Gday or marhaba as we say in the UAE. Cathy again - Our plane touched down at 12 midnight after a relatively easy 6hr flight from Prague. We had the 'rush' assistance through immigration and then had to wait for our transfer and so arrived at our hotel 'Arabian Dreams' in Bur Dubai at about 2.30am on the Sat morn. Apartment had 2 bedrooms, kitchen, and a much needed washing machine. The bell hop was from nepal and considering the time of the night was very ch...

Gday loyal readers Cathy here to update you our adventures. On Tues 14th after our flight from Florence via Zurich we arrived in the quirky wonderland that is Prague. The hotel was right on Kinsky Gardens so is only a 10 or 15 min walk into the old town. Upon being shown to our room at the hotel we came crashing down to earth. The room they had put us in smelt like a nightclub the morning after - that nice smoky smell. I'm convinced we could have cut the carp...

Well I know it was only 2 hours in Zurich but we did have to change money, we did eat a meal there and we did have some lindt chocolate. We had to change from our well practiced italian to our high school german. So danke it was!!!! The efficiency in the airport was a pleasant change from the moody italians. Krista will add more later. With Swiss efficiency we were flown to Prague airport to a whole new world. Hello-schken ... Krista here ... A 120 minutes...

Cathy here. Sorry respectable readers that we have kept quiet for so long but the shopping in Florence has been quite good. We left Portovenere by taxi to La Spezia. We had this crazy red haired female italian taxi driver who road raged her way to the train station. She kept telling us everyone else was crazy in the head. It was hilarious. The trains were great and it took about 1 hr to get to Pisa. We put the bags in Left Luggage and headed by taxi out to...

Gday again Cathy here. Just finishing up on Portovenere before we leave tomorrow. First day we just wandered around the town and saw a wedding Second day we went out on a great boat trip that took us to the 5 Cinque Terre Towns. We got out and explored at a few. Third day we got the train to the 5 Cinque Terre towns but the rain had begun. Fourth day we awoke to a thunderstorm so decided to do some admin. Our much wanted laundramat didn,t appear as there i...