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The Catch-22 with writing a travel blog is that, when you're busy doing interesting things, you're busy doing interesting things and hence not updating the blog. The only time you have time to sit and write is when you have nothing to write about (''Phew, that's some catch-22'')Halong Bay was stunning and I think just the pure fact I escaped what was rapidly become my least favorite city ever

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Day 3Theme song: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...If you've ever had a panic attack, you'll dread the sensation of even feeling slightly stressed. The tightness in your chest, the inability to think coherantly, the desire to run into open space away from people - being unable to remember a four-digit code you used sucessfully two days earlier.I still can't remember my pin and thinking about it just makes me start

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Day 1:Theme Song - Barber's Son (Jack London)Stepped out of my house and straight into East Berlin - the driver ran over gutters, brushed side mirrors and made various illegal and life-threatening moves in an attempt to get me to my bus 2 minutes earlier than it would have otherwise taken. Dissapointingly (or perhaps for the best) the bus driver seemed aware of Australian road rules and was bent

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Hello peoples,My new blog is 'clear as mud' at http://mudpuddle-net.blogspot.com/ I'll leave this one up for any travel-ly stuff I might do in the future.

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Finally got out of London for a day (and paid through the teeth to do so) - we went to Sailsbury Cathedral and Stonehenge.The Cathedral is gorgeous and, of course, has a great story attached. It was originally built ontop of a hill called Old Sarum but unfortunatly, the army had already baggsied the best bit with water and shelter and a view so the clergy had to constantly negotiate with the army

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Alrighty, so we last left our intrepid adventurers on the banks of Loch Ness...We'd already paid for a cruise on loch ness and so, after consuming a few £1 specials at the bar, we wandered down and jumped onboard. The cruise was run by a 'marine biologist' and had I been more sober (or more drunk) I may have questioned that a little more. And it was also an occasion that a physics guru would have

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After washing our faces in the water of the wee people (that sounds really, really bad), we ended up at Fort Augustus, one of three major Forts the British built to keep law and order in the Highlands. It doesn't actually exist in any real sense now but there are a few pubs and a pretty good hostel (even if the staffing needs a bit of help).Oh, and I almost forgot the distillery tour. Visited

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Ok, I'm doing this of memory now since I've forgotten my notebook...So, Day Two. Started in Oban, we began our trek up the Great Glen, which is a huge valley with four substantial lochs in it (the most famous being the northernmost Loch Ness). We stopped in a small town to get lunch and then had a picnic at my favorite loch, Loch Garry (ok, it's not spelt that way but thats how it sounds :o)I

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Ok, only have fifteen minutes to descibe six days of Scotland... hmmm... will see how we go...First of, for those who don't know, Glasgow and Edinburgh are in the central belt of Scotland (the lowlands) while everything north of the mountain range is called the Highlands (the majority of Scotland's land area but minority of population). Don't know why I think that's an important fact to know but

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I've joined the library, I'm known by face at the pub across the river from work and I have a bank card - I guess I'm now an official alien.My birthday was pretty uneventful, except for calls from Saurabh n Mum, but the weeked should be great - am heading to London to have a BBQ with a few randoms and then we're going to see 'Wicked --the musical' at the theatre. Exciting! I'm looking forward to

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Ok, well I have found a place to live and it may be old and smell of strange people but it's now my home (sigh). Finally got my work uniform today so feel like an actual staff member now but they still don't have my bank account details or anything else so I'm not sure exactly how I'm going to get paid....Workwise, it's pretty similar to Q except they've instigated a 'learning module' policy

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Well, still havent found a place to live. Maybe I'm being too picky - all I really want is a place with internet, a front entrance that locks and is clean. Preferably with a window. Apparently, those places are few and far between... maybe I'll up my ante a little, which may involve getting a bar job as well.As a result, I don't really have anything interesting to write. I've been too busy trying

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Man, trying to think of titles for these things is hard.... normally I leave the subject heading blank so that the bulk of the email/post/thing is like a secret and then you read it and wham, your hit by the stunning simplicity and wittyness of my writing.Can you tell I'm drinking at the moment?Actually, just had my first Fosters. Apparently its ok to drink overseas - although I never really saw

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Well, after loving Barcelona I wasn't sure what I'd think of Paris... two very different cities in a lot of ways (well thats what I would have assumed anyway, yet to really decide if thats true or not, to some extent - in the words of Paul Kelly - 'every fucking city's just the same')But I had one of those great moments when you realise where you are and how bloody cool it is that I am able to do

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I may be showing my ignorance here, but I'd never actually heard of Antoni Gaudi until I got to Barcelona... I've been missing out! He designed some of the coolest buildings I've ever seen along with a church (The Sacrada Familia) that he worked on for 45 years designing and will still take another 25 years to finish building.The Picasso museum was pretty cool too. I really like Barcelona, its

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I've left the green fields of Germany and arrived in a balmy, coastal metropolis. First impressions of Barcelona are that its easy to get around. Thats about all I've done, only just arrived at the hostel since leaving Frankfurt at 5am (!!!).Germany was fantastic. Beer, sausages, good mates... what more could a girl want? And just in case anyone is interested in seeing the Heidelburg Castle (with

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Now I bet people are reading my blog!!To start with a more somber topic, I visited the site of the Gestapo yesterday - there is a big open air gallery/museum which describes what the area was like from the 1910s onwards. There are some pretty confronting photos of political prisoners being shot and public hangings that the Nazi party put on to disuade any opposition. They were big on arresting

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As JFK once famously said "Ich bein ein Berliner" (which actually means I am a jelly donut, known as a Berliner... what he should have said was Ich bein Berliner... but hey, its the sentiment that counts...)I managed to score a lift to Berlin (thank you Mark, the best tour leader EVER) and am joining the Topdeck mob for a pub crawl later tonight. Until then, I have been entertaining myself on

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Krakow is in southern Poland, the second largest city in the country. I'd never heard of it before this trip so I assume the majority of my avid audience hasn't either.The story goes that a Dragon once lived on the hill here, along with a man named Mr Krak. They got along swimmingly and eventually the people built a castle on the hill that they lived on and named the city after Mr Krak.... as you

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Well, I'm now in gorgeous, hot Budapest. It's a really pretty city, and we're staying in a hostel just down the road from the markets which has been handy...We left Vienna yesterday - this photo is actually from the Butterfly House in Vienna which was a part of the Imperial Palace.We got to Budapest in the afternoon and spent it trying to avoid roadworks. Unsuccessfully. Eventually, we made it to

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Well, I now officially a backpacker sell-out because I joined my Topdeck Tour on Saturday. So far so good, everyone has been really friendly and lovely. And drunk... but apparently thats just what people do in Venice so thats ok.We managed to get from Venice to Vienna in about 7 hours, which is pretty good, so we made it to the Shoburg (?) place, one of the homes of the Hapsburgs (a family which

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Ok, I have been trying for the last week to post photos. But it doesn't seem to work. Either they wont load, or the page wont display.... ARRRGGGHHH!Anyway, I'm in relaxing Bologna right now. It's got a huge student population, as well as being a fairly wealthy city in a region reknown for it's food, so it's a nice spot. On top of that, it's known as the Red Capital of a country which has the

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Just a quickie, to let you know I'm alive. My credit is about to run out... will try tommorrow although I have to fit in Assisi and Bologna so will see how we go Love you all a Just

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I'm having a lot of problems with these computers - they like to do random punctuation, I can't attach my memory stick and they wont accept CD's so I have no idea if if the 5 euros I just spent were actually buying a disk with my photos on it or a table coaster...Anyway, went to the Uffitzi today which is THE museum in Florence (apparently). And it was free because it's culture week or something

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Sublimely ridiculous.That pretty much is how I'd describe the leaning tower and it's surrounding environment - I spent a good while just sitting on the grass watching it. And the people posing around it. Briliant.There is something about that tower that I love. I'm not sure whether it's the fact people continued to build it taller despite it leaning, tried to correct it and inevitably made it

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*just a note if anyone is struggling because the blog page is in Italian, which happened to my mum... go to the homepage (www.blogger.com), look at the bottom of the page and click on 'lingua' - then you can change the language to whatever your heart desires*Well, a quick list of the museums\galleries\churches\stuff I've been to in the last two days...1. The San Lorenzo Church - has a few tombs

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Finally made it to Florence - I left the hostel at 10:15 and got to Florence at roughly 7pm without much waiting around so it was definately a travel day. Spent the whole time on the train eating chips, biscuts, other stuff... and missing my iriver who is sadly out of battery and guess who forgot the charger while packing hungover in the UK??? (Give you a clue, Taryn was there :oP)Not much to

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I heard about this hostel from the guys at 6 small rooms in Napoli (see last posts) and it sounded pretty promising so I decided to stay for a few nights. I spent one night in Ischia (which I loved but more later) and then caught the ferry to Napoli, bus to Salerno and another to Amalfi. Luckily I met a local who works in the art gallery in Ravello (nearby) and she was catching the same bus so I

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Thankfully, Napoli has improved on further inspection...Yesterday I visited the archeological museum, which has most of the statues and relics found in Pompeii, as well as a pretty cool Egyptian wing (Egyptian stuff was apparently very 'cool' in Roman times). I couldn't take my camera in which is a pity because some of the statues were over 3 metres tall (maybe ;o)) and pretty impressive.I also

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Well, it took two and a half hours longer than it's suppose to but I finally made it to Napoli (or Naples as we backwards foreigners renamed it). There was a free concert in Rome yesterday and on top of people trying to get home, the particular track we were on had problems so we were delayed.. by two and half hours! And they wouldn't open the doors at one point, people were starting to panic.

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Suggestions gladly taken for new titles - you'd think after working with Allen and Jamos for so long I'd have puns coming out of of my ears but apparently not...The good news is I've finally reached that point when I know whether I'm paying too much for food. The bad news is that I've worked it out through endless trial and error and now have €6 left. But never fear, my bankcard is here and I

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NB - I wrote a post yesterday but for some reason it wouldn't post, hence the double posting today.The sun has finally come out here, it was raining all morning so I bought an English newspaper and ate pizza. I've managed to muddle my way through things - most people speak enough english to understand me and I know enough Italian to know when the retailer shouts 'Due Due' at me he wants €2.20

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Lessons I have learnt so far:1. Getting drunk at the pub the night before an overnight train ride is not a good idea.2. Neither is getting on said train without any food or water because of 1.3. Neither is not checking which station said train leaves from and then frantically racing around London, missing out on breakfast and making 2. much worse.4. French people are not rude, in fact they are

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Am going to put up a photo in the next day or so. Of a building. A hostel to be more precise. Which, if you value you're sanity, you should not stay at unless you plan on being so drunk that you can pass out and ignore the constant sound of groaning, humming, throbbing plumbing (and no, that's not a euphimism).Of course, I am staying in room 101 so I should be surprised by the

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Visited St Pauls this morning, which is one of THE cathedrals of Europe (and there are a few over here) and while you can't take photos inside, here is a few of the outside and the view from the top. It's the second tallest dome in Europe (or so they claim but I always take those with a grain of salf) although I did have to climb over 400 stairs in a series of windy staircases to get to the top

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Well, I survived the plane trip (despite a few bumpy moments over Thailand and being seated next to two honeymooners for the first 9 hours) and I even managed to catch a few hours sleep on the plane. Although now it's only 11:30am and I feel like i've been up for hours - and i can't sleep 'cause my room isn't ready yet.... meh.I'm staying right near St Pauls Cathedral. Apparently the guy who was

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I was trying to think of a phrase to sum up how I'm feeling at the moment. Perhaps it should have been "I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again..." except that song starts with the words 'All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go' which is a lie. I guess it's how all good journeys should really start although that would require firstly locating the aforementioned bag. At the

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Just a quickie - Ooowagadoodoo is the capital of Burkin Fasa (which used to be Upper Volta... which doesn't help at all, especially since I don't know where Lower Volta is...)Am off to the Hunter Valley on Sunday - maths, wine and weekends at the coast. Not a bad little job.

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No really.Funnily enough, Jamos knew the answer to that one so I am now able to offer a shiny new penny to the first person to correctly spell answer the question...That was one of the better questions from the trivia night. Problem with public servant trivia quiz's is that they seem to assume 1. you are accomplished in both obscure and popular political history and 2. the mean age of the

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Well, am finally back in ACT. Suffering post-tour-itis (basically jet lag, but rather than depending on time zones it depends on time away)Am currently trying to avoid actual work by reading the BCS website. Yes, that's right. That's how desperate I've become. But it's become strangely addictive, a salve to my restlessness...So rather than keep looking over my shoulder and getting yelled at for

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Am on Bathurst Island still, an impromptu reorganisation meant that we've spent three nights in Nguiu. There is a group of Yr 12 boys from Melbourne visiting as well so tonight there was a concert outside by a local band, B2M. They were really great, and a couple of the guys had gorgeous voices. When they started, they had a 3-string guitar and a keyboard with 4 working keys so they're harmonies

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So to finish the last post...Tipperary Station was built in the early 80's by a millionare who had watched 'Out of Africa' and colonial histories waaaay too many times. He spent $70 million in 70 days fixing up the station so it looked like something out of a movie - long verandahs with wooden double shutters, brass fittings and palm trees. All very picturesque, not all actually useful. For

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'No it's not, it's just down the road'...After Pine Creek, we wandered down to the Douglas Daly region, which is about 300km south of Darwin still. Earlier in Week One, one of the teachers had raved about the Douglas Daly Hot Springs, billboarding them higher than the Mataranka version, so of course it was our first stop over...Umm, no. There's only about 3 square metres of water that is actually

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Had the final weekend and said goodbye to Jan's B&B, which was a pretty good home for a weekend or two. Had a sinus migrane since Thursday and it was worst on Friday (while trying to manage a group of 20 excited primary school kids) and Saturday (while at Katherine Gorge so had to sit quietly in the canteen while others went to lookout... although Jamos did take pity on me and once the Nurofen

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Well, Baruga CEC (community education centre) as a school was ok. Baruga CEC as a place to stay... well...As I said in my last post, we were thinking that we could bunk with a teacher - who hadn't been told and unsurprisingly had a few things to say about the situation. So we stayed in the kitchen, with an industrial fridge that had a correspondingly loud industrial fan system. Oooo, and the

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In a belated post (which is my usual style), we visited Mataranka Primary School yesterday. The kids were ok but the teachers were great and invited us around for dinner. So we went and visited the touristy thermal pool called Rainbow Springs and then ducked out to this Queenslander just around the corner. Chickens, rabbits, horses, cane toads... this place had it all as well as about 20 kids

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He He (apologies for the title, i think it's hangover from the last party invite I got... the people involved know what I'm talking about)Well, finally made it to Katherine. And it wasn't a sure thing...We left Darwin with two spare tires. Last Thursday, we literally ripped the insides out of out back tyre. Luckily, I was only doing 10km/h at the time so there was no huge problem except for the

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Apologies for yesterday's post - i cut, pasted and then a random pixie jumped on the keyboard, overpowered me and deleted everything I'd written... or something like that. Didn't find out till Kuminjay -aka R!- told me... and then i didn't have internet access for a week... so here's a belated edition... So left Lajamanu. It kind of grew on me over time, a bit like a foot fungus (he he, that was

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The school here is pretty big, over 100 kids, so been a busy day. And we're going back for more tommorrow.Some of the kids are from the desert country so they have blonde hair when they're little. Looks like they bleached it but it's natural. As they get older, their hair gets darker so the seniors start dying their hair - gets a bit hard to tell whether it's bleached or natural. But they are

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Just arrived in Lajamanu, a community on the edge of the Tanami desert. Lots going on here, there is sorry business 'cause someone died last week, the footy is on and the state-wide testing has just finished, as well as it being the week of the annual get-together for local (ie, less than 200km apart) schools...I've had a busy week as well, didn't have reception for parts of it and didn't get a

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Well, that was a day and a half....Woke up at 6:45 this morning which was lucky 'cause the school principal turned up at 6:50am... Richard was still in his sleeping attire, I'd managed to sneak into the disabled toilets a little earlier but after sleeping on the floor without any sort of mattress I was ready to get up. That's my own fault for leaving the mattress at Mum's place.Kids started

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Just arrived in Beluyan (bout 1.5 hour drive from Darwin, to the left, 15k from the coast) and we've been pretty well looked after. Sleeping on the library floor but they have a 80cm tv here so gonna spend the night watching Scrubs and Blackadder.So not much to really report at the moment. Tommorrow is the first day of indiginous workshops which should be great, my past experiences with

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