Today we started off with a 2.5 hour walking tour with a tour guide arounf Berlin it was not a usual tour where he took us to buildings and explained what they were he took us to very random places like construction sites and the underground subway station and explained the history and what used to be where we were standing. We were taking to the carpark of an apartment building to be told we

Today is September the 11th. On board right now we have over 1000 American guests. We carry several american news networks on our onboard TV channels all of which are doing memorials for the World Trade Centre. I remember where I was at school in the reception area. Where were you911Dont ever forget.

Today was a civil time to get up... or should I say normalish 6.306.45 has become a usual wake up time on this trip for travel days.This morning we were ready very early Steve rung Elijah since he missed out on talking to him yesterday. It was a pretty uneventful drive too cold when the airconditioning is on and too hot when the airconditioning is off. I pretty much did the ususal for a bus r

This morning one of the other Christchurch girl39s said 39It39s September 4th today39 and it took me a while to click I cannot believe it has been an entire year that we have put up with earthquakesThis morning brekkie wasn39t until 9.30 but it got very warm so Steve and I were up at 7.40 and got ready to put a load of washing on... problem was the guy standing in the reception di

Travel day againNice early packup to head to Prague with a stop off at a Concentration Camp Mauthausen Concentration Camp. I don39t have any photos of the Concentration Camp because I really didn39t want to. We started our trip with a 30 minute video and I was fine watching the video until the last 5 minutes where photos were shown from when the Americans made it to the camp. The photos

We started today off with a driving tour around Vienna stopped of at a castle then we were dropped off in the middle of town. We some how ended up hanging around with Tim and Carla today. Our aim was to find the markets that had been pointed out at the beginning to the driving tour... unfortunatly we were given the wrong directions and ended up spending most of our day walking around. We went to

Arriving in Koh Phi Phi we were excited to return to Paradise our favourite place on our Thailand trip in 2009. The water was clear and turqouise and the scenery still looked amazing. After paying a 20baht towards the beach cleanup fee when getting of the boat we headed off to The White Our home for the next 6 weeks. The streets of Phi Phi were a lot busier than before but the ambience of the

Today we went to Vienna.On our way we stopped in Bratislava For anyone who has watched Eurotrip... It is nothing like it I can39t decide between which is my favourite place Lauterbrunnen or Bratislava. We did a short walking tour around Bratislava then had 2 hours free time. We walked around the quaint little streets and they had a few market stalls around. I just love how quiet and cute

Wednesday 7th SeptemberMoved into the Andergrove Caravan Park and settled in well a very nice park and of course we have our own ensuite.Colin and Louise arrived on Tuesday after travelling from Broome Darwin Cairns and now Mackay. It is great to see them and spend some time touring around Mackay.We visited the Eimeo historic hotel on top of the hill and had lunch. On Wednesday we took Colin

The new rap Steve has made up... oh joy Today was a free day in Budapest. We were given train tickets the night before so we were able to head into town whenever we wanted. We decided to hang out with Tim and Carla again today. We headed up the hill to find the underground caves which we really didn39t find turns out they were closed anyway and instead we went to find the Labirynth... wh

Drive day again and a long one Sitting for that long on a bus when a lot of people have the runs is not great... every time there was a stop it was a mad rush to the toilet and the toilet39s did NOT smell good afterwards Our destination for today was Budapest. After a long day of driving we made it to Budapest and went to a castle at the top of the hill on the Buda side of town. We spent a w

Very cold last night we had our own sleeping bags and I was still coldToday we had the optional extra to go to Plitvice National Park it was highly recommended because there was not anything else to do at the campsite. We all arrived and choose the path we wanted to do we chose the 46 hour walk which ended up only taking us 4 hours with stops included. Another group did a longer walk which w

Another travel day so another boring blog entry. We packed up the ususal way to head to Plitvice Lakes in Croatia. We drove for a long time to a place called Zadar where the 39Sea Organ39 is located . An artist put 30 odd pipes in the sea under the dock and the way the water moves makes the pipes make noises. It was kind of weird. The same artist also made a massive sun on the dock out of

It was a nice sleep in this morning Steve and I ended up cooking breakfast for everyone eggs and sausages with a bit of help from the cook... you would think it would be the other way round but somebdy wasn39t feeling too wellToday was a free day so after breakfast we did some washing we handwashed an entire load of washing because we Dutchy and Scottishman refused to pay the equival

That is the best nights sleep I have had since being on this tour We had an airconditioned room and a blimin39 comfortable bed to sleep onWe headed down for breakfast where we had omlettes... YUMToday39s journey was taking us to Dubrovnik. When we arrived we set up our tents had tea then jumped on a bus to go on another walking tour... of 39Old Dubrovnik39. It is a really n

This morning we were up at 6.15am so we could clean our boat before leaving we had to have inspections... problem was we were such a great team that we had the boat finished and emptied in 45 minutes... I stood guard of our luggage because our friends the 39town dogs39 may have tried to steal somethingAfter packing up we drove to Tirana Albania. It is crazy to come from such a pleasant

Short drive to where we boarded out yatchs We parked the bus to repack our bags and while there we seemed to aquire 3 homeless but very friendly dogs. Steve was made the Skipper of our yatch and being his wife I was made his 1st Mate. We had 4 other girls on our yatch who later on decided that Steve and I were mum and dad and they were our 4 daughters... even though 1 of the girls is 2 years old

SEPT 1 2011 I woke up with a jolt today jello in my veins. My uncle39s alarm clock was ringing as expected. Had I really slept or just been thinking I looked blearyeyed at the time. 2AM. I39ve seen this time before on many occasions. Sometimes because sleep simply won39t bless me with respite others because I39m as my Grandma would say out on the town. But waking up at 2AM... wa

This morning we were up and gone by 7am because we had to drive to catch an overnight ferry. Apparently we had to be there early because the boat was a Greek boat and they run on Greek time and for those who don39t know what Greek time is... they never run according to plan and they are rather lazy people. We got to the boat at lunch time and when we boarded the lady at reception was a real cow

This morning we caught the ohsoreliable public transport to the Vatican City the people who had signed up for it for a tour. It was a 2 hour tour around most of the city. The Sistine Chapel did you know there is more then 1 Sistine Chapel in the world... Sistine simply means that it was built by 56 men. Before we went into the Chapel our tour guide explained all the paintings which meant th