Author: Random Trouble

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If anyone is still reading this – I have begun trawling through the multitude of photos from the trip, ahhh … 1500 for 6 weeks isn’t too bad. Anyways, this website isn’t really made for photos, so I’ve put them in my usual photo gallery, easy to find once you get there, under, wait for it … European Vacation … of yeah, it hurts when I think up names! I was up til 2am … and only managed to get… Continue reading

Singapore Thing…oh and its official, I hate Zoos.

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I am thinking this could be my last update before arriving back in Australia?? Maybe one in the Airport tomorrow evening…how knows. Well the past two days have been interesting ones. Travelling by yourself allows you far more freedom although so far I have found it only 1/4th as fun as the past 3 weeks were, 1/11th as the 3 weeks before that. Yesterday I managed to sleep into, cough, 12pm so I figured most of the morning was given… Continue reading

Three little indians sitting on a tree, two fell of and then there was me.

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Well I am now travelling alone through a country I have no idea about; thank god they speak english!! I arrived in Singapore, said my farewells to Maia and Leigh, brief though they were. Checked out of customs and picked up my baggage. On that note I have to say Singapore has so far been the best Airport I have travelled in, although I am a bit confused about the supposed security. I really have to say so far Australia… Continue reading

La touche finale

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After the previous days power bus tour, we decided to do it again earlier so we could see the sites. First stop, Musee D’Orsay, museum with many famous artworks from ye olde artistes such as Moset, Van Gogh, Renoir, Cezanne, list goes on. Some cool stuff, some crap stuff, spent about 3 hours checking it out before we got bored and hungry, so we wandered to find lunch and dessert. Next stop, had a brief look at the famous Opera… Continue reading

Grand old Paris

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Before arriving in Paris we booked (well I really should say Stef and Leigh booked) a hotel room in the Latin quarter right next to the Bastile monument. Pretty simple hotel but close and easy. We arrived in Paris in the evening so it was straight to dinner for us all. It was Stefs last night in Paris so we decided to eat in style, so we ate at the oldest resturaunt in Paris called Bofingers. Fairly nice dinner although… Continue reading

French girls don’t wear bras …

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Well, we’ve been slackers, OK, we’ve just done so much we haven’t had time to update the site. So I’ll see what I can do to get you up to speed. Once upon a time we were in Milan. Then we travelled to Aix en Provence in Francem quite south in France. It was a very pretty train trip travelling through the mountains between France and Italy, would make a nice quiet getaway around there, with waterfalls coming off the… Continue reading

France in a Nutshell.

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Damn this is going to be a hard update, a lot has happend since Aix En Provance which leigh is going to write about, probably has written about it already. So what this post is going to be about is how the group split off for a couple of days and what Stef and I did in Avignon, Lyon and what we all did when we reconverged back in Dijon. There, nice little summary, now its time for the detail…….. Continue reading

Football (no its not called soccer) is addictive

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The morning of the next day in Milan was spent organising tickets and what not for our train to Aix de Provance in the south of France. After some bullish negotiation by me and some polite recovery by leigh we manged to organise everything. Next we went to the Duomo to go inside the church, we figured out that everything was closed on the Monday so thats why we couldn’t actually go inside when we were there the day before…. Continue reading

Greece to Italy – Dont sleep on a ferry deck

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Place we stayed at in Santorini called San Georgios, highly recommended, very helpful guys Dina and George.  Boat trip around Santorini was soo cool. To get to the ship, we had to climb down 3 times as many steps as heaven – thats a lot of steps. Donkeys could have taken us up or down the steps around the islands, but we’re hardcore. Everything we did on Santorini just ended in fantastic views. First island stop was the volcano, still active,… Continue reading

Mykanos, Ferry sleep (or lack there of), Milan

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Leigh left you at San Torini before we left to go on the cruise. We climbed the Volcano of which created the San Torini, in thongs mind you…supposedly we were supposed to bring closed shoes but were never told. Swam in hot sulphur springs that smelt suspiciously like Rust. In a previous post I mentioned that I had a hot sulphur spring sauna/mudbath in Pammukale, This did not smell like rotten egg, It smelt and looked like rust. I am not… Continue reading

I like jeeps

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Man, this is gonna have to be quick – I gotta get to a ship to sail around Santorini and swim in some hot springsat at a volcano shortly. After last night of tour,and little sleep, next day we visited Aya Sofia – absolutely beautiful cathedral turned mosque in Istanbul. Hopefully I didn’t accidentally delete the pics. Man, next time my photography equipment will be more organised. We ended up back in Taksim that night for dinner with Bec, then… Continue reading

Turkiye in a Nutshell

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Well when did I leave you last… hmmm … so much has happend!! As you would have read Leighs had some “issues” which brought the website offline for several days not allowing us to update and to get terribly behind. Because of this we both decided to communicate in this entry in point form…enjoy Kas – Stayed at a brilliant place called Hilal Pension which is very relaxed and had a balcony view of the bay. Kas is the sort of town… Continue reading

Trouble in Paradise

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Don’t know where to start – but somehow during the high of being in such a beautiful, interesting country I managed to have the most stressful time of my life. Starting with my web host seemingly disappearing off the face of the planet. This took out not just this site, but many clients web sites. At one stage it was looking like I would need to cut my holiday short and head home to fix up the mess that ensued…. Continue reading

Today I learned sleep is good.

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One of the things you just don’t (we’ll I don’t) realise at home is that you do actually need sleep occasionally. I also have to say this diary blog crap thing is turning into the most half-arsed effort – as anything with good intentions seems to turn out. Back to sleep – I have qu?ckly learned that in order to sleep on a tour like this you need to limit each night to 4 – 5 hr, less if you… Continue reading

Raki benders and 1.5 hours sleep followed by Mediterranean bliss

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Hi all,    Well from Malayta to Silifke, a rather interesting few days. Malayta was a nice city to see however it really was a typical city and you couldn’t do much in the time we had there except check out the local markets. You metal section, fruit section, meat, cloths…standard really for any markets…well except the metal section where you had esentially blacksmiths with foundries in the market place belting out pots.    So from Malayta after a morning… Continue reading

mmm Raki

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Well from the last post we have travelled from Goreme to Malaytia. After the last update most of the group went out to a $25 all you can eat and drink night which started on the effe beer and ended on the Raki or it could be called Ouzo for people who don’t know what Raki is but I have been told it is slightly different. There was dancing and a traditional wedding ceremony put on for us all. Really… Continue reading

From Istanbul to Groeme in 18hours

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Merhaba,  Well that was an ep?c journey to get from Istanbul to Goreme…..Tra?n ride from ?stanbul to Ankara wh?ch was an overn?ghter…yep ? squeezed ?nto a bed on a tra?n and managed to sleep qu?et successfully. The bed was comfortable, four to a room, the only problem be?ng the WC (to?let\bathroom ?n Turkey). There are two types of to?lets ?n Turkey, the squat to?let and the normal everyday western to?let. See?ng the state ?n both I am glad I never… Continue reading

Istanbul not Constantinople

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Well what a first couple of days!! Landed in Istanbul around 7.30 am Sunday morning which with a +7 is 14:30 EST. Not too bad I guess, works out to be 22 hours in the air. Getting out of customs was a crack, they didn’t even check our bags, nothing. Very funny. Once arriving Leigh and I walked around the Sultanamet which is a mecca for touters and scam artists. Because it is such a tourist orrientated place they are… Continue reading

There’s no such thing as jet lag …

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OK, thought I should make my first post, been here almost 2 days. Such an amazing place. Arriving at the airport at 7.30am yesterday, after a gruelling 24 hours of air flight – ok, it wasn’t THAT bad – but still. We decided to give public transport a go as the first bit a fun. Not really much different from Melbourne, you jump on a tram or 2, everyone looks at you strangely, no one talks to each other and… Continue reading

Original reasons

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When Leigh and I first decided to travel together overseas it was more of a melding of two trips. I wanted to go to Turkey, Leigh wanted to go to France. The rest of the trip was pretty much made up of us getting from Turkey to France. Occasionally I get asked the question why Turkey? Well after some thinking I have decided the reason why I have always wanted to go to Turkey was because of an abiding memory… Continue reading