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Published: October 18th 2008
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Austrian Alps
Snow at the end of summer - now that's a cold place. Well hi all,
We have just arrived in Egypt today which is completely different to anywhere else we have been on this trip but we thought we would catch you up on a few things since we last did a blog back in Austria. (Seems such a long time ago!)
Since then, we've been skiing on the Hintertux Glacier. That was an experience let's put it that way. It definitely wasn't a slope for beginners and as there was a white-out it made even more difficult to ski and board. There was one beginner slope, but you had to go down what Zoe thought resembled a cliff face to get to it. And not being able to see the bottom of that cliff face freaked her out just a bit. Poor Dave had to carry his board and Zoe's skis whilst we walked down the hill. He wondered why his arms were sore the next day.
After finally starting to master the T-bars and 'beginner' slope, Dave thought he'd ditch Zoe (fair enough) and take the higher slope back down. All was good until he had the biggest stack ever, including a double flip, bag dislodging from his
Seemed to have no problem
Except stacking big time and crushing all the food in the bag which Zoe had to clean later on. Biggest stack ever. back, Red Bull cans flying out in to the snow and banana and bread smashing and spreading throughout what was a clean backpack. Dave took the backpack because we thought he was the experienced snow campaigner. Hmmm...
Anyway, after that happy day we headed off to Venice which was nice and relaxing. Took our cheap taxi along the canals, walked around and enjoyed cooking our own dinner. Yep, we enjoyed cooking. I think we are well and truly sick of eating out every single night. In fact we loved our pasta that much we cooked the same thing four nights in a row. Very easily pleased.
Next on the agenda was Greece. Athens is very historical and the ancient buildings there are what you go to see. It was good and really busy there in terms of traffic. We unfortunately got another case of the bed bugs which was very unlucky as all the other travellers we talked to in Greece hadn't even heard of them before. We made them all paranoid too so they slept in their sleeping bags rather than using the sheets - ha! I think Dave will fly home immediately if we get another
Seemed to have a problem - a big one.
Coldest place ever; biggest white out ever. Freaking out coz couldn't see the bottom of the steepest hill ever. Tears. Shit house. batch as he's copped it really bad both times. Not cool.
From Athens, we took the 9 hour ferry out to Santorini in the roughest seas they've had for ages. The boat was all over the place and they even cancelled boats the next day because it was too rough. We stayed in a house-stay with the best hosts we've probably had on our trip. Such a great island. We hired quad bikes for the day and did the entire island. The funniest bit was on our way back from seeing the sunset in Oia. The two of us on a quad bike buzzing along up a hill on the freeway doing 13kmh with 100kmh winds blowing us around and a line of traffic behind us. Hilarious! We also cruised out to the volcano in Santorini and swam in the hot springs which was a good day. Would recommend this island to anyone for sure.
The next part of our adventure was to head to Egypt. We really had no idea what to expect here. We are doing a tour with Expat Explore who didn't turn up to pick us up at the airport so that was a
Venice - city of canals
Beautiful place but so so so so busy on the weekend. Busiest place we've been (except for the festivals). bad start, but after a bit of help from some locals we got there. The place is soooooo busy - Greece has nothing on Cairo. 22 million people live in this city - that's the population of Australia in one city. It is incredible. It is a full on mission to cross the road as there are no traffic lights - you basically just walk and put your hand out and hope that they stop. We have been here for a couple of days just soaking up the atmosphere and copping all the staring from the locals who obviously aren't too used to white people around. They are all friendly though; so far so good.
Tomorrow we are off to see the Pyramids and Sphinx so we start our tour. Dave will be having his birthday on a 2 night Felucca cruise (with no washing facilities on board) down the Nile so it could be memorable or forgettable - we'll have to wait and see.
Well, that's all from us. We are still healthy and happy that we don't have to do all the thinking for the next week or so as our tour guide will take care
Anyone got 70 Euro for a ride?
The Gondola drivers are the richest men in Venice so they pass the boats down to their sons etc. We took the cheaper 6 Euro ferry option down the river. Just as good. of that for us. Hope all is well back home.
Til the next blog, see ya later!
Dave and Zoe
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Kate
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Oia looks beautiful! Love the blog guys - keep it up. :)