Hayley Quinn

Thursday 26th May 2011 - Day 34 Oasis Unfortunately my "normal" spaghetti bolognese dinner the night before had not agreed with me and I threw it all up during the night so I was not feeling in the best form. Turns out Jess had not been well either! I was all packed up and at reception just after 10am. We got two mini buses to where the feluccas were docked. We had been told by Dave a few days prior that we needed to split into two groups. We knew there was quite a few that wanted to spend the whole time drunk, having already planned their two days worth of drinking games so I opted to go on the quieter felucca, getting rowdy when we wanted to. So on felucca 1 was: Me, Jess, Jen, ... read more

Saturday 14th May 2011 - Day 22 Oasis Breakfast was anytime until 12 noon which was awesome as it meant we could have a sleep in. Breakfast was really good, we could pick whatever we wanted off the menu which was anything from fruit, omelette to a full cooked breakfast - I went for the full cooked breakfast of course! After breakfast Dave took us down to a local dive shop. Given that we were in Dahab for 7 days instead of the original 4, there was plenty of time for people to complete their open water or advanced dive courses. Even though I haven't been diving before, it's not really my cup of tea so I opted to do snorkelling instead. After the dive shop we wondered around town just to have a look. The ... read more

Friday 6th May - Day 14 Oasis/Lebanon We arrived in Istanbul at 6:30am, an hour earlier than expected. Jess and I went back to the Sultan Hostel where we had first stayed and asked them if it was ok to leave our bags there for the day. They happily obliged and even let a couple of the others who had not stayed there leave their bags too. The 8 of us then met up and went off to find breakfast. Given it was so early there was very little open and as it was also starting to rain we needed to find somewhere inside which proved to be rather difficult. In the end a few of the others decided to go across the bridge to do some shopping instead so we went our separate ways and ... read more

Thursday 28th April 2011 - Day 6 Oasis We were up early setting sail for a place called Pamukkale. it was a short truck drive, only about 4 hours. We were camping in the ground of a hotel which was cool as it had a pool, restaurant and seating area which we were allowed to use. They even opened up one of the rooms so we could use it for the toilet and shower - I was looking forward to a nice hot shower! I hung up my washing that did not dry at Attila's but noticed two items missing, a black cardie and some black tights which I released I had left hanging over the railing at Attila's, damn it!! Jess and I went off to explore and find somewhere to have lunch. As we ... read more

Wednesday 20th April & Thursday 21st April 2011 After a rather big night saying goodbye to my friends at O'Niells I was feeling a little under the weather but I managed to make it to the Cambodian Embassy at 10am and thankfully they had my visa and passport all ready to go. I made my way back to Lisa & Tim's via the supermarket to pick up food for my final night get together. I then double checked I had everything, emailed Mum my itinerary as requested and did my final pack - weighing in at approx 18kg! My final night get together consisted of drinks & nibbles with Lisa, Tim, Braden, Jenna, Laura, Jo and Katie. We sat around chatting about our adventures over the past year and a half and made plans to see ... read more