Eastern Mediteranean

The alarm went off at 2:30am. The mini bus would pick us up a 3 for the trip to Masada. We would hike up to watch the sunrise over the Dead Sea. What a hike! It started out gentle and got steeper and steeper until we were hauling ourselves up the many ...

 

Middle Eastern Adventure (Jul-Sep 2005)

I'm getting a bit sick of climbing mountains (Gallipoli, Mt Olympos, Mt Nemrut, Mt Nebo, Petra may as well be a mountain, and now Mt Sinai). This time we had to get up at 3am to be up at the summit to watch the sunrise - crazy, considering that you can...

 

Chris and Lisa World Tour

Follow our travels round the world...

 

Istanbul 2 Cape Town

Jordan get a bit expensive but dead sea is really cool, and petra the old indiana jones thing is ammazing, then out to the desert to wadi rum and on to aquaba and ferry to egypt...

 

The Trek Home

We spent a few days chilling out in Dahab on the Red Sea Coast. Fantastic snorkelling just off the main beach and at the Blue Hole 5 mins up the coast. From Dahab we headed to Cairo (rather scary van ride to get there - crazy drivers!). A day in C...

 

Selcuk, Turkey

I came here straight from Gallipoli at 0130 and stayed here for 3 nights. the stress of Istanbul immediately lifted. it's a small town catering to tourists visiting Ephesus. here i also got to the church on the hill where the disciple john was buried, ...

 

Middle East 07

Kebabs: 7 I think. Does Doner meat and chips count? Cigarettes: 30 Bowels: Fine, you should have seen the beaut i managed yesterday. Tour Song: Call to prayer. On rewind 5 times a day. Spent a lot of time in Halap/Halep/Aleppo with som...

 

Summer 2006

My first real English resort town!!!! I wasn't there for the pints or fish and chips but I have to confess I did watch the football purely because it was an english speaking channel and paid an extortionate amount for my trashy OK mag. I went to Olu...