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The road to Damascus
Our journey through Syria has been an interesting and extremely enjoyable one. From border crossings to desert drives, it has all been a great adventure.
If you ever decide to venture to the middle east on your travels, I cannot recommend Syria enough. Aleppo is a quiet and conservative town but I think it's a great introduction without being ( Read more... ) -
Londres and the like
I know it's been a while between posts - I did warn you that I might not be the writing type whilst abroad. Needless to say I have managed to keep myself rather busy these past few weeks. Firstly let's start with the bad news.
My bag was stolen in London the weekend before I was due to leave for Turkey. I was packed for an overnight stay so I lost ( Read more... ) -
The randomness of travelling
By nature I am a fairly organised person. For this trip I had intially started with a much more relaxed attitude mostly because I wasn't sure what exactly what I wanted to do every day that I was away and also because I wanted to be flexible in case the odd opportunity came up. After Italy I very much realised that I am not that spontaneous 'come ( Read more... ) -
France, je t'aime
By the time I got around to booking Paris it was too expensive to catch the Eurostar or fly over and thus had to do the cheapest option available and catch the bus on an overnight trip. There's nothing wrong with buses, per say. We of the isolated 'down under' types are used to extensive periods of travelling. Europeans are not. I thought seven ( Read more... ) -
Ciao from Firenze
Seeing as tonight is my last night in Italy I thought it was time I make an effort and make contact. Italy has been fantastic! It's definitely a country I will have to come back to - so many places, so little time.
( Read more - Rome to Florence )