Time to leave Turkey and join our cruise on the Norwegian Jewel. We laid off looking at monumnets as we did our own sightseeing on board mainly staring at our 2,300 travelling companions. 2 categories of them. Cat 1 Americans, retired, fat, huge appetites and very loud voices. Cat 2 Americans the beautiful people all day in the gym, young and still eating heaps. We loved the ship. Servants every where even spraying your hands as you walked into one of the 12 re...

Th?s deserves ?ts own blog. We have both put on we?ght. The food ?s del?c?ous. The w?ne terr?ble. A typ?cal breakfast ?s ol?ves (black and green), fetta cheese, hard bo?led eggs, ju?cy red tomatoes? del?c?ous crunchy cucumber, cr?spy bread and honey. We have had the most del?cous baklava? m?lk pudd?ng?, fresh cherr?es, apr?cots, stuffed peppers, roasted auberg?nes, gosleme (Turk?sh pancakes f?lled w?th fetta). Lots of lamb sh?sh. Plenty of fresh lettuce w?th huge...

Hi whanau and friendsWe have a great start to our trip. First of all WE LOVE EMIRATES. The best service, they want to keep stuffing food and champagne down you the whole flight. Fabulous food. We have finished with Qantas and Air NZ.Bangkok, well, only a stop over, luckily. We walked over the Bridge Over the River Kwai and visited the cemetery where a lot of the POWs who died in the construction of the railway are buried. Very sad as so hot that conditions must h...