Guten tag! My first foray to Oktoberfest in ze land of ze Germans consisted of waiting FOREVER to get our baggage at the airport, and finding Dana & Rochelle who flew into the other terminal in Munich - the airport is humungous! After standing in line for a taxi and being entertained by a group of guys in sombreros and ponchos accompanied by a stereo playing latin music (as well as the Austin Powers theme song WTF?) we zoomed off to our hostel. And by zoom, I mean about 150-160km p/hour on the highway - James was very excited. Our friend Sian managed to scour Munich on the Friday and obtain some traditional German dirndl dresses for us as all the locals who attend the festival clad themselves in the traditional wear, so we thought we'd ... read more

Another week in London consisted of my return to work and James still being a man of leisure, thus the need to escape and pretend we were still on holiday. We got some cheap bus fares and made our way north to Cheltenham to visit Jenni & Mat and attend the Postslip Beer Festival. Proceeding our arrival, Jen took us on a walking tour of the lovely centre of town and 15 minutes later we were at Jen's place. Cheltenham is really pretty and thankfully summer decided to show up for the weekend and it was beautifully warm. We took it easy and had a lovely picnic in the park and later that evening we headed just outside of Cheltenham to the beer festival. The taxi ride on the way there was a tad interesting, considering ... read more

Warning: historical facts and gruesome descriptions are contained below, proceed with caution. Summer you say? So we're talking sunshine, warmth and blue skies, yes? Hmm, no, this is England we're talking about after all. We finally offloaded the plane after about an hour and a half of circling and sitting on the tarmac after Heathrow was recovering from a very bad storm. I might have been a tad optmistic thinking I would get two summers in one year. We are currently crashing with the lovely Sian and Adam in Swiss Cottage, and in the midst of job searching and house hunting, we have managed to duck out in between showers and see a bit of yee-old Londontown. Last Saturdya night we caught up with Dana and her parents and went to a Blues bar with open ... read more

Once we checked in to the Andromeda Villas, we were able to relax a bit. The accomodation, though having a slightly spartan feel, was comfy, and the views, well just look at the photos. You hear everyone talking about it, but you can't really appreciate Santorini unless you go there. We were staying in the area called Imerovigli, the highest point. We were on the cliff face, looking straight out towards the setting sun.... read more

James here. Believe it or not, our train actually arrived in Cairo on time! Though we were driven a little mad by our temporary guide who constantly sang the song from 'The Wedding Singer' throughout the night, but with a few variations. The next day we arrived back in Athens, happy to have a break from busy Cairo. We had booked one night in Athens, planning to make the ferry ride to Santorini the next day. We decided after checking in to our room to go and book the ferry. Well, apparently there's a world cup going on at the moment and all the fans of the losing teams are going to the greek islands for a few days.... Meaning that most of the ferries were booked out! The only passage we could get without missing ... read more

This morning James was a tad under the weather. But it wasn't just due to the antics from the night before, it seems that the chicken from the previous day had caught up with him and he had a touch of the gastro. We both managed to get up that morning and do a tad of shopping in town, but by the afternoon, he stayed on the boat and in bed while I headed into town to visit the temples of Karnak. We made our way by horse-driven carriages to the colossal group of temples built by a heap of different pharaohs at different times throughout the ages. It had over 130 columns in it's hypostyle hall - the most in the world - but i'm afraid I can't tell you too much more. It was ... read more