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In response to:From Jordan to Egypt

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 05:31:16 +0200

Hey, congratulations on completing your diving cert!
I can only imagine how fantastic the sunrise will be from Mt Sinai. How cool was the night up there and were the toilets as bad as you remembered?

We are following your adventures with great interest and it is good to hear you are enjoing yourself. Everyone here is well.

Continue to enjoy yourself and take lots of photos.

Take great care out there.
Love Mum XX

In response to:And so it begins...

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:02:44 +0200

Hey chook

Sounds fab. Always wanted to go to Petra and now even more!! All good here.

Lx

In response to:Exit Syria, stage left...

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:37:55 +0200

Wow,

So jealous of heat, although I know that perhaps it is a case of too much of a good thing. Sounds like you are having a fab time and not thinking of us (as we requested). That is what travelling is about collecting stories.

Although 14 hours on a bus is not pleasant but at least it is not the 43! As you can imagine London world is pretty much the same, still grey, still raining during the height of summer.

Keep the stories coming...

love sal

In response to:Exit Syria, stage left...

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:26:42 +0200

Hey there,

Sounds like quite an experience! We missed you in Sweden, but managed to get by. Was interesting weather and battled our way through some exciting storms. All the campsites were great: no ant island this time!

Missing you heaps. WE WANT SOME PHOTOS!!! Are you on facebook??

erica xx

In response to:Exit Syria, stage left...

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:19:55 +0200

Hope you got my pancake recipe and they turned out OK.
I'm glad to hear you are making it through the world without too much trouble so far. Keep us up to date :-)
GOSH Family

In response to:See ya later Turkey

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:09:07 +0200

So what were you expecting from the Tour? Has it met your expectations or exceeded them? Keep an eye on those Syrians....
Had a look at the website for Ephesus, looked a lot like Rome, must have been pretty amazing.
Nobody else posted messages yet.
Take care
Dad

In response to:And so it begins...

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:17:52 +0200

Hey Everyone,

Managed to make it to Ephesus. Just amazing, the scale of the site is mind blowing. Although wandering round wasn't really helped by the 43 degree heat - you can actually feel yourself melting!

We took in Gallipoli on Sunday, fantastic to finally see it. Just insane how close the trenches and things were for the campaign. Very interesting to hear things from the Turkish side too.

The tour group is an interesting one - only 7 of us plus the driver and tour leader. Both of whom are Aussies. Mad driver called Brendo (did have a giggle when I heard that) a real life true blue Ozzie - you couldn't get more Okker and Karen (Kaz). The rest of the group is 4 guys An Irish 28 yr old, two English brothers who are about 22 and 17, a 21 yr old from London. Then the girls are an Aussie who's about 36 and an English woman who lives in Dubai who's older than me too. So an interesting mix of old and young.

I'm with these guys for the next 2 1/2 weeks should be a bit of fun.

Off to do boat cruise I think tomorrow, so should be nice to get out on the sea.

Hope everyone's well. I think all comments are open to everyone to see? But still not completely sure how it works... Oh well!

In response to:And so it begins...

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:04:19 +0200

So did the first comment appear? Are you the only one able to see them?

In response to:And so it begins...

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:38:34 +0200

Heyyyyyyyyyy..I got here..If you hadn't heard, we won the rugby and the netball last night :)
Take care