europe summer 06 - week 9

muslim for a minute...no

US$1.1 billion. No way, we valued it at about 300 million. We still snuck in everyday to swim and feel rich.

check the speed combover. 85 horses, cranked.

The way home.

No sleep for 36 hours. 4 hour airport security line. 16 hours of flying. 2hour stop over in dubai. I now find myself in Brunei, a random little place i thought id stop for a few days to break up the flight. Met a dude from California and during this time we: Chased moneys through the forest, bargained quality deals at the market, crashed the pool section of a 1.1 billion dollar hotel and rode in very fast and crazy river boats. met some cool kiwi english teachers. woohoo. perfect stop off point on the way home

DAY 61: Flew home from Crete at 3am, pulled into London at 6am, spent 2 days hooning around like mad catching up with all my buddies around the place. On my final night in England my work department mates had a surprise party(and non of them can keep surprises). It was ace, and a perfect was to finish an awesome time abroad. Thanks team.
DAY 60: Crete, Greece. Had to sleep in a cave after taking advice from a fellow traveller, didnt realise how small Kato Zakros(pictured) actually was. Therefore, i had no cash and there wasnt any atms, so i chilled in my cave and ate Dry cornflakes. No one spoke english. sweet as.

europe summer 06 - week 8

DAY 58 & 59: Chilled on Rhodes for 2 days.

DAY 57: An overnight bus ride to selcuk, checked out ancient site of Ephesus and jumped back on the bus to get to the ferry terminal to shoot off to Rhodes, Greece.

The cliff the ANZAC boys had to scale when first jumping out of the boat- while being hammered by the Turks. The cliff is about 60m high and would have been a lot steeper before the road was cut into it.

Troy.

DAY 56: Arrived in Canakkale were i visited both anzac cove and the ancient site of troy. Every aussie must go to gallipoli once in their life, great experience and it enables you to fully understand and appreciate the sacrifice the ANZAC's made back in world war 1.

Quality markets. best place to buy a carpet(apart from having to ship it home)

DAY 54 & 55: Welcome to Istanbul. 13 million crammed in a city. Managed to dodge 2 terrorist bombs, an average of 1 per day, not bad going. Had heaps of fun meeting people and soaking up the culture- definately visit Istanbul.

DAY 53: The only photo i have of Sofia, bulgaria- only stayed for the day and chilled, still shattered from my overnight bus ride. Left again that night on a 10 hour bus ride to Istanbul, woohoo, i love bus trips.

DAY 52: Skopje, the capital of Macedonia. Stayed for only and afternoon then jumped on an overnight bus to sofia, Bulgaria.