Travel Tips

I know this isn’t a travel blog so much, but Cat’s asked for some tips, and we’re getting more and more excited about our Korea trip in August, and I need to start thinking about planning! So here are some notes I made while I was travelling- things I wish I’d brought with me, and things I’m glad I brought with me!

If you never read about our holidays, read about our month in Europe, the Middle East adventures, and our Bali honeymoon.

Things I’m glad I brought:
Eyeliner
Nail strengthening nail polish
Bandaids
iPhone
iPad
Ballet flats- so good for walking in all the time!

Things I wish I brought:
Face moisturizer- I got cold and my face was a bit dry
Shampoo and Conditioner- only one hotel we stayed in had any little containers to use!!
Blutack
Sticky tape
International sim instead of getting it over here.
More videos on my iPhone/iPod
A dress- for the nights when you’re going out somewhere and want to look nice.
High heels- ditto above.
A necklace or something to ‘dress up’ in

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Travel Photography- Show Shutterspeed

I know you’re probably all sick to death of all my holiday stories by now, but I wanted to take the time to show you a few photos in the coming weeks, and the stories that go with them. The stories that didn’t fit into the other blog posts.

This photo has two stories that go with it.

Story One:

This photo was taken in Notre Dame de Paris. If you ever get to go to Paris, then DEFINITELY go to Notre Dame. It’s so relaxed and beautiful. As you may have guessed from the posts about it (here and here), we absolutely LOVED it. Notre Dame Cathedral (in the background), was desecrated in the 1790s during the French Revolution, and at one stage it was used as a barn for animals etc.

Victor Hugo, who wrote the Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1831 wanted to bring attention back to this beautiful cathedral (one of the finest examples in the world of Gothic Arcitecture), and so he wrote the book. The success of his book is one of the key factors that promopted the restoration of the cathedral in the 19th century.

Pretty cool, hey?!

Story Two:

One our tour we had a photo competition, and I entered this photo as one of my submissions for the ‘people’ category. On our way to Amsterdam they announced the winners and low and behold, I won! I won a little St Goar Beer Stein. I had wanted this exact one while we were there, but didn’t get because we were feeling the money pinch that day and being a bit cheap. So to win one later on, out of the blue was pretty special!

From a technical point of view, here are the details of the shot:

Canon 400D
Aperture: 4.5
SS: 320
54mm
ISO 400

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Pepper, get ready, cause we’re comming HOME!

Monday- Dubai to Brisbane

Could not be more excited to go home and snuggle Pepper at this point! We feel kind of bad that she is all we’ve thought about, and not as much as our other families, but she us our baby. We look after her.

In Dubai they changed our gate to strange end of the airport that wasn’t in the Emirates section. This made me nervous because this flight said Aukland for ages… Later it flashed between Aukland and Brisbane because apparent it was just a stopover in Bris for some passengers. Thankfully not us!

It was another semi uneventful plane ride full of movies, stitching, motion sickness (not too bad this time-I took some tablets and Luke kindly made sure the aircon wasn’t pointing towards me so I wouldn’t get hurting eyes), and some random light sleeping.

Mum and dad picked us up, customs was a breeze and I lost my sim card.
It wasn’t a hassle to pick a new one up the next day though, which was good.

Can I just tell you that 14 hours on a plane is a bloody long time!
But I would rather it then having to stop places and it take even longer.

When we got home we had the BEST welcome from Pepper. She was sort of in a state of disbelief- jumping on top of us and walking away, then running back on top us and giving LOTS of kisses! She was so cute and got a bit needy the rest of the day whenever we left the room or went to the bathroom!
I tell you what, it’s awesome to be back in our own bed with the cutest puppy in the world squishing herself in between us! Home.

-T

Finally back home
After a very long flight.
We missed you, Pepper

-L