hello from sunny malta!

not sure if anyones still reading this or if anyone cares where in the world we are....
we are in MALTA! this place is amazing! really different. we keep comparing to italy, spain, middle east, croatia. but really it's soo unique. it's TINY for one. it's only a few km wide and then another few long. we got a rental car and have been fanging around on the SHOCKING roads! certainly an adventure. the day before we left we went to the nottinghill carnival. (if you havent been GO! it was wild!) i sprained my ankle so thats slowed things down a bit. today is the first day that i can walk slightly normal. though it still looks like i have elephantitis!
tomorrow we are going to gozo which is HALF the size of malta. but more beachy. the water here is gorgeous and apparently the locals say there arnt any sharks (!?)
the locals! i could write a whole book about the funny stuff we have seen so far.
so verdict so far on malta. AWSOME! definatly add it to your list!
xx

One for the road

Here's a goodie from croatia.

sighhh. So nice!

off to malta we will go!

in one week we will be in malta. yay! it feels like we have been back in london forever but turns out its only been 5 days. 5 busy days at that. we had a ticket booked for sunday at V festival, but we had messages from friends saying that we could come on saturday and be snuck in. this turned out perfect as one person i always said i wanted to see when i come to london is 'fat boy slim' and he was the last act of the night. we made it in safetly and just in time. the festival was absolutly rocking. 150,000 people! my sister, brother and a bunch of friends were camping so we would hang out with them until someone we wanted to see came on (faithless, groove armada) we slept in the combi. it rained a bit, was a bit sunny but cool. perfect temperature. we couldn't get a ride home on sunday night so we stayed until monday morning which was the best thing ever as these festival/party goers are a bunch of CONSUMERS! INSANE! they would go out before the festival, buy massive tents, mattresses, wellies, sleeping bags, rain jackets, stereos, boxes of food, cases of beer, camping chairs. the WHOLE lot and then just LEAVE it all there when they leave. so monday morning turned into a camping gear spree. lachie and i are COMPLETLY stocked for camping now. we have a perfect, BRAND NEW tent, wellies, rain jackets, lachie found a mobile phone, a stereo! we are SET! very happy about that.
today we are still recovering. lachie lost his voice. he made friends with these two cute young boys (12yrs &14yrs old) who were on their own and went about talking/yelling with them while the music was blaring. today we were dreaming about our own beds. our own space. we are sleeping on my sisters living room floor. my parents are still here but they are leaving on saturday. we are sooo excited about going to malta and gozo! we are going with my pal ali for a week. still, can't promise we will be settling down after that. since we have been travelling our list has gotten HUGE of all the places we want to go. we are now thinking brussels and paris (it's our 4 year anniversary next month)
today we went wandering around notting hill/portobelo road. looking out for places to live (notting hill? yeah dream on!). talking about what we want to do etc.
watch this space!

back to londontown...

today we fly (hopefully safetly) back to london. this has been the perfect wind down from our big adventure. yesterday we were spinning out at how much we have done in the past 3 months! we arnt so sure that we are going to be getting jobs and a place straight away...we just bought a lonely planet for malta and gozo and we are pretty serious about going. just try and stop us!
anyway we will keep writing on here, keep you updated on our lives and thoughts.
love
lac and salxxx

Lumpertime

For those of you who know Lachie remotely well, you’ll know that he LOVES the world rally (racing cars such as Evo's and Citroen) luck behold, it is in Germany. Only 2 hours away from where we are staying. Of course it was very necessary to go! So off we went 8am to Trier...it turned out to be a really fun day. Lachie was so happy and had big grins. Jenny had an Australian flag which Lachie waved in the air as the only Aussie in the top 9 went by. Even my heart sang a bit (reluctantly...). In the afternoon we actually went to the town of Trier, which is the oldest town in Germany, did you know? I am continually surprised by how much history there is here and how beautiful it is. Jenny lives in a small town that's pronounced `Lumpertime´ I have no idea how to actually spell it. The area that she lives in is in a very low flat valley and has the mildest temperatures in all of Germany. The area is also known and very famous for its wines, and for the vines grown on very steep hills. It’s been very surprisingly cold. Yesterday it got as cold as 10degrees. Lachie is very happy that I told him to send home all his warm clothes with my brother in Croatia (Lachie brought thermals on this trip...!!!)Yesterday we experienced some really extreme weather-hot and sunny, pouring rain, freezing cold, heavy fog, snow? Or maybe left over heavy hail on the side of the road, rainbows. Last night we went to a party at the local rowing club where I have shared a picture of jenny in full party mode. We are, as always, having a blast. The change in weather is welcome, the same bed for a whole week is heaven and not having to carry around our tickets and passports for safety is lovely!

Jen and Lac in Trier, on old Roman town and home of the rally

A nice looking Ford WRC car

Aussie Aussie Aussie!

Marc Chagall in St Stephens Church Mainz

Quaint Heidelberg

Play time

Fun night at the rowing club

Dubrovnik

Hello! We are in Dubrovnik. We got here last night and leave early tomorrow morning. Let me just say....this place is gorgeous! really! Croatia is gorgeous, the lakes are the most beautiful in the world! the old towns are so unique. So much history, old and new. Plitvice lakes are so spectacular even my 60 year old dad had never seen anything like them before. We drove then on the most scary spectacular road through the mountains, through Bosnia (7hours later) to Dubrovnik. I keep seeing ivanas everywhere (my special croat pal). Start saving as this place is SUPER DUPER expensive but definitely worth it. Very early tomorrow morning (to avoid traffic) we are heading back to split where we fly out the next day for Frankfurt for a week with our special friend jenny!
Ciao!

deep blue sea....

ohh lala! its gorgeous here. we have just got back from a week on the water. believe the hype because this place is fantastico. we have done lots and LOTS of eating, swimming, sunbaking, sailing, drinking and more drinking. the water is beautiful. our boat was a 49ft bavaria. we thought it was going to be similar to the turkish coast but it was actually quite different. quaint little villages, crystal clear aqua water, lots of fish! (for a change), lots of nudies everywhere which was very entertaining and educational. teehee
we are now back in split which is a really cute town but TONS AND TONS of aussies! cant escape....
tomorrow we are heading out to the plavitz lakes for the night then down to debrovnik for 2 nights.
the day we flew in it was stinking hot and HUMID but not too bad now.
it has been great to catch up with my family again (too bad scooter and co. couldn't make it but will for sure be seeing you guys this winter in switzerland land) paul and jeff have gone back to london so its mum, dad, holly, sammy and oscar.
love to you all!
xxx
lac and sal