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Some of the Sight-Seeing: Buckingham Palace State Room Tour - During August and September when the Queen makes her annual trip to Scotland, the doors of Buckingham Palace open to the public. With your own hand held audio device, you can wander through 19 State Rooms admiring the incredible architecture, lavish furniture and outlook to the ...

Our first Overland Safari started on Monday 24th January with a company called Absolute Africa. We would spend the next 32 days travelling through Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania on this camping tour. Our initial group consisted of 5 Aussies, 1 Kiwi, 4 Poms, 2 Austrians and 2 Irish plus our Aussie Tour Guide, Damien and ...

Turkey is such an enormous country so with the 10 days we had there, we had to choose just a couple of places to visit. Our First stop – the capital, Istanbul.

Cape Town is such a beautiful place nesting between the backdrop of Table Mountain and the stunning Waterfront, and for a tourist there is so much to see and do here. Having spent a week here back in 2007, we had already enjoyed so many beautiful sites so this time around we were fitting in a few new things.

The South African Diary.... (is much shorter than the others) Day 27: Crossing the border into South Africa was pretty exciting for a couple of reasons. The first being that we were getting closer to our final destination - the very beautiful Cape Town. The 2nd being that we would be taking the road through the ...

Dear loyal readers, We apologize for our lack of postings, our main computer is broken (and it's very difficult to fix a Mac in Tanzania). We thank you for your patience and will hopefully get something up shortly. In case you are wondering what's been happening well, since skiing in Austria we spent an amazing three weeks ...

Before the weather started turning bitterly cold, we decided to take a trip to Ireland. Our friend Marty Xureb has been living there for a number of years after meeting the gorgeous Aiofe. So after a rather stressful early morning flight (picture two crazy people charging through Stanstead Airport only to make the flight by a minute, we arrived in Dublin.

We know it was a while ago but please check it out anyway By The Shaw thinks its half amusing!!! We'd love you to 'Like' it on facebook and perhaps watch other webisodes we've made in the past!! There will be more to come, more frequently too... Cheers httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCAhZsTXcvQ

Some finer dining: Le Relaise de Venise (L' Entrecote) - only one dish is served, which is steak and pomme frittes but it really is some of the most delicious french food we have had and the desserts were incredible too. www.relaisdevenise.com Maze Grill - we enjoyed a beautiful lunch at Maze Grill where for £21 you can choose 2 ...

Just thought we do a quick post on Alcatraz as it is one of those ‘must go and see whilst in San Francisco’ kind of things. For those who don’t know, Alcatraz was once an Army fortress, a military prison and then, most famously a Maximum Security Federal Penitentiary. It is now a National Park and an extremely popular tourist attraction. Its the scene for cracking movies like Escape from Alcatraz (Clint Eastwood) and The Rock (Sean Connery).