Amsterdam, the city of bicycles, tourists and well, we all know what. Aside from the sex, drugs and rock´n´roll, Amsterdam is a beautiful city in it´s own right. Interesting Amsterdam Fact no 1: 52 bodies are pulled out of Amsterdam´s canals each year (mostly drunken guys who trip over into the water while weeing) Interesting Amsterdam Fact no 2: 50 bikes a week are pulled out of the canals Interesting Amsterdam Fact no 3: There are 1000´s of bikes that are locked up and forgotten about all around Amsterdam. There are still bikes locked up from the 70´s! We arrived [View Full Entry]

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Ah, bonnie Scotland! The land of fresh air, open spaces, sheep, phone boxes in the in middle of nowhere & really loud military fighter jets that appear when you least expect them!! When the fog cleared from the horizon and our heads, we arrived at Edinburgh airport in better condition than we arrived at Luton airport (London). We picked up our hire car and headed towards Glasgow to meet up with Niki. The countryside is very green and lush. We were pretty tired by the time we arrived at Niki's as we only had 3 hours sleep before getting on [View Full Entry]

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After a long flight from Malaysia we finally arrived at Heathrow Airport. Armed with a bottle of champers we scored from the flight attendants (neither of our inflight entertainment units worked!!) we caught the tube to Amber's (thanks for putting us up!) in Fulham. Our first day was spent with Amber , who showed us the sights of Notting Hill and Portobello Rd. We brought our LP Beijing guide from the 'Travel Book Shop' where Hugh Grant worked in the film 'Notting Hill'. After some well earnt sleep, we met with Angie (who got stuck in some doors before meeting us...) [View Full Entry]

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We have started our journey!! We arrived safely in KL Malayisa early Saturday morning. Typical South East Asia it was hot, full of crazy drivers and advertising, but we were lucky enough to be staying in lovely 5 star hotel where we made the most of the pool and all you can eat breakfast. Our room was on the 13th floor so we had a great view. We even watch the fireworks for the F1 while lying on the floor on our bellys. People were lovely. Never once did we come across someone who wasn't polite. Just before we left, we [View Full Entry]

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Itinerary Good Friday (6th April): Fly out from Melbourne Easter Saturday (7th April) - Easter Monday (9th April): KL - Malaysia Tuesday 10th - Saturday 14th April: London - England Saturday 14th - Wednesday 18th April: Scotland Wednesday 18th - Monday 23rd April: Amsterdam - Netherlands Monday 23rd - around the 9th May: Stockholm - Sweden & Finland Around the 9th May - end of May: Russia End of May - start of June: Mongolia & China Thrusday 7th June: KL - Malaysia Saturday 9th June evening: Home Melbourne - Austraila [View Full Entry]

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