What a day this has been. I've been up since about 3am, due to jet lag and left the hotel at 7am to go for a walk. I walked all the way down to the Nile... thats about 2km from here. I was quite pleased to say I didn't get lost. Its Friday here, which is a holiday, so downtown is virtually deserted! I've been approached by a few people, but all in all, I've had virtually no hassals. I came back to the hotel for breakfast at around 10:30am and then headed of...

This is my first entry from Egypt. The flight was a really long one. It was 14 hours from Sydney to Abu Dhabi. It was nice that Tim, Peter and Ben came and saw me off at the airport. My parents have already called me three times and I just had my first meal in 24 hours. The whole Abu Dhabi Airport transfer experience is not one I wish to relive! It would have been better just to hang around the airport for 10 hours. Mind, the shower I got at the hotel almost mad...

Well this is my last day at work and my last day in the Country! Its 10:29am and the day is going pretty slowly. Its a good thing I don't hate my job like I did last time I went overseas or I'd really be in trouble. I hated the other job I was doing at Refern, that was over on Friday. Thank gawd! I had my send off on Friday night and didn't get home until Sunday afternoon. My friends, family and I went to the Russian Coachman in Surry Hills and then we went...

Ok, I'm sitting at work watching the clock... fiddling with this site to attempt to see how it works. I've got five days to go before I leave and its torture! I'm working two jobs, one in St. Leonards and the other in Redfern. The one in St. Leonards isn't so bad but the one in Redfern is torture, a right monkey job. Its my last day there tomorrow, thank gawd! I'm having a party at some Russian Resteraunt in Surry Hills tomorrow night and then going out to Blink...

I had a good sleep and was picked up the next day at 8:30am for my tour of Istanbul.We were all herded onto small buses and taken straight to Agia Sophia, which means "Holy Wisdom", it was originally and old Roman Church, which had then been converted into a mosque by the Ottomans and then converted to a museum by the much loved Ataturk.It was a wonderful sight, I had seen it in books so many times, and even the fact that again, the middle of the great ...