http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Axe Tom/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Axe Tom en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:39:19 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:39:19 UTC Hello everyone Here are finally our Egypt Jordan photos. It took a while to go through all 1200 pics but here they are almost a month after we got back.You will find that you may need a couple of days to look at all of them after all it was a month trip and we got a bit carried away. We did our best to prepare a good selection but couldn't do it with less than 202 photos.We had the best time. http://www.travelblog.org//Africa/Egypt/blog-346317.html This was definitely the holiday we were waiting for. From the moment we came back from Snowboarding in Bansko we wanted to go again like kids in a Theme Park.The fact that Will and Chaz would be coming with us made it all even more exciting.We had five full great days snowboarding. The week started with Chaz falling hitting his board on some poor man's head and having to be rescued by a snowmob http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Andorra/Soldeu/blog-259278.html We are having a good time in London and thought we would share that with all of you in case you were wondering what we get up to in between our travels.Please sit down and enjoy....... http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Willesden/blog-258884.html We only had one thing in mind when booking this holiday and that was to see the Northern Lights.We researched on the internet where we would be able to see it and what was the best time of year. We found out a lot of things about Tromso where the most Northern University in the world is located. The best time of the year is in winter during the new moon phase.With all the information in hand http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Norway/Ostlandet/Oslo/blog-239701.html There were 22 of us and it was a great Gourmet feast That is how I describe our Christmas a wine for each course and a detailed menu with an explanation of how each specific dish was prepared. I was worried that Tom would get bored due to the language barrier but he said that it was actually much better because he got to eat more while everyone talked he ate.It was really nice to be back a http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/-le-de-France/Paris/blog-236578.html Come in August I told my sister Britain is beautiful in summer. If only I knew we wouldn't have any summer Anais arrived on a wednesday and on the Thursday we left to Scotland. It was quite a long journey and we waisted a little bit of our holiday getting organized with camping and highering cars but after we sorted all that we had the best time.Luckely we had the best weather when we ha http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/blog-202399.html Here we are one more time in beautiful eclectic Amsterdam.We couldn't resist to go one more time to celebrate Ax's birthday.Unfortunately the weather wasn't as nice as last year but we did have a good time.....as usualThis time we hired bikes for all the days we were there wich allowed us to see more and go anywhere we wanted to. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Netherlands/North-Holland/Amsterdam/blog-200155.html It was a cold long weekend and all we wanted was to see the Cheese Rolling Competition so we decided to go to Wales for the weekend and on the way back stop in Gloucesteshire where the competition happens every year.Wales is a beautiful country with it's beaches and quirky little villages and we had a great time.It was very interesting to say the least to go horse riding on the beach. The hor http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Pembroke/blog-198633.html Finally the day arrived The most anticipated trip of all We were all really excited about going snowbording we had been preparing ourselves for a few months now. Arriving in Sofia we had a driver waiting to take us to Bansko. The ride was rough long and we really started to wonder if we were going the right direction we finally got there at ten in the evening. Everyday it was a really early http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Bulgaria/West/Bansko/blog-181203.html Why did we choose Sicily It was actually because the flights were really cheap so we thought why not. We had read about the place just before booking the tickets and it sounded really nice but after that we didn't worry at all so a month later when we landed in Palermo we didn't really know where to go we forgot our travel guide at home very smart. We got ripped off by a taxi driver wh http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Sicily/Taormina/blog-143761.html Christmas at the DearsnbspEurope raquonbspUnited Kingdom raquonbspEngland raquonbspLondon By Axe TomDecember 25th 2006Axelle Batt The best day of the year There is no other day in which you get lots of presents and eat great food We spent our Christmas in Chalfont St Peter. On Christmas Eve we had the pleasure to go with Ed to Winkers it's a whole new experience Winkers is the http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-143760.html Hello again We are back and hopefully now having internet at home we'll be keeping you more up to date with what we have been doing. This happened almost a year ago. We left to Paris on the 1st Sept by Eurostar this time forget about the coach It was great we arrived early and went straight to visit my Grandad who lives about 1 hour by train from Paris. We spent the night at Tiphaine and Muri http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Aquitaine/Biarritz/blog-143759.html Tom and I were both very excited about the trip to Venice because not only we were going on holiday but we were also going to meet with Lee Tom's Mum and Faye Tom's Auntie. We arrived in Venice at midnight the night before we were going to meet with Lee and staid in a small but very nice hostel. The next morning we packed our bags and went look for the hotel in wich Lee booked us a room. We http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Veneto/Venice/blog-143744.html So....we decided to stop being lazy and send everyone some newsafter all you haven't heard from us for quite a while now.We said we were going to Amsterdam and we did. They were an awsome four days we had a great time. It was the first week of the World Cup and there was a really good atmosphere. People that couldn't afford going to Germany for some reason decided to go to Amsterdam to watch th http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Netherlands/North-Holland/Amsterdam/blog-78308.html Paris la Belle Paris The most romantic city in the world....etcetcetc. Anyway we hopped on the bus ready to endur 9hrs on the road just to see the beautiful Paris and Axe's lovely family It was a very interesting road trip starting by our very friendly bus driver a grumpy French man who didn't allow passengers to eat on his bus you are not the one who is going to clean he would s http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/-le-de-France/Paris/blog-78303.html Hi everyoneSorry again we took so long to send any news we've been a bit busy or lazy or probably bothWell for those who haven't heard from us since Brazil where by the way we had a great time and we have to thank Axe's family for having us for so long Mercie Beaucoup we arrived well in London although leaving a country where it was 35C and arriving at 5C was a bit of a shock http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/London-City/blog-45812.html We said that there wouldnt be another blog until we leave but considering that weve got nothing else to do we decided to share with everyone what we were up to at the end of year festivities.Christmas was great We had an awsome lunch so much food good food prepared by my Mum and delicious Caipirinhas prepared by Tom. He even got a Caipirinha shirt for Xmas with the recipe written on it i http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Sao-Paulo/S-o-Paulo/blog-35995.html This is probably our last blog before we go to Europe so drawing from the Roger Dear book of phrases like it or lump itWe arrived around midday and after checking in at the hostel we went to grab a bit to eat. Maccas was the call for lunch although we got all excited at the sight of Burger King after not seeing it for eight months. This was our first mistake It went down well but as Axe fo http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/blog-27419.html We started our trip in the wee hours of the morning and after 12 hours driving wed had enough and stopped for the night.The next day we drove to Foz do Iguazu and with a little help from one of the locals Jose found a hotel. It had been raining all morning but the afternoon cleared up so we decided to go visit the Itaupu Hydroelectric Power Plant. It is the biggest in the world and it took the http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Paran-/Foz-do-Igua-u/blog-23410.html Our eventfull ten days started with an SOS email from Will saying he was stuck in Auckland for a night and when he finally arrived his bag and boards didntSo we decided to go to Rio de Janeiro first. We arrived in Copacabana Rio at 2 oclock in the morning and frantically tried to find a hotel because Tom was in more dying need of a number 2 than any man in toilet history.Will and I where tire http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/blog-20978.html