HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUMMA! The 6-0 today and as everyone says you don't look it, no one knows what it's supposed to look like but for sure you look a lot younger! It was like a military operation, I'd been carrying around the balloons and banners for the last two weeks and her birthday presents. Now it was up to dad and Ross to get the job done by putting them all up and me trying to keep mum in the room without her hearing or seeing haha. And of course the imag...

Surprise surprise the boat was late and when it was our turn to get on it was the same big skipper guy shouting at us to move faster as though it was our fault the boat wasn't on time. This boat was just over two hours long so best part of the day we were hanging around which was annoying. Santorini was a completely different looking island, long and in a moon shape with high volcanic cliff edges and the towns perched on the edges of them - wow! What a site! ...

It's Paros time! After breakfast we walked down to the little water taxi port that took us to the new port where the cruise ships and the ferries between the islands. It was so busy! So glad that we bought our tickets before hand and I had checked us all in online because there was so much chaos and panic from people not knowing what to do or where to go. We gathered that our ferry was late given that there were no ferries at the dock and the departure time h...

People still can't seem to get to grips with how to bag drop and what documents are needed to go through security even with people shouting it out to you in the line to be prepared. I just always feel like I go through within seconds and others are there for hours. Bloody nightmares. Then there goes for security checks, watch off belt off, so you have an iPad. The usual that they just don't know what to do with. I wasn't in the airport long before the time for b...

I was up early this morning, naturally but I think it was also in my head to get up and beat the mountains of crowds to go inside The Hagia Sophia, upstairs for a good seat at breakfast with the view of the bay and other side of Istanbul before heading out for a long walk. The Hagia Sophia was empty - perfect! It was spectacular in there, interesting to see what it would be like as they never took the murals off the wall from it being a church just plastered over...