It was time to leave for Scotland after one of our best drunken and disorderly nights celebrating Cris' birthday with her work colleagues!!! The rattling of the luggage bags was not very welcome with the splitting headaches we had reminding us of the previous night!!! However we did not totally reject the sound which was once music to our ears! We arrived at Presswick Airport which is in essence a shed not much bigger than Cris' dads shed- however- its claim to fame is that it is the only place in the UK that Elvis Presley set foot on. He was in transit to Germany! We swivelled our hips in tribute to the man, pulled on our blue suede shoes and went straight to the car hire place! The drive to Edinburgh was rather uneventful and ... read more

Istanbul was one of the trips we were most looking forward to and we were not let down. The capital of Turkey is a juxtaposition of elements which makes it all the most interesting. It is a country which now belongs to Europe which however was always seen as the link between Europe and Asia and therefore considered different, it is an Islamic country yet ‘liberalised’ by rejecting the Sultan and Kaifate ordering system back in the early 1900’s, it is a city which came under rule by many cultures yet it is distinctly and proudly Turkish and finally it seems so modern and contemporary and yet it is so traditional.!!! The Islamic aspect of the city is its most interesting aspect as all the major mosques seem to call the community to prayer at virtually ... read more

Once again we had our bags ready packed before going to work, we went into the office did our 4 hours work for the day and went to Gatwick airport for our next trip, the sound of rattling luggage bags on cobblestones is music to our ears and one we will miss- this time the destination was Greece for six days and a much anticipated trip. First stop Athens. The flight to Athens was 3.5 hours from London and we arrived late Friday night (9.45pm) and by the time we arrived at our hotel it was close to midnight!!! In an effort to make the most of everyday we went straight out to a typical Greek(s) restaurant and were having our dinner at 1am, needless to say we were the only people in the restaurant receiving ... read more

This I promise will be a very short blog! Getting to know England further.....and this time it was Bath. A beautiful city with so much history and is also a World Heritage City . Baths history commences in approximately 1 AD when the Romans thought it would be a great place to set up an outpost to their empire- a little bit far from Rome but nonetheless they left their imprint on the city. Bath was a fortified city which contained a spectacular Bath 'complex' dedicated to the 'gods' who were the only ones who could produce hot springs!! They are the only hot springs in England! The complex was later built over and ruined for many hundreds of years after the romans left (approx 60AD). Bath's second high-profile era was the eighteenth century, when the ... read more

After a splendid four days in the north of Spain and seeing one major festival- San Fermin- it was time to go to Paris for 5 days and also see Bastille Day- a day when French Pride bubbles like champagne. This was Claudia's & Santo's first trip to Paris- and they were looking forward to the trip We arrived very early on the 13th of July to London and had to cross the whole city to head towards the other airport for our flight to Paris- We arrived late on the 13th July to Paris ready for an early start the next day to join Paris to celebrate Bastille day or "la Fête Nationale" commemorating the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, this was the storming of the Bastille seen as a symbol of the uprising of ... read more