Today was what anyone could want when visiting the Tuscany region of Italy. We had a 9am start from our hotel and headed out from Florence in our BMW van which is Federico’s method of transporting people around. He had obviously cleaned and polished it prior to meeting us again …
Shopping, Shopping, shopping! This place is leather heaven and between 3 of us now we have managed to accumulate about 9 or 10 handbags!!! They are really cheap and ‘will never go astray!’ That’s our motto anyway. Gold earrings have been another favourite between us – in general prices are …
A new day in Florence and a bit of a late start as we have a tour guide collecting us today for a full day trip. I had organised a private tour guide over the internet who made some suggestions as to what we might like to see and do …
The next leg of our journey began with just getting to the train station in Venice. It was not very far at all from the hotel but 3 ladies getting 3 big bags over the big bridge by hand was always going to be fun! Fortunately 3 very willing husbands …
As many of you know of course, Kemm and I have jetted off to Italy this time, but not before a bad start with me walking around the house, handbag on shoulder, waiting for our pick-up – brrrr brrrr, phone call – sorry, you’re flight’s been cancelled! And that was …
We are leaving Egypt today with this journey having shown us another of the world’s amazing places. There is real history here in Egypt but unless one studies it in as much detail as our amazing tourist guides have, it is very difficult to take too much in. Their in-depth …
Docked at Edfu this morning and had an interesting ride by horse and carriage to the Edfu temple – a skinny horse, a carriage??? Big wheels, not much tread, wobbly…. but we made it! Edfu temple to some was another wonderful temple to visit – there’s been heaps of them! …
My last news seemed so long ago but we have been so busy and are almost ‘templed out’! Arrived in Cairo and headed to the Sofitel Hotel. The river separates Cairo proper from Giza and the Sofitel is actually on the river’s edge but in Giza. As the name implies …
My last news seemed so long ago but we have been so busy and are almost ‘templed out’! Arrived in Cairo and headed to the Sofitel Hotel. The river separates Cairo proper from Giza and the Sofitel is actually on the river’s edge but in Giza. As the name implies …
Flew 4 hours from Abu Dhabi to Cairo and met at the airport by an APT representative. Transferred to Sofitel. Had a welcome dinner with the tour group – only 9 of us on this tour, 2 from NZ and the rest from Australia. Thursday morning city tour – Cairo …
