Around the World in 24 days - January 2004
(Well 23 actually 'cos we lost a Friday on the way round!)
Some of the photographs taken on our quick round the world trip and Australasian cruise
(London, LA, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, NZ Fiords, Hobart, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Hong Kong, London)
[NOTE - THIS WILL BE SLOW TO DOWNLOAD BECAUSE OF THE NUMBERS OF PICTURES]
Our Wild Colonial Mates - after Jills "?th" Birthday Dinner on 7th January off New Zealand
(Left to Right)
Jenni Wolstenholme, Kerry & Colleen Stephen, Violet Rychetsky, Les Q, Faye & Max Blyton, Jill Q, Frank Wolstenholme, Karel Rychetski
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Faye, Max & Jill - Wellington Botanical Gardens
Left - An English Lady stolling across a dangerous NZ gorge with her native bearer struggling along behind! |
Karel, Faye, Les, Violet & ..... Jill at Dinner on the ship
[Les had the only sunburned (red) face on the ship having fallen asleep on an empty gale lashed (but sunny) deck - only mad dogs & Englishmen go out in the mid day sun!!!]
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Jill with Chester & Charlotte (from Birmingham Alabama) in a (wet) nature reserve on Tasmania - this was the day Les nearly missed the boat!
Left - Les, Jill, Kerry & Colleen outside Dunedin University NZ |
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Above - A couple of wild colonials (Faye & Max) sat by a billabong waiting for their tucker!
Right - a couple of native teddy bears trying to get some sleep! |
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Colleen, Kerry, Jill, Les & Faye highly amused whilst waiting for a bus in Adelaide
- Max (the photographer) was about to be run over by one!
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THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN Jill meets a couple of Australian tennis stars in the main street in Melbourne and is promptly invited to give an exhibition of British tennis skill to the massing throngs. Naturally she takes up the challenge despite the opposition being two qualifiers from the Australian Open. We don't know their names but they were BIG!! (I think they overheard me saying that I was "hen pecked by a tennis wife" and thought she must be related to Henman?) |
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Pre-Dinner drinks .... Les, Faye, Max, Jenni, Frank, Karel
Jill & Violet
(With wig in front - No it's not Kerry's he was in bed looking after Colleen - who was feeling ill)
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We managed a bit of posing using the ship's photographer's props & lighting whilst he wasn't looking - not bad for an Instamatic - saving $10 US Above - Violet & Karel |
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Left - On our last night on board our cruise ship Kerry and Colleen entertained us to a Champagne reception before dinner - Max wanted us to feel as though we had really hit Australia and produced his "Vegimite" butties! Below - Faye, Jill, Les and half of Sydney, outside our home of the previous 2 weeks - Star Princess
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At the end of the cruise Jill & I moved into The Four Seasons hotel in Sydney for 3 nights whilst the others headed for their homes
in Sydney, Canberra, Perth & the Gold Coast -
The above was the view from our hotel room on the evening before the ship sailed away
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Max & Faye did not believe in travelling light... Left - Their luggage - Above -They leave - Faye becomes a Sherpa |
4 days later Jill and I left for Hong Kong, but not before Kerry and Colleen entertain us to an Aussie Barbi!
and on our last day in Aus we had a farewell dinner with Kerry, Colleen, Karel & Violet.
QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER .... Wishes his colonial mates - G'day
Our next stop was Hong Kong....
& Chinese New Year
Jill sat in the window of our Hong Kong hotel room overlooking the harbour and Kowloon
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The Lion Dance in our hotel - Left - two men jumping from stand to stand - Above - Jill gets to meet the Lion |
Hong Kong at night - Taken by me from the Star Ferry at Kowloon looking back to our hotel on Hong Kong Island
A late afternoon view from the Peak looking South
This was taken after Jill & I had just enjoyed a superb lunch at the Peak Restaurant
During our stay in Hong Kong we spent two evenings with Paul and Caroline Buckland. (A Cranwell mate from 1963-66)
On our last evening Paul had organised a superb "Firework" dinner for 6 (and a half) of his family and us in the Grand Hyatt. The hotel overlooked the spectacular Chinese New Year Firework display.
The above is a photograph was taken just before Jill and I had to make a dash to the airport to catch our plane home. Paul is top left and Caroline bottom right.
Left to right - Top ... Paul, Les, Jill, Frank - Bottom - Stephanie, Brett & baby Xana , Joan, Caroline
Our thanks to Paul and his family - this was a fitting end to a superb holiday - we really finished with a bang....
And were last on the plane!!!
THANKS TO EVERYONE WE MET ON THE TRIP -
IT WAS YOU WHO MADE IT SO PLEASURABLE
PS - Whilst I was looking through some old naval newspapers I came across this photograph of a sailor who was AWOL and is wanted for Opal trading on the Adelaide coast - does anyone recognise him ....
Midshipman K.Stephen RAN (Botany Bay Detachment)
Graduated Brittania Royal Naval College Dartmouth 1804
Quigley
"Back Up from Down Under"
