66. Cyprus to Bulgaria. 1 July 26, 2008

Saturday 26th July
. We awoke to another beautiful morning and the sunshine pouring into our room through the balcony doors.
Breakfast on the balcony was lovely and as we sat looking out through the sun dappled pine trees we reflected on the fact that July 26th was the half way point of our 180 day journey. [...]

66. Cyprus to Bulgaria 1 July 26, 2008

Saturday 26th July.
We awoke to another beautiful morning and the sunshine pouring into our room through the balcony doors.
Breakfast on the balcony was lovely and as we sat looking out through the sun dappled pine trees we reflected on the fact that July 26th was the half way point of our 180 day journey. What [...]

65. Israel 2 July 26, 2008

Thursday 22nd July.   Just after we posted our blog last night we had a bit of excitement at the internet café. A young fellow came in and started to argue with the guy running the shop. About 6 people were at the computers. Next thing an office chair came rolling across the floor and banged [...]

64 Israel 1 July 23, 2008

Monday July 21   We had a 10.35 pm flight to Tel Aviv and so we wandered our way to the airport in Cyprus calling en route at the Lefkara village where traditional lace is made.  It was a very pretty village with narrow streets and women making lace sitting outside their homes or shops.  We [...]

63. Cyprus. 3. July 20, 2008

Wednesday 16th July.   We decided it would be a good time to catch up with our blog and also emails and remained at the hotel for most of the day. It was a very quiet and relaxing day and in the evening we went for a walk of about 7 km along the higher part [...]

62. Cyprus. 2 July 16, 2008

Tuesday 15th July.   We slept with our balcony door and window open to the night air and after waking early were down to breakfast at 7.30 am It was lovely sitting outside on a large patio with the sun streaming in through the pine trees. We had decided to go exploring the area around Plantres [...]

61. Dubai to Cyprus. 1 July 16, 2008

Monday July 14th.   Our alarm went at 5.00 am and the hotel supplied us with breakfast in the Starbucks café and transport to the airport. We found long queues at the airport but managed to get through all the security and passport controls and had a little time before boarding for our flight at 8.35 [...]

60. Dubai July 16, 2008

Tuesday 8th July. Our flight from the Seychelles to Dubai left at 8.15 am. And we flew for most of the journey high over the white tipped waves of the Indian Ocean. As the plane started to descend we saw out of the window sand, sand and more sand and we realised Dubai was built [...]

59. Seychelles 9 July 8, 2008

Sunday 6th July.     During the week Chris had kept her eyes out for churches in Victoria and this morning we set out to find an English speaking Pentecostal church to attend. We had seen three churches in fairly close proximity with services due to start at 9.30 am. Warwick was concerned about parking as it [...]

58. Seychelles 8 July 8, 2008

Friday. 4th July.    Our apartment at Le Residence is one of about 6 and all seemed to be full with tourists, mostly French we think. We visited Victoria again, using a different hill route and we checked in with Emirates to inquire about delaying our flight to Dubai. We decided to take yet another road [...]