We meet up with our tour group in the young hostel area of Sultanahmet in Istanbul about a 15 minute walk from where we stayed. Over breakfast we catch up with our friends Jeremy and Sophie who have just finished their own two week trip around Turkey...

Toto we’re not in Kansas anymore…… no Dorothy we are in Istanbul! From Munich we thought we were catching a budget airline… good for us we were wrong. As soon as we got on the Lufthansa plane around 7pm the food and drinks started flowing. We polished...

“I’m prosting, I’m prosting”. Settle down we are not there yet. The alarm goes off at 3:30am and we scramble out of bed pull on our clothes, brush our teeth, grab our bags that are already packed by the door and we are away. On the road again, just can’t...

This weekend we had two missions. The first was to decide on where we would be travelling for a month or so after Oktoberfest. The second was to get to the elusive IKEA so we could look at stuff for our new place. After much discussion and debate we finally...

So we’ve been thinking….. We still can’t work out the big trip and it’s less than two weeks away but another pressing matter is that on our return from the trip if we ever arrange it we will be homeless and will also have nowhere to store our knic knacks...

Rrrribbbbba…. Le carnival. This weekend the Nottinghill Carnival takes place where you can be in London and feel like you are in Brazil. Things get pretty crazy. It’s like one of Europe’s biggest street parties, but first we will rewind to Friday. So...

Zhuh mahpehl Simone, Benjamin. Zhuh nuh pahrl pah Beeyeh Luh Fraw Say. Yay learning French `. It has been eight or so weeks since we have travelled to another country and we were getting itchy feet. So we’re off to France to celebrate our birthdays in...

London Bridge is falling down falling down; London Bridge is falling down my fair lady. We couldn’t think of another line to start this entry, even though we visited Tower Bridge not London Bridge, but it will do. London Bridge is actually very plain,...

Took the Tube over to Camden to wander around bought some funky records with that old Motown sound. I’m in London still, la la London still. We listened to these lyrics countless times back in our home in Australia, they were often in the background when...