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Little Puker
Day five in Brazil , but day two in Florianopolis and it’s the first sunny day so far . Basically[...] READ MORE
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Sao Paulo , Brazil
Out of the frying pan into the fire. We land in the worlds second most murderous city Sao Paulo[...] READ MORE
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Tigre Delta
After what felt like a bland, boring time in Cordoba we were back to Buenos Aires to do some of the[...] READ MORE
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Christmas Day Sunny Side Up
Christmas morning the alarm was set for 8am and boy was it sunny . Not a cloud in the sky . As[...] READ MORE
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The Ghost of Christmas Past
During the night we had an unexpected visitor, a midnight phantom, we weren’t sure at first,[...] READ MORE
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Christmas Eve , Gaucho Style
Christmas eve morning was a buzz of activity in the house . Angeles and Diego were expecting their[...] READ MORE
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Don Joaquin Estancia , Argentina
Have you ever met somebody for the first time and felt like you had known them forever, or better[...] READ MORE
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Tango Fantastic
From coffee with legs in Santiago to beer with tango in Buenas Aires. We are sitting in a small[...] READ MORE
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Wine Country & Arms Dealers
There is a museum in Santa Cruz, no sorry, its actually a private collection housed in an old train[...] READ MORE
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Elqui Valley Stars
The Elqui valley is famous for its clear sky’s so we organized a night-time visit to the[...] READ MORE
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Vicuna and “La Brocha”
This was only the third occasion since January 2010 that I took to the road on wheels. After going[...] READ MORE
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Coffee With Legs
There are many quaint institutions here in Chile that are in slow decline, going to mass on a[...] READ MORE
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Valparaiso (Bray On Crack Cocaine) 27/11/2010
We started off our journey from Santiago to Valparaiso by being robbed by the taxi driver who took[...] READ MORE
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Beaver Fever 24/11/2010
Axel has Beaver Fever. Whoaa there! now hang on a minute before you start jumping to conclusions,[...] READ MORE
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Smuggling in Santiago 22/11/2010
We arrived off our flight from Auckland at two in the afternoon and were nearly sent straight to[...] READ MORE
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Murder on the Highway 16/11/2010
We have had come this far around the world for little more than a long weekend in New Zealand due[...] READ MORE
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Old Friend , First Love 13/11/2010
I don't know about anyone else but my first experience with boyfriend love was an intense ,[...] READ MORE
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Schools In 12/11/2010
We dropped into our new ( but feel like old ) friends, the Gordons in Belmayne, New South Wales.[...] READ MORE
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‘Crikey’, it’s a halting site! 8/11/2010
We arrived into the Glasshouse Mountains Holiday Village late in the evening on our way to[...] READ MORE
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Wet and Wild 31/10/2010
We went to Wet’n’Wild on a miserable, dull, cold Monday. We had no alternative as we had other[...] READ MORE
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Byron Bay 28/10/2010
We made our way north along the Pacific Highway as the kids killed each other in the back of the[...] READ MORE
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Surfer Boy 27/10/2010
After saying our goodbyes to Herman we up sticks and headed over to the beach to meet up with Corey[...] READ MORE
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Camping and loving it ! 23/10/2010
We made a real go of it today. We got up relatively early, had breakfast, did Axel’s schoolwork[...] READ MORE
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It’s Official , WE IS WHITE TRASH ! 18/10/2010
Like something from a suburban version of ‘Deliverance’ we are crawling up the Pacific Coast[...] READ MORE
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The Price’s 15/10/2010
Day two in Sydney and we met up with some old “mates “ as they say here , Pricey Senior and[...] READ MORE
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Sydney 13/10/2010
We finally got to Australia and arrived into Sydney on a beautiful hot sunny morning. It was so[...] READ MORE
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Tanjung Lesung 5/10/2010
We were still in ticket limbo and were trying to sort out our flight to Sydney but figured we were[...] READ MORE
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Bali 6/9/2010
Flying into Bali from Singapore was quite emotional for Lisa and myself . We had spent some time[...] READ MORE
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Stuck in Jakarta 2/10/2010
We arrived into Jakarta with the intention of hanging around for two or three day’s and then[...] READ MORE
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Perfect Day 1/11/2010
We are getting into the swing of this itinerant lifestyle in our motor home. We slept in Coffs[...] READ MORE
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Jogjakarta and The Temple of Borobudur 30/10/2010
We stopped off in Yogyakarta, known locally as Jogja primarily to see the Bhuddist temple of[...] READ MORE
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Solo , Java 28/9/2010
We took the 3.30pm train from Malang to Solo which we were told was due in at 11.45pm. It was due[...] READ MORE
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Mount Bromo 27/9/2010
We were well settled into the not so splendid, Hotel Splendid which Lisa absolutlely loved. I think[...] READ MORE
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Welcome to Java 26/9/2010
It took us 40 minutes to fly from Bali to Surbaya and 6 hours of hell to get from Surabaya to[...] READ MORE
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Gili Islands 23/9/2010
I breathed a sigh of relief as we left Bangsal in the distance and headed out towards Gili[...] READ MORE
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Lombok 16/9/2010
We took the long slow cheap way to get to the Gili Islands and ‘boy oh boy’ was it big on long,[...] READ MORE
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Ubud 12/9/2010
The accommodation in Ubud had been haphazard at the best of times. The town was very busy. We ended[...] READ MORE
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Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting.
Actually it was more like Thai kick boxing, but bloody, exciting, and primitively primevil all the[...] READ MORE
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Sumatra 5/9/2010
Our planned trip to sumatra positioned in the “ ring of fire “ looks like it may have to be[...] READ MORE
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Singapore hair salon .
Well as you can imagine a place like Singapore is a shoppers paradise and therefor somewhere to get[...] READ MORE
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Lunch with Dee 3/9/2010
Sunday the provebial day of rest was a great day . We arranged to catch up with friends from Dublin[...] READ MORE
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Singapore Zoo 01/9/2010
We heard the Singapore Zoo was one of the best zoos in the world and we decided to go and have a[...] READ MORE
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To Singapore by bus 31/08/2010
Singapore is more compact, less highrise and greener that I thought it would be. We arrived by bus[...] READ MORE
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Tioman Island 28/8/2010
The legend of Tioman is that some magical dragon princess on her way from China to Singapore to[...] READ MORE
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Kluang to Tioman 26/8/2010
We hopped off the jungle line at Kluang so that we could make our way to Tioman . There was no info[...] READ MORE
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Jackie and Sam , The Perenthians
On the beach on our first day Axel and Elka were playing aroumd in the sand not too far from a[...] READ MORE
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The Jungle Line - I’d like to keep moving forever 24/8/2010
There can be few better feeling’s in this world than sitting in the open doorway of a moving[...] READ MORE
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Snorkelling is Like Sex 23/8/2010
“Snorkelling is like sex, the first time you try it you are nervous...... but it’s still the[...] READ MORE
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Jungle Dance 22/8/2010
Perched high in the jungle above the beach on a terrace of wooden bungalows I sit and listen to the[...] READ MORE
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Perenthian Islands , Malaysia 21/8/2010
After our epic journey from Koh Lippe in Thailand to Kota Bharu in Malaysia we required some much[...] READ MORE
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Shooting at the train - Journey from Thailand to Malaysia 20/8/2010
We packed up in the Mountain View Resort on Koh Lipee and got a lift in a tractor and trailer to[...] READ MORE
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Koh Lipee 19/8/2010
We decided that so far all the Thai places we had been to before were now shit and wanted to go[...] READ MORE
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The Trip to Lip 16/8/2010
Longtail boat, Ferryboat, Truck, Bus/Sub, Tuk Tuk, Speedboat, Motorbike, Tractor. The only thing[...] READ MORE
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Panglao Island 16/7/2010
We got out of Camaguin by ferry to Bohol, another part of Mindinao province. Put to shore in some[...] READ MORE
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Highway Submarine – Koh Phi Phi to Pakbara 15/8/2010
We had an early start on Long Beach, Koh Phi Phi to catch the ferry from Koh Phi Phi town to Krabi.[...] READ MORE
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Traveling With Kids 15/8/2010
Travelling with kids, do you do it, do you not do it. Or do you wait till they have flown the coop,[...] READ MORE
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Phi Phi Island 11/8/2010
On arrival in Koh Phi Phi we went to the tourist info stands to see what deals they had for off[...] READ MORE
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Krabi , Paradise Lost 5/8/2010
I would say that 10 years ago on our last visit to Railay beach, Krabi was like paradise. We spent[...] READ MORE
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Uncle Peter 3/8/2010
We headed to Pattaya to see my uncle Peter and his partner Oy and stayed there for a few days to[...] READ MORE
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Bangkok 1/8/2010
Arriving into Bangkok was the nearest thing to arriving home we have experienced in six months. It[...] READ MORE
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Japanese Jax 9/7/2010
We have had great amusement in these tiny spaces . The baths are just about big enough to fit the[...] READ MORE
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Manila
I am sitting here on my balcony on the Thai island resort of Koh Phi Phi thinking about writing[...] READ MORE
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Cagayan de Oro 12/7/2010
Caguin de Oro is a pretty rough Philippine town in Mindinao in the south, ‘scene of religious[...] READ MORE
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Educating Axel 12/7/2010
I don’t know who it’s harder on, him or me. This has to be the most difficult thing about[...] READ MORE
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Camaguin Island 13/7/2010
We escaped from El Paso (Cagayan de Oro) on the morning ferry to Camaguin Island. The ferry that[...] READ MORE
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Shanghai 9/6/2010
We arrived in to Shanghai with no money, no hotel booked late at night into the biggest most[...] READ MORE
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Hiroshima 9/7/2010
We arrived in to Hiroshima station on the shinkansen (bullet train) from Kyoto and set about[...] READ MORE
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Bowing Japan 5/7/2010
They even have me at it, bowing, they do it al the time, for everything. Bow when you order a beer,[...] READ MORE
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Chasing Geisha 5/7/2010
It wasn’t just me chasing the geisha around town, not like the old day’s, this time around I[...] READ MORE
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Arriving in Japan 02/07/2010
Those of you that know me also know that I am seldom stuck for words, but landing in Tokyo the[...] READ MORE
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Beijing Party 27/6/2010
This is short but I want Axel to look back on this when he is older and remember the fun he had .[...] READ MORE
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The Great Wall - The easy way 24/6/2010
We were running out of time before we had to leave Beijing and we still hadn’t got a sniff of the[...] READ MORE
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Beijing - Meeting Mao 23/6/2010
Lisa had arranged for us to stay in one of the houtong area of Beijing which was a really good[...] READ MORE
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Pingyao Timewarp 19/6/2010
We had never heard of Pingyao but while having a coffee in Starbucks in Shenzhen we came across an[...] READ MORE
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Xian 16/6/2010
We arrived into Xi’an on a flight from Nanjing and are immediately struck by the fact we can see[...] READ MORE
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Meeting the locals 15/6/2010
I am just back from the reception of our hotel in Nanjing having tried to organise two glasses from[...] READ MORE
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Nanjing 11/6/2010
Managed to board a train from Shanghai to Nanjing with few problems. A bit different to India,[...] READ MORE
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Shanghai - Axel and Elka Mania 10/6/2010
We go for a walk along the Bund (Old German concession) starting at Nanjing road east. When we get[...] READ MORE
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The Pirates of Shenzen 6/6/2010
Knock off city, capital of the cheap clones, a short hop on a bus from HK. Shenzen was our first[...] READ MORE
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Hong Kong Birthday 3/6/1965
It was my birthday yesterday and what a great birthday it was. I got tons of best wishes on my[...] READ MORE
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Flying, fuck!
I fucking hate flying. Not the little bit in the middle when you are actualy in the air actually[...] READ MORE
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I like Sri Lanka 24/5/2010
For a place that gave me a boil on me arse ( a really big boil ) , mosquito bites, two to the top[...] READ MORE
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The Dreaded Trots , India 8/5/2010
Everyone knows that India has a reputation for being dirty . This is not exclusively a fact for[...] READ MORE
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Tea Country , Sri Lanka 19/5/2010
Heading up the hills away from Yala park we drove through some stunning scenery . Waterfalls and[...] READ MORE
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Yala National Park 15/5/2010
We leave Wajiya beach for Yala National Park ( which is apparently the closest we can ever expect[...] READ MORE
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Palolem , Goa 22/4/2010
We are sitting on on the deck of our beach hut, which if you know your beach huts is basically a[...] READ MORE
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Mumbai Sweat Box 19/4/2010
Like going from an oven into a steamer is the only way to describe the change in weather we[...] READ MORE
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Udaipur 15/4/2010
The rickshaw chase in one of the Roger Moore Bond movies was filmed in Udaipur and you can[...] READ MORE
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Sri Lanka 11/5/2010
Somebody somewhere is looking after us . Our flight from Bangalore to Colombo took only and hour[...] READ MORE
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Super Salim 10/4/2010
If you are ever happen to have a few days in Jaipur and you want to cut through all the crap of[...] READ MORE
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Willies magic pockets
Axel wants to thank Willie for making him rich on his tour . Willie your pockets of loose foreign[...] READ MORE
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Jaipur Kidnap Express 9/4/2010
We travelled 3rd Class AC Sleeper on the train from Delhi to Jaipur. It was our second experience[...] READ MORE
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Pushkar 14/4/2010
Apparently Lord Brahma, the creator dropped a Lotus flower and one of the petals landed here and[...] READ MORE
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Trek to Mysore 4/5/2010
Getting from Gokarna to Mysore was some trek . It is about an eighteen hour journey , the first[...] READ MORE
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Gokarna, India 1/5/2010
Apparently Shiva, the Hindu god after a period of penance was re-born from the underworld through[...] READ MORE
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Yoga 29/4/2010
Just back from my first yoga class in India . Can you see the headland in the image attached[...] READ MORE
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The Taj
Everyone knows from the guidebooks that the best-advised time to go to the Taj Mahal is at 6 am[...] READ MORE
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Getting to Agra 7/2/2010
We started our journey to Agra with some amount of trepidation. Everyone we spoke to who had[...] READ MORE
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Aquaba 26/3/10
Today is horrible . It’s really cold and torrential rain is hitting the ground hard . The sky is[...] READ MORE
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In the Indian Rail Machine 5/4/2010
After a couple of days we had to get out of Delhi and start our Indian odyssy proper so I decided[...] READ MORE
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Smelly Delhi 3/4/2010
The doors of the plane opened on arrival at 4.30 am and the heat just smacked us in the face .[...] READ MORE
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Delhi Highlights – 4/4/2010
Rather than try to do the sites in Delhi ourselves we decided to go for the easy option and book an[...] READ MORE
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Waking in the Desert 31/3/2010
Woke up this morning at 7.30 with a beam of sunlight streaming through the flaps of the tent[...] READ MORE
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Twinkle , Twinkle Little Star 30/3/2010
Under the covers fully clothed in a tent in a desert camp called Beit Ali in Wadi Rum , Jordan I[...] READ MORE
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Lunch with Kalid 26/3/2010
The weather today is cold again . We jump up and head out for breakfast but not before phoning[...] READ MORE
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Small World 25/3/10
This morning we woke to a really miserable day . The weather is cold and drizzling and there is no[...] READ MORE
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Indiana Jones territory 24/3/2010
The last few days have been all go starting with Petra . We arrived in Petra this evening and[...] READ MORE
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Holy Day 23/3/2010
We had a very enjoyable day today in Madaba, our first real beach day of the trip. We started out[...] READ MORE
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Igors from Latvia 17/03/2010
We shared a bus back from Beirut with Igors from Latvia. Igors is an executive in the airline[...] READ MORE
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Get me out of here 16/3/10
The military presence around Place Etoile is heavy and sitting out having a coffee in the open air[...] READ MORE
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Byblos 15/3/2010
It’s 11.45pm in Beirut, and I am sitting on the hotel balcony having just finished a Tuborg! Just[...] READ MORE
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Beirut 14/3/2010
The bus from Damascus to Beirut was scheduled to take 3 hours. Our driver was a sweaty looking,[...] READ MORE
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The Land Of Dates 12/3/10
We got the bus to Palmyra, a dusty 3 hour journey from Damascus through the Syrian desert. No[...] READ MORE
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Arab Entertaining 8/3/2010
We had a wonderful day today, which started at 10am for breakfast in Houda & Maroufs apartment not[...] READ MORE
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Syrian Breakfast 5/3/2010
We were invited to have breakfast in Samir’s week-end retreat in Az Zabadani. This is in the[...] READ MORE
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Getting Around 2/3/2010
After been briefly woke at 4.00 am by our local muezzins call to prayer ..... he has the best voice[...] READ MORE
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The Road to Damascus 1/3/2010
We didn’t give ourselves enough time yesterday arriving late at Baghdad Station in downtown[...] READ MORE
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Arabian Nights 25/2/10
It's about midnight and I am the only one up . Eric is snoring beside me here but apart from that[...] READ MORE
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Leaving Cappadocia 24/2/10
After three wonderful day’s in Cappadocia we decided to return to Istanbul. We wanted to move on[...] READ MORE
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The Train to Cappadocia 21/2/10
We left Istanbul on Saturday to catch a night train to Goreme in Cappadocia . Before we left we had[...] READ MORE
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Pampering Day 20/2/10
Today was a day of extremes. It was my turn to visit the Hamam, which I did with a certain amount[...] READ MORE
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Hamam 19/2/10
A way has been found to help with the unwinding process ! I have just left a Hamam (Turkish Bath)[...] READ MORE
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Turkish Food 18/2/10
Day three and the kids are all excited about breakfast , I don't know why as they only eat the eggs[...] READ MORE
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Shell Shocked 17/2/10
We arrived in Istanbul on Monday 15th February, very tired, emotionally drained and not quite sure[...] READ MORE
