http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/crisadrian/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from crisadrian en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:58:10 BST Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:58:10 BST We decided to celebrate our final days in London by going on 'Our last Trip' to Ljubljana Slovenia. It had taken us about three months to get our tongue around the pronunciation of the word and had no clue on what to expect Apart from a war with Yugoslavia in the early 90's there was not alot we did know about the place In actual fact our Europe guide book had all of three pages on Slovenia wh http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovenia/Upper-Carniola/Ljubljana/blog-230324.html 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 earsWe arrived at Presswick Airport which is in essence a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/blog-230317.html We woke up at 4.00am and left at 4.15am towards Stansted Airport for our 6.10am Ryan Air flight to Krakow Poland. At this time of the morning I am not the most pleasant person and Cristina is unbelievably chirpy.Her chirpiness and my early morning moodiness turned to frustration when Ryan Air decided to leave us at an airport which was more than 3.5 hours away by bus from Krakow. The diverted fli http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Lesser-Poland/Krakow/blog-225179.html 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 lsquoliberalisedrsquo by rejecting the http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Marmara/Istanbul/blog-222951.html It was an early rise towards the port of Piraeus where we had to pick up our tickets at 6am and board the ship. We took our seats and eased back for our 5 hour journey to Santorini via Paros and Ios.When we arrived at Santorini new port we were welcomed by a scrum of taxi drivers with signs begging for a passenger we swiftly paid to get out of the scrum and to our hotel located Imerovigili. On ou http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-217958.html 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 Lon http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Attica/Athens/blog-214953.html Noticing that the word SEX ensures hits on our blog we have decided to include it in our title there is nothing in this blog to do with sexWell after what seemed to be an eternity it was Friday and we found ousrelves running for the train again this time was from work we decided to go in for half day so we get some paid hours ha ha We made it to the station and boarded our 1.15pm train to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Budapest/blog-207721.html 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 wa http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Somerset/Bath/blog-201915.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/-le-de-France/Paris/blog-193982.html It was the morning of my birthday after a quick breakfast we decided to head straight to Buckingham Palace to view the tour de france or farce as it was starting in London this year i had my day planned out which included sitting down and watching the cyclists zoom past us all day Its those days of hard work that I enjoy the most. The event was packed with people all of London had come out http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Basque-Country/San-Sebasti-n/blog-186691.html It was with some excitement that we woke up early and went to work on Friday 25 May. The sound of the luggage bag wheels rattling over the street pavement was music to our ears and it brought a smile to our face in the knowledge that we would leave work early at 3.30pm and head straight to Stanstead airport to fly to Porto that afternoon. Porto is not a place we knew an awful lot about I lik http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Northern/Porto/blog-164024.html London Cambridgecrisadrian As part of our 'get to know your backyard' month we decided to add another famous place yet an unknown place to us Cambridge to our list. Oxford and Cambridge have a bitter rivalry that goes back for centuries to the point that Oxford is referred to as 'the other place' within Cambridge. Everyone we spoke to assured us that Cambridge was better than Oxford.....so we w http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/blog-159452.html London Oxfordcrisadrian Whilst in the UK on the to do lists of places to travel there are always a few regular destinations and this list always includes Oxford Having seen a few photographs of Oxford and a no travel weekend prompted us to gather a few friends and head towards Oxford. Karin Torsten German couple Joe flatmate and ourselves met at Paddington station and went to Oxford b http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Oxfordshire/Oxford/blog-153070.html Trip to Amsterdamcrisadrian Another trip............................and another late departure from our house to the airport. We are making a habit of leaving late and begging the airport staff to let us on the plane with a hint of a tear in my eyes and Cris blubbering crying in the corner into her handkerchief. Thus far it has worked The reason we were late was that we woke to some amazing su http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/North-Holland/Amsterdam/blog-148465.html It was late in 2006 in sunny Sydney when we were discussing with our good friend Matthew aka brother in law about all the places we were interested in visiting whilst in Europe. The usual suspects like Paris Rome Barcelona and Prague came up as did some less visited places like Finland Lithuania Belarus and Iceland................. By the end of our conversation we opted for Iceland as the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Iceland/Southwest/Reykjav-k/blog-139234.html So...............the time has arrived for our first travel blog. We have been living in London for three weeks now and have done what everyone first does when in London............. book a flight to Paris. A belated valentines gift to ourselves was our trip to Paris and as expected it was romantic but it did also attract some travel dramas.I woke up on the day of our flight Friday morning at 7.1 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/-le-de-France/Paris/blog-131203.html