Hi folks a very brief update have just had an hour here in the internet cafe uploading photos for them to crash at the end so will try again tomorrow if possible. Anyway am now in Cappadocia region of Turkey following my last blog from Olundinez we drove to Olympus for our final beach stop until Vietnam and the eternal flames. Had our longest drive yesterday 12 hours to reach Cappadocia which is beautiful. After a 1000m trek up to the flames yesterday at Olmpos w...

Hello again just finished the latest blog and I'm straight onto another as I'm desperately playing catch up I have folk waiting for me so this may not be long but I will try and cram in a few things since the border with Turkey... So bushcamp by the river near the border with Turkey finally led us into country number 10..well we thought it would only we were kept at the border for 6 hrs. It was very warm though so we all stripped down and played footie, aerob...

Firstly apologies for the delay I've just spent nearly two hours in a cafe in Olundinez, Turkey desperately trying to put some photos on the blog absolute headache I think the connection is going via Mars...anyway I'm here now so I shall begin and bore some of you amuse I hope others!!Last time I touched base I was in Bucharest, remember how I said it didn't feel quite right well after I updated the blog that time we continued drinking in the cool bar...

I'm no longer homesick!!!!!!! As if by magic a few days ago I woke up feeling like Raquel again!! You've all been fantastic though with the mails, texts and messages so keep them coming but no more facebooks though I can't keep up with this that plus day to day e-mails!!! So I think the last time I wrote was from Budapest and I was due to go for a night out....I assume you've seen the photos if not take a look...I know many of you have seen me like that before o...

So where was I.....oh yeah Prague, you must excuse the content/manner of this blog it's hot I'm hungover and I need a thermal bath..I'm now in Budapest, Hungary an awesome city (we must do a weekend jaunt here) We left Prague on actually not sure what day I've only been gone a week and I've lost complete sense of time and currency having used so much already. I'm on country number 7 now I think! and can't quite believe how many kilometres we've driven in such a s...