http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Bobe and Bing/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Bobe and Bing en-us Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:47:51 BST Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:47:51 BST I had a day on my own to check out the sights of London without Bing.With some fleetfooted tube catching and a jinglyjangly pocket of pound coins I speed through some of London town's favoured points of interest.I give top marks to The Tower of London which is not is high as the Sky Tower which is pretty embarrassing for Britain but still quite cool..It had tons of Bling in it. Mr T would ha http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-213872.html Bath had escaped us the first attempt but we were determined to catch it the second time round.The Roman Baths are quite a sightIt's a little bit of a shame that they have been built and rebuilt so many times that it is hard to fathom which parts are old and which is new but the main pool is still quite incredible.There was a bit of a chill in the air and there in nothing we would have liked to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Somerset/Bath/blog-213861.html After a suitable period of mourning I am finally emotionally prepared to write of the rugby 'incident' that was..Al Bing I decided we had 4 significant goals for the dayA Collect our rental car and ensure we wern't ripped off and given a bus of some descriptionB Successfull arrival and check in at our dodgy Etap budget hotel and ensure the booking was valid C Not being refused entry from C http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Cardiff/blog-211010.html Today we caught the Eurostar from Paris to London Waterloo.It took about 2 and a half hours which isn't bad going considering how long it takes to walk.We caught up with Al loitering like the vagrant he is at Waterloo station He has been referring to it as WatertoiletOff to the pub we went for some Beers and a good old English pub meal and then off to bed ready for the big drive to Cardiff for t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/London-City/blog-208596.html We left Athens and a quick 3 hours later arrived at Paris Orly airport.A little bit of navigation of the Paris tube required before settling in to our new home for the next few days Residence Foch Hotel.I now have a raging headcold and therefore was sent straight to bed under instruction from Doctor Bing.I had a small nap whilst Bing checked out the local 'Shopi' and provided us with a good sup http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/-le-de-France/Paris/blog-208591.html We are loving our time in Imergovilli even though we can't spell it or pronounce it.Apparantly the place to go for all the scenic postcard type shots you mean we havn't had the really good ones yet is Oia which we saw by boat the other day.Apart from us hard core kiwi adventurers who have been walking everywhere most people seem to use donkey or quad bike to get around.Not wanting to be ou http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-208069.html Kirsty decided all this lying around was getting a bit much and we needed to get off our rears and actually do something.So we bought tickets on a boat called the Albatros and headed off for a day around the island.The boat stopped first at the Volcano which we climbed.. because it was there then off to a hot water bay where we all lept off the boat into the water as there was no pier. It fel http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-207026.html Ok I decided to purchase a cowboy hat as I thought it might make me look a little more mexican. by the way the moustache is going wellUnfortunaely I may have started something. Our entire posse have now purchased cowboy hats and our theme of the holiday is to look is cowboymexican as possible.Steve is probably winning as he started growing he mo back on September 1 wheras mine has had a bri http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-206838.html WOW Santorini is amazingAll the troops managed to find each other even though we were on 4 different flights and checked ourselves into the Galaxy Apartments in Imergovilli which is totally incredibleWe have a giant barn cave dwelling which actually has sleeping for 10 people although there are only 5 of in that roomOur room has 3 bathrooms 3 double rooms and a kitchen.Upstairs there i http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-206834.html We left Rome very early 445 wake up due to strange time zones and early flightSignificantly cleaner and incredibly easy to navigate Athens was quite a siteOur hotel the Athens Gate is just down the road from the Acropolis so we had to check it out even though we were exhausted.As soon as we arrived at the hotel we were greeted with two long tall glasses of water and free turkish delight I http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Attica/Athens/blog-206164.html We left Bristol just before 2pm and headed to Rome via EasyJet.We arrived with just enough daylight to see how dirty Rome's streets were but otherwise wern't angry we were impressedConsidering we arrived on a Sunday what an incredibly busy and vibrant place it isOur Hotel Eurostars international Palace was great with good English speaking staff.We dumped our stuff and headed out to check o http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Rome/blog-206160.html There's nothing like standing in a windy field with about 300 other people staring at some rocks except Stonehenge.Nice if they had finished it and put up a roof but otherwise I give the English an 'A' for effort.Hauling these rocks 384km from the coast was obviously the original 'Rock Roll' so I imagine it was the thing to do on a Saturday night back in 3000BC.Unfortunately no matter how drunk http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-205222.html And what a wedding it was...Mikey all dressed up waiting for his wifetobe to arrive Kirsty arrived in a wonderful wedding frock to his amazement she told him she was just wearing a suit they did the deed in front of a church full of friends family and a vicar who is going to make it his mission to get them to church every Sunday as they live literally a few doors away.They had the celebrat http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Gloucestershire/blog-205217.html Hi EveryoneSorry about the delay with blogging. Finding an internet cafe has been a bit difficult.Here are some pics of our day out punting on the Cam river in Cambridge with Gill.We got a chauffeured punt with a guy called Eddie who was frightfully english don't you knowHe had a posh accent which we found pretty funnybut what was even funnier was those who hired a boat and tried to punt themse http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cambridgeshire/Cambridge/blog-205015.html Well hello there folks..We have been having a few quiet days in Cambridge with family and friends so we don't have an awful lot to write really. We have been very well looked after though Rich has decided that eating 35 meals a day yes he likes to exagerate is just too much for him and has cut his food down to just eating lunch. These brits know how to eat or I think maybe it more because http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cambridgeshire/Cambridge/blog-203891.html We collected half my family in the Venga Bus and headed to the Crewe Arms for just a quiet lunch with about 20 of my rellies great to get them all together as only see them once every 3 years Rich was trying to work out the northern lingo but seemed to be keeping up quite well.Later on we watched the All Blacks play nicely with the Portugese and Rich became an All Black for one night only... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Staffordshire/Newcastle-under-Lyme/blog-202596.html Yeah Baby yeahWere off to Liverpool and the Beatles Museum led by our trusty TomTom Navigator GPS thingumy.Luckily for me as I like tunnels so much TomTom led us under the Mersey river in a tunnel.Unluckily it wasA The complete wrong directionB 1.30 once you reached the other side.To say that we were a bit angry with TomTom when as soon as we paid our tunnel toll it told us to go http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Merseyside/Liverpool/blog-202485.html Ok so Bing's mum offered to take us up to BlackPool to see the 'illuminations'.If you havn't been to BlackPool imagine trying to build Las Vegas with a 5.67 budget.In the seaside part which was basically just rubbish piled up in the mud you could hire a sun lounger providing there was any sun there wasn't Only one person was enjoying the sun lounger the vendor.. although perhaps enjoyi http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/blog-202424.html So we left Mikey and Kirsty's about 11ish with a little bit of a sore head and headed up North to Stoke on Trent where all the houses look the same to catch up with the family. First stop in our bus was to cousin Mandy and Nik's then headed round to see the oldies Grandad and Lil to catch up and hear some of the famous Grandad stories which he did in true style and even cousin Kate dropped http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Staffordshire/Newcastle-under-Lyme/blog-202400.html We cleverly managed to organise our flight into Bristol on September 11th BUT we got there safely Collected our hire bus we actually didn't book a hire bus we got 'upgraded' from what was supposed to be a mondeo to a fuel guzzling 7 person people mover it took a little while for me thats Bing to work out the highly confusing 'handbrake' which looked like something much more suited to an a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Bristol-County/Bristol/blog-201703.html