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We signed up for the St Tropez cruise on the Bus yesterday thinking it would be a good afternoon. Unfortunatley it turned into 2 1/2 hours on the bus from Nice to Port Grimaud (Frances' version of Venice) then we got onto the boat which took us around to Millionares Bay which is where the likes of the Heinekin family, Johnny Dep and The Hiltons have thier houses looking our over the water. We stopped in St Tropez for some dinner then hopped back on the boat and back to the bus. Then another 2 hours on the bus back to Nice. All in all it was good, the bus ride made it a bit shit (didnt really want to spend 4 1/2 hours on the bus but oh well). Wednesday we decided to go around ... read more

Had our first real dissapointment for the trip today....we had to leave Lauterbrunen. We left Bern for Lauterbrunen about 5:20 last night and the drive from Bern to Lauterbruunen was where the real pretty stuff started. All the travel brouchers and pictures you see of Switzerland, they come from here. As soon as we got into Jungfrau camping ground we dumped our bags at the little cabin we were assigned and headed for a trek up to one of the waterfalls. Absolutley amazing, breathtaking, picturesque yadda yadda yadda you get the point, hopefully some of my photos come close to doing it justice, although i doubt it very much. The only thing that ruined it was the drunk bogan on the bus from Bern to Jungfrau. No wonder Aussies get a bad name on the traveling ... read more

Havent made up my mind about Paris yet...its very busy, crowded a lot of homeless people and beggers and a lot dirtier tahn i thought. But in sayuing that there was also a lot of good things. We did an aweful lot of walking and along the way experienced some wornderful pastries and a couple of good sites such as the Lourve, Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triumph and of course the Moulin Rouge. The Lourve would take a week to explore and take in all on its own. However since we only had the afternoon we just hit the big ones (Mona Lisa and the Venus De Milo) and wandered around some more of the hallways. Then we could see the Eiffel Tower and thought we could wander over.....two hours later we could still see ... read more

Decided to try and take in a bunch of the sites of London today. Woke up about 4am (goddam jetlag) so thought we could get an early start. Made our way through Hyde park about 6am, surprisingly there were a WHOLE bunch of freaks jogging and walking their dogs through the park at that hour. We made our way down to Bunkingham Palace, past St James park then down to Big Ben/Parliment house, across Westminster Bridge then over to the London eye, unfortunaley this was all before 8am so nothing was open, so we spent the next hour looking for somewhere for Breakfast. Finally found a cheap place (at least it was open) on York st where we managed to get some brekky then headed off for the day. We went up on the London Eye, ... read more

Well we had a bit of a stressful morning getting everything finalised but we eventually got to the airport. Jo, Rob and Bathy saw us off and we had a drink, then it was a little tearful goodbye and we headed up to the lounge. When it was time to board we went outside to join the queue, and to our surprise there was our neighbours (from Number 8) who were off to Singapore for a holiday. Perth is a small place isnt it. Flight from Perth - Singapore was ok, Bek didnt feel too crash hot but we managed to hit Singapore without too many dramas. Bek was mesmerised by all of the glittery shops in Singapore :-P and was quite happy to see the purple gold, however not so happy when she saw the ... read more