Magnetic Island

Jo's 30th Birthday!

Thank you!

Just a quick post to say thank you to all the people who have shown us their kind hospitality over our last 5 months in europe:

- Lucia Misikowa in London
- Koula Liolios in Greece
- Dominika Aniolkiewicz in Pisa
- Ulrike and Stefan in Il Mulino, Italy
- Jane and Alan Stewart in Sassetta, Italy
- Gosia Czerska in Warsaw, Poland
- Justyna Sorn in Krakow, Poland
- Jo's parents Bozena and Marek at home!
- Eva Czegledi in Budapest, Hungary
- Andreas and Annette Schuler in Leipzig, Germany
- Margot, Maarten, Ned, Lotte, Louis and Saskia Buij in Den Haag, Holland
- Tania Angelopoulos in Newcastle, UK
- Also a big thanks to the global economy for (almost) waiting until we finished the expensive part of our holiday before collapsing...

We have made some great friends over our time in Europe and hope it wont be too long until we can afford to visit again!

We just landed in Bangkok and while we were on the plane I jotted down some statistics about the europe leg of our adventure if people are interested:

Gigabytes of photos taken:
- 30-35 (around 6000-7000 pics, still to delete a lot)

Kilometres driven:
- 19,652

Countries visited (including monarchies etc.)
- UK + Scotland
- Greece
- Italy
- France
- Spain
- Andorra
- Switzerland
- Czech Republic
- Poland
- Slovakia
- Hungary
- Austria
- Croatia
- Slovenia
- Germany
- Holland
- Belgium
- Republica Di San Marino
- Monaco

Islands visited:
- Corfu (Greece)
- Elba (Italy)
- Capri (Italy)

Hours spent in van:
- appr 1,500-1,800 over 100 days

Camping grounds stayed in:
- 4/100 nights... too bloody expensive ($40-$100 per night before the Au$ collapsed)

If anyone is interested in volunteering on a farm, the organisation we went through is called WWOOF. They exist in most countries and we can definitely recommend them for a great way to experience a culture for next to no money. There are heaps of different types of farms available to volunteer on and same are not even proper farms so there is something to please anyone with an open mind.

Sawaddee from thailand!

Scotland

Kassel, Germany

Fotokina Trade Show in Cologne

Not everyone will be interested in these photos but we were lucky enough to be in Cologne at the same time as the worlds biggest photography trade show, so here are some pics from the day.

In 24 hours we fly from Heathrow to Bangkok so we will upload all our european pics before we get on the plane. More in a few hours - there is free wifi along the highways in England so we just stop for an 'upload break' every hour or so.

Paris