02-08-2011 A grueling 14hr flight from Melbourne to Abu Dhabi. Poor ross struggled with food poisoning for most of the flight. He skipped dinner and breakfast on the plane and was looking pretty pale. I felt soo sorry for him. It was good to see him a bit more up and about after eating 'lunch' at 6:30am in Abu Dhabi. I was a bit worried about getting to navigating and communicating at foreign airports but pretty much everywhere we have been so far accomodates ...

03 - 08 -2011 Day two of Athens we had a great start with a decent brekfast before juming into a walking tour of the major archeological sites around town. The history in this place is amazing! It is like watching my big fat greek wedding in the sense that they enjoy letting you know where certain greek words have been used to construct certain words in the english language. It is very interesting to see how much detail and thought went into each and every aspec...

We arrived in Abu dhabi after a gruelling 14 hour flight, departing melbourne at 10pm aus time and arriving in the capital of the  UAE at 6am there time, where it was a steamy 31 degrees! The length was not soo bad, it was more the fact i had chronic food poisoning and ryan had to nurse me haha.. Our flight into Athens took 4 hours from Abu dhabi. Finally getting to our brand new refurbished hostel in Athens 100m from the acropolis and other major ancient ruins,...