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Yo,Just back from two weeks in the Greek Islands (oh, and Athens) with Elle & Jase.We flew into Athens on a Saturday evening and stayed two nights, giving us two full days to check out the city - big mistake, other than the Acropolis Athens doesn't have alot to offer.Next up was the overnight ferry to Santorini, selected strategically to provide both transport and accommodation - pity about the

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Yo,Just back from a three day weekend in Belgium.We had no real reason for going other than not wanting to waste the the northern summer. Some quick research on lastminute.com found us a 'top secret' hotel for a decent rate and some cheap fares on the Eurostar - combine that with the promise of chocolate and beer and Belgium was a winner.Late Friday evening we were chatting on the Facebook to our

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more of a test for the facebook links than anything...

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Hello,Little overdue but we managed to get five days in Paris over Easter. Initial plans were for four days but I managed to make a mistake and book the train back a day later than planned and we only found out on the day we were expecting to leave. Despite having to call the boss and explain which took some of the shine off the last day we had a great time.We managed to check out all the usual

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Hey All,Since the last post we've managed to get away on two trips.Amsterdam was a three day weekend - we took off Friday morning (after Kim almost had to pull the plug with a mystery illness) from Heathrow with Mark and Jo.The weather was fairly cold still but over the course of the weekend we got to check out the Heineken Brewery, Anne Franks House, a Sex Museum went on a Canal Tour. Other than

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You may have seen it on the News, well I was there to see it in person. The 2009 Waitangi Day Circle Line Pub Crawl.It was definitely an experience to be drinking in Londons streets with thousands of other Kiwis and a good day was had by all. Unfortunatly there was a fair bit of walking involved and we had to cheat a bit by taking the district line with the circle line down for maintenance.As you

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Hey All,I managed to get the pictures up a few weeks ago, but year end at work has had me fairly busy until now.We went with Elle & Jason some friends of Kims form university for a week, probably longer than necessary but we did get the chance to take a trip out to the Karlstein Castle and to Terezin Concentration Camp, both fairly interesting but as you would expect the concentration camp was a

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Firstly a big apology to those avid followers who have been awaiting an update for what has been far to long...For Kim London wasn't entirely new having been here to visit her brother previously, but for me it was and within a few days I had experienced many of the joys of London life - including believe it or not a heatwave! Unfortunately there's always a catch and in this case it was being

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Rio was the final stop on what has been an amazing trip.The flight there from Lima involved a minor detour to Santiago in Chile where we first started our trip and a quick stopover in Sao Paulo - three countries in one day!Based on many recommendations we stayed in Ipanema which is definitely one of the nicest places one could ever want to go, and very wealthy compared to most of the other places

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When we got back from the jungle we were a little ahead of our initial plan so we had to find something to fill the time before our flight from Lima to Rio. We spent a day in Cusco relaxing and and pondering - given the reports we have had from other people we certainly didn´t want to spend to much time in Lima so we debated Sand Boarding in Ica and getting a scenic flight over the famous Nazca

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Along with the Machu Picchu trek, our trip to the jungle was the only other organised activity for the trip, a compromise given just how far we are from lower parts of the Amazon.Anyway, we learned a valuable lesson - if you book in advance you don´t always get the best price... especially here in Peru where once you hand over the money you will never see it again...After returning from Machu

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Hello All,I just had an email from the people at Gravuty Assisted Mountain Biking with a link to all the pictures from my ride down the Worlds Most Dangerous Road.If you follow the link to Shutterfly above and enter the password - photos - you can browse and even buy copies...(I´ve never done this before but think the title of this post might be the link...)Dave

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We arrived in Cusco two days in advance of the Inca Trail, and spent those exploring parts of the city, resting and getting supplies for the Inca Trail. While the city is definitely beautiful it is very touristic which starts to get on your wick after a while. There are constantly people offering paintings, tourist information and massages on the street...Regardless of the mayhem the real reason

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We left Copacabana on the first bus in the morning headed for Arequipa Peru, a trip that would involve two bus journeys. The first journey took us through the border to Peru where we stopped to complete the formalities and change our cash from Bolivianos to Peruvian Soles before pressing on the bus depot in Puno, on the edge of Lake Titicaca for the next bus to Arequipa.We had been told the next

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Copacabana and Isla del Sol were the last stops in our tour of Bolivia, and possibly the most beautiful - a great sendoff from a country that has given us both so much.The bus trip was fairly scenic and at one point we had to hop off the bus while it was taken across the a lake by barge as we followed in a motorboat. Otherwise the journey was pleasantly uneventful - which made a nice change after

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Having arrived in La Paz and found a hostel we set out to find food and to have a look around the city. We followed the suggested walking tour in our trusty guidebook, which turned out to be a bit less interesting than these tours have been in the past, regardless we took in the Witches Market (read Bolivian textile market for Gringos), the San Fransisco Cathedral (which dates back to the 1500's

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Hi Again,Just a quick note to let you know we are having a bit more luck with the internet here in La Paz. While we are still having some issues with uploading some of the photos we have added three albums and have been through all the existing albums adding captions so you can get a better feel for the pictures. Just click on the link to more of our photos on the right below the slideshows.Also

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Blockades beat and it was time to afford ourselves some relaxation before we tried anything strenuous again.On arriving in Sucre we were fortunate to meet an Irish chap (also called David) we had previously meet who recommended a hostel on the closest side of town that allowed us to put down our bags and relax. While the hostel was very average we decided enough was enough and we would find

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Hello All,As promised we continue on from where we left off after arriving in Uyuni, Bolivia.The plan was to stay only one night before moving on to Potosi. After leaving our driver at the bus station we immediately booked tickets out for the following day.We spent the afternoon relaxing and glad to be out of the jeep which although great become uncomfortable sometime on day two of four! In the

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Following on from Salta we boarded a bus for La Quiaca which is the on the border of Argentina and Bolivia. Again the bus was an overnight one leaving at midnight and arriving at seven in the morning. Unfortunately for us there were no Cama buses on this route so we had to ride a Semi-Cama (for those not in the know the impressive Argentine long haul bus system has various levels of comfort -

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The contrasting experiences of Northern Argentina in the last week or so have seen us both reach the highs and lows of the trip to date. Corrientes, was only ever intended to be a brief stopover en route to Salta, that turned out to be a travellers lesson in how to fill in time in a town where there truly is nothing of any interest to see or do. From misreading of the map that resulted in an hour

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After the bright lights of Buenos Aires we moved on to the quiet of Puerto Iguazu to visit the Iguazu Falls.The 16 hour bus ride was better than a long haul flight except for the food which was below average.The bus arrived midday so we spent an afternoon walking around town in serious sweat inducing conditions with the highlight for the day being the overlooking where the Iguazú river and the

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With no real expectations other than a hope to find the greatest steak on the face of the earth we boarded an early morning flight to Buenos Aires, Argentina.We arrived mid morning Sunday and were keen to check out a football match that day so we didn't miss out. Unfortunately we had arrived a week to late to see Boca Junior (Maradonnas old club) play River, which is one of the biggest rivalry's

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Hi All,We arrived in Santiago, Chile after the 11 hour flight from NZ at about 1 in the afternoon Santiago Time.Leaving behind family was hard but thankfully the flight passed quickly and we both managed to get some good sleep that left us ready to get out and explore on our arrival.We had planned to take a shuttle to our hostel but on exiting the airport a nice english speaking man pointed us to

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Getting close now... Departure date is really starting to get close, only three weeks of work to go and three and a half weeks until our flight on the 7th of May.Our visa applications are with the British High Commission and we hope they will be back in the next couple of weeks.We are selling up most of our things before we leave which has been interesting, with Trademe again proving to be rather

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Last week we went on a trip around the South Island. Originally we were going for Fi & Caleb's wedding in Queenstown and the weekend before I was to ride the Le Race (100k from Christchurch to Akaroa). It turned out that Le Race became Le Races as a lack of training had us take up Nick and Laura's offer of a night at the races at Addington - a big thanks to Ron (Laura's Dad) for the tickets. We

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