Ready, Set......

We are just about ready to go. On 23 September, Bernadette and Michael head off for about 7 weeks. Initially, we fly to Amsterdam and travel to Bruges. We then take the Eurostar to London on the weekend so that we can see Paul & Ghislaine. Then it is on the train back to Amsterdam for a few days.

Then we really start. We fly to Istanbul. After two days on our own, we join our tour group. This is an Imaginative Traveller tour titled Istanbul to Cairo, which spends five weeks travelling through Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. We finish the tour in Cairo and we will take a brief trip to Alexandria, before returning to Cairo. From there, it's home, via Amsterdam and KL. We are back on 12th Nov.

However, before we start we have got to get everything organized. Aside from the travel things, we have Nana Joan's 90th birthday to celebrate (which is why Paul is arriving to spend a week in Melbourne). We also have Michael finishing up at Jemena and retiring (again). Then we'll certainly be ready for a holiday.