Hiya people - Firstly, thanx for all your messages & for taking the time to follow our travels - we continue to have an absolute blast! Think i last left you as we were gonna venture to the Pyramids..... amazing structures but i have to say King Khufu, Khafre & the rest of the royal dynasty must have been sadistic buggars..... i mean why?!!? do you wanna build bloody great pyramids like these, just to have a burial chamber & a treasury chamber in th...

Hi everyone Hope you are all keeping happy & healthy. Now where was I..... oh yeah, seem to remember we were in Aqaba, having met up with some old mates on the last update...... mmm, needless to say it got a bit messy that first night!!! However, it was the perfect opportunity to take some time out of the travelling & relax! Aqaba is cool, very touristy but in a perfect location, with a very warm year round climate & it's easy going. We spent a cou...

Hiya everyone - apologies for the last couple of entries, but the middle east is to say the least slow, unpredictable & damn expensive with the telecommunications - this is the 3rd time i've tried to post this blog entry!!!! Anyway, the last time i updated we were up in the beautiful Cappadocia region for our final Turkish adventure! We had an awesome day driving round the region..... to the 'rose valley' for the beautiful coloured rock formations - to Zelv...

Hiya all of yous Well let me see, we last left you just as we were gonna check out Olympos..... well we got a break in the continuous rain & ventured up the mountain to find the eternal flames. Quite a bizarre phenomenom really - there's no rhyme or reason why these flames burn on this particular mountain - there is a mythical legend, but apart from the fact the mountain holds a lot of different gases there is no reason..... It is where the idea for the oly...

Well hello people Hope all is well in your respective worlds.... which seem a million miles away from ours just now! ;-) Anyway, Karl's tonsils are now back in tact & so the journey continues.... Tuesday saw us leave Ephesus and drive a couple of hundred kms to Pumakkale - we arrived around lunchtime, went for a walk to view the travertines but left the real exploring til weds., when we were walking barefoot thru the springs at 9am! The travertines look t...