Photos

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

Greece to Italy – Dont sleep on a ferry deck

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

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

Original reasons

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