Profanities and Prayers I am struggling to find the words to describe yesterday… I used up all my best ones on the day before…so Mrs Speechless of Somerset is going to have to dig deep! Let’s start with the good news…the one excellent thing that came out of our need to find another hotel yesterday, was […]
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Thor’s wrath – a tale of Tbilisi We’re all writing an account of what happened that night, because, well, it was one hell of an experience. Not helped by the difficult rainy night in Batumi the day before where we struggled to find our hostel, or by the hair-raising eight hour minibus ride to Tbilisi
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Not “JUST” another rainy night in Georgia Yesterday we found out that it’s one thing to read about “extreme weather events” and quite another to walk through one for 5 km with heavy rucksacks looking for an obscure hostel in a large foreign city as darkness falls. On our knuckle-whitening 8 hour mini-bus Helter-Skelter ride
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Theo – Dreams of Alan Partridge and a squashed tomato On our last night in Turkey, after a fabulous meal of rice and beans and a chocolate birthday cake for Shannon, courtesy of the truly lovely host at a local eatery in Erzurum, I dreamed the strangest dream. I dreamt that I was Alan Partridge,
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We’ll be coming down the mountain Morning, we are on that bus to Hopa, near the border of Georgia, we’ve met our first English person, who looks a bit like Frodo Baggins, and we are hurtling along through some of the most beautiful scenery I’ve ever seen. I don’t expect to survive this trip so
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On the way to Konya…eventually Today I learned that in Turkey you always need a paper ticket when trying to get on a train… I had booked the tickets on the inter rail app…that’s what you do…that’s the joy of inter rail tickets – you can just turn up and get on the train! We arrived
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What do you do when you get to the last day before you are leaving home for nine and a half months and you haven’t bought insurance, got rid of either of your cars, started packing or booked your travel beyond Bucharest? Well that’s easy… Buy insurance, get rid of both your cars, start packing
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