Back to the French Alps & Birthday Weekend in Eype 14th-27th April, 2008 La Tania I had an awesome week with Bern and Elizabeth back in the French Alps. They had gone back to work a second season and it was the last week of the season. It absolutely dumped down with snow on the Monday when I was travelling there which made skiing in the powder the next day fantastic. I couldn't believe how much snow there was for the end of the season. This time last year there was lots of green and wildflowers starting to bloom. We skiied [View Full Entry]

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Spain (5th-13th April, 2008) Leaving Melbourne on the 4th of April I had a seven hour stopover at Hong Kong Airport and then a night at a lodge near Heathrow Airport before meeting Rupesh in Barcelona. Rupesh had already been in Barcelona for a few days on a work conference and had some time off afterwards to do a bit of travel. The rain did seem to follow us around parts of Spain but didn't dampen our plans too much. Barcelona We spent a couple of days around Barcelona admiring Gaudi's (Spanish architect) work including his house and the La Sagrada [View Full Entry]

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Great Ocean Walk (15th-21st March, 2008) Picking up from where I left off last time...Rupesh returned to London in mid January. I did some locum work for the next couple of months at Royal Talbot Rehab, Nepean Rehab and Donvale Rehab Hospitals. After a fantastic long, hot summer at home I was almost ready to head back to London. A couple of weeks before I left I did parts of the Great Ocean Walk with Kendra and Spike. The Great Ocean Walk track between Apollo Bay and Glenample Homestead near the 12 Apostles offically opened a little over 2 years ago. [View Full Entry]

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Rupesh And Lou In Oz (18th December-16th January, 2008) First of all Rupesh was never coming to Australia, he was coming to Spiderland. Let's just say he's not a great lover of spiders of any shape or size! Just to give you an idea of his fear, we had just booked our tickets to Melbourne in September and were walking home from the tube station when he exclaimed, "look at that bad boy!!" When Rupesh refers to a 'bad boy' he is never referring to a naughty child, it is always in reference to a big bad spider! Rupesh was pointing [View Full Entry]

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Hong Kong & Macau (28th November-2nd December, 2007) I was very excited to be leaving London knowing I was on the way home to Summer in Melbourne. It was also nice knowing that in 2 weeks time Rupesh would be joining me on his first trip to Australia. Most of my family had no idea I was coming home least of all mum. The morning of the day I was to leave London I was on MSN Messenger to mum. I had to pretend that my webcam and microphone were broken as I wasn't sure how much longer I could lie [View Full Entry]

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Portugal (22nd Nov - 26th Nov 2007) Rupesh and I spent almost 5 days on a road trip exploring Portugal. We basically covered a small loop beginning and ending in Lisbon. Lisbon Rupesh was impressed with our Fiat Punto that we picked up from Lisbon airport. I was more impressed that we made it in to central Lisbon and to our hostel without getting lost! The hostel had only been open for 3 weeks and didn't even have a sign out the front yet. The door to our room didn't quite shut properly yet either so we had to slide a [View Full Entry]

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Turkey (23rd Oct - 19th Nov 2007) On the 22nd of October I finished working in Barking (East London) at the Community Rehabilitation Service as did Bern and Elizabeth. It's certainly not ideal having 3 locums running a service! Our working holiday visas were soon to expire. Unfortunately we didn't have any new staff to hand over to which was very disappointing for us but more so for our patients who had no idea when they would be receiving any ongoing therapy. London to Istanbul to Antalya One would think that after all the travel we had done to date that [View Full Entry]

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Back in the UK (20th July - 22nd October, 2007) After our last stop in Greece we returned to London and Mum went to Spain for 10 days and I started work in Peterborough. For the next 6 weeks I worked in Critical Care on a respiratory ward. Back to nurses accommodation! Only this time I had the penthouse suite on the 7th floor! There is always lots happening and the weekends always seem to fill up very quickly. Henley-on-Thames It was Rupesh's birthday on the 20th of July and I took him to a lovely B & B in Henley-on-Thames. [View Full Entry]

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Greece (13th - 19th July, 2007) Visa requirements continue to be very strict! While in Greece it was a requirement to eat gyros, souvlaki, greek salad and greek yoghurt! What else can you do but follow the customs of the country you are in at the time?!! Athens We spent 2 days in Plaka in central Athens. The Acropolis just happened to be closed for those 2 days due to security staff striking. Just as well we were stopping briefly in Athens again before flying back to London. It was very hot in Athens. We did a great walking tour of [View Full Entry]

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Italy (24th June - 13th July, 2007) From Austria we crossed in to Italy and spent the next 2 and half weeks exploring this amazing country.As you can probably tell, it's still all about the food! Visa requirements for Italy are very strict. It is a requirement to have at least 1 gelati per day!! We didn't get off to a very good start in Italy. Very soon after crossing the border we stopped to use a highway toilet and when mum went in to the cubicle the toilet disappeared in to the wall just as she was about to sit [View Full Entry]

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