Today trudging through snow a few days from now it'll be sand under my feet. Ironically they both sound similar under foot.It's been snowing in Manchester on and off since before Christmas. Luckily I escaped the worst of it by dissappearing to India for a few weeks over Xmas NY.I'm now counting down the days to my flight to Sharm El Sheikh on 311. An hour drive north and I'll be in Dahab wh

The French donrsquot workhellipthey have kids.Today we had class like any other daymdashit started at nine at the institute with each of us presenting some sort of French article that we found for homework. Today Carlrsquos article was about how the French had ldquolost its reputationrdquo as the place where the least amount of work was done. Although it was still up theremdasho

Visiting Menrsquos Prison of Quito in EcuadorWhile visiting friends in a hostel in the mariscal area which is the new town in Quito I read on the information board that it was possible to visit a womanrsquos and menrsquos prisons and it was pretty straightforward so on a Saturday in September I went alone and gave the taxi driver the address he seamed surprised and asked if I was visiting

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Friday 15.1.210 day 92Tarragona SpainWe were very sad to leave Andorra as it is fantastic so we headed to the beach town of Tossa De Mar it was a fantastic drive along sweeping roads with fantastic views and Temps got up to 22 up until today 10 is the highest temp we have had in Europe while we have been here. On the way to the beach we saw I saw what looked like 3 of the test team for BMW testi

Getting a cold or the flu is bad enough but when it strikes less than 24 hours before getting on the planemdashor worse while you're flyingmdashpanicking won't speed up your recovery. Rather than succumbing to a sneezy fate take immediate action by following these top five tips en route.1. Check all your bags. Keep yourself free of things to haul and save energy by checking whatever bags yo

Tuesday 5.1.2010 Day 82Markets Tavira Olhao FaroWe went to the mouthy markets and got some nice fresh pine nuts. There is a lot of pine nuts farms and orange farms around here. We then drove to Tavira a little fishing village we went up to the castle. We then drove on to Olhao that has roman and Arab fortresses we then drove to Faro.

Buenos Noches Well I was wrong about today. Yesterday we worked very hard digging out the hole mixing cement and moving loads of stuff. I then went to the gym please see pictures attached its like rocky 2. One of the girls made the silo wall collapse so I went in and sorted it out and finalised the depth and breathe of it its really pained me to do so. Rewarding none the less. We laid some

Wednesday 6.1.2010 Day 83Portugal fortWe wanted to go to the fort near our hotel but each time we went to go out it started raining so we went shopping again. We meet the club people here who tried to get us to by their shares in holiday club.

DAY 433Firstly everyone many apologies for the picture on our last blog sometimes we have a busy interesting day and do not take any photographs which happened on this day so when time came to upload the blog we had a situation of a photo less entry and in this case Caroline decided to take a picture of Misha the little dog and Rocky the Kelpie.Today was an important day for us we both have

Thursday 7.1.2010 Day 84Evora We went to Evora a world heritage site it has lots of roman things like the Diana temple and the aqueducts for carrying water. We went to the Capela dos Ossos or chapel of the bones it is made up of hundreds of bones and has a great sign on the top of is saying we who are here are waiting for you to join us. We saw peacocks in the park. We then went to the Prehistor

Voici un lien qui dcrit en dtail chaque journe de notre voyage pour savoir o nous en sommes rendu clic sur voyageitinraire. Bonne lectueIl reste 8 jours...

Friday 8.1.2010 Day 85PortugalWe did our washing and went for a walk to a fort along the cliffs it was a fantastic view we forgot the camera but we could not get to the fort by the cliffs so we went back and got the car it was not a very good fort and had been turned in hotel maybe by the government as they do that here some times. There is a bull fighting ring walking distance to our resort and

Toujours aussi intense on est en pause linder lunchdiner du 3e jour c'est tres interessant et SynHeme va beaucoup changer au cours de l'anne a venir. Hier on a eu The human calculator un gars qui calcule mentalement plus vite qu'une calculatrice tres interessant et passionne.Je n'ai pas le temps d'entrer dans les details alors je vous quitte la dessus.J.P.

Saturday 9.1.2010 Day 86Portugal dinner outWe did some work on the internet book some more accommodation had to decide what we are doing in the next few weeks as there is so much snow about we think we will stay away from it for a bit longer. We had some drinks at the bar and had a bit of a rest day today. Then after being well rested we went out for dinner for my friendrsquos birthday at this g

Sunday 10.1.2010 day 87Gibraltar We checked out of our resort and drove to Gibraltar where we had to go in and out of immigration but they did not put a new stamp in my passport 61516 I loved Gibraltar it is so exciting every little boys dream lots of forts and tunnels and ship even monkeys. The airport goes over the main road so you get to drive over the airport run ways on your way in and out

Monday 11.1 2010 day 88Merida We both woke up feeling very cold and sick. Although Merida Spain is a world heritage town with lots of roman things including a Dina temple that looks like the one we saw a few days ago in Portugal in faced the whole city look very much like Evora At one point we took a wrong turn and was on an identical turn around that we had done in Evora. There where Roman glad

Tuesday 12.1.2010 day 89peso da reguaWe got a 10 am bfast served in our room and we slept so well it was so nice to have a full European bfast with fantastic Portuguese very nice Coffee. The locals told as that this is the most snow they have had in Portugal in 70 year Lucky we got to see it We decided to have a look at Porto the home of port. One thing my driver learnt is that our lsquosat

Wednesday 13.1.210 day 90Soria SpainWe got up had bfast and headed off to Spain. Today was our last day in Portugal so our last chance to use our favourite Portages word lsquoFuckerrsquo Knife being Australian we had been thinking that we would use it in the crocodile Dundee style lsquothatrsquos not a fucker this is a fuckerrsquo but sadly we did not even get to ask for a fucker at

Malaysia. It's more exotic than Thailand and slightly more laid back i.e. no one hassles you. We passed through the boarder by minibus without any problems as there has been 'trouble at mill' of late in the provinces of southwest Thailand we drove through the south eastern part. It gave me the opportunity to take in the scenery which was more or less lush pine trees as far as the eye could see