Our last stop on our travels was Western Australia to visit Paula and Jonny and spend a decent amount of time with them. We flew into Perth on the Friday afternoon and that evening headed to Rottnest Island for the weekend. We had the perfect beachside bach for the weekend so spent a bit of time here drinking, eating and just enjoying being back in the southern hemisphere. Rottnest is a car free island so we took some bikes over with us and biked around the isla...

After heading back to London and picking up the rest of our gear it was time to head back home to New Zealand. Not wanting to spend too long on a plane we had a stopover in Dubai. We arrived late at night and headed up to the cocktail bar in our hotel for an expensive drink but with some lovely views. The next day we got a bit of the London life and squished into a very packed metro on way to Burj Khalifa - the tallest building in the world. We took an elevator ...

We flew into Jordan to do a cycle tour with Exodus. We arrived a day earlier than the rest of the group so had a day to explore the capital city of Amman. We took a taxi from our hotel into the centre of town and explored the downtown area and then the Roman amphitheatre and the citadel which contains old Roman temples and a mosque. After Rome and Athens this wasn't that exciting and as the weather wasn't that nice we headed back to the hotel. When our tour fin...

We flew from Rome into Athens and had a few days in Athens before we headed off to the Greek Islands. The nice weather from Rome continued in Athens making walking around seeing the sites tough work. We did a free walking tour in Athens to get our bearings and heard some of the history of the city along with seeing some of the main sites such as the original modern Olympics stadium and the Acropolis. Other highlights in Athens included an open air movie cinema an...

As we had missed George Clooney in Venice we went on to Lake Como where his villa is to see if we had more luck there (not really we had just heard the lake was nice). We took the train to Varenna then took the ferry across to Menaggio on the west coast of the lake. We had a great youth hostel to stay in with a pretty good restaurant / bar that had great views over the lake and town and very affordable prices. The weather wasn't really on our side so we had a mor...