tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29892879163617807882024-02-08T15:18:17.409+10:00Nesh's Self-PortrayalNeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04362838227720211144noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989287916361780788.post-78099006944987026222010-11-04T14:03:00.000+10:002010-11-04T14:03:46.740+10:00Sorrento - Capri - Ana Capri<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Rising at ridiculous o’clock again, we scoffed a wee bit of breakfast and awaited our pickup for said tour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first we thought the driving in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sorrento</st1:place></st1:city> was crazy with its tight, winding, cliff-faced two-way roads (we were gravely mistaken), when we arrived at the pier after collecting two other parties for today’s adventure.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We were met by Sandero, a shuffle old gent with glasses and funny hat who branded us with stickers bearing his name and number and then led us onboard a massive catamaran half an hour later when the rest of the group had arrived.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwDafBPPpC8SQMDwxSF-z9TPO6kgP9y16nB0n9qUJrhi-EAbBgi17W9IUhAgKrGH_Vsz4wEikZcuxxuLVh8gOuqkYyVssGQXruojBZBALXX94z5HKtID-4Dcxaroqa31TerkxIPV9ZoOc/s1600/IMG_1717.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwDafBPPpC8SQMDwxSF-z9TPO6kgP9y16nB0n9qUJrhi-EAbBgi17W9IUhAgKrGH_Vsz4wEikZcuxxuLVh8gOuqkYyVssGQXruojBZBALXX94z5HKtID-4Dcxaroqa31TerkxIPV9ZoOc/s320/IMG_1717.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Opting for the only window seat left for the trip over, we were soon corralled in by a family from Switzerland who broke into conversation with us shortly afterwards and had a good old chat with them about travels and what not until we made Capri’s Marina Grande.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Quickly from boat to bus, we all squeezed into a tiny 20seater van and headed up the mountain to our first port-of-call; Ana Capri.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sweet Lords of Kobol, what a trek!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the luxury of hindsight, we both regretted not thinking to film the whole adventure. It was intense!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At times, I was a mere 2 inches from other buses and vans passing us the other way, and I was INSIDE the cabin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all were laughing and cursing and shaking our heads in disbelief at what was simply taken as a day at work for our driver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am lost for words as to describe this in rightful detail – it was extraordinary.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4s6kv9iI46B3B50MYwuSMLHrqav_2oscm3QVMYEDrkyrANlT0y3rpxp212cH2sThPrbLTKSzbQEDselkg0otCid5E6Y-O0tSasY-rEQkLPihtM-X2Th2dyybpaShRSstregR8nfYCbdw/s1600/IMG_1721.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4s6kv9iI46B3B50MYwuSMLHrqav_2oscm3QVMYEDrkyrANlT0y3rpxp212cH2sThPrbLTKSzbQEDselkg0otCid5E6Y-O0tSasY-rEQkLPihtM-X2Th2dyybpaShRSstregR8nfYCbdw/s320/IMG_1721.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">At the top of the island, 1100ft above sea-level, we made Ana Capri and immediately had the option to take a sky-lift up to a peak that gave 360 degree views of Capri, Sorrento, Naples, Vesuvius and even parts of the Amalfi coast.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So we jumped at the chance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then discovered it was not a safe, secure, pod or cabin – no.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">But single chairs.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dangling from a cable.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Disappearing sharply up a mountain side and beyond view.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">HELL YES!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV5cL8_Bm3-59zzgnLeNa16lNmIYGjrxUZpjyi57xZ2xyqhd3KW2ShyphenhyphenrrgUMWMHMUrD0ByKuLEsik3faq2TYHxqgf6WK-Fhcyuoz3Q4_rSggZCzCcQ06e_qXl9XbEnTCNSFyWDrirCz7A/s1600/IMG_1724.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV5cL8_Bm3-59zzgnLeNa16lNmIYGjrxUZpjyi57xZ2xyqhd3KW2ShyphenhyphenrrgUMWMHMUrD0ByKuLEsik3faq2TYHxqgf6WK-Fhcyuoz3Q4_rSggZCzCcQ06e_qXl9XbEnTCNSFyWDrirCz7A/s320/IMG_1724.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">As Al put it we made our way to the very top of Ana Capri and it was an amazing experience … single seat chairs awaited us as we climbed the stairs to the sky life staging area we hopped on and then made our way up the 10-15 minute climb our legs dangling not too far from the ground on the way up but still a hefty enough fall as if we did fall we would have severely hurt ourselves nonetheless.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">But it was all worth it when we crested the top (well we thought was the top) we were greeted by yet another steeper incline than what we were already on. But we did eventually reach the summit and we where rewarded with sweeping 360 degree views of the island, also the steep drop off to the ocean below thundering every so quietly as we could barely hear it. We took the tourists shots and continued to awe at the spectacle below.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTd5VyCgaN1vKMXVKNTpDuoLyJXyOE7PhJyskj0t20xOGwZ_sGMmx-2ySR17_b4CORPrgiOFkvIXWpAwd-5S4Rqyb3PTP8B3UQqCQJ58ldqXWbyx-3wRFYjdS8LPqpLg8mB2ggH8_pM5g/s1600/IMG_1725.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTd5VyCgaN1vKMXVKNTpDuoLyJXyOE7PhJyskj0t20xOGwZ_sGMmx-2ySR17_b4CORPrgiOFkvIXWpAwd-5S4Rqyb3PTP8B3UQqCQJ58ldqXWbyx-3wRFYjdS8LPqpLg8mB2ggH8_pM5g/s320/IMG_1725.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We then made our way back down to the town/village of Ana Capri Alan said it best … That was the most unique morning I have ever experienced and he was absolutely right.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We then met up with our crusty old tour guide and then went for a walk with him … which was a pointless exercise in the end because the thing he was going to show us her ended up not showing us … I know that makes little sense but I can’t even remember what he was supposed to show us.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">But we had a spot of lunch and then headed back down to Capri … we did a little walking tour around Capri and took some more amazing shots … then were offered a choice of walking around Capri for a while or …. Catching a boat around the island and seeing the island from the seas … Alan and I jumped at the unique opportunity.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p><br />
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</o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So within and hour we found ourselves on<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a boat cruising around the island, and here we were in beautiful blue oceans with a completely different perspective … and I can say it was worth every penny or Euro in this case our boat captain was the most talented skipper I had ever seen … taking us precariously close the cliffs of the island and then continued to shock us by negotiating the amazing currents and taking us through seaborne arches and again getting the heart running off the treadmill. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As we continued to power around the island we saw some amazing houses nestled on the cliff faces and even in them. The options people with money have. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC_InrZlTF4FCfaZq_wJcU93WyBIqxpCf2sJiw4sVumFpuVL6NJO2SW4i2dC1LSfNBSfROp4NcwAVIUrt3w3yUBh4MQmp6IpeZoeyhM47AYNdwKAKh2tZXyEmzruLhyphenhyphenfOqQZriyiqW28U/s1600/IMG_1759.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC_InrZlTF4FCfaZq_wJcU93WyBIqxpCf2sJiw4sVumFpuVL6NJO2SW4i2dC1LSfNBSfROp4NcwAVIUrt3w3yUBh4MQmp6IpeZoeyhM47AYNdwKAKh2tZXyEmzruLhyphenhyphenfOqQZriyiqW28U/s320/IMG_1759.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">As we saw the familiar shore of the dock we came in at I breathed a sigh of disappointment … thinking the tour was over I was … but how wrong I was.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I felt something run through my hair thinking it was a bug or something a fellow tourist and let fly I brushed my hair only to find fishing line running through my hair ?!?!? A split second later the skipper comes over the PA he has been talking on and states we are going to catch some fish !!!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I laughed loudly and a fellow British tourist looked at me and smiled “only in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region>”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We then proceeded to start looking at the 2 lines that had been put in the water intently expecting a bite very quickly in the blue abyss below us where no other boats currently were fishing in … Then a bite !!! A beautiful silver 30 cm fish comes flying out of the water … to which the deck hand screams at the captain to slow down, the captain obliges and the deck hand pull the captured fish on the deck of the boat … all the tourists came running (me included) to get a pic of the fine specimen that had flopped onto the deck.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicv9CjLRiVippwSstlyJtaGnkDFRtX79tnXrjV-u6LKggC7R0yjdSZUN5BrQdIs4ZBrIfj0-vmCAbIVHziwLyJ0VaB1WxXo_Km8L6sYy7LaUNl5tNW1b9Ov6YVOKKkborFYbhgMblbsNE/s1600/IMG_1767.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicv9CjLRiVippwSstlyJtaGnkDFRtX79tnXrjV-u6LKggC7R0yjdSZUN5BrQdIs4ZBrIfj0-vmCAbIVHziwLyJ0VaB1WxXo_Km8L6sYy7LaUNl5tNW1b9Ov6YVOKKkborFYbhgMblbsNE/s320/IMG_1767.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">Wow they had caught a fish and then the boat turned around again we were going to catch more … in the end the boat did 4 – 5 laps of the same area over the school of fish they had found 6 fish lost their lives that day … and we eventually made it back to the docks with all our fingers and toes … despite hooks flying over the tops and near our heads.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We made it back to dock in time for us to board our ferry back to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Sorrento</st1:city></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mind you with our crusty old guide telling us to move to the front of the quite sizable line … stating “I do not do queues”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinFZtMyNYQaPCeFydfYJQr-RQZBV_VDOUOpcMgq4We_amoON4EirSuypAZkHdIrSTqOL9h1WRVh5V4KFFbrjJQcJdDVgm9Tv7mxp5nZZKhWJb5Rsi-CJ5Wqv8TcEE6DCJ8kJRNE244suc/s1600/IMG_1778.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinFZtMyNYQaPCeFydfYJQr-RQZBV_VDOUOpcMgq4We_amoON4EirSuypAZkHdIrSTqOL9h1WRVh5V4KFFbrjJQcJdDVgm9Tv7mxp5nZZKhWJb5Rsi-CJ5Wqv8TcEE6DCJ8kJRNE244suc/s320/IMG_1778.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">We made it back to Sorrento the old Best Western and settled in after a rather full day, but nonetheless we had a exciting night of the Laundromat since we were running low on clothes … So we did our washing with some friendly help from the locals to help us decipher the languages written and then found the store next door to the Laundromat sold wonderfully cheap beer, much to Alan’s enjoyment …<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We then decided on some food takeaway back to the hotel which ended up being some Four Seasons Pizza and a Curry Risotto yummm going choices by Alan. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Today we woke up late due to the fact <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region> had a time change … we knew about it … however we did not expect Alan’s phone to auto change the time. But we did a quick change we had luckily packed the night before so we were ready headed downstairs and caught the shuttle bus too the bus terminal in order to catch the bus to Napoli Airport … after the clenched fists and constant vigilance of the local train to Sorrento we decided against that course of action this time.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We got to Napoli Airport with all our bits and hopped on our flight to Barcelona … which ironically is when Alan and I started writing the section of the blog aver 5 pages ago LOL<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">But here I am on the plane home … LHR – DXB so I though I would finish off the rest of this blog …. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So we arrived in Barcelona airport and waited for our luggage … and waited … and waited … apparently Vueling like to make it’s passenger wait 30 or so odd minutes for their baggage … so I suggested for Alan to make his way outside and see if he could find our driver and keep in there </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Eventually the bags came out and I met up with Al and our driver and we made out way into La Rambla … Got to our room and we both had a massive grin on our faces ….<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The one hotel where we only spend a night and barely 2 days had we got the following creature comforts …<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">ironing board and iron<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">A big room<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">Decent size TV that allows us to change inputs<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">A kitchen with <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">Pots and pans<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">Toaster<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">Fridge with ice trays<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dishwasher<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">Plates, cutlery, glasses<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">Stove <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">All the trimmings to allow us to cook and look after ourselves … <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">But in any case we went for a walk up and down La Rambla watched some buskers and then ended up at a Tapas Restaurant … Alan’s first time and my second neither of us was disappointed … the tastiest food !!!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We made our way back to the hotel for some rest & relaxation.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In the morning we decided yet another HoHo bus to keep with tradition … and then some lunch … more HoHo and back to the hotel to start packing for our flight back to Heathrow. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We did do more in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Barcelona</st1:place></st1:city> … but nothing to write home about.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We hop on our British Airways flight back to London … and lovely Cabin Crew names Alison (I think) hooked us up with a few JW Back and then we settled in for the 2 hour flight … we reached Heathrow in record time … well actually could have been that time disappeared while we were hooking into our scotch.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We walked into the customs area where Alan and his wonderful ears overheard a lady mentioning something about a tube strike on her phone …<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Oh gawd was the main reaction we had made plans for <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city> … we were just cursed …<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">But we made it to Kensington Rooms … and things just got more interesting … the rooms just got smaller and smaller in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place> … Alan scoffed at the motto of the hotel … “Space to be yourself” <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Where exactly we supposed to do that … the lobby perhaps … <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We did a hot turnaround and headed straight back out the door … for we had to find a train that was still working … we were in luck we managed to find some trains still working … so our date with Bruce was still in play … YAY <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">RED was awesome by the way …. Lotsa fun was had. Then we walked out of the movie only to find all tube stations were now gated … we were transportless, So we walked the 2.5 odd miles back to the hotel …after a hour we made it back … all while musing that we felt safer next to a dark park at 11pm in London … than we did the entirety of Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We made it back and crashed out … <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I woke up in the morning to Alan cursing at his phone … annoyed that all the plans we had made had disappeared like a fart in a fan factory … the tube strikes were going to stuff everything up.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">But in any case we still managed to see “The Social Network” and drink a Costa Coffee … Walked back to the hotel where we got comfortable for 45 mins till my pick up arrived …<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">30 mins later a man dressed in a suit announced here was there to pick me up. Bugger …. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So I asked him to wait 15 minutes while Alan and I did some goodbyes and muse a little about the trip … and we parted ways …<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I now sit on my plane midnight in <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city>, 4 am in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Dubai</st1:place></st1:city><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I have to admit despite all that has happened this trip has been memorable something I will never forget as Alan said when we were saying our goodbyes this is a trip we can both talk about years from now and hopefully just laugh.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Alan will be reading this … so champ thanks for keep me company on my epic holiday, it was awesome having you along for the adventure.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">For all of you who have been reading thanks for reading I hope we haven’t bored you too much … <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I will probably do a now home blog back in Aus but for now bye from International Skies<o:p></o:p></span></div>Neshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04362838227720211144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989287916361780788.post-81933412640543097272010-11-04T13:54:00.000+10:002010-11-04T13:54:37.629+10:00Last Day Roma to Sorrento<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A:<o:p></o:p></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Last day in Roma, with our imminent movements to Sorrento (via Naples) weighing heavily on our minds, our last morning was spent moderately eventless... a late rise, packed the room, scoffed some breakfast upstairs and then checked out – where we headed to one of my favourite sites in Rome; Piazza de Venezia and the monumental building constructed for the first King of United Italy (King; 1851, site completed; 1911) and later incorporating The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Similar in wow-factor as its twin in France (Arch de Triomphe), this colossal white-marble building dwarfs everything near by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With her inviting multi-levels of cascading stairs guarded by three massive bronze statues we climbed as high as we could by foot, and then scaled to the top level by lift.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And like <st1:city w:st="on">Paris</st1:city>, <st1:city w:st="on">Nice</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Monaco</st1:country-region>, and <st1:city w:st="on">Venice</st1:city> before hand; we were gifted by a stunning 360degree view of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Rome</st1:place></st1:city>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">View from our hotel balcony in Sorrento</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Behind us stood a unique angle of the Forum and ruins, along with the Colosseum in the back ground. Before us was a birds eye view of the chaotic Venezian plaza, a lane-less roundabout that is always abuzz with numerous vehicles swerving around each other with gay abandon (a spectacle only surpassed by, ironically enough, the Arch de Triomphe and her 12 points of approach) that has to be seen to be believed and in the distance, the imposing done of St Peter’s Cathedral – the largest Christian church in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Opting for a final coffee to wrap up our Roman experience, we headed back to a café we’d already enjoyed the Nectar of the Gods at a few days earlier that I had discovered with the parents when here in Sept.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On recognising us, we were greeted by the owner like old friends, shaking our hands warming and imploring us to sit wherever we pleased.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feeling adventurous, the following espresso went down a treat especially being sipped in view of the ancient arena down the street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, alas, we had to make our move.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And again ...</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">After the beautiful Concierge lady I fell in love with helped me repair a torn 50EUR note with tape (imagine a brunette/Italian Meg Ryan… sigh) our private car couriered us to the Roma Termini – and the craziness it contains – with a good 80mins to spare.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Once on the Eurostar, we made quick friends with a lovely Canadian couple when Nesh coated said gent by opening an overly excited bottle of Coke upon him and our table. Once dry, conversations rolled easily, with laughter and hilarity abounding. I may even have a contact for when in the land of maple and snow in 2012, which is awesome.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Naples</span></st1:city></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">, the danger-zone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the incidents of <st1:city w:st="on">Paris</st1:city> and <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Venice</st1:place></st1:city>, we were on high alert is this much warned about area. Making our way from Eurostar to local trains was an effort in itself, with the knowledge the metro-lines being ‘beneath’ the main terminal but all lifts being out of action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually, we found ourselves where we needed to be and when we needed to be there.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And then the ‘train’ pulled in; something that would have looked archaic in the New York subway in a 70s movie, but we boarded nonetheless and stood for the 90minute-30stop trek to Sorrento, unwilling to step away from our bags, conversation limited to a few bellows at each other over the incredible carriage noise until we reached the safety of solid earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">View from the docks</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And we were lost again. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sorrento</st1:place></st1:city> was one of the only places (originally) we were never able to have ‘pre-organised’ transport from arrival to hotel… we had to wing it today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A friendly cab driver ended up assisting us, quoting he’d charge no more than 20EUR to get us to our hotel, if the meter ended lower; we’d pay lower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most excellent.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Reaching the Best Western La Solara, I went in expecting a ‘no-frills’ environment.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I now eat my words.<o:p></o:p></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Random pic of cars</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This BW has to be one of, it not, the best hotel we’ve stayed at on this trip; awesome </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">concierge service, free wifi in the room (that worked!), free bottle of wine, awesome view, quality breakfast (though we didn’t get to attack it as planned), and English TV (even if we were forced to watch GI Joe… twice) plus a free BW shuttle bus service to/fro Sorrento central for it was a little out of town.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Kudos!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Knowing we had us a big Saturday ahead touring Capri/Ana Capri, a night in was had, sponging of said net access and free wine and enjoying the perks of a place of safety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Neshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04362838227720211144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989287916361780788.post-58962007585607854972010-10-31T08:38:00.000+10:002010-10-31T08:38:57.135+10:00Day 2 & 3 Roma<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well Space Cadets,</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry I have left you out to dry for a few days .... I have been having fun well trying too anyways ...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As some of you already know my puppy well fully grown dog was very sick, and subsequently passed away Yesterday afternoon Saturday 29th October ... So I have as I am sure you understand subsequently not in the mood to type or talk about the things I have been doing.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But lets talk ab about Rome Day 2 - Well today we had a ancient Rome tour with a tour guide called wait for it Fabio ... had to bite my lip a little ...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But in the end he was knowledgeable but almost no one could hear him not because he had his lips sewn shut but because the tour company Carrani keeps hiring the cheapest RF transmitters and receivers so as soon as you farther that 4 meters away from your guide you start losing audio ... </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The American tourists in our group well doing a excellent job of letting Fabio know about it ...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll let the pictures tell the story ...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Start of the day ... Oh what's that over my left shoulder :)</span></td></tr>
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Day 3 Roma ....</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well today we had a tour of the Vatican Museum, St. Peters Church and all the trimmings ...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All I can say I throughly enjoyed this whole day ... It just amazed me walking through the Vatican Museum and seeing that the Museum itself was the Museum not the artifact laying within it's walls ... we got a chance to see the Sistine Chapel and the amazing Fresco's by Michaelangelo ... then we got snuck into the crypts of some of the past pope's including Pope John Paul II</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The whole day was just humbling ... then walked into St. Peters Church ... and the size of this building was unexplainable .... Just amazing ...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We had a early rise 5.30am which we managed somehow even after we arrived in our hotel at 7pm and then had a epic dinner (or as Alan calls it “the death feed” opposite the colosseum which ended up finishing at 11pm coming back to the hotel and got to bed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We got on our bus to Pompeii and Napoli … I passed out pretty much straight away on the bus I think Alan did a little better he managed to stay awake a while … the plus of being a morning person. We first reached Napoli (<st1:city w:st="on">Naples</st1:city>) it was unfortunately raining but it didn’t distract it from being a very depressing place </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">L</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> but we did a little walking tour of <st1:place w:st="on">Napoli</st1:place> and saw some impressive monuments. Alan was just getting annoyed at all the hawkers attacking him trying to sell him umbrellas despite him having one in his hand … </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We thankfully only were in Napoli for a maximum of an hour (alan’s words were – our dithering old bat of a tour guide mumbled her way through our tour of <st1:place w:st="on">Napoli</st1:place> … and barely made sense when we could hear her)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">But we got to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Pompeii</st1:place></st1:city> – we had some lunch in a restaurant and then proceeded to the ruins and … again I was astounded by the history of this place got some awesome pics aswell. Thankfully our dithering old bat also known as our tour guide got better and started to loosen up a little and made some tacky jokes (Alan -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She remembered the eruption well)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p><br />
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</o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The time taken to excavate the ruins then restore them was just well worth it !!! The only thing that annoyed me was the fact that tourists were dropping garbage and old batteries in the ruins … I mean c’mon people this is a historic site were people met a horrible end … show a little respect.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We freshened up a little then headed out for dinner had an awesome pizza, watched some guys make out, then headed back to the hotel to sleep.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Well day one despite it being wet cold and rather miserable had a day of interesting facts … like a live discovery channel !!! LOVE IT !!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>Neshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04362838227720211144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989287916361780788.post-858379343274152312010-10-27T09:36:00.000+10:002010-10-27T09:36:41.192+10:00Venice Day 1 & 2 & 3<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Now sitting on a train to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><st1:city w:st="on">Rome</st1:city></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> from </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><st1:city w:st="on">Venice</st1:city></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> have alot to tell about </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Venice</st1:place></st1:city></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> but again I think I’ll do a reader digest version.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-WfIK92gEwC5pn7Oqrc4AbYMa4ualm7rN_ZIIUPSfdVitTRNo3jTMyknwjDCUAlIx5BuDsu04mnFjtWoTOKWc6yboP0dgiv-Jw_UoUxjxvEu_uk6G9RSoPFuhYf0PYL4syEnzsP15aQc/s1600/IMG_1218.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-WfIK92gEwC5pn7Oqrc4AbYMa4ualm7rN_ZIIUPSfdVitTRNo3jTMyknwjDCUAlIx5BuDsu04mnFjtWoTOKWc6yboP0dgiv-Jw_UoUxjxvEu_uk6G9RSoPFuhYf0PYL4syEnzsP15aQc/s320/IMG_1218.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">Reached <st1:city w:st="on">Venice</st1:city> had a nice guy called Chrstiano show us to our taxi … our water taxi … Yep we travelled from <st1:placename w:st="on">Marco</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Polo</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Airport</st1:placetype> to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Venice</st1:place></st1:city> in a Boat … so we sat outside the boat and got some cool pics and then reached out hotel lobby.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Our room unfortunately was a little small but we made do … we have an idyllic view of the building next to us and into their windows and the alley below us.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDdhfAkPdla7td8qr1LAPlBqq41_jum4haXGkPy9T1MF-3VOVVzi2ra1DZkdoUu6xF1ip3YQn1l2xmU4bsmQtw81K1eYO-tWDTY5TiSBlswmtt6SXHAs6mFK0EaS67tKbEEgyi-biXp5c/s1600/IMG_1223.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDdhfAkPdla7td8qr1LAPlBqq41_jum4haXGkPy9T1MF-3VOVVzi2ra1DZkdoUu6xF1ip3YQn1l2xmU4bsmQtw81K1eYO-tWDTY5TiSBlswmtt6SXHAs6mFK0EaS67tKbEEgyi-biXp5c/s320/IMG_1223.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">We again took an early night but not without a detour to a bottle shop for a beer to toast 1</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> weeks to the hour that my phone deserted me for gypsies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCxJ5lljJ366uIQtfV2mZljVkmdCeetIeiqPZn9pPS15EDwuMW1ly8FQMltCIvSQ3KeAa1Wu51Ek_KlHSCUzK-E_2SHquyHWo7Bf90EtmwxVSqC6WIW9QwAF9qNQ2US4MRxaut7AWsp7s/s1600/IMG_1222.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCxJ5lljJ366uIQtfV2mZljVkmdCeetIeiqPZn9pPS15EDwuMW1ly8FQMltCIvSQ3KeAa1Wu51Ek_KlHSCUzK-E_2SHquyHWo7Bf90EtmwxVSqC6WIW9QwAF9qNQ2US4MRxaut7AWsp7s/s320/IMG_1222.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Today Alan decided it would be a great idea to walk to <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">St. Marks Square</st1:address></st1:street> … so we did …<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQCY70SSy48J0-8c2gkngxOMh8WokQ0J7YZcm2w46Dfida1A_1Vci2dqa5xXS6xlNRDnr29-3FY27I0wb0ZJVYqfEl5ad8XUCE4jHxKqqK09l8WYplY3hxnRnHrBhVbBQB4x_y5PdPjQc/s1600/IMG_1227.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQCY70SSy48J0-8c2gkngxOMh8WokQ0J7YZcm2w46Dfida1A_1Vci2dqa5xXS6xlNRDnr29-3FY27I0wb0ZJVYqfEl5ad8XUCE4jHxKqqK09l8WYplY3hxnRnHrBhVbBQB4x_y5PdPjQc/s320/IMG_1227.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">Over to Alan for a blow by blow of our walk through the alleys of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Venice</st1:city></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A: Spaghetti-streets.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7BekgGOZesvPPm9ymlEYP_y1VmgUVPYTGTV-JB4wIHypDeyyw9b0SFCAoUs8WRHNbxKfAJ9u_USb5Vx8Qtn-f7wnePlMXUuRIH_gA83_aibkNCAvrv9bM7i3BDLD636VedvAx3u0qY64/s1600/IMG_1229.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7BekgGOZesvPPm9ymlEYP_y1VmgUVPYTGTV-JB4wIHypDeyyw9b0SFCAoUs8WRHNbxKfAJ9u_USb5Vx8Qtn-f7wnePlMXUuRIH_gA83_aibkNCAvrv9bM7i3BDLD636VedvAx3u0qY64/s320/IMG_1229.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">It’s incredible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were supplied with a map of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Venice</st1:place></st1:city> by our concierge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>It was more a colourful picture of the districts than an actual, helpful, map. Something not limited to us, as we spied countless other tourists doing the same nod-dance between building-mounted street names and the contorted paper-sails within their hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So we threw caution to the wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Guessed a direction and followed such until we reached a recognisable sign or plaza or bridge. And get lost again.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Rinse. Repeat.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1swcY_n3oRc99NrfCrbIEqYXqxeDHeWOtFj-50UJ6K5yQT9290hfCv08Ymc7ji6WEYxQwthlBLj9cTqvNuk2Zl-WCVRxZXccRVvzUHsl9g3YNRVFur5nEid100GkBbKOLJ_U-aABJ0M0/s1600/IMG_1239.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1swcY_n3oRc99NrfCrbIEqYXqxeDHeWOtFj-50UJ6K5yQT9290hfCv08Ymc7ji6WEYxQwthlBLj9cTqvNuk2Zl-WCVRxZXccRVvzUHsl9g3YNRVFur5nEid100GkBbKOLJ_U-aABJ0M0/s320/IMG_1239.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">That’s pretty much what was said by ‘everyone’ before we got here.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It quickly became apparent as to why; the Sq was flooding.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Only by a mere inch in some places to perhaps a foot deep in others, but more than a normal shoe can resist before soaking through, thus it was nonetheless impenetrable other than via these human-caterpillar decks.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggOkNh3rui7d14e-XjVnO6-b0HHorHzKhUG-7ThZiRTECHm44ZZIuaH9i8S4KVnBbaM9dJu1tJDs27AJb6cR0sjoIjrxtzwBj3nJT2QO_wLxJ0b_Y90XE1nS0d00cmqtiqoYJVb0_9tQQ/s1600/IMG_1246.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggOkNh3rui7d14e-XjVnO6-b0HHorHzKhUG-7ThZiRTECHm44ZZIuaH9i8S4KVnBbaM9dJu1tJDs27AJb6cR0sjoIjrxtzwBj3nJT2QO_wLxJ0b_Y90XE1nS0d00cmqtiqoYJVb0_9tQQ/s320/IMG_1246.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">We know understood the functionality of gum-boots at this time, proven further by some young women as they paraded through the shin-deep liquid before the gathering, bewildered, crowd with no real purpose or direction other than that ‘they’ could. And smoke.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sidenote; extraordinary was how many women, as young as 12 in some case, siphon on the cancer-enhancers! Just dumbfounding.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Well I was sitting on the train expecting an essay from Alan but he got distracted again ….<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In any case we managed to find the Square and then proceeded to slosh around it lol …<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A: Cut back in here; we also kicked it up the “” Tower at SMsq – only cost 8EUR each and was pretty detailed with photo-plaques at all windows with numbers relating to what the audio guides would then describe. Like most Italian cities; a most eventful history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heck, the tower even collapsed in 1902 and after an extraordinary convening of City Council they declared to be rebuilt the way it was, to the height it was, using as much of the original they could from the twelve metre high rubble left behind.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Z92BCjGQoH_pkzWs-JsSGkPdsXDDzJI7R9DG4xC-i-YG-FQ3sGsT4ADM1YRMXygPja0YWXm-Z7K5ce0tUugWhiG6Emf-TuotoJfjxQzngyQMVLogTADav90G2ugwgQ3IYJU6Qwer9-k/s1600/IMG_1277.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Z92BCjGQoH_pkzWs-JsSGkPdsXDDzJI7R9DG4xC-i-YG-FQ3sGsT4ADM1YRMXygPja0YWXm-Z7K5ce0tUugWhiG6Emf-TuotoJfjxQzngyQMVLogTADav90G2ugwgQ3IYJU6Qwer9-k/s320/IMG_1277.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">We then bought a couple of umbrellas since it was starting to drizzle and not wanting to cop out and take a taxi back to the hotel we wanted to do a complete circuit of Venice we managed to get back to the hotel with a minimum of fuss and moisture. We have a quick lunch then a siesta.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Had some dinner then some Kit Kat Gelato OMG !!! Sooooo good !!!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A: Again. One thing that will stick with me about <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Venice</st1:city></st1:place> its uniqueness. I’ve never seen a city like it, for a number of reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The obvious; water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the bewildering initial notion of a ‘water taxi’ to the acceptance that this was the way it had to be. There are no roads, simply pedestrian pathways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the ‘islands’ there are no cars, bikes, mopeds, or even rollerblades – as Crisiano put it; “too fast”.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrstosR0JwTTON2yY_OATlrj2ifwX8zFEOF61xro2C3pCQWqwFctY_hlLyq9jG93dyEWEvcL2CX8AusOQ9yb1Pwp96pGXucQYBAFKR3Rnv0o4DtYXKy1WkWBY6hEsvhwvqUIr2liB3-lw/s1600/IMG_1279.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrstosR0JwTTON2yY_OATlrj2ifwX8zFEOF61xro2C3pCQWqwFctY_hlLyq9jG93dyEWEvcL2CX8AusOQ9yb1Pwp96pGXucQYBAFKR3Rnv0o4DtYXKy1WkWBY6hEsvhwvqUIr2liB3-lw/s320/IMG_1279.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">The silence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without cars, horns, sirens, and etc… it’s remarkably and astoundingly quiet. All you have is the hustle and bustle of humans, the seemingly eternal clacking of luggage wheels, and the occasional dog bark (LOTS of dogs, few make noise – even they seem to honour this unwritten rule).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other than the occasional boat engine growling at your from beneath the surface as you happen to cross a bridge or be on a ‘shore-path’, it’s all man-made ambience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So, it was easy to relax away 2 hours this arvo outside a Guinness-serving bar awaiting this train. =P<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The convoluted paths; without the intrusion of cars and the linked need for road and infrastructure, the original haphazard ‘build where you want’ pattern of buildings remain resulting in streets hidden behind what looks like simple doorways and ‘suburbia blending into markets’ with no obvious division.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-DQrjuG7lIXoXlC3eDENH8ZtTzeyvX4ySvTJmVRYBrGwSnTMkF-OGeNyethBlR7yEa3C47iDHvMu1ZFc_9u23d6zsbEfHjYaxZOr4Dh44zU1PfLssT2J3dxG_BABm7AxQs87kt0HIBZ4/s1600/IMG_1285.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-DQrjuG7lIXoXlC3eDENH8ZtTzeyvX4ySvTJmVRYBrGwSnTMkF-OGeNyethBlR7yEa3C47iDHvMu1ZFc_9u23d6zsbEfHjYaxZOr4Dh44zU1PfLssT2J3dxG_BABm7AxQs87kt0HIBZ4/s320/IMG_1285.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Overall, they do say; you don’t need much time in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Venice</st1:place></st1:city>. Which is true for us, this weekend, however – were the weather not bleak and the moment more appealing (let’s say, a romantic getaway) it could be a most stunning and exciting place to visit. One definitely for the memories and for sunnier seasons.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A-out.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs6fWUwQdNOqgPGFVKngbLVYfK9-24waSQEy2dOmhZLoeMA2ftwihPqgwSMOIalqYAdF6N1oZaRHFJ-pI1KNuM5WtaPpWYOnsjtmnl9H-kU5g-x7wNFC8IM8ojc1kuJIL6k_QF2TkP2Lw/s1600/IMG_1293.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs6fWUwQdNOqgPGFVKngbLVYfK9-24waSQEy2dOmhZLoeMA2ftwihPqgwSMOIalqYAdF6N1oZaRHFJ-pI1KNuM5WtaPpWYOnsjtmnl9H-kU5g-x7wNFC8IM8ojc1kuJIL6k_QF2TkP2Lw/s320/IMG_1293.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJfzoImzHhh9GxKJzrb9wBdC2XIY9VNRznbVBzrXwLQ3gF16Gj2f_CO6Y2yJjUZdTEB5geI18wZhtnIKFHLaDHEdHQPddPKiwZ2BXE2eiX_xkX9_wSzvqQzRCeKsXVIvW_yy767ynuFts/s1600/IMG_1295.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJfzoImzHhh9GxKJzrb9wBdC2XIY9VNRznbVBzrXwLQ3gF16Gj2f_CO6Y2yJjUZdTEB5geI18wZhtnIKFHLaDHEdHQPddPKiwZ2BXE2eiX_xkX9_wSzvqQzRCeKsXVIvW_yy767ynuFts/s320/IMG_1295.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">Then Slept and now on the train on the way to Roma … we are just under an hour away from the train station and hopefully the hotel has an internet connection so I can upload this blog.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">If so you’ll be seeing this soon !!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>Neshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04362838227720211144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989287916361780788.post-39059326196921330842010-10-27T09:27:00.000+10:002010-10-27T09:27:29.166+10:00Nice Day 2 & 3<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Well here I am sitting in <st1:placename w:st="on">Schiphol</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Airport</st1:placetype> in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Amsterdam</st1:place></st1:city>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I already love this place so much eye candy around here I am getting whiplash !!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">But, instead, I’ll tell you about our tour of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Monaco</st1:country-region> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Eze</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Village</st1:placetype></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We got up about 9 am in the morning and we slowly got ready, beds were comfy and curtains were good the double glazing glass helped we were snug as bugs. But we went for a walk and got brekkie since we missed the hotel. In the end that was a blessing in disguise since it tasted like ass today …<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVrvTz9zWpFQHzjCj-XoJK6koIqCSh9v-b_EIAB3C9loCJpUoUWNgQ1Tre8dXnITbkH4pTGvf6lYaKc80qkBH3uN_CFjqeS0x-DEsM4L7Eko05x8Ocr-ccC0KPY9qgUSRQEBjxKaL3sok/s1600/IMG_1044.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVrvTz9zWpFQHzjCj-XoJK6koIqCSh9v-b_EIAB3C9loCJpUoUWNgQ1Tre8dXnITbkH4pTGvf6lYaKc80qkBH3uN_CFjqeS0x-DEsM4L7Eko05x8Ocr-ccC0KPY9qgUSRQEBjxKaL3sok/s320/IMG_1044.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">We got picked up at 1.45pm by our driver we were getting a semi private tour of all this, we had only one other couple with us from Chile, who mind you had a rather dubious relationship with time since we had to drive around the block twice till they were ready at their hotel. Ironically enough next to the restaurant that we had lunch at the first day in Nice. We both had a giggle about that.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A: It was another fantastic tour and our guide was great – we both flipped him 10EUR each at the end of the trip for it was well deserved. He spoke Dutch, not Turkish.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nice is not only stunning but has a fascinating history.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Only a few months ago did she celebrate her Sesquicentennial (150th<sup> </sup>year) as being part of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place>. Prior to that she’d been under Italian rule and further back, a Greecian harbour (a few hundred years BCE).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkY67ANIRbm2fxnFDmlr-HKm_28Kp8WFz7OoolqypPNZStO9RKmN0AhAOa8UMTIZOwn667EaCoRu79GI4Y1PskgWXx2w98tFDEOPe1i_pW6kHwElzyR1A8Ykt48vOFcjAwANibcu0zhpw/s1600/IMG_1082.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkY67ANIRbm2fxnFDmlr-HKm_28Kp8WFz7OoolqypPNZStO9RKmN0AhAOa8UMTIZOwn667EaCoRu79GI4Y1PskgWXx2w98tFDEOPe1i_pW6kHwElzyR1A8Ykt48vOFcjAwANibcu0zhpw/s320/IMG_1082.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">But when the multiple sovereign states and kingdoms of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region> wished for unification, they approached <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place> for assistance who agreed on the condition they pass Nice and surrounding areas over to Croissant-Control once this was accomplished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus we know the result…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">From the moment we arrived, we were mightily impressed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The sun beamed, the sky sported collection of luxurious blues, and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Med</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Sea</st1:placetype></st1:place> thrummed gently before us as we sat upon our balcony embracing this vista.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN4DhW_kyX34vOTrEsm4Y4MXMMohBvJmwh8zykm0nlwJOEAnS9pRYvuSXydhyphenhyphenUnfVlL4dYKnKFjXyURsmviSNv0-v7dQhGy6JONlffuboOnHaypIUid08JV8p49V1V0V7-j_kfp7V9q4Q/s1600/IMG_1123.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN4DhW_kyX34vOTrEsm4Y4MXMMohBvJmwh8zykm0nlwJOEAnS9pRYvuSXydhyphenhyphenUnfVlL4dYKnKFjXyURsmviSNv0-v7dQhGy6JONlffuboOnHaypIUid08JV8p49V1V0V7-j_kfp7V9q4Q/s320/IMG_1123.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Not wanting such bliss to be solely visual, we opted for a walk along the wide, pedestrian-friendly, boulevard that mimicked the shoreline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Donning shorts to wear outside for the first time in a month (and that was simply due to the fact I was in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Rome</st1:place></st1:city> then) we set out for a surprisingly lengthy journey.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This baby ain’t no concur-in-a-brisk-30-mins Bondi bay – our particular curve of the <st1:place w:st="on">Cote</st1:place> d’Azure is a might deceptive.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZN0HcMpSevv4oa2ic-CtH-LMmzyrYfOVtpWAFms-70Rj-j0hKdxmMD_yRpzGym4N5q15k6N-uvLbWQbgVl671U3hZwBDLZO3uGaJcom0EMNbjjaFWHUUOEqf5cdmzy5wVMfdFawJw-Q0/s1600/IMG_1124.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZN0HcMpSevv4oa2ic-CtH-LMmzyrYfOVtpWAFms-70Rj-j0hKdxmMD_yRpzGym4N5q15k6N-uvLbWQbgVl671U3hZwBDLZO3uGaJcom0EMNbjjaFWHUUOEqf5cdmzy5wVMfdFawJw-Q0/s320/IMG_1124.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We found likewise when our tour kicked off. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was so much beauty to enjoy, what seemed far wasn’t and what looked so close was surprisingly not. As Nesh mentioned, we passed multiple wealthy joints, none other than a site, the former Belgium Royal family’s summer palace being sort after by a Russian business man. The rumoured price tag for said property?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">500. Million. Euros.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhU_W3s6uVU0VjjI2VvHFCoJJfyQ5-VHQ5Bbz3D24gvgyT6GJW78eD57o8Nfua_99J6VQi1dQtkuybcDpMK99xqigTZlF8sTdAiN5WY54lvisehTeJzlOm5b_UfhQ6wtNiGTwDah935Xw/s1600/IMG_1131.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhU_W3s6uVU0VjjI2VvHFCoJJfyQ5-VHQ5Bbz3D24gvgyT6GJW78eD57o8Nfua_99J6VQi1dQtkuybcDpMK99xqigTZlF8sTdAiN5WY54lvisehTeJzlOm5b_UfhQ6wtNiGTwDah935Xw/s320/IMG_1131.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Yep.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Side note we had a quick dinner the first night at a place called “Blast” the American bar. Was quite nice and relativity cheap as well. Then did a 4 k walk back to the hotel with Alan needing to pee all the way back... he did well.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We then made our way to the Perfume factory near the village of Eze one a few that still produce in France, and that was also a eye opener, I can now understand why perfume costs so much, It makes a little more sense.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div>Neshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04362838227720211144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989287916361780788.post-15628364758664478722010-10-22T02:51:00.001+10:002010-11-12T11:47:46.487+10:00Nice = Nice<div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU3W68sMDZyQtAK3VFdb-RkxL9q8ojow3L75n4H9bUldIqpWvph8QNegreSISxwhoZrFiN3Vma82JSSaE02_7yOxqJzPJ8fYBNOjTUd6_OGnmKrB6ksmZyCrS0LVYXIAmQZ-wwjggGea0/s1600/IMG_0950.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU3W68sMDZyQtAK3VFdb-RkxL9q8ojow3L75n4H9bUldIqpWvph8QNegreSISxwhoZrFiN3Vma82JSSaE02_7yOxqJzPJ8fYBNOjTUd6_OGnmKrB6ksmZyCrS0LVYXIAmQZ-wwjggGea0/s320/IMG_0950.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">Well after the conclusion of the night in Toulouse we came back to the hotel and started to chill for a while we slipped downstairs to upload some of the blog and surf the net quickly … then headed out for dinner being 9 pm and the cost of a meal at the hotel totalling the rent for a week on a house in Brisbane we went for a walk and found a maccas store !!!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I walked outside to take in the protesters air only to start chatting to a brit who was extremely intoxicated and he made several suggestions about how to get to the airport he then said </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“If my girlfriends’ car was not damaged then I would drive you”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There was no chance in hell he was driving anywhere but him and his Irish and 2 other French friends kept me entertained for a while</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I eventually talked to the concierge again and he called up the taxi company again and said maybe 10 more mins … we were cutting it close. So I slipped him 5 Euro of course a blatant bribe to make sure he gets us a taxi ASAP.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It worked within 10 mins he had a taxi waiting for us and we had slipped to the front of the queue. We hopped in and were on our way to the airport our taxi driver had been told by the concierge of our time constraints and he really put the foot down taking us through all manner of back streets of Toulouse and managed to get us to the airport we gave him a generous tip and were checked in for our flight … got on the plane a little ATR-76 and were on our way to Nice.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Neshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04362838227720211144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989287916361780788.post-78526522427109111772010-10-21T05:17:00.000+10:002010-10-21T05:17:04.858+10:00Toulouse – Airbus Layover<div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Alan’s Version<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Started SHIT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Got worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saw a big plane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Got better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Met nice Aussies, had Subway. Met nice gent and his laundry detergent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had three poo’s. Each.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now rest on big bed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nesh’s Version<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Well woke up somehow after 2.5 hours of sleep and got ready to goto the Airport.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We eventually found the terminal that was ours and headed in to check in for a flight … unfortunately it did not open for another hour so we sat back and chilled for a while and then checked in had a coffee and hopped on the flight to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Toulouse</st1:place></st1:city>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Both Alan and I passed out before we took off …. To make matters interesting out flight got pushed back half an hour later then as we made ourselves comfortable the captain popped on the PA an announced due to the industrial strike traffic controllers we in short supply so we would be an additional 25 mins late …. Al and I looked at each other and did the math … this was going to cut it close if we were to make the Airbus Factory Tour.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As we hopped off the plane and waited for our bags at the baggage carousel I looked outside to see approximately 45 police in riot gear and the ominous smell of smoke …. As we walked outside to see not even one taxi in sight our hearts dropped, we weren’t going to make it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Then we see orange flares and an excessive amount of smoke, it was the protest … it had blocked the highway and airport hence no taxis were in sight … but slowly they started trickling in people got picked up and we found a taxi. He didn’t speak a work of English but he worked out the hotel we wanted to goto. We asked him if he could wait and take us to the airbus factory he originally handed us a card and told us to book a cab but alas he changed his mind and said he could … we tried to cancel the cab we ordered but alas I had run out of credit on my new mobile and got thru on Alan’s phone but no luck there …<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We headed out but in short we got screwed royally the cab driver ended up charging us 65 Euro for a ride that should have cost no more than 35 Euro … with no recourse and no ability to argue with him in French we paid for the cab and got out with really sore asses.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Checked in properly and then headed out for food …. Subway and then went to the Laundromat did some washing and how waiting for it to dry properly … and of course about to upload the blog and some pics … here’s hoping things get a little better from here on in … but judging on the way things have been going we’ll have to play it all by ear.</span></div>Neshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04362838227720211144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989287916361780788.post-65641448448034909402010-10-21T05:10:00.000+10:002010-10-21T05:10:05.619+10:00PARIS - Day 3 Are we looking up ??<div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Alan’s Version<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sun came out, as did Nesh. Did a HOHO bus, saw the Louvre and ate Chinese.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Success!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">After the shit night we had before we did avoid the “Historic Paris Tour” and slept in while I had a chance to gather myself and stop re-living the moment of loss.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We did however get to see the <st1:place w:st="on">Champs Elysees</st1:place> again I can’t say anything positive about today … we did have to find a pair of shoes for Alan so he could get into the Moulin Rouge. We looked round the <st1:place w:st="on">Champs Elysees</st1:place> but neither Alan nor I could see the justification in paying 70 Euro, for a plain pair of black shoes.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We hopped in a cab and we found a driver than managed to speak “English” we told him about our dilemma in regards to black shoes he suggested some markets that were on … so we drove out there with him … as we hopped out of the cab he said for us to be careful as there were numerous pickpockets in this particular markets. GREAT … we thought so here we were in a shanty looking market where there was every possibility the vendors could disappear in a heartbeat at the near hint of the police and we were walking through it … on high alert. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">After a few close calls to suspicious looking people we finally escaped back to the hotel. With a pair of shoes and 2 pairs of gloves and some sunnies for Al.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We then dressed to the 9’s and started to head to our planned Moulin Rouge dinner. What an amazing show it was we had dinner in the most immaculate and historically correct theatre of that time.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We got sat down next to a Italian couple who had just got married the day before so we bought a bottle of Champagne and shared the loved a toasted to their health.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Overall a good night and since both me and Alan were adequately inebriated we started to joke and forget about the night before. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We arrive in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region> but unfortunately our Transfer car was not booked in properly so they said they couldn’t pick us up. Alan had looked at trusty old Google Maps and found out where the hotel was and said we would be able to catch the Metro train to the hotel. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We ended up walking about half a click to the other train station that we had to catch. On really bad side walks or what you would loosely call sidewalks, dodging shady looking characters, then end up at the train station and try and get our bags through the narrowest turnstiles in history. Make it on board the train and finally find a train that is not full to the brim with other passengers. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We finally make the ‘destination’, Point Dauphine station.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But about 20 minutes after breaching the surface once again we realise we’re well and truly lost until a wonderful French Samaritan offers help from his Mazda 6; we’re a good 15 mins from ‘where’ we ‘should’ be.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The ensuing trek through the beautiful brick-road back streets of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Paris</st1:city></st1:place>’s 16<sup>th</sup> ‘Arrondissement’ was a nice, unanticipated, site-seeing tour until we finally made the Plaza Tour Eiffel, where it all changed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our hotel for the next 4 nights was a stunner especially compared to Cramptopia of our <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city> stint.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">After the two VERY helpful concierge gents got us settled, we made ourselves at home in the top-floor, Eiffel Tower-views, room. Bliss.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Now we were excited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things were looking up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was early on a Saturday eve in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:city>. The night was calling. So we headed out.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The luxury of hindsight is a wonderful thing…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">After trekking the short distance to Trocadero we spied the sparkling wonder that is the Tower at night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Stunning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Though the wind lashed at us like an angry, drunk, pimp beating his two disobedient whores with ice-whips, until our flesh yearned for a naked flame, it was magical.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Thus, still fuelled by the moment, we sucked it up and ventured forth – further under the steel behemoth then decided we needed a feed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Many, many, blocks later we finally decided on a quaint looking site were the outside menu was also in English.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This wasn’t the case inside. So we did a mini-MacGyver and chose what we wanted from a photo of said outside display.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">With great surprise, it was out in about five, maybe 10 mins, and was delicious. Particularly the moans emanating from Nesh suggested such.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And things were chipper. Two lagers and two wines each on the go with a good feed. The Boys were cheering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then ‘it’ happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Just after ordering desserts… well, let’s just say… Nesh decided to donate his phone to the local gypsy-cause. Involuntarily, of course.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Yep. Three young youths, seemingly not washed since the last time I knew the touch of a woman, came up to us placing a piece of paper on the table with some illegible scrawl upon it. Instantly, the waiter leapt at them and started herding them out, not without a course in unpleasant French, I’m sure.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Moments later, the manager approached us wondering if we were cool – we nodded, not too fussed; thinking they were just beggars, but alas, we were true naïve tourists. A statistic.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nesh’s phone was gone. The new sexy iPhone 4G has done a Houdini. All it took was 12 seconds.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There isn’t an application for that.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Therefore, it doesn’t take long to do the math; we were pissed. The night, place, and potential holiday was seemingly ruined.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The rest of the Parisian session had up and downs, but did end up being another Top Deck adventure in awesomeness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bring on <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Toulouse</st1:place></st1:city>!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 170.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Yes as Al has mentioned we did have some moments of elation but not all … Grrrr damn gypsy benevolent fund.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Neshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04362838227720211144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989287916361780788.post-17682845482480228532010-10-21T04:20:00.003+10:002010-10-21T04:20:53.855+10:00Excuses, Excuses<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Well here I am sitting in my room on my last night in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:city> …<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I have had a rather full on 4 and a bit days so have not really had enough time to sit down and write everything down but I’ll give you the readers digest version of everything.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Neshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04362838227720211144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989287916361780788.post-51604208062372021972010-10-17T09:06:00.000+10:002010-10-17T09:06:00.025+10:00Day 4 Evan and Evans Tours<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Now on to day 4, Today we went to <city w:st="on">Windsor</city>, Stonehenge and <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Bath</place></city> all of which were very beautiful.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Windsor</span></place></city><span style="font-family: Arial;"> castle is extraordinary the amount of history that is nailed to the walls suits of armour, family crests and then of course the bedrooms we had access too. Unfortunately we could not take pictures inside the castle, so no pics were taken of the inside of the amazing building so all I’ll have is my memories of this place </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nfsNhsoRhkw/TLouCmqN7QI/AAAAAAAAAEk/M0JI4LTBoBg/s1600/IMG_0555.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nfsNhsoRhkw/TLouCmqN7QI/AAAAAAAAAEk/M0JI4LTBoBg/s320/IMG_0555.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><place w:st="on"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Stonehenge</span></place><span style="font-family: Arial;"> I have of course been obsessed with this place for ages and even more so when Matthew Reilly wrote about it in “Six Sacred Stones” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We were not allowed close enough to touch the pillars but we managed to get a lot of shots of it … and I mean a lot mwahahaha. It perplexes me how this monument is in the middle of nowhere and how it came about. As you walk away from it I thought to myself “it’s good to have mysteries.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nfsNhsoRhkw/TLovX-tiM2I/AAAAAAAAAEo/1uMsOWCoAIU/s1600/IMG_0571.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nfsNhsoRhkw/TLovX-tiM2I/AAAAAAAAAEo/1uMsOWCoAIU/s320/IMG_0571.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Finally <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Bath</place></city>, a quaint little village, the kinda place you would like to raise your kids. We saw the Roman Baths again the awe of walking in the footsteps of where someone else has walked approximately 2000 years ago. Yeah picture that number pretty awesome huh.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinudMAHsD7zPrsjtkJvxQidA-7n1Y9EfwDZ6Q0f3eoNhm6VRiBII1zGLNBo5GNcntdC2oK9b1tMAFQzpCIQ6YxspKtQLS37BbRv0Yalhi0Va51izuecsIhoT137R9Q7VVQcVqUSpTQ41M/s1600/IMG_0623.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinudMAHsD7zPrsjtkJvxQidA-7n1Y9EfwDZ6Q0f3eoNhm6VRiBII1zGLNBo5GNcntdC2oK9b1tMAFQzpCIQ6YxspKtQLS37BbRv0Yalhi0Va51izuecsIhoT137R9Q7VVQcVqUSpTQ41M/s320/IMG_0623.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We then did the 2.5 hour drive back to London and started organising our bags for Paris, but in the process of doing that I learnt of some industrial action that was taking place in France so we went into panic mode as to if we did go to France were we going to be able to fly out again </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Maybe an over-reaction but considering what is to come in <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">France</place></country-region> I kinda wish I had over reacted more.</span></div>Neshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04362838227720211144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989287916361780788.post-68571085404677660912010-10-17T08:55:00.000+10:002010-10-17T08:55:31.859+10:00Day 3 - Evan and Evans Tours<span style="font-family: Arial;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Well I am sitting on the Eurostar at the moment have not had a second to scratch myself the last few days with all the tours that myself and Alan have been on…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Our first tour was to <placename w:st="on">Warwick</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Castle</placetype>, <city w:st="on">Oxford</city> & <city w:st="on">Stratford</city> upon <place w:st="on">Avon</place> …</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We had a dynamic duo on board with us our tour guide was named Deborah who we eventually ended up naming “mum” and our driver Joe who we ended up calling … Joe </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Our first port of call was <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Oxford</city></place> … now mum was a wealth of information who overloaded us with information but I would have to say the best tour guide I have ever had.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">She informed us that <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Oxford</place></city> was a university town not a university as such the governing body was Oxford Universities. So we ventured into <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Christchurch</placename> <placetype w:st="on">College</placetype></place>, where consequently some Harry Potter scenes were filmed, and the inspiration behind the “Great Hall” The Original name of the university was “Corpus Christie” Christ’s House which some on the students still refer to is as house. There is more to the story but I’ll tell you all that in person when I see you again. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The most beautiful architecture that I had seen “so far” and of course mum continued to overload us with information which was brilliant … Discovery Channel eat your heart out you had nothing on mum.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Next was Stratford upon Avon the birthplace of William Shakespeare well again another historical sight that blew my mind when we did eventually walk into the house it dawned on me … I am walking in the place on the same floor William Shakespeare was born and lived in … Yeah take a second to take that in kids … </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3A1kkpJkXye_naqLaiqWq_6i1JffasPq06ntRRoWarhSeWTUJHs4HpXOieWGlipCszpXDGgmZQ7h2iuN53Pl4nCP5Svx85HJ_Qzw3TP3Vq3YsOEXeKLuqhXdYJLqA9gZzpfr4bK_R2yk/s1600/IMG_0467.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3A1kkpJkXye_naqLaiqWq_6i1JffasPq06ntRRoWarhSeWTUJHs4HpXOieWGlipCszpXDGgmZQ7h2iuN53Pl4nCP5Svx85HJ_Qzw3TP3Vq3YsOEXeKLuqhXdYJLqA9gZzpfr4bK_R2yk/s320/IMG_0467.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Then Warwick Castle, I finally visited my first castle and wow what a whopper it was, according to mum it was voted by Britons as the best castle to visit in England … so not the United Kingdom so that rules out Scotland etc.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqeK7MB7_tEIZz4VLEj4H7eCYCxB02NroYqTwl1h2nujpLpLZPTaOsPFulzTKaD6OKXNADONyQayEXF1-3UYqlXePwbqxAg10chMb-fsxBAZM2wOSaBu82CSudlEEOQv80SGLOJBSuQjc/s1600/IMG_0475.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqeK7MB7_tEIZz4VLEj4H7eCYCxB02NroYqTwl1h2nujpLpLZPTaOsPFulzTKaD6OKXNADONyQayEXF1-3UYqlXePwbqxAg10chMb-fsxBAZM2wOSaBu82CSudlEEOQv80SGLOJBSuQjc/s320/IMG_0475.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Visited my first Dungeon and I was overwhelmed with a sense of outrage, shock, awe and disbelief and how we treated people … to put in frankly I actually got quite emotional when I looked and the Oubliette and realised the foetal position these people would have had to been in for the rest of their lives getting fed if the jailors remembered to feed them at all, and sitting sleeping in their own effluent. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Of course this is nothing without the pictures I have taken and I have taken plenty I will upload them once I do get a net connection I am trying to play catch up </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"></div></span>Neshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04362838227720211144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989287916361780788.post-90960090853399301842010-10-14T04:06:00.001+10:002010-10-14T04:06:43.881+10:00At The Draft House<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8GuEBpGwYjvbVUdhKXaiiVhxGiZbh7fT22_pDCnoMXOE_Msp40eEhCqB3ixrzSuQTZrAqva0E1vJHtWSvnlCvm1TF_bAwFE0YnTvVjJreKh7ECrAAu7-bUPW9WMEaEmz6a086AY138pI/s1600/photo-703883.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8GuEBpGwYjvbVUdhKXaiiVhxGiZbh7fT22_pDCnoMXOE_Msp40eEhCqB3ixrzSuQTZrAqva0E1vJHtWSvnlCvm1TF_bAwFE0YnTvVjJreKh7ECrAAu7-bUPW9WMEaEmz6a086AY138pI/s320/photo-703883.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527593724951928210" /></a></p>Neshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04362838227720211144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989287916361780788.post-76576790835745708702010-10-14T04:01:00.000+10:002010-10-14T04:02:33.847+10:00Day 1 & 2 London<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nfsNhsoRhkw/TLX0OmDrygI/AAAAAAAAADs/CjcaSZ13vTU/s1600/photo+1-753848.JPG"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nfsNhsoRhkw/TLX0OmDrygI/AAAAAAAAADs/CjcaSZ13vTU/s320/photo+1-753848.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527592649238497794" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE6F3oQLA1HWxdIJCjiCaFeSfYp1sMkBf9gQoHnjWp9wLoALzK1DbyNeepN4Td1IQHS5BrOrGgVtGsWk3WN4EJttiK2oY5wUarc3fWu5DaaDEDPk3OwgMDgNbdOg0WrQ1rCY1nvRLnnbc/s1600/photo+2-755254.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE6F3oQLA1HWxdIJCjiCaFeSfYp1sMkBf9gQoHnjWp9wLoALzK1DbyNeepN4Td1IQHS5BrOrGgVtGsWk3WN4EJttiK2oY5wUarc3fWu5DaaDEDPk3OwgMDgNbdOg0WrQ1rCY1nvRLnnbc/s320/photo+2-755254.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527592652909797154" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHVSKXaw7GV3X9JFubFcb1Pl9Pf4HnomnGF8_0cgvcOZKGKbLA7oHbKZEkpedUjdknD9SWmMUXWASKD3LJGm0T1BtCEGMpBK4mlbnMrT6jDZT3dXJ0ihSpbVeU5LNPVAm3DRHUrCElQqI/s1600/photo+3-756106.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHVSKXaw7GV3X9JFubFcb1Pl9Pf4HnomnGF8_0cgvcOZKGKbLA7oHbKZEkpedUjdknD9SWmMUXWASKD3LJGm0T1BtCEGMpBK4mlbnMrT6jDZT3dXJ0ihSpbVeU5LNPVAm3DRHUrCElQqI/s320/photo+3-756106.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527592659781546770" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nfsNhsoRhkw/TLX0PZ1xZTI/AAAAAAAAAEE/QCjwO-Bf2UE/s1600/photo+4-756970.JPG"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nfsNhsoRhkw/TLX0PZ1xZTI/AAAAAAAAAEE/QCjwO-Bf2UE/s320/photo+4-756970.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527592663138788658" /></a></p>Well despite the massive issues with finding a net connection in this god forsaken city. I have managed to post a few of the pics from the rest of my epic 25 hours on planes airports. <p>Well I arrived at my hotel. My driver Tony from the airport was well ... Very boring. But nonetheless he did manage to get me there. <p>I finally met up with Alan and got comfortable in the shoe box of a room that we booked :)<p>Myself and Alan caught up with each other which took all of 48 seconds then we started walking out and exploring Alan introduced me to my first oyster card, and then my first tube ride. <p>Alan being the amusing and rather good tour guide he is walked me out of my first underground station to find me looking at big ben. Yeah. It was a brilliant wow factor moment for the introduction to London. <p>He however has had some rather amusing moments aswell ...<p>• after I take off my new prescription sunnies ad put on my old ones Alan looks at me and says your glasses have changed ... I look at him strangely while my brain tries to<br>compute what he has said I retort "I have" Alan responds aahh. <br>• we are walking near Scotland yard looking for a particular tour boat we are looking for Alan looks at a boat and says "no that's a boat". I look at him for a second and piss myself laughing and respond that's very astute of you. <br>• we eventually hop on the right boat and we are impressed at how nice the ferry is and the size of it I look at it and think to myself it could hold 200 people. While we are heading towards Tower of London I'm at typing some of this blog entry and Alan looks at me and says "it should hold 10 people" I stop typing and look around and the looks at him confused. He stopped mid sentence, I'm assuming he was talking about the pods on the London Eye. <br>Again Alan provided some entertainment. <p>We did a bit of a tour of the tower of london and now having a pint at "The Draft House"<p>To be continued ...<p>And charlie the unicorn :)<p><p>Parnesh "Nesh" SharmaNeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04362838227720211144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989287916361780788.post-57061542573244269702010-10-13T19:26:00.000+10:002010-10-13T19:33:55.348+10:00More pics from the A380<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-mJG_veAB6tqz5qxKywvjPbUyp-Tu8BCaFNrqaS4WogboYWvbWlr_mNv1EMTiGHAu5rhfQNiTuSHSc3hvC3pLvEsRYVuw5TcNfL714oR3dJCReF_ZETaaR-F7MCJIK078HLcKn7YS_48/s1600/photo+1-735350.JPG"><img 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!!!<p>Next image is the Emirates First Class Lounge which mind you is bigger than Brisbane international airport. <p>And finally pictures of the wine cellars at the First Class lounge. Wow.Neshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04362838227720211144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989287916361780788.post-90951650907140298742010-10-13T18:38:00.000+10:002010-10-13T18:40:01.749+10:00Food from Emirates & famous girl<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqAefDmVGEgOTJIab6vAkR5MjOu3YT_B57TQaNgUNUjT7kd-EMq1Y2VVf3t8Gok9agH4De0jIDsRhvMLujcgyM_-32m_GZ-GID6cDEIl-uPFXUNSeulv9qdrhwplvoDwHB25OnV6AHJ24/s1600/photo+1-701750.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqAefDmVGEgOTJIab6vAkR5MjOu3YT_B57TQaNgUNUjT7kd-EMq1Y2VVf3t8Gok9agH4De0jIDsRhvMLujcgyM_-32m_GZ-GID6cDEIl-uPFXUNSeulv9qdrhwplvoDwHB25OnV6AHJ24/s320/photo+1-701750.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527447687168438034" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLIPITKdJQY_nuYXxvaEcwVeVCMtTTYWkjIABHbEJpY8L2K73wbEZTQ0TMO7I3L0w-jf89DeUBMDQO340fZmB5CDA8DADKdGSBMNyCCH0W4sbCKj2guttxNUNYrgBe9WgAWoOkMJKllJ4/s1600/photo+2-703899.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLIPITKdJQY_nuYXxvaEcwVeVCMtTTYWkjIABHbEJpY8L2K73wbEZTQ0TMO7I3L0w-jf89DeUBMDQO340fZmB5CDA8DADKdGSBMNyCCH0W4sbCKj2guttxNUNYrgBe9WgAWoOkMJKllJ4/s320/photo+2-703899.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527447695729743138" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyIzmQDJgdGbzjGzjudlR6x-lj9YsOpMp4MTWyX-UI-HRVuO3P9RHtF2ourEzVuSVxb6zqcPn4kjxsxcgKUkOou0lF6aDi-w9XDEtJhYGwIcaRFh7Pi-QQYfKIKW8JXc13t1dghsznPRo/s1600/photo+3-704710.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyIzmQDJgdGbzjGzjudlR6x-lj9YsOpMp4MTWyX-UI-HRVuO3P9RHtF2ourEzVuSVxb6zqcPn4kjxsxcgKUkOou0lF6aDi-w9XDEtJhYGwIcaRFh7Pi-QQYfKIKW8JXc13t1dghsznPRo/s320/photo+3-704710.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527447695803880994" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzJk1hPUi-ND-J83tv0yDfYeEnxFi3XzaBX-1pOPFeTx2ROSFrr4Ov11Hg0iHPsVscQANqmvLuguFGUfnaE_K223zVk88HcQgvL8u0WbSZndFwQtUh0ghIfNtaGDAz8xw0lMeODFFcu5I/s1600/photo+4-705524.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzJk1hPUi-ND-J83tv0yDfYeEnxFi3XzaBX-1pOPFeTx2ROSFrr4Ov11Hg0iHPsVscQANqmvLuguFGUfnaE_K223zVk88HcQgvL8u0WbSZndFwQtUh0ghIfNtaGDAz8xw0lMeODFFcu5I/s320/photo+4-705524.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527447697303500418" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKjCK4vjaZhfwhpMhjNNTr1BTQ0u9JjN533A9XZD0nHGnXz5dUPsLWWFQy5LYvCemw3qXzaGsynDfv2ilcUreLwQ3ZJUtsOm01zSztHF4y40SEl-gN0bscOVUcctyRJozukmN_Sz6Rrg4/s1600/photo+5-706478.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKjCK4vjaZhfwhpMhjNNTr1BTQ0u9JjN533A9XZD0nHGnXz5dUPsLWWFQy5LYvCemw3qXzaGsynDfv2ilcUreLwQ3ZJUtsOm01zSztHF4y40SEl-gN0bscOVUcctyRJozukmN_Sz6Rrg4/s320/photo+5-706478.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527447704473066722" /></a></p>Food was amazing as you can see. <p>It was all done on demand so you eat what you want when you want. <p>Oh and a famous girl from YouTube !!!Neshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04362838227720211144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989287916361780788.post-91968272290014800112010-10-13T18:30:00.000+10:002010-10-13T18:33:15.690+10:00The Indian had landed ... In his suite :)<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxrlEwqigxzBemx0u9St4P2xPJWe7f9Hy0A452P3SWMaa0dE3Ri89MkObXEPosnqxY2byjjQxiqVy6siaU6AUxEFSRtuudJjZzs3Y6GTz-szY96OP4mWYkDU-IS5pllAdHbTfnNvGqbdM/s1600/photo+1-795691.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxrlEwqigxzBemx0u9St4P2xPJWe7f9Hy0A452P3SWMaa0dE3Ri89MkObXEPosnqxY2byjjQxiqVy6siaU6AUxEFSRtuudJjZzs3Y6GTz-szY96OP4mWYkDU-IS5pllAdHbTfnNvGqbdM/s320/photo+1-795691.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527445941390013842" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nfsNhsoRhkw/TLVuzUoElzI/AAAAAAAAABc/3r_BgSTByIs/s1600/photo+2-796975.JPG"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nfsNhsoRhkw/TLVuzUoElzI/AAAAAAAAABc/3r_BgSTByIs/s320/photo+2-796975.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527445945656317746" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVgDocx3panKV3KOmgSHFnu-tUTZ_Uq-EEeRSew8rQHq9QDv849p3eVe6CEs1OyxIJ5CybE6jaTm3Ffb0Nt1cOdPdISu9qxuqUKPn5iDbmMQd2L5CFe8BxfDCYZVgwLikEO0eFc6Yr2gk/s1600/photo+3-797613.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVgDocx3panKV3KOmgSHFnu-tUTZ_Uq-EEeRSew8rQHq9QDv849p3eVe6CEs1OyxIJ5CybE6jaTm3Ffb0Nt1cOdPdISu9qxuqUKPn5iDbmMQd2L5CFe8BxfDCYZVgwLikEO0eFc6Yr2gk/s320/photo+3-797613.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527445946677502514" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nfsNhsoRhkw/TLVuz1eYX0I/AAAAAAAAABs/cJmgboWgfbM/s1600/photo+4-799366.JPG"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nfsNhsoRhkw/TLVuz1eYX0I/AAAAAAAAABs/cJmgboWgfbM/s320/photo+4-799366.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527445954474041154" /></a></p>Omg Omg Omg Omg Omg <p>Well I am finally on board my flight Sydney to Dubai yay. <p>It's just a completely different experience boarding a flight and walking past the economy line up. <p>I must admit I now have a certain appreciation of why people in first and business class walk past like they have a mission. <p>I always remembered standing in the economy line waiting to board the plane and seeing these snobby uptight rich people walking past me, I used to think to myself gawd they look crabby why are they crabby they don't have to sit next to a screaming baby for 14 hours. <p>But now I can honestly say they walk that bloody fast to avoid the exact stares I was giving them. <p>Anyways here are some early pics of first class I'll take more soon. <p>You'll be hearing from me :)Neshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04362838227720211144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989287916361780788.post-27806241076804188442010-10-13T18:24:00.000+10:002010-10-13T18:25:43.820+10:00Some more pics from the A380<p class="mobile-photo"><a 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAHCHqXqHTFIvXrAkrUPiSWJY-wGiGRMbTutPqX5teWRFaw49gRNeEIg0jfBPytWXpAlcCuqWWBPDRXWUGPCS9ss0myDJGTWD3Y9VW9PPR_7qYQrbvd0xYZ9Mwmq2D7Xz7N392S9a_G5M/s1600/photo+4-750148.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAHCHqXqHTFIvXrAkrUPiSWJY-wGiGRMbTutPqX5teWRFaw49gRNeEIg0jfBPytWXpAlcCuqWWBPDRXWUGPCS9ss0myDJGTWD3Y9VW9PPR_7qYQrbvd0xYZ9Mwmq2D7Xz7N392S9a_G5M/s320/photo+4-750148.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527444027596876178" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgykA_zWOdeb_LiDhS4oUj7IlgAJjUYnblFWddstXWgG3mJb9xHKPXI-x5SL98jsetAX2BfvZHqMDHhFs9y5Y81aDFfdVW1X_slsaaKB8wiNrSbdKpu2W3S4g-wJzXL8c7Td2C3hJcKL9s/s1600/photo+5-751188.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgykA_zWOdeb_LiDhS4oUj7IlgAJjUYnblFWddstXWgG3mJb9xHKPXI-x5SL98jsetAX2BfvZHqMDHhFs9y5Y81aDFfdVW1X_slsaaKB8wiNrSbdKpu2W3S4g-wJzXL8c7Td2C3hJcKL9s/s320/photo+5-751188.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527444032773960658" /></a></p>One of these pics you can distinctly make out the palm island leaving DubaiNeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04362838227720211144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989287916361780788.post-51988392862072747632010-10-11T18:01:00.001+10:002010-10-11T18:01:51.476+10:00In the Emirates Lounge<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nfsNhsoRhkw/TLLEbwjO0RI/AAAAAAAAAAk/JsG_UCtkx4c/s1600/photo-711477.JPG"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nfsNhsoRhkw/TLLEbwjO0RI/AAAAAAAAAAk/JsG_UCtkx4c/s320/photo-711477.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526695673905205522" /></a></p>Well I have to admit going through security and customs in Sydney airport is a lot easier when you have a express card. <p>Completely different entry into customs and private security line. <p>Then I take the epic walk to the emirates lounge which took 19 minutes or so. <p>I walked in and a stunningly beautiful lady looks at me and asks me for my boarding pass. Then looks at me and says welcome Mr Sharma and welcome to the Emirates lounge, please go on in and make yourself at home I will come and get you when your flight is ready to board !!!<p>God I better not get used to this I'll never want to travel economy again. <p>Oh and I am sitting here drinking my fav JW and Dry. <p>AhhhhhhhNeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04362838227720211144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989287916361780788.post-7548997009812213112010-10-11T17:21:00.000+10:002010-10-11T17:22:21.439+10:00Yep it's starting to feel real :)<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSwHVsvJC5CXXFPfV7muUTnNpdpAiCqZlTSitNAYZq-vWlFfI2IqPMCyvibgUyOwCz31vQsWLP9VWHnU0WjG1xOIXObCkJNJqyP-sq2YMsV8kxuMHRW45S-SchDu2G95pRlAwbQx1b_vM/s1600/photo-741440.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSwHVsvJC5CXXFPfV7muUTnNpdpAiCqZlTSitNAYZq-vWlFfI2IqPMCyvibgUyOwCz31vQsWLP9VWHnU0WjG1xOIXObCkJNJqyP-sq2YMsV8kxuMHRW45S-SchDu2G95pRlAwbQx1b_vM/s320/photo-741440.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526685502786063298" /></a></p>Neshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04362838227720211144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989287916361780788.post-16348850503438419102010-10-11T14:48:00.001+10:002010-10-11T14:53:46.612+10:00First Flight of 3<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4_tjZFXCvWeEGtECck6gTDBlMxU4AY2WILBmWiLM8BXLsv5SNfs8eZUmWh4a-44QA7TTOfk3A2KVAXDPzYPORWufHQcRq9RyOjpoYOnUVcZtmyB5x6lgxnA16udKsOCoX3UepOWsm68E/s1600/photo-784034.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4_tjZFXCvWeEGtECck6gTDBlMxU4AY2WILBmWiLM8BXLsv5SNfs8eZUmWh4a-44QA7TTOfk3A2KVAXDPzYPORWufHQcRq9RyOjpoYOnUVcZtmyB5x6lgxnA16udKsOCoX3UepOWsm68E/s320/photo-784034.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526646167499953586" /></a></p>Well at Brisbane airport and weather is miserable. <p>To make matters worse I'm on a embraer 170. Lol can anyone say turbulence much. After the flight the other day to Melbourne I'd think the universe would have tortured me enough. <p>But anyways. A big thank you to Katie for taking me to the airport today. <p>Once again mum we decided to get confrontational just before I left. But it's become a tradition now so see it as good luck. <p>I'll check in again when I get to Sydney emirates lounge :) god that sounds posh and a little snobby. <p>You'll be hearing from me.Neshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04362838227720211144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989287916361780788.post-75761623815474930302010-10-11T06:18:00.000+10:002010-10-11T06:19:05.774+10:00Dawning of the AdventureWell here I sit at 6.15 in the morning. <p>Sleepless before a flight which is rather weird for a flight attendant but nonetheless sleepless. <p>This blog will be a showing you my European adventure that I will be embarking on by the end of the day. <p>Also a way of letting the family know what I am up too. So guys watch the language on the posts. <p>I will check in again on the way to the plane in Sydney. <p>You'll be hearing from me. <p>Parnesh "Nesh" SharmaNeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04362838227720211144noreply@blogger.com0