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Europe

My room in…London

July 7, 2011 Destinations
My room in London at the Astor Hyde Park hostel

Trying to find a decent hostel in a major city can be a nightmare. Well before the days of websites like Hostel World and before my first trip to Europe I spent hours researching hostel options for cities like London and Paris. While the ones I ended up in were okay, they weren’t great. So [...]

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Middle East Summary

August 15, 2010 Egypt

Days gone: 46* Average cost per day: $56.96 AUD (includes an 8 day tour in Egypt) Most memorable moment: Watching the night sky above Wadi Rum desert where it seemed the world was full of stars, and we saw five of them shooting across the sky. Moment I want to forget: Fronting up at the [...]

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Eating: Middle East

August 10, 2010 Destinations

Not that I’m dwelling on it, but it’s relevant for any post about food or eating: after we got sick in Syria, it lingered. Especially around Alicia, who didn’t take antibiotics. So the Middle East turned out not to be the culinary adventure we were hoping for. While breakfast was included in pretty much all [...]

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Turkey to Syria Overland 2

July 6, 2010 Destinations

Read part one of this border crossing here. A Drama Free Entry After our brief drama on the Turkish side of the border, Syria was comparatively a breeze to enter. We’d already arranged our visas, so we were processed in ten minutes (although it would have been five had the border official typed a little [...]

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Turkey to Syria overland

July 3, 2010 Destinations

Leaving Turkey in a fit After spending much longer in Turkey than expected, we took an early evening bus from Goreme in Cappadocia to Kayseri, a large town about an hour away, and then sat in the space-age bus terminal for three hours waiting for our midnight departure to Antakya, or Hatay, the nearest Turkish town to [...]

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Photo Friday #6: Turkey

July 2, 2010 Photo Friday

Our last morning in Turkey was spent in the Cappadocian town of Goreme. We blundered our way through winding back alleys and up dead-end streets to find our way to the hill above the town, from where you can look out over the surrounding area. A truly bizarre and inspiring landscape, it was worth the [...]

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Fairy Chimneys of Cappadocia

June 29, 2010 Destinations

Like pretty much everything else we’ve done in Turkey, Cappadocia wasn’t on our original itinerary. Our plan was to return to Istanbul, get Alicia’s passport and Syrian visa, then hightail it to the border. However, because of the way things worked out with transport, we decided to break the journey between Istanbul and Aleppo with [...]

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