2006 World Tour
In and around Australia
What an exciting trip we have planned. Leaving Brisbane on a domestic flight to Sydney, then on to a direct flight to Los Angeles. After mixing with the stars we are packing for a road trip to viva-Las-Vegas!! In Vegas we are going to be casino hopping hoping to win heaps of money on the tables and slot machines!! We have a day trip planned to the Grand Canyon and a night flight over the lights of Vegas.
It is then on a plane via Dallas to the bright lights of New York. Much shopping and sightseeing planned here, as well as a Soul Food and Jazz tour through Harlem. After our 5 day sojourn, we are on our trans-atlantic flight to London.
Not planning to stay too long in London - just quickly viewing the major sights, and of course doing some shopping at Harrods! Then its on the Eurostar train to Paris.
While in Paris we will be taking time to see the Lourve this time, the Moulin Rouge and on Joe's birthday we are doing the night Segway tour. After mixing with the beautiful people we board our flight for Rome.
From here we start our 11 day whistle-stop tour of Italy, visiting Pompeii, Sorento, Capri, Napes, Assisi, Venice, Pisa, Tuscony, Florence, Siena and then back to Rome.
Paula leaves us here for her return trip to BrisVegas. Joe and I remain on in Rome for two days and then travel by Plane to Vienna. Here we start an 8 day tour of the Eastern capitals of Vienna, Prague, Bratislava and Budapest, finishing up back in Vienna. After a rest day here, we board a flight to London and then straight on to Singapore.
We stop in Singapore for a couple of days to visit the zoo and have breakfast with the orangu-tan. We've been told to expect to be peed on and have bananas thrown at us, so that should be interesting.
We then board our homeward flight for Brisbane and finish up after 49 days back in (hopefully) sunny Brisbane.
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler Brisbird
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Packing Up and Moving Out
Well, what a hectic last week it has been arranging the last trip details, finishing work and packing up York St for the major renovation. We are fina... Continue reading » -
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Los Angeles here we are!
Well, finally made it. Picked up the car at Alamo Car Rental. Ended up choosing an Impala 6cyl. I decided to brave the traffic and drive. First we... Continue reading »
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Where are those damn shoes???
Today we didn't wake up till 10am, and by the time we were up and dressed, we decided that our planned day trip to Disneyland was a no-goer. We dec... Continue reading »
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LA Fashion District
Today was to be our shopping day at the Los Angeles Downtown fashion district (this time with no LA Marathon). At 4:30We had breakky once again at... Continue reading »
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Viva Las Vegas
Today was checkout day in Los Angeles. After a big breakky once again at Coco's, off we headed towards Nevada. The freeway system here is really so... Continue reading »
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Flamingos...
Today was a very slow day due to our late arrival yesterday in Vegas and our late sleep-in. There was no stopping Paula as she headed out at 10:30... Continue reading »
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Not just a big hole in the ground...
A very early start today, getting up at 5am for our 6am tour pickup. Not a good look after a late-ish night in Vegas. We managed to get to the tour... Continue reading »
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Shopping in Vegas
Today was going to be outlet shopping day. Paula finds a CoCo's in the phonebook and we head there for breakfast. This is much cheaper and more app... Continue reading »
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Last Day in Vegas...
This morning we decide on a late breaky in the hotel before heading out to the Las Vegas outlet mall for some shopping. Joe decides to hang back an... Continue reading »
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Our flight is Cancelled, what do you mean cancelled!
Today was our day for travelling from Vegas to New York via Dallas. Got up at 4am (after going to sleep at midnight) and went for my last drive in... Continue reading »
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Our flight is Cancelled, what do you mean cancelled!
Today was our day for travelling from Vegas to New York via Dallas. Got up at 4am (after going to sleep at midnight) and went for my last drive in... Continue reading »
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Leaving Las Vegas
Today was a very early start - getting up at 4am to leave at 5am so we are at McClarren Airport for our 7am Departure to Dallas. Not as many people... Continue reading »
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New York, New York
New York is one busy city. Way to much to see and do and not enough time. The day we arrived we found that we had been pre-checked-in at our Hotel... Continue reading »
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Bright Lights, Big City
New York Times Square is just bedlham. You can tell this is the major tourist area. Today we decide to do some hop-on-hop-off bus travelling - not... Continue reading »
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Arriving in the Homeland..
Our flight from JFK to Heathrow goes well with about a half an hour delay on the tarmac waiting for a gate to dock at the Airport. We ended up dock... Continue reading »
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Ou La La
Just a quick message today. Caught the Eurostar train over from London on 3rd April. Arrived in Paris and caught a taxi to the Hotel. The room was... Continue reading »
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That's some old stuff,,,
Today we decided to brave the queues at the Louvre. We were planning to go the day before but found that the Louvre is closed on Tuesdays! We walke... Continue reading »
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Seeing the Sights of Paris
Today was a relaxing day taking the Hop-on-hop-off bus around the different quarters of Paris. We first hopped off at Notre Dam to view this magnif... Continue reading »
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Joe's Birthday in Paris..
Today was Joe's birthday and we spent the day on the hop-on-hop-off bus. First we got off at the Eiffel tower and got in line to go up to the top l... Continue reading »
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BonJourno from Rome
Today we left Paris for Rome via a one hour taxi ride, a one hour queue wait for checkin and a one hour forty minutes flight on a budget airline. W... Continue reading »
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Pompeii, Sorento and Capri
Today we had a rude start to the day with a wakeup call at 5:30am for our 6:30am breakfast, and our coach leaving at 7:30am. Unfortunately the weat... Continue reading »
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Isle of Capri
Today we had a full day on the island. A tour was arranged with a local guide which took us through the Augusta gardens and then we loaded onto a smal... Continue reading » -
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Assisi
This morning it was an early start for our departure from Capri. A return ride down the finnicular and we then boarded the boat for Naples. This ri... Continue reading »
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Oh-so-la-mio!
Today we boarded the bus for a long trip to Vennice (or as the locals call it Venizia). After a rest stop we then pulled into a small town with a l... Continue reading »
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A day in Venice
Even though today is Good Friday, everything was open in Venice. We left the hotel at 8:15 and made our way on the bus to the water taxi terminal.... Continue reading »
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Pisa and Tuscany(Montecatini)
Up early again today for the longish bus ride to Tuscany via Pompora. We stopped at this small place for lunch and a very brief tour around the mus... Continue reading »
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The Statue of David
Another early start today to beat the traffic to Florence. This was a day trip from Montecatini where we were scheduled for a tour of the acadamy t... Continue reading »
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Sienna, then back to Roma
Back on the bus today for our 4-5 hour trip on the bus back to Rome. We stopped mid-morning in Sienna where we walked into the town square and quic... Continue reading »
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The Vatican and Colleseum
Oh boy, a very early start to the day to beat the crowds at the Vatican. We were standing in line by 7:15am and it was a good thing we arrived when... Continue reading »
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Rome
After a day of taking it easy and walking around Rome seeing the Spanish Steps and doing some more shopping (one can never have too many handbags!!... Continue reading »
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Vienna
Today we have a totally free day and decide to take it real easy and don't go down to breakky until 10am. After this we put on our walking shoes an... Continue reading »
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Budapest
What a fantastic day. The insight bus has sooo much more room than the last tour bus, making the ride very comfortable. We set off for our 2-3 hr d... Continue reading »
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Budapest
This morning we left early for a city tour of Budapest - first to visit inside the Hungarian Parliament building, then on to St Stephans Cathederal... Continue reading »
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Bratislava
Today we headed for another country - Slovakia. But before this we had three stops along the way in Hungary - St Andreas - a brief stop to wander t... Continue reading »
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Travel to Prague
Today was a very big travelling day with about 5 hrs of bus-ing. We firstly went up the the Castle on Bratislava for a photo opportunity, then boar... Continue reading »
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Beautiful Prague
Today we were driven by coach up to the old part of Prague to look at the Palace. We joined our local guide who gave us some information about the... Continue reading »
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City Tour of Vienna
Today we had our city tour of Vienna. Unfortunately it is a wet, wet day, so not as many nice photos opportunities. We arrive at the Palace and are... Continue reading »
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Return to Vienna
On the bus again for our trip back to Vienna. We stop on the way at the Czech and Austrian border and are waved through without them bothering to l... Continue reading »
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The tour is over...
Today is a very leisurly day. We get up to say goodbye to those leaving on the 8:30 bus, then head back to our room to catch up on travel journals... Continue reading »
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Singapore
Well we are now in Singapore and not enjoying the rain and heat one little bit! We have a two day stopover here. We went to the zoo yesterday and h... Continue reading »
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