Wednesday 4.11.2009 Day 20 We had bfast in a small café then hired a car and drove from Madrid to Valencia. We stayed in a hotel close to the track a lot of the moto gp teams were staying at the same place. It was also very close to the track. ... read more

Monday 2.11.2009 Day 18 We got up and had a early Breakfast and start at: 07:00 am for Petra full tour, we had Mamoud an English speaking site guide for around 4 hours and we saw the main parts in the city, from the main gate (Al- Siq) and all the way to the Treasury, Street of Facades, Royal Tombs, the Roman Theatre, the Nympheom and Qaser AL- Bent, We got a donkey for $10 JD for part of the way back. We then went to the tour operators place and he tried to rip us off with the exchange rate saying that it was $100 JD more then it was. Once we sorted that our we went to Wadi Rum and did a 4WD safari tour in the desert of Wadi Rum seeing Lorraine of ... read more

Saturday 31.10.2009 Day 16 Looked around Dubai and saw Burj the tallest building in the world. Got a dhow across the creek at night we got a taxi in to town and had a look around then got a ferry ride down the creak the city looks fantastic all light up at night. We also caught up on all our washing. There is sand everywhere on the balcony of our hotel where ever you walk all though my shoes. It is strange seeing sand in the middle of a desert. The last F1 race of the year was in Dubai but we did not go and see it. ... read more

Thursday 29.10.2009 Day 14 Shopping and site seeing in Hong Kong. ... read more

Tuesday 27.10.2009 Day 12 We are having a day of rest today setting up out computers catching up on emails and blogs and booking ongoing hotels and trips. We went to the night markets again. ... read more