Posts Tagged ‘Travel’
Europe: the flights over
Europe: The Flights Over
Well, we’ve arrived safely in Paris. Our only problem is that we’re here a day earlier then we expected to be. Due to time zones etc we had miscalculated our arrival date. Never mind though, we’re in the same hotel we’ll be at the next few nights and apart from the cost it’s not a problem.
Our Brisbane to Dubai flight included a half hour stop over in Singapore to re-fuel. It was good to get out, stretch our legs and score another airport to check into on foursquare! Seriously, we felt like huge geeks as finding wifi has been our number one priority at every place we’ve been so far.
We had a two hour stop over in Dubai, which, once you actually get out of the plane, and then board a new flight etc. only ends up being 1 hour. Still, we were able to walk around a bit and stretch. We also got to Facetime with my parents, Hayden & Pepper. It’s pretty awesome to be able to video call someone for free on the other side of the planet. A bit laggy, but we didn’t mind because we had no international sims or any money to call traditionally!
My eyes seem to be reacting pretty hard core to SOMETHING. I’m not sure if it’s the travel, the lack of sleep, or something else, but they are incredibly painful. I spent the Dubai-Paris leg with me eyes closed almost constantly, except to eat.
-T
Wine at eleven.
Warm Rue Cler cafe service.
French caricatures.
- L
Info for other travelers:
At the airport we just went to the information, gave the lady our hotel address and she told us how to get there on the train. We had to change three times to get to our hotel, but this was stress free and simple. The trains are marked out well.
We’re staying at the Grand Hotel Leveque (29 Rue Cler) it’s quite nice, VERY central, and you have your own bathroom. It’s €159 per night.
They have a wifi service 1€ = 1 hour
Down the road is Le Cafe du Marche and we had dinner each (bowl of pasta & chicken burger) and some wine for €27.50 hopefully this ends up being a fairly standard price for meals!
We’re also using an ANZ travel card. It works just like a VISA credit card, but has pin numbers as well if you want them. It’s full of Euros and you can use an Internet logon to check the balance etc. So far it’s worked a treat.
The only fees are if you use an ATM or if you deposit again after e initial setup they take like 1% or something. We just saved our $$ and put it all on at the beginning.
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Scrapbooking…
Another post already!? Shock! Horror!
Saturday was a scrapbooking day at Rachel’s church. So we went along for a bit of scrapping fun!
Organising my front page...
I cut the letters out of paper and stuck them to the cardboard ones!
I wanted to do some journaling on this page. The Velum layer means you can read the writing easily, and also still see the photos. You can lift it up if you want to see the photos clearer.
After all that I realised that I need a few more supplies. A box to store my papers in, and something for all my other bits- stickers, diecuts, brads etc.
Tags: israel, journalling, photo, rachel, saturday, scrapbook, scrapbooking, scrapping, storage, Travel
Dahab, Egypt
I spent a LONG time writing this while we were in Cairo, but then the retarded Windows computer screwed up on me. I then hated Cairo even more… But here I go again trying to tell you about beautiful Dahab, on the Red sea!
We caught a ferry across from Aqaba, Jordan, to Egypt, which was an experience and a half. Jordan was the pits, and to top it off, at their international port, no one speaks any English. There are no tourist signs, or anything really to help you out. It is a hard journey up and down stairs at the offices there, with huge backpacks, and no idea what’s happening, or if we were even in the right place, or going to the right place…
Eventually we got onto the boat, two hours after they told us it would be leaving, and after a fluke getting onto the bus to take us there, which was full of Arab men with their googly eyes (read: dirty, lusty eyes).
We hoped on, and (we assume) because we had white skin, were told to put our bags in a special (more ordered) area, and then ascorted to the front of the line, and had our boarding passess checked straight away. We come up onto the big bar area, and someone comes to sit with us and give us the papers we need, and as us if we’d like to buy lunch for 5JD each. We fill out the forms, and someone takes us to the front of the VISA/passport line, and our passports get processed straight away, except they keep our passports for the trip. It’s a rocky journey, but we can see Egypt on one side of the ferry, and Jordan, then Saudi Arabia on the other. Quite sureal.
When we get to Egypt we are amazed at how hot it is after our freezing cold time in Jordan. We are hot, and struggle to follow dodgy directions on where the immigration office is so that we can get our passports back, and get our visas, but we make it and search for our driver, who then takes on a drive to Dahab. Ahhh… Dahab.
Dahab is amazing. If you have not been, GO. It is on the red sea, and has some of the best snorkling in the world. We spent our days hiring snorkle gear for £10, which is about $2.50- $3 AUD. Amongst the snorkling was walks on the beach/ pebbles, shopping, Luke getting compliments about looking like he’s from Egypt, and me being a legend at bartering. We also smoked Shishha (photo below) (sp?), and I got a henna tatoo…
Oh and we DIDN’T eat any aborigine…!
Tags: aborigine, barter, dahab, egypt, henna, sheesha, sinai, snorkling, tattoo, Travel
