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| Muscat, Oman |
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| Olympic Torch? I don't think so. |
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| Muscat Opera House |
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| Everywhere has to be carved out of the rocky hills |
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| Rugged backdrop |
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| Shopping in the Souks or Bazaar |
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| Approaching Aqaba in Jordan |
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| A comforting companion in murky waters |
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| En-route to Petra |
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| Bedouin Camp Jordan |
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| Desolate country |
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| Petra Jordan |
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| On the hike to the lost city |
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| Aint she cute - the first dark camel I've seen |
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| Sand stone patterns in the roof |
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| Roadside stall |
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| Local cops |
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| On the way to Suez Canal |
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| Egyptian air control Suez |
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| At least they are waving |
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| We had to wait for the Yanks |
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| Note the satellitedishes |
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| Fast deployable pontoon road bridges |
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| A continuous wall and sentry boxes for the whole length of the canal |
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| Nothing but desert on the East bank |
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| Sentry box on the east bank note the sand bags around the gun emplacement |
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| Continually patrolled |
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| Armed troops everywhere - what are they afraid of? |
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| Canal dredging |
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| Coming into Athens |
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| Antiquities everywhere |
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| First sight of the Acropolis |
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| Athens |
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| Just below the Acropolis |
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| Another ten metres and I lost my sole literally. |
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| Terracotta everywhere |
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| There were hundreds of steps and it was very hot |
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| Back Lane hawkers |
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| A real oldy |
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| Farewell Athens |
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| Memorial service ANZAC Cove |
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| Kusadasi Turkey |
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| The Lone fisherman |
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| Ceramics Kusadasi Turkey - great place |
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| Hand made carpets |
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| Istanbul |
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| Little but powerful |
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| Inside the Mosque |
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| The water cistern - ancient water reservoir |
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| Modern light rail/trams Istanbul |
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| Theodosius Obelisk erected in 390 AD |
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| Happy little vegemites |
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| Inside the famous Blue Mosque |
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| Coming into Santorini Greece |
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| Note the cable car and the Mule track |
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| It took 50 years of marriage to establish these fine physiques |
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| Sea Princess in the back ground |
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| She can't help herself |
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| The mules |
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| The mule track we walked down - it was hot |
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| BBQ prawns and Calamari for One Note I've already cut 100mm off the end of the squid |
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| Farewell Santorini |
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| Hello Venice |
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| Our wonderful girls from Switzerland Reni on left and her sister Friederike (Freddy) I was full of the flu |
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| As sick as I was we still drank the champers by 0900 |
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| Canal Transport |
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| These two wonderful people drove six and a half hours just on the off chance of catching up with us - how fantastic is that!!! |
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