What better way to get to know your future spouse than to travel around the world on a cheapy budget with expensive ideas.
About this blog
The first section of this adventure takes us on a fly-by-night trip of Japan, Egypt and Turkey. The main attractions here are ancient cultures and awesome foods!
We will 'settle' in Spain for a month to take a language course, then set off around Spain, and hit Portugal. (We decided to skip Morocco after all)
In June we head across the Atlantic to South America. After checking out the Brazilian beaches and jungle, we head to Bolivia, Peru and Equador for some serious sight seeing. Hopefully we can do some volunteering for a month in Ecuador in a school or farm too.
Our final destination is Chile, from where we will fly back to Oz...
We hope to keep you enthralled (or at least amused) with our misadventures over the coming yea

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There are 83 entries in this blog
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Please fasten your seat belts... -
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Two Things in Tokyo -
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Kyoto...it went something like this -
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Setsubon Festival at Yoshi-da Temple, Kyoto -
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A Soapy Tale -
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My first time in Cairo -
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The Bag. -
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The Most of Egypt's Temples and Tombs -
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The Bag #2 -
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Escape to Alexandria -
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There are how many pyramids in Egpyt? -
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Anzac Cove -
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The Asian side of Turkey -
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The Legend of Troy -
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Bargains in Bergama -
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G'day Selçuk -
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Loos and Libraries -
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Sell Chook Market Day -
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Vanishing Tourist Attraction -
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Mediterranean coast in Winter -
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Jill wins Wet T-Shirt Race to Cappadoccia -
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Snow Tour -
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Cappadoccia: Land of the Disobedient Horses. -
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Last Day in Cappadoccia -
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Istanbul finale -
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¡Hola Ethspana! -
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Picasso: a Nazi Gallery -
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¡Olay! -
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Segovia -
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Toledo -
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Cooking with Angel -
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Me no hablo español... -
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A beginner´s guide to Spanish -
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Another Lost in Translation moment -
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Adios Alicante -
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La Alhambra -
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Hiking in the Alpujarra -
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Ass-ing about in Nerja -
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Sevilla - last stop in Spain -
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Happy Half Way Day! -
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Lisboa on foot -
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Sintra castles and Cascais, the end of the world -
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Lucky Lisbon -
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Tomar and the Knight's Templar -
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Coimbra and the Bat Cave -
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Porto and 'ciao' to Europa -
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1 night in the motherland -
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On Brazilian soil now! -
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Smoke on the water -
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How to get halfway across Brasil -
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The Pantanal -
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Surf, Saints and Street Crime -
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Bye Bye Brasil...and onto Bolivia -
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Peace City - La Paz -
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Feliz Anos Nueve - in the Aymaran culture anyway! -
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The Salt Shaker -
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Uyuni´s Salt Flats -
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Geysers, Hot Springs and The Verde Lagoon -
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Flying to Rurrenabaque -
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The Pampas -
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Jungle tour -
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Sunny and Freezing on the Isla del Sol -
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We lake it here in Peru -
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And into the Sacred (tourist) Valley of the Incas -
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Cloud Walking from Vilcabamba to Machu Picchu. -
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Machu Picchu - the ultimate Inca destination -
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Around Cusco -
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Happy Peru Month! -
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Nazca Lines in a Day -
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FYI: Not only Inca ruins in Peru -
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We grit our teeth and drove through to Guayaquil -
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It´s not a dream...we´re in the Galapagos! -
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Cruzing the Galapagos -
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Volunteering in fishing village -
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Living like the locals... -
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Lat 000 -
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Chillin´ in Chile, of course!!! -
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Feliz Cumpleanos Jill -
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Stop over in OHiggins stomping ground -
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Road trip to volcanoes, lakes and thermal baths -
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Skiing El Colorado -
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Bye, Bye Wednesday. Hello Auckland Airport! -
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Touch down in Brisbane
