Mynokos was a great place to end our holiday. Although our first impression was not so good. The cabins we stayed at at Paradise beach was not really a cabin but a permanent tent- consisting of 4 walls, 1 window, 1 door and 2 little beds. Compared to a beach hut it was awful but compared to camping in a tent it was great! It was quite hot and stuff inside but everyone spent all their time outside. The beach is really nice, there are bars with DJs playing fucky tunes, cocktails, water sports etc. It was the beginning of the [View Full Entry]

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Well we landed here on 21 may 2008 yes it's my birthday Acropolis [View Full Entry]

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Pyramids, Papyrus and People We got an overnight bus from Dahab to Cairo, leaving at 11pm and arriving in the dusty, horn honking city of Cairo at about 7am. We got a cab to Lialy Hostel where we had previously booked accommodation. As soon as we got out, a respectable looking man with good English started to chat to us. He said he was a mature student and would like to show us around Cairo seeing things as a local would. We went up stairs to drop off our bags then headed out, blind faith, with this man! He took us [View Full Entry]

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Open Water Dive Course, Dahab Arrived in Sharm el Sheik on Tuesday 13th 9.15pm, after waiting for quite a while for our luggage to turn up we found our driver with a cute little 'Emily' sign and headed off to Dahab. Another English guy, Dom was also staying at Penguin Divers and came in the taxi with us. The landscape is amazing, so dry and barren with huge sandy mountains on all sides. Then you get to Dahab and it is this amazing little town all built around the water front with mountains of big pillows, rugs and palm trees swaying [View Full Entry]

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We had a really nice Easter full of fatty food, sleep, snow and snuggles! Thursday night was spent on the couch with our flatties eating pizza. Then on Friday we spent the day walking around Borough Markets and had lamb souvlaki for lunch. Then came home and made a fresh loaf of bread then dinner and spent some more time on the couch, keeping an eye out for the promised snow. Woke up early Saturday morning to HAIL!!! Not quite what we wanted but still fun! Chris even filmed getting pelted in the head by the little balls! Then we went [View Full Entry]

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THE SILLY SEASON ! You know how when you do your Christmas shopping and there is just people everywhere trying to get the latest Jamie Oliver Cook Book, Victoria Beckham perfume and pick up some mistletoe for the archway in the hall. Well what an experience doing this in London were there is a population of 7 1/2 Million people and 2/3 on public transport. If you want to feel like a tin sardine this is the time of the year to do it, people with more shopping then what they now what to do with, all trying to fit [View Full Entry]

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We took the Eurostar from the newly refurbished St Pancras International station on Christmas Eve morning. Trains are the best way to travel so the trip was great except that we were both a bit fluy. The best thing about traveling by Eurostar is it takes you to the Gaud de Nord station in the middle of Paris so you only have to go down the escalators to jump on the metro. We went straight to our hotel where we'd booked a cute little studio room with kitchen, bath and balcony overlooking the Eiffel Tower... so romantic. So after stocking up [View Full Entry]

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Atter getting the bus form the airport into the city we checked into our hostel room. We'd booked a twin room because it was cheaper and normally you can just push the beds together, but these ones were super skinny and bolted to the floor! So we made a little cubby house under them. We went for a walk past the Queens University and through the Botanic gardens then did some shopping for supplies for our road trip. We looked for the famous political graffiti and banner around the place but only found one. It just so happened that our trip [View Full Entry]

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Our trip to Spain did not start out too well as ryan air delayed our flight by about 2 hours and we didn't get to our hostel until 2am and on top of that the next morning was overcast. We were staying in this nice youth hostel with a good vibe and which was at the top of the famous La Rambla. We went out on a guided tour around Barcelona's gothic city which lasted about 5 mins then it got canceled because of the rain, arr well !! No clouds or rain were going to stop us however Chris and [View Full Entry]

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We just got back from Norway and had an amazing time with Emily's old uni volleyball partner (Karoline), her boyfriend (Erik) and their baby (Cecelia). We did lots of hiking and sight seeing. Erik is a ski instructor for the Norwegian junior squad so he told us lots about skiing and took us to this huge ski jump (no snow on it at the moment though) and to a ski museum. He is also a qualified sky diver and scuba diver! On the weekend they took us up to Karoline's aunty's cabin in the mountains. It is sooooooooooo beautiful up there. [View Full Entry]

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