The Odyssey

Welcome avid readers!

I've created this blog (short for 'web-log' for first-timers) to keep you all updated about my upcoming travels. This way I don't have to continually apologise for missing people out on an email list, save's me clogging up your email account and means that you can peruse it at your leisure if and when you want. I thought it was quite a nifty idea. Glad I didn't think of it.


As it stands, my (broad) itinerary is as follows:

23 July: Leave Brisbane int. airport and stop over in Seoul for a couple of hours. On to Cairo.
24 July: Arrive Cairo early morning, drop of my bags and start exploring.

3 weeks of exploring Egypt, going to Alexandria, an oasis or 2, a trip up the Nile to Aswan, across the Suez Canal to the Sinai.

14 August: leave Egypt and arrive at Aqaba in Jordan.

Roughly a week of traveling up the King's Highway through Jordan to the northern border

22 August: Cross into Syria and take a train to Damascus

2 weeks of travelling through Syria, ending up at the border to Turkey

3 September: Enter Turkey.

3 weeks in Turkey, travelling slowly towards Istanbul. Slowly.

24 September: Leave Istanbul on a train going west. Spend the next week winding my way to Prague (Praha) in the Czech Republic.

1 October: Start at Charles University.


That's a brief sketch of my plans. If you have any suggestions for things I absolutely must see/people I should meet up with/random other bits of information, feel free to post the as comments under this entry.

(Hopefully) speak to you all soon.