http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/AleksNemo/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from AleksNemo en-us Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:29:05 +0000 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:29:05 +0000 Good morrow to you readers it's nice to see that you're back again.We woke to our first frost the morning of the 12th at the Total truck stop near Peregreaux and it was a beautiful blue sky overhead. The windscreen was covered in ice and it was quite chilly. If that wasn't cool enough there were two white nondescript trucks being guarded in the opposite car park by about 30 Gendarmerie who I t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Aquitaine/Bordeaux/blog-462622.html Bonjour Ca va Je suis magnifique merci beaucoupSo there we were leaving the City of Lights behind and just about as walkedout as we could be. It was really nice to spend a couple of days in a campsite with access to a laundry and an information desk full of power points to charge our seemingly endless batteries. But at euro21.50 a day it was starting to break our budget. HahaSo off we http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Lower-Normandy/Mont-Saint-Michel/blog-461217.html Welcome again viewers... Seeing as the Fish decided that he couldn't remember all the places we went to in Paris it's my job to get this little story across.After leaving Epernay we stopped in yet another truck stop to the east of Paris ready to do the final stint early the next morning and happily all went to plan. And things so rarely do that we were quite chuffed. Rather than try to commute http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Ile-de-France/Paris/blog-460154.html Now listen here. While all of you are sitting there each day going to the extreme trouble of clicking the icon you've hopefully added to your favourites bar in your internet browser to find our blog page in your nice easy day to day lives take a little time and think about the pain that I am going through as your main connection to our travelling experience. Let me throw a few numbers at you.26 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Luxembourg/blog-460141.html My Battle With Sean The AZ of BeerWe need to have a talk about Sean. And no I don't mean that American guy that's married to our friend Tegan Sean is my Irish GPS. Sean and I started out getting along fine and he always sent me in the right direction while I laughed at the funny way he said ldquoLeftrdquo and ldquoRightrdquo and ldquoCongestion Chargerdquo.But one day there wa http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Belgium/West-Flanders/Bruges/blog-459762.html It was time to leave London and begin the real testing part of our journey Couldn't bucking felieve it We were kind of sad to go and excited to be on the next part of our trip already and possibly the biggest part so far. The campervan that we received for our AU43003 month hire was a Toyota LiteAce ldquoNoahrdquo. Obviously this is a Japanese import as it has Japanese writing all over it http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/North-Holland/Amsterdam/blog-459752.html London AhoySo we finally made it out of Wales with a few brain cells left and managed to get ourselves on a Megabus from Cardiff to Victoria Coach Station for a paltry 9 each. I don't know where we'd be without Megabus boy they're cheap and always right where you need them to be. The bus didn't get in to London until around 1740 at night around twenty minutes late. I think it had something t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-454784.html Heading To England Cue God Save The QueenI'm really late with this blog aren't I The trip to Inverness was done and dusted and we headed for the local hostel owned by the same people that own the Cowgate in Edinburgh. We found out at the last minute that there wasnrsquot actually any four bed dorms for the three of us including Torben to stay in. The silly punter running reception was a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/blog-454209.html So... where was ILeaving Edinburgh in the afternoon we jumped on a bus and headed for Pitlochry to meet Sarah one of my friends from way back in Airlie Beach in 2004. We arrived after an absolutely magical bus ride the scenery so beautiful with all the reds and yellows of Autumn coating the countryside. Sares was excited to see us and shovelled us off home to me her parents Sandra and David. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Pitlochry/blog-448644.html The first thing that Irsquod like to point out is that Irsquom still on strike and will only write when I feel like it. So there. HumphBy the power of technology Irsquom writing this blog from a bus heading North from Glasgow to Portree in the Isle Of Skye. This new Acer netbook is gas and I believe the guy next to me has been looking up from his iPhone in a very jealous manner a few ti http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Glasgow/blog-448641.html Ladies and Gentlebugs another short blog... try to contain your sighs of relief...While Jo and Billy were on holidays we had a blast housesitting and catching up on our housekeeping. We walked the dogs along the beach everyday which was lovely as long as the weather was good. Which it sometimes was. Got a see a seal poking its little head up and watching the dogs and us with great scepticism w http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Dublin/Dublin/blog-444739.html So apparently every time we leave Wicklow without an escort the weather turns to pot.We did a trip to the west by car going through stab city aka Limerick and stopping at Ennis. Great town and an even greater hostel the Rowan Tree. Totally recommend it. Next day we headed off to see Bunratty Castle and its medieval village great castle village was a little crap a bunch of abbeys as usual http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Donegal/Donegal/blog-440815.html Irsquove just been to check in the mirror to see if Irsquom turning green. Irsquom feeling so Irish today that I think Irsquom going to have to write this blog to the sound of an irish jighellip Yeshellip I can see it nowhellip ahem hellipcue fiddleytype music with a tin flute and a concertina good for toe tapping or swinging a knacker lass lsquoround a roomhellip as I sw http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/Antrim/blog-439068.html Allo readers. What's the craic It's me again and this time I'm on timeI would like to make a point. After spending a week driving along the south coast of the beautiful country of Ireland I am quite convinced that I have discovered a conspiracy behind the ldquodroughtsrdquo we were forced to endure when growing up in Gunnedahhellip. Ireland has been secretly stealing all the rain from th http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Kerry/Dingle-Peninsula/blog-434410.html Hello readers Lovely day for it Let me bring you up to speed.We had arrived back in Bielany at 6am after our flight home from Sardo immediately went to bed for six hours to counter a stupid lack of sleep and then got our washing started and relaxed. We stayed at Jacekrsquos place for the remainder of our time as our room in Misiarsquos house had gone to itrsquos rightful occupant after u http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Wicklow/Newcastle/blog-432072.html SO Then we arrived in Cagliari and had to kill some time while Enrico finished his day at the beach. We chucked our luggage in the local bus terminalrsquos luggage storage for a bit of cash then ate some selfprepared lunch and decided to go for a wander. We found ANOTHER tourist info place got a map and then legged it.Cagliari as far as we can tell from our small adventure is a very pretty http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Sardinia/Cagliari/blog-432340.html Howdy yrsquoall Nemo here. A lot has happened in a so Irsquom going to try and keep it so that doesnrsquot become brainachingly painful to read. Here goes...We went back to Mazury for Ciocia Malgosiarsquos 50th meeting a whole heap of people from all over the place. What a group of people. I was introduced to friends of the family relatives both close and distant and I waffled on in http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Sardinia/Olbia/blog-432068.html Those of you who know me well know that I suffer from a constant need for organisation. Spontaneity is not my strong point and doing nothing is somewhat akin to hell for me. And so the past couple of weeks have been impossibly challenging and completely rewarding.We've spent the past few days hanging out at my aunt and uncle's farm in Mazury and pretty much enjoying the good life. Once Nemo finis http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Pomerania/Gdansk/blog-420734.html MaZooRyI have given up excusing the length of time between these blogs because both you and I know that there is little time when traipsing around the country side to park yourself in front of the computer and write about everything thatrsquos been done. So letrsquos cut to the chase.Itrsquos been two weeks loyal readers. Two weeks since I hit the keyboard to lay some tales on you. Sinc http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Warmian-Masurian/blog-420103.html You're right. This blog has nothing to do with any of those things as cool as they are.Aleks has decided that she is sick of writing the blogs about the times that nothing big and exciting is happening. Wersquove reached a compromise which essentially means Irsquove acquiesced and Irsquoll write the interlude blogs so Aleks can have a shot at the big time... things like Mazury and Croatia http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Masovia/Warsaw/blog-413772.html