A lesson

Great it works!

A little photo taken while in the Forbidden City.

Checking in

I'm back!! It's been bloody ages since I've been infront of a computer because for some reason:

1. Finding an internet cafe in a remote village in Bolivia was far easier than finding one in an european village, and
2. There weren't enough hours between breakfast, lunch, siesta and dinner to warrant sitting inside a stuffy little cafe.

So, after running around for far too long in London looking for THE best and funkiest kombi, we threw out all hope of looking cool and ended up purchasing a sensible renault family station wagon, aka the silver bullet. Couldn't believe how much kombis were selling for so if anyone is keen on shipping some over from Oz and selling them at a ridiculously inflated price in UK then you have a booming business.

We arrived on the continent bang on Bastille Day so our first night was spent with throngs of holiday loving French (35hr working week by law and at least 5 weeks annual leave)in Paris, sipping red wine on the lawns while watching an awesome fireworks display off the Eiffel Tower. Brilliant start to our european jaunt and sure beats Bastille Day at our local boulangerie back home.

After doing the touristy thing in Paris, we picked up our brand new silver bullet, loaded up on camping gear at Decathlon (the best outdoor store eva) and spent the next few months driving a total of 9,000km around France, Spain, Italy and Switzerland eating/drinking/camping and generally putting on all the weight we lost in South America.

That's pretty much it in a nutshell. Oh, life is good!!