Hola! We arrived in Luxor to much hotter weather. Temperatures reaching early 40s. We were told that temperatures can often reach 60 degrees celsius, so we were pleased that we did not get to experience that! We boarded our ship the 'Royal Ruby'. The cabin was quite nice & better than expected! We were thankful that the ship also had its own pool - much more enticing than swimming in the Nile haha. After spending a lot of time on our own, we had been looking forward to getting on board our cruise and meeting, getting to know, and spending time [View Full Entry]

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Hello from Cairo! It's great to be able to report that we made it here to Egypt and are both well. Although, at one stage, we were sure that we would be spending an extended holiday period adopting the personas of Kath & Kel (from Kath & Kim) and making the most of living, breathing, shopping, sleeping at Bangkok airport :) A 2.5 hour delayed flight found us having to wait around the airport for 5 hours!!! Finally departing from Bangkok airport at 3:15am... oh the frustration!! Apart from the delays and the fact that we departed during a heavy thunderstorm [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone! Our holiday started off without a hitch, well apart from Kim (who is well known for losing things) nearly losing our suitcase keys not 15 minutes after arriving at Sydney airport (after the suitcases were locked of course haha). The flight to Bangkok on Thai Airways was pretty decent, apart from the wood-like seats and possibly getting the worst seats in the house (you would think first in best dressed haha). Even though the flight was delayed by 20 minutes, we arrived spot on time to a MASSIVE Bangkok airport and got our bags and went through customs extremely [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone! This is our final itinerary: 27/5 Sydney -> Bangkok 30/5 Bangkok -> Cairo 31/5 - 8/6 - Cairo & the Nile Tour (CHAT Tours) 8/6 Cairo -> London 11/6 - 8/7 - European Panorama Tour (Contiki) End in London 16/7 London -> Edinburgh 19/7 Edinburgh -> Dublin 20/7 Dublin -> Dubrovnik 25/7 Dubrovnik -> Prague 29/7 Prague -> Athens 1/8 Athens -> Frankfurt 2/8 Frankfurt -> New York 6/8 New York -> Honolulu 10/8 Honolulu -> Sydney (arrive 12/8) Cheers, Steve+Kim [View Full Entry]

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