http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Dan and Trish/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Dan and Trish en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:52:52 BST Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:52:52 BST Well here we are on our last stop of our big trip Dubai.Wersquove been enjoying the heat not and the hospitality of Brad Suzie Riley Kelsey and their friends. We were taken to the Friday Brunch that has become somewhat of a tradition among the expat community over here and enjoyed an all you can eat and drink fest for four hours before retiring by the pool and finishing off the beers. W http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-273582.html When we left Britain in February we really didnrsquot want to return. We found though as we touched down in London that we were really looking forward to our week here. It was like a completely different country to the one we left in February. The sun was shining the squirrels and birds were out and the flowers were in bloom. When we left it was grey cold wet and downright bloody miserable.We http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-273581.html We arrived utterly exhausted from our tour of Egypt utterly desperate for a Laundromat to wash our clothes at. Wersquod gone for wayyyy to long without a machine wash and the old handwash in the basin was losing its effect. The family was there to meet us at the hotel and it was lovely to see them again and we couldnrsquot believe how much Kaylah had grown up since wersquove been gone. We ha http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Marmara/Gallipoli/blog-273578.html Well we sure got what we asked for when we woke up on our first day in Cairo....sun Southern Morocco was nice and warm but Fes and Casa were around 15 when we were there so we really werenrsquot prepared for the 40 degree heat that awaited us in Egypt.We booked a 9 day tour of Egypt deciding that of all the countries we were visiting on this trip Egypt was the one that wersquod most likely http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/blog-268425.html When yoursquore about to land in Morocco and yoursquore still not sure if you need a visa to get in ... rdquoalways look on the bright side of life...do do ... da da da da da dardquo.When yoursquore luggage still hasnrsquot arrived an hour after your flight has landed ... rdquoalways look on the bright side of life...do do ... da da da da da dardquo.When your arranged transfer isn http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Marrakech-Tensift-El-Haouz/Marrakech/blog-266137.html HolaWell folks summer is here Finally. For us it has been a looooonnggg cold and grey winter and with a combination of heading further south hitting April and starting daylight savings Summer has arrived. It was so lovely to be able to stroll around at 7 in the evening without a big jacket on and it still be light. Not to mention how wonderful it is to be warmed by sunshine.We flew out of M http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-261644.html So here we are home of the Renaissance Firenze Italia.We made our way from Sorrento to Naples leaving our ability to buy tickets and board the train we intended on catching on time in the hands of the travel gods. They were kind and we made it with moments to spare. Damn wersquore getting good at this travelling thing touch wood. So anyway art lovers will know all about Florentine art http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Florence/blog-260359.html From Rome we travelled south and further inland to experience a bit of Italia agroturismo on the outskirts of a small town named Sora. Italy is packed with these farmstays and we thought wersquod chosen a ldquorealrdquo one that is one that was more into showcasing the natural beauty and produce of the region than squeezing as many Euros as they can out of visitors. It turns out our farms http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Campania/Sorrento/blog-258976.html Ciao CiaoWell here we find ourselves in the centre of the ancient world Roma To be honest while we were looking forward to seeing the sights and ticking the big box that is Rome we were expecting to not enjoy Rome. We were expecting pickpockets galore bad food crazy Italians everything so expensive we canrsquot eat 2 hour waits for all the sights and a typical ldquobig cityrdquo fee http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Rome/blog-257366.html Dobry denWell wersquore writing this on our last night in the Czech Republic in fact our last night in Eastern Europe I think our first ldquoreal timerdquo blog so far woohoo. We decided to return to our favourite places from summer Krakow Poland and Cesky Krumlov Czech Republic. We are so glad that we decided to return as wersquove had an absolute ball revisiting these fantastic http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/South/Cesky-Krumlov/blog-252793.html After another quick and almost painful lesson in European geography we discovered our next stop Budapest Hungary is a lot further away from Venice than we first realised read 18 hour train trip with 4 changes so we decided to be brave and try the overnight train thing 13 hours no changes. Unfortunately our plans turned a little sour when we both got the flu but being cheapo backpackers w http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Budapest/blog-251329.html Bonjourno from VeneziaWell we made it After a relaxing restful night at Leeds Bradford Airport not we boarded our plane to Bergamo town just outside of Milan at 7am. Our 10 quid flights took off and landed very smoothly we both slept the whole way as the plane chairs while vinyl and from the 80rsquos were still a whole lot more comfy than those at the airport We made our way successful http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Veneto/Venice/blog-249018.html Since we last blogged we made a last weekend dash to the traditional seaside town of Whitby with the Botterell's Daniel's boss and extended family to friends we're staying with. We left it to the last weekend in the hope wersquod get some good weather. We set off from Sutton on a beautiful mild sunny Sunday and it stayed that way until we got just over the Moors when we discovered fog and i http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/Whitby/blog-247992.html We havenrsquot fallen of the face of the Earth wersquove just been waiting for the rain to stop before we write Wersquove now had a few days reprieve although temperatures have plummeted so thought we best get postingWell we last wrote after leaving Paris for the second time and arriving in Sutton on the Forest our new home for winter. We enjoyed the final 2 weeks of September with lo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/North-Yorkshire/Sutton-on-the--Forest/blog-239644.html From Geneve we made the long ish train ride to Nice on the French Riviera. We spent 2 thrilling hours at the Marseille train station before arriving in beautiful sunny Nice our first glimpse at mediterranean Europe. It could have been a few degrees warmer but the sun was lovely. Unfortunately the beaches have no sand just pebbles so it kind of looked as though everyone was sun bathing in a carpa http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Provence-Alpes-C-te-d--Azur/Nice/blog-200702.html From a helicopter 16 000 feet above sea level. Extreme sports are big in Switzerland and also very expensive so we decided to the big one and jumped out of a helicopter at 16 000 feet. It was needless to say awesome. Free falling is THE most incredible feeling ever. Nerves on the ground weren039t that bad considering but still once we were up in the helicopter with no door and turnin http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Switzerland/North-West/Gimmelwald/blog-196871.html Here we are in the middle of Bohemian Europe. After realising in Krakow that the tram we needed to get from hostel to train station didn't run on Sundays we have no jobs and no real purpose so who knows what day it is we had to make an Amazing Race run across town to the train station. We were the last to arrive but fortunately have not been eliminated from the game. We arrived on the platf http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/South/Cesky-Krumlov/blog-193286.html Yes we had that conversation upon boarding the train to Warsaw from Berlin. Do you know any Polish words No do you No. Oh well our handy and well used not Lonely Planet Phrase Book will have some tips for us. Ummmmm no again. Doesn't even include Polish. Okay but everywhere else people have spoken English so we should have a problem right Yeah we'll be fine. Let's play cards http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Lesser-Poland/Krakow/blog-192048.html Well we've almost caught up we were only in Berlin last weekUpon arriving in Berlin our expectations were shot as we walked from train station to hostel in a seemingly dodgy area. Once we reached the hostel things still didn't look better crappiest place we've stayed at so far. We had a cry about it ate a fantastic falafel from down the street and woke up to a beautiful Berlin summer's day. W http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-192014.html After a 12 hour train trip on which we met a lovely Swedish couple the female half who talked nonstop but was a fantastic source of information on Scandinavia and Copenhagen. Everybody speaks such good English it is embarassingWe arrived at our BB without breakfast.... almost 2 hours after we expected to. The Danish public transport system was a bit hard to navigate and they have ridic http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Copenhagen/blog-191321.html