charging and pushing tuk tuks over). Feel like we got lucky to have a large bull blocking the road only 1km in. From observations and the video it appears that the elephants toys with people and cars to amuse themselves (and also try and coax a feed from passing traffic). Had to wait for a local bus to provide cover so we could get passed (couldn't do it otherwise). There were 3 back seat drivers shouting expletives about how to tackle the situation.Meer informatie
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ReizigerIt's like he's daring them to go passed 🤭
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More of my new hobby
5 oktober 2024, Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
This time Class S14 #982 and S14A #989 in Ella with tea plantation in the background. It also turns out that I am the family champion of tea picking...had the largest basket to fill but also the highest percentage filled. Tea tasting at the end of the picking which was interesting to learn about the different team and how they are produce but still some distance behind a decent double espresso. Finished off the night playing some 8 Ball with Frog at the local pool hall (might have been a late night as the time read AM by the time Frog and I rollled home).Meer informatie
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Trainspotter's Heaven
6 oktober 2024, Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
9 arch bridge today. Luck continues to be on our side again. With no planning we arrived at 9 arch bridge only waiting for 10mins for a train to pass. Decided to walk back to Ella via the train line with another 2 trains to pass. Class S14 #971, M6 #788 and M6 #797. Finished off the afternoon with Frog and I watching the NRL grand final with panthers betting the storm after another poor showing from the bunkerMeer informatie
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ReizigerThey should get rid of the bloody bunker
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