Our first and major problem with this blog is that we don't have any photos as we were both in the wedding party and didn't have our camera. It will have to suffice for now with some pics from Maja and Steve's camera. Or you can go on Facebook and look up everyone else's photos of Maja and Steve! Best ones so far are Jason's: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=319081&id=805930611 The day was absolutely amazing. And it was bloody hot. The next day had a lovely breeze, but M&S's wedding day was crazy hot. Maja never complained once, it was very impressive. The girls woke [View Full Entry]

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We arrive in Dubrovnik on a stinking hot day. Our only job is to find a man named Viktor around the firestation. He is the man to lead us to our villa in the hills. This proves a most interesting task with many Croatian men being approached with, "VIKTOR?" After 15 minutes contact is finally made and we are on way into the hills, 96 steps up to be exact. Thank goodness there was a pool and cold beer waiting for us at the top. The house was Marina/Aldo, Steve/Maja, Son/Kevin, Us. We had a home cooked meal that night...one thing [View Full Entry]

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It all went according to plan, it was quite amazing. Although they're were some dicey moments getting to Zadar. We met Son & Kevin when they arrived at Heathrow (I love airport arrivals) and we hung out with Odin for a while. We had a relaxing lunch in the airport waiting for our flight to Zadar. We first flew to Zagreb, which was delayed, and we would have missed our flight to Zadar had that flight not been delayed as well. We arrived rather late in Zadar but with the best meet and greet: Maja, her sister Marina and her Mom, [View Full Entry]

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We arrived at Heathrow from Copenhagen to a lovely scene: Odin waiting for us at the Sofitel! As we had little time between arriving in London and heading out the next day to Croatia we booked a hotel room at T5 and invited Odin along for a sleepover. What a fun night and morning we had with him! We laughed, we caught up on life and we did many silly things (as is normal when one spends time with Odin). We had a few issues with the hotel this time around: couldn't get the internet working, a slight breakfast fiasco that [View Full Entry]

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This is our trip to Copenhagen in a nutshell. It was brililant. We arrived from a day of travelling from Santorini quite tired and decided to have a nice meal in our airport hotel and then head out early the next morning into town. Slightly reminiscent of Budapest, we had had no time to do research before arriving in Denmark. We had no clue of exchange rates and I went to find out, only discovering the next day I had messed it up (turns out they convert not to 1 Kroner, but to 100). So our first meal in Copenhagen in [View Full Entry]

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This 2-day stopover Santorini was booked as it was the only way we could get to Athens that worked with our flight to Copenhagen. We had fun again in Santorini and agree with everyone else that it is a beautiful island. We realized that the first time we were here earlier this summer we got caught in what we call the "cruise loop": the boat people (as Mom likes to call them) wander around in a tight circle looking at different shops. You may recall we tried to find a souvlaki stand last time and ended up having a fabulous meal [View Full Entry]

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I am a beach. The individual grains of sand are not unique and do not have a voice of their own. Do not mistake me, I am happy to have them, as I am happy to have the stones, sea life and trees. They all listen intently to my words, but without a voice, all they offer in return is a living burqua to cover my nakedness. The wind tonight is acting like an amourous man, desperately trying to blow my cover away for a glimpe of my naked being. I am wise to the wind, but must admit I do [View Full Entry]

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Not joking. I'm firing myself as our travel agent. Got up at 3am. Took a taxi to the Lisboa airport, a plane to Munich, a plane to Athens, a rushed taxi ride to Piraeus, a 5-hour ferry ride in economy to Paros, waited an hour for a bus to Punda because it was too windy for the normal passenger ferry, which then took us to the car ferry to Antiparos. We arrived after Midnight, trying to find our hotel (it was one we'd not stayed at before). In bed by 1am. There are no pictures from this day. (I have to [View Full Entry]

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Back to my random thoughts on the places we've been to. We had two days in Lisbon and it was another proper city break. We stayed in a hotel right in the city, which was nice as the last few we've stayed in have been outside the city centre. Admittedly, we were getting a bit tired of cities at this point. We wandered around the city our first night and noted that Lisbon has a lot of big squares. And by a lot, I mean every block or two. And they all have big statues commemorating wars, famous leaders, etc. It [View Full Entry]

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It was a 3 hour train ride to Porto from Lisbon. We checked in at the hotel and decided to head for town. We walked down the shopping street to the water in search of a late lunch. We found a collection of restaurants in sight of the river, went up to the nearest and got blanked by the waiter. We just keep walking to another one. Totally amazing simple meal. The kitchen was wiped out from lunch so all they could offer was a Portuguese fire sausage, bread, olives and beer. We went for it. The sausage came raw on [View Full Entry]

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