A Sicilian, Aussie and Pommie wedding short and sweet version!
A longer version comes later! i.e. photos hopefully from Thailand the last stretch home, lets hope we can do that with the money also.
Wow what a week! It was just amazing to catch up with alot of the crew. Good on everyone who made it over from affar, an impressive effort.
Firstly..... We watched a few of the world cup matches while in Sicily at an Irish bar. WE SO GOT ROBBED AUSTRALIA! next time
But more importantly the reason we were all there was for Matryn and Louise's Wedding week!
The parents of the bride and groom should be proud- we all ate too much- what a feast!, drank way too much (of course) and generally had a great time. It was hot, hot day and think all the blokes in suits did really well. The mayor of Taomormina was a little strange - she offically married Martyn and Louise- but was very unnoffical in her clothing? Anyhow that is the quirks of getting married in a foreign town. Lou was looking like a pure angel and marty very swarve! All the girls looked fabulous of course, I am itching to putsome photos on of us all! Of course we all partied till the late hours.
Carrie I hope your ankle/foot is Ok.
Then we found ourselves back in Rome AGAIN!!! well we hung out with the Marcho and the Koala bear (Karla). Went to a concert in the centre of town, saw the Black Eyed Peas play for FREE, nice one! Missed the last metro but still made it home safely, drunk; but safe!
Farewell to the march- hare and onward to Croatia for the three of us. We did well, on a boat full of Italians cheering on their team...... Great....
Catching up again with Kelly and Pete and making a new friend Jim. We had a really fantstic time with this lot, Island hopping on the croatian coast. Drinking, diving, sunbaking, peddle boating, towing the lilos behind it! and alot- o- relaxing! not necessarily in that order! We managed to celebrate my birthday on Aussie time as K, P& J were all leaving on my european birthday. thankyou so much for doing this it was great, to come out to a table that was adorned with Tom & Jerry table cloth and hats , balloons etc. I loved it THANKYOU and the icecream cake- yum!
So then there was three... again.
We headed up to Budapest, bus & train, finding some really bad accomodation and then the next day finding something heaps better. Its offical we are the worst backpackers in the world! We are both too old for dorm beds! hee hee!
Budapest was a little dissapointing as I was expecting it to be like Prague, in its beauty. but it must have been heavily bombed during the war (oopppss not supposed to mention that!) because the buildings were very average. We decided on a walking tour, which was great and informed us on some stuff we would have not otherwise known. One afternoon we went to the thermal baths had a massage and relaxed around the outside pool; until we'd had enough which was around 8pm. The side we came in on had been closed off so we headed for the alternate exit. Our cards went Bong and not BEEP! and we were told to stand on the side and wait for the administrator/ interpretor. She came along and informed us that we had over stayed our time, yet we still had the right to use of the outside pool. We just should have exited through the door we entered. We were going to have to pay 600 florins to exit (it cost us 2000 to get in) Anyhow long story short we claimed we had no money, no credit cards no passport, one big guy got all by the book and decided to call the police! Remember this is all over the fact we came in the wrong door! ( a definate scam if you ask me) We wandered down stairs a little bemused at this point when he really did call the cops! Are you serious???!!! Then Karla turned to me and said "Do you wanna just like ... GO?!" sure so we did told them we were going to wait upstairs and promtly wandered out under the barrier and out of the reach of Mr. By the book man! Ha Ha !!!! Was good source of amusment to us for the next few hours! We had wanted to go back the next day and hang out, but I figured I am way to easily recognizable! Returning to the scene of the crime (??????) was unlikely.
Karla took off the next day back to London and we took off to Vienna the day after this. Thats where we are now, its dang hot, we depart tomorrow for Bangkok, yes finally people we are making our way home!
Vienna has been nice apart from the heat and we just been bummin around seeing lots of Klimt, H. R. Giger and Kunst haus- which some of you will get postcards from! Till then an asian experience coming up! TTFN
Wow what a week! It was just amazing to catch up with alot of the crew. Good on everyone who made it over from affar, an impressive effort.
Firstly..... We watched a few of the world cup matches while in Sicily at an Irish bar. WE SO GOT ROBBED AUSTRALIA! next time
But more importantly the reason we were all there was for Matryn and Louise's Wedding week!
The parents of the bride and groom should be proud- we all ate too much- what a feast!, drank way too much (of course) and generally had a great time. It was hot, hot day and think all the blokes in suits did really well. The mayor of Taomormina was a little strange - she offically married Martyn and Louise- but was very unnoffical in her clothing? Anyhow that is the quirks of getting married in a foreign town. Lou was looking like a pure angel and marty very swarve! All the girls looked fabulous of course, I am itching to putsome photos on of us all! Of course we all partied till the late hours.
Carrie I hope your ankle/foot is Ok.
Then we found ourselves back in Rome AGAIN!!! well we hung out with the Marcho and the Koala bear (Karla). Went to a concert in the centre of town, saw the Black Eyed Peas play for FREE, nice one! Missed the last metro but still made it home safely, drunk; but safe!
Farewell to the march- hare and onward to Croatia for the three of us. We did well, on a boat full of Italians cheering on their team...... Great....
Catching up again with Kelly and Pete and making a new friend Jim. We had a really fantstic time with this lot, Island hopping on the croatian coast. Drinking, diving, sunbaking, peddle boating, towing the lilos behind it! and alot- o- relaxing! not necessarily in that order! We managed to celebrate my birthday on Aussie time as K, P& J were all leaving on my european birthday. thankyou so much for doing this it was great, to come out to a table that was adorned with Tom & Jerry table cloth and hats , balloons etc. I loved it THANKYOU and the icecream cake- yum!
So then there was three... again.
We headed up to Budapest, bus & train, finding some really bad accomodation and then the next day finding something heaps better. Its offical we are the worst backpackers in the world! We are both too old for dorm beds! hee hee!
Budapest was a little dissapointing as I was expecting it to be like Prague, in its beauty. but it must have been heavily bombed during the war (oopppss not supposed to mention that!) because the buildings were very average. We decided on a walking tour, which was great and informed us on some stuff we would have not otherwise known. One afternoon we went to the thermal baths had a massage and relaxed around the outside pool; until we'd had enough which was around 8pm. The side we came in on had been closed off so we headed for the alternate exit. Our cards went Bong and not BEEP! and we were told to stand on the side and wait for the administrator/ interpretor. She came along and informed us that we had over stayed our time, yet we still had the right to use of the outside pool. We just should have exited through the door we entered. We were going to have to pay 600 florins to exit (it cost us 2000 to get in) Anyhow long story short we claimed we had no money, no credit cards no passport, one big guy got all by the book and decided to call the police! Remember this is all over the fact we came in the wrong door! ( a definate scam if you ask me) We wandered down stairs a little bemused at this point when he really did call the cops! Are you serious???!!! Then Karla turned to me and said "Do you wanna just like ... GO?!" sure so we did told them we were going to wait upstairs and promtly wandered out under the barrier and out of the reach of Mr. By the book man! Ha Ha !!!! Was good source of amusment to us for the next few hours! We had wanted to go back the next day and hang out, but I figured I am way to easily recognizable! Returning to the scene of the crime (??????) was unlikely.
Karla took off the next day back to London and we took off to Vienna the day after this. Thats where we are now, its dang hot, we depart tomorrow for Bangkok, yes finally people we are making our way home!
Vienna has been nice apart from the heat and we just been bummin around seeing lots of Klimt, H. R. Giger and Kunst haus- which some of you will get postcards from! Till then an asian experience coming up! TTFN
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