Trip: Round the World in 180 days
There are [162] stories from my trip: Round the World in 180 days
GERMANY | Friday, 18 Sep 2009 | Views [589]
Wednesday 17 th September Stuttgart - Eislengen We awoke early, on instruction, as we had a big day planned for us by our guide, Gerd. Yeeks – 509 kilometers of driving, two palaces, two countries (we popped into Austria) and dinner at the Hofbrauhaus ... Read more >
GRENADA | Wednesday, 16 Sep 2009 | Views [354]
Tuesday 15 th September Stuttgart We are presently racing across the German landscape in a ICE high speed train bound for Stuttgart, then onto Eislengen to stay with Gert and Norbert for a few days. We decided to travel in Germany and Italy ... Read more >
GERMANY | Wednesday, 16 Sep 2009 | Views [352]
Monday 14 th September Berlin We had the luxury of sleeping in until 10am this morning. Then did some housekeeping, caught up on e-mails and headed off to the museum island. Outside our apartment are a number of great cafe's and restaurants ... Read more >
GREENLAND | Wednesday, 16 Sep 2009 | Views [321]
Sunday 13 th September Andy picked us up this morning and we had brunch at one of his favourite restaurants. Then it was off visit the remnants of the Berlin Wall on the eastern side. Jim was in Berlin 20 years ago, a few months before the wall ... Read more >
GERMANY | Wednesday, 16 Sep 2009 | Views [347]
Saturday 12 th September Potsdam Today we hooked up with two other German friends, Norbert and Gert. They live in Stuttgart but are building a house in Berlin and just happen to be in town, and staying in the same street as us.... Read more >
GERMANY | Wednesday, 16 Sep 2009 | Views [356]
Friday 11 th September Berlin, Germany We're now in our new home for the next few nights in the Berlin Boy town. It's hard for us to get our head around the fact that this morning we were speaking Spanish and now we are in Germany with ... Read more >
SPAIN | Wednesday, 16 Sep 2009 | Views [393]
Thursday 10 th September Madrid Jim didn't sleep a wink and the bed was as bad as we anticipated. Nic slept like a baby! Breakfast was even worse. We've obviously raised our standards a little too high. We are now down right offended ... Read more >
SURINAME | Wednesday, 16 Sep 2009 | Views [430]
Wednesday 9 th September Madrid, Spain Breakfast was in the atrium and a feast to behold – a variety of Moroccan delicacies and fluffy scrambled eggs. Mohammad and the magic carpet was waiting for us on check out and took us to the airport, ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Wednesday, 16 Sep 2009 | Views [485]
Tuesday 8 th September Casablanca Another long drive, this time from Essaouira to Casablanca. Along the way we stopped for lunch in a pretty fishing village on the coast – fab seafood again. We arrived in Casablanca late in the afternoon ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Tuesday, 8 Sep 2009 | Views [422] | Comments [1]
Monday
7 th September
Essaouira
Venturing
back into the medina, we walked for hours through the winding alleys
and streets. Popped into the local museum which, was all in Arabic
or ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Tuesday, 8 Sep 2009 | Views [452]
Sunday
6 th September
Essaouira
At
breakfast this morning we were chatting with two Australian
travellers, a brother and sister (Steve and Jen) who are touring
Europe and Morocco ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Sunday, 6 Sep 2009 | Views [579] | Comments [1]
Saturday
5 th September
Marrakech
We
awoke to a new guide – Mustafa (funny thing but we've never had a
Bob or Trevor as a a guide yet). Mustafa took us through palaces, a
necropolis ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Sunday, 6 Sep 2009 | Views [416]
Friday
4 th September
Marrakrech
Another
big day. Rabat is another of the famed Imperial Cities of Morocco
and today we had a new guide, Ali, who toured us though it's history
and ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Sunday, 6 Sep 2009 | Views [437]
Thursday
3 rd September
Volubilis/Meknes/Rabat
Mohommad
our driver was waiting for us ready to take us in his majic carpet to
our next site -Volubis, a 2000 Roman ruin north ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Thursday, 3 Sep 2009 | Views [711] | Comments [2]
Wednesday 2 nd September Fez Today we discovered the immensity of the Fez Medina. This is a UNESCO world heritage site that houses 600,000 people. They pay no taxes and therefor receive no government assistance, prefering to live as a artisan ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Thursday, 3 Sep 2009 | Views [529]
Tuesday 1 st September Fez, Morocco A journey will always have it's easy and not so easy bits. Sometimes things run on times and some times they don't. The fun is knowing which is what. Our travel documents told us that we had ... Read more >
SPAIN | Monday, 31 Aug 2009 | Views [401]
Sunday 20 th August Malaga We stumbled out of our beds around midday and ´have spent the afternoon on the terrace, sunning, reading, swimming, taking a little Tinto de verano (Spanish “summer wine” – a mixture of red wine, lemonade and ice) ... Read more >
SPAIN | Monday, 31 Aug 2009 | Views [436]
Saturday 29 th August Malaga Today we spent topping up our tans by the pool and preparing for the big night out – Saturday night in Torremolinos (Malaga´s Gay Town). Of course nothing begins in Spain before midnight so we had dinner in the town ... Read more >
SPAIN | Monday, 31 Aug 2009 | Views [434]
Friday 28 th August Granada Early start to the day for the 90 minute drive to Granada to visit the Al-Humbra. This is the beautiful Spanish-Arab palace that was build in the 12 th Century and is a jewel of Spanish history. We spent 5 hours ... Read more >
SUDAN | Monday, 31 Aug 2009 | Views [421]
Thursday 27 th August Malaga Slow start to the day on the terrace overlooking the sea. In the morning we visited a couple of local villages including Nerja that has a stunning cliff top position. At the end of the main square is ¨The Balcony ... Read more >
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