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Kalimera from the island of Milos in Greece, After the epic “Festival of Sedge” i.e. my 50 th birthday celebrations, we packed up the house, packed off the stragglers, packed the car and drove to Sarah’s in Newcastle. A quiet night ensured before we embarked on some epic travel. · Newcastle to Sydney – 4 hours – including check-in · Sydney to Singapore – 8.5 hours · Singapore layover – 6 hours · Singapore to Athens – 11.5 hours · Athens layover

Sawasdee Kahp from Koh Samui. Well, the time it took to get here was fucking ridiculous. We got the tram in Bergen at 7.15 am. Flew from Bergan to Copenhagen 10.00 - 11.00am We hung around the airport until we got on the 2.30pm flight from Copenhagen to Bangkok (10.5 hours) We then got to Bangkok at 7.00am - Thai time. We then stored ALL of our winter and wedding gear at Suvarnabhumi airport before we got the 10am flight (45 mins) to Koh Samui. We arrived at Chaweng Beach Gar

We had a buffet breakfast at the Marina and relaxed as we had an 11.30am checkout. We walked slowly through the morning sun - oh yeah the sun came back on the day that we AREN”T riding down muddy mountain goat tracks - to the train station and took some pics before chilling in the sun. We grabbed our bags from the storage and jumped on the world-famous Flamsbarna train. This train went back up to Mordor, I mean Myrdal and took an hour to climb the 865 metres over 20 km of tra

Heya, We got up early, rolled the 40 keg suitcases over the cobblestones and had breaky at the train station. We found our spacious, plush seats on the train, and we were on the four-hour ride from Oslo to Myrdal station. This train ride goes all the way to Bergen, and the 7-hour ride in its entirety is considered to be one of the most picturesque in all of the world. We were breaking up the ride by stopping at Myrdal, riding bikes to Flam for the night, and getting the train

Up at sparrow’s - taxi to BSI - Skybus to Airport - 2.5 hour flight to Oslo - cramped seats but we slept for most of it. - no passport...

We slept in, packed our bags and Nanna (Siggy’s misso) drove us into town. We put some fuel in the car and she dropped us off right in...

Day 3 was an easy chill day. I got up at 6am and listened to the Knights scrape a win against the Raiders in Golden Point by a penalty…...

Instead of navigating the Suby for a 5 hour round trip we booked in on a bus trip to circumnavigate the famous “Golden Circle” of...

Up at sparrows (half 3) Airlink to Airport - Edi to Std (easy -peasy) 4 hour wait at Stansted. Recharged devices, ate, hung around....

The next day, guess what we had for Breaky? Give up? Pret. We then drove to a wee seaside town on the south of the fife peninsula called...

Bretty cooked bacon and egg bagels for breaky before we drove to a bike hire place and cafe on the loch - which was closed. We then...

Wee bit dusty when we arose but some homemade sourdough, homegrown eggs and home-roasted coffee, had us up and alive. We then drove a...

London, Edinburgh, West Linton - Days 6 and 7 2nd & 3rd September2023 Up early, Pret for breaky, bus to Liverpool Station, made a dash...

Ever since Bob has passed away, Jen has woken up at 4.30 am. My body clock is still not right either and we got up at 5 am to see the sun...

We bid farewell to the ever-generous Eva as she dropped us and all of our ridiculous amount of luggage at Worcester Park Station. A train...

After the chaos, grief, and worry of the last week, we got up at 5 am Sunday morning to get an Uber to Tuggerah to fly to London. We flew...

Assalaa mu alaikum from Mercure Resort Koodoo, Maldives, Well, well, well, what to say about the Mercure Kooddoo in the Maldives?...

Ayabowan from Mrissa, We had a fantastic sleep in at Chaarya and took our time over the breakfast buffet - which was very good. We then...

Ayabowan from Yala, Breakfast was string hoppers with dahl and the obligatory omelette. We then watched a mongoose have a little dig on...

Ayabowan from the way cool Ella, We had a great sleep in, in the cool room - literally and figuratively - in the top of the chalet....