I had the best of intentions to write a proper entry for this past weekend when we rented a Ford Fiesta and drove around... but it's already Wednesday and it seems so long ago so this will just be the glue to help make the photo album make sense. So: Saturday morning we picked up our car and tried to get out of Edinburgh as quickly and efficiently as possible... and failed. Eventually we made it on the right motorway, then took a turn-off to see the Falkirk Wh...

Norway is expensive.Insanely expensive - like: it hurts to convert the cost of a slice of pizza to pounds, and only a masochist would convert the price to New Zealand dollars.We knew this before touching down, but it's still the first thing I feel compelled to say about the country.Apparently it all boils down to having a lot of natural resources and not so many people to divide the riches amongst.The natural resources we flew north for were not oil and gas, but ...

What a weekend. Our plane left Edinburgh at 6:30pm on Friday evening, and then, somewhere over the channel, we lost an hour (even though Madrid's on similar longitude to Edinburgh) and landed around 10pm. Caught the metro from the airport, changed lines twice, and arrived at our hostel, located just off Gran Via (so it was very central), at about midnight.But the night was still young and we went for a walk around Gran Via, which reminded me a lot of Auckland'...

Let's have a toast! To charity, fixedness, hope A toast! To the day after tomorrow -Gordon Downie, 'Christmastime in Toronto' It's been a while since I blogged here (the nineteenth of October LAST YEAR).Stuff has happened in that time, but not really Travel Blog-worthy activities: Meze worked as a waitress until she started her job in a Forensics Lab (Wildlife DNA, so it doesn't matter if she's a terrorist or not), and I temped for six weeks on a rail infrast...

Ok, so those asiduous visitors to this site will have already figured from the photo album 'Belgium, London and Edinburgh' (the one with pictures of our room in Edinburgh) will know that somethings up. Yes, after doing Brugge and Brussels we did fly back to London and spent a lovely (*slightly sarcastic) ten days trying to find somewhere to live and line up jobs etc. The things was, after lining up an interview (there was a typo in my last post... it was only a...