Arrive in Istanbul to great weather real hot and search out our hostel have a walk round historic centre and visit the Blue Mosque massive place very impressive. Spend next 2 days exploring Istanbul then take overnight trip to Gallipoli. Very sobering standing where 250,000 Turks kiwis and Ausys lost their lives in such a small area. Guide tells us over 6000 bullets found per square metre! Visit NZ Australian and Turk memorials and a lot of the trenches still in tact unbelievable place. Amazing to see such horrific things could have happened in such a beautiful place. Spend the night [View Full Entry]
I Arrive in Cairo with Sheree, Rach, Jess, Monique, Nic and and fly straight into a sandstorm awesome. We Meet our tour leader and go out for dinner nice early night. next day up at 6 have breakfast and into Cairo museum see King Tuts jewels and mask very cool and learn lots about the history of the Pharohs and Egyptian empire. Next stop a perfumery and see where all top brands are made. Pyramids and Sphinx are next up very awesome but a liitle skinny going into the burial chamber in the Pyramid. See a papyrus factory then catch an [View Full Entry]
Mike, Kaz, Jeremy, Ewa Nic and i fly out very early to Prague then catch 2 hour taxi to Harrachov. Arrive around midday and explore the little town and few drinks and bed early. Up at 7 and spend the day boarding and skiing awesome snow and the chairlift 100 mtrs from our door. Hardly anyone arounfd so have the mountain pretty much to ourselves the first day! Spend the next 4 days boarding playing cards and laughing!! Awesome snow and great holiday with good friends in an awesome location. [View Full Entry]
After wedding Everyone heads to a little village outside Zakopane called Bialka. Spend 5 Days snowboarding in awesome conditions and spend new years up the hill with beers vodka grilled cheese sausages and fireworks!!! all good have to leave all to soon but awesome holiday! [View Full Entry]
Fly through Munich and Dusseldorf into Warsaw on xmas day then taxi to Olsztyn with Mike, Kaz, Guesty, Jess, Sheree, Nic and I for wedding of Jeremy and Eva. Awesome time there traditional Polish wedding great food lots and lots of vodka and good times. [View Full Entry]
Weekend in Dublin Mike, Kaz, Suz, Hayden, Huia, Sheree, James, Krystina, Petra, Ben, Rach, Nic & I all go to dublin for me and Mikeys birthday....Not much sight seeing but a weekend of laughs with good friends [View Full Entry]
Train from Budapest to Zagreb in Croatiawith Ben and Rach. Spend 2 days looking around in teperatures around 36 degrees very hot! Next mission another 5.5 hours on a train to Split where our cruise starts. Spend the night in Split and have a look round very cool little place. Check into our boats at 12:00 and sort our rooms. Name of the boat is the Omladinac which means young man apparently. Get a rundown from the crew abouit the boat and met a few of the other sailors. All Kiwi and Aussies around the same age which is cool. Finally [View Full Entry]
Arrive Budapest qute late after long train journey. Hostel very cool quite small but the owner is awesome. People staying are also real friendly. Next day up early and sightseeing amazing architecture along the river. Weather real hot so go to thermal baths to cool off pools awesome with heated and cold pools nice to take a swim for once. Meet up with Ben and Rach at hostel and out for tea and few drinks. [View Full Entry]
Nic and I arrive in bratislava for 3 days. Wicked city but small and quiet which is nice as have been on the go for a while. Real cool market square and buldings awesome at night. Took time just to wander and chill for a couple of days! [View Full Entry]
Find our hostel and just in time for 'happy hour' awesome! go out for tea weiner schnitzel which is fantastic. Take a tour of the city on bus and stop at fun park to go on roller coaster and have some chill time. Take in all the sights of the city and relax with happy hour again . Sheree leaves us back to London Nic and I on to Budapest. [View Full Entry]
