http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Deb-and-Tom/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Deb and Tom en-us Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:59:34 +0000 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:59:34 +0000 Well we are finally home after 2 months of trekking around our beautiful planet filling our suitcases with mementos along the way and then some countless photos yes Luke I do take a heap some new friendships and a lifetime of experiences and memories.As you can see this blog does resemble Swiss cheese and there are a few holes in my blog entries. Never fear I am constantly adding entries al http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Newcastle/blog-406014.html I am writing this blog in the car park of Hadrianrsquos Wall Hallstead another part of the wall. You may ask yourself what is Deb doing at 2.30pm typing a diary entry when she should be out exploring the wall Let me paint you a picture. The temperature gauge on the car states 9 degrees unfortunately it doesnrsquot tell you the wind chill factor or the speed of the wind. I am guess 1 degree or http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Salisbury/blog-405073.html It was our last day on the road so to speak. We were handing back the car or Holly as well called it due to the sat nav voice. We named it Holly as it reminded us of Holly from Red Dwarf We packed up our belongings said goodbye to the lady at the hotel whom we had had a big chat with the day before and headed off for Windsor Castle. The plan was to drive the 1.5hr drive to the castle explore http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Berkshire/Windsor/blog-405063.html Today is officially our last day in London and the UK. We have called this British Isle home for the last 3 weeks. As much as I have loved London I am ready to move on however Tom would like to stay a little longer. Echoing what we have said before there is just so much to see and only one pair of legs each albeit tired ones at thatOur last day was partly spent downstream at the O2 Arena viewin http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/London-City/blog-405061.html As you can see I have started to add some Egypt photos. I am having problems editing the pics so am unable to label them at the moment. Journel is on the way http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-404761.html coming soon http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Upper-Egypt/Aswan/blog-404764.html Keep watching more photos and blog to come http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Upper-Egypt/Abu-Simbel/blog-404763.html Keep watching this space http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/Changi/blog-404765.html Cynical anecdote coming soon http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Ile-de-France/Paris/blog-404768.html Hi everyone just a quick update to let you know we are all safe and well. We arrived in Egypt tonight around 10pm didn't get through checks until after 11pm and arrived at hotel at midnight. We had to have a thermal scan to check for swine flu...a first There were a bunch of doctors and medical staff wearing masks and we had to stand in front of a camera that projected our core temp on a compute http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-400915.html Tom and I were really looking forward to today. As most of you know Tom is a bit of a history buff and I will have to admit that I am too however I cannot retain all the information that Tom does but I suppose he is not called the Minister of Useless information for nothing FYI good team member for trivia nightsIt was going to be a long day as we had a 3 hour drive to Normandy and back ahead http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Lower-Normandy/blog-400336.html Today was our first full day in Paris and I now know why the French say lsquooui ouirsquohellipor lsquowee weersquo all the time because that is all I have seen men do on shop steps or what they think are quiet street corners. Who pees on the footpathAfter a much needed sleep in FYI this is the best hotel bed we have had thus far we made our way down to the Eiffel Tower. As we wa http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Ile-de-France/Paris/blog-400318.html coming soon http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/Lake-District/blog-400047.html Our second day in Venice was spent exploring the aquatic city some more checking out the famous Rialto bridge and shoppingWe hopped on a waterbus and road over to Lido to check out the place. It was weird seeing a place with cars as Venice has no cars there are no roads it is all water. We walked around for a bit and sat on the foreshore and watched the world go by. We rode another water bus http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Veneto/Venice/blog-400040.html It is 8am and we have been up since 5. Once again I echo my previous sediments of this ungodly hour and truly believe that 5am starts should be illegal. We are currently on our way to Paris France by the means of Euro star once again. I am sitting in my first class seat typing this blog to you. No we have not just won the lottery it is called not knowing when the cheap tickets are released and ha http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Ile-de-France/Paris/blog-399763.html COming soon http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/London-City/blog-398168.html We set off today to drive around the Lakes District and the first thing that comes to mind is crazy narrow roads If you have driven around Gaston Gorge in Sydney Jenolan Caves or Myall Lakes you still wonrsquot get an exact picture of what these roads are like. These roads make them look like 4 laned highways Nuts is all I can say. Many times we had to flip in our side mirrors to be able to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/Lake-District/blog-398141.html It was a slow start this morning our big days had finally caught up with us and we succumbed to the snooze button and had ourselves a little sleep in however holiday sleep ins are not like the weekend ones we would have at home. We were up by 9am and ready by 10am to go castle exploring around the Salisbury shire.On the way out we met a lovely hotel staff member. We saw a sign regarding leaving http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Salisbury/blog-398162.html Watch this space http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-398161.html Watch this space http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Bristol-County/Bristol/blog-398158.html