Photos from Dubai!!

Howdy from Brunei Airport!!

Were scamming some free internet on the laptop so heres a coupla pics from our week in Dubai. Theres a few from the desert safari, diving above and a run in with darth vader in a toy store....ah!! hahaha!!

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Hot to trot till the candymans eyes pop!!

Here we are at the end of a 100% tourist style action packed week in Dubai... Its been awesome..

Dubai is crazy... You wouldnt think its a city in the middle east... maybe more like a Silicon Valley style city of America or something like that... Theres so much construction going on.. They work 24 hours on the roads and towers... theres something like 100 sky scrapers currently under construction right now... and thats on top of the massive hotels etc that we all see on the Dubai tourism stuff outside of Dubai... its mad!!

Anyway so weve been staying with some of Nic friends from school in Indo this week which has been super cool.. 1 night with Tara and Dave and the rest with Sarah and Hamad...THANKS DUDES!!...

And finally the action... we went on a Desert safari with Arabian Adventures..which rocked.. we were in a convoy of 24 GMC Yukons (Grunty 3 tonne 4wd beasts)... we ripped through the desert up and down huge sand dunes gettin sideways and dropping off close to 90 degree sand cornices... killer fun until someone loses a tyre!!.. which someone did... 1 car got a little too sideways on a big dune and the tyre popped off so we had a 15-20 min breather while they put it back on... then we continued on to watch the desert sunset, ride camels, eat a huge arabian feast at a desert beduin-style camp and smoke shishas under the stars.. very cool..

We also hit a water park this week called Wild Wadi's.. best we have ever seen... basically just lots of different water slides but they also had a wave pool and a couple of Flowriders which we had to have a rip on... Flowriders are a stationery wave that you can surf... good fun but queues hampered our abilities to get any good at it...its a pain if you take off on the wave then instantly crap out and fly off as you have to go line up again for another go...

Yesterday we went diving of the east coast of the UAE in the Indian Ocean with Underwater Unlimited.... it totally rocked... we saw massive schools of fish including barracudas, trumpet fish, puffer fish, lion and stone fishes.. we got lucky enough to see some turtles and also a medium sized black tip reef shark.. viz was good at about 10 metres.. not quite the 30m we were getting in Greece but the sealife definitely made up for it.

And last of all the heat!! how could i forget the heat... its constantly high 30's plus... usually something in the 40's... the water for diving was around 30-31 degress (like a warm bath... very weird and not so refreshing at times...).. fortunately theres AC everywhere we go...

ok.. this is like an uber long lupchoo update but we havent been getting much of a chance to keep it maintained.. we will get some more pics up very soon.. Now we're heading off to take an abra (small boat) across Dubai creek and go and investigate the Gold and Spice souks...more heat - argh!!

lupchooooooooooooooooooooo x

scoob n schnicker

Next stop: Bali

Crazy week in Ibiza!!

Well, we survived it..

A week on the gorgeous island of Ibiza, Spain, with 16 of us in a totally pimpin' mac daddy villa in the deserted north...First of all the drive in to our villa needs a mention... Literally a road running down the side of a cliff with views of the ocean as far as you can see..One wrong turn would put you in serious trouble so from the beginning it was decided that drivers needed to stay absolutely SOBER on any nights out... Funnily enough, it led to us not having many nights out of the villa!! hehehe.

We made it to a beach party on the Saturday night at the Jockey Club on Cala Jondal beach, DC10's on Monday during the day, Ibiza Town one night and the rest of the time was spent chillin' and partying at the villa...

Thanks to an awesome group of people and a killer villa, we were spoiled with seafood feasts, copious amounts of rioja, swim after swim after swim, a jacuzzi with views over the Med, flying foxes, treehouses, zen gardens & a private beach.. Ahhhhh....snorkeling with 'zebra' fish and sunning ourselves around the pool.. All in all a fabulous time and although it snapped us out of our chilled Greek zone, we loved seeing everyone again..Oh, oh! and the sunsets, how could I forget??

So thanks to Dewi, Jay, Sim, Bri, Mary, Dunc, Robbie, Jane, Steph, Arash, Emma, Pippa (Queen of Endurance), Barn, Sarah & Cathy we had a wicked time and wish you all the best until we see you again!! Sim& Bri, still chillin in Formentera, we're very jealous...And simpy's birthday today!! Happy Birthday big sis!!

Lupchoo! xx

PS: a few photos attached!!

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Back in London....

The home of fast internet has saved the lupchoo photos... YAY!

so now you can click on the links below to see a couple of teasers of what weve been up to...

hold out for full albums once were done travel'n....

on another note... were in Brixton for 2 hours... rendevouz'n with Sim & Bri... and were off to Ibiza..

damn straight!!... had enough of Londres already YO!

see ya'll soon..

Eh! Island Life

Cant get the pics uploaded properly....... slow internet here..about the same speed that peeps live life around here.... lovin it...

will fix up the pics soon....

x

First photos of Greece!

Could only upload 5 pics so had to choo choo choose carefully.

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ps... havin a little trouble with these guys but ya should be able to check out the links...darn macs

lupchoooooooo!! xx

Diving in Anti Paros!!

Well here we are, finally, no internet where we've been.. I think we have discovered the only comp on the whole island now!! So, we been chillin on this dot in the Med for 4 nights already now..Its a tiny island off of Paros, which is much bigger and more commercial.. only a quick 30 minute boat trip though but so much more low key and s-l-o-w....

Rich has just finished his Open Water course yesterday - woohoo!!! And so today we dove as buddies, yay! Down to an Italian wine cargo ship wrecked off the coast 50 years ago and visability was a fab 25 metres....Second dive of today was another reef nearby where we saw tonnes of Moray eels, went down to about 25m and were down for 35mins or so.. Awesome down there.. We're really getting in to it.. And so much more to come!! but not here, tomorrow is just for relaxing then we're off on another boat back to Athens for a 530am flight on Friday morning.. ughh..

But anyways, back to diving.. Also got to rip around on a DPV which was wicked! That's one of those James Bond type underwater propulsion things you hang on to and steer around.. fun stuff.. Our instructor was showing off doing spirals and crashed head first into the sand and sea weeds.. Island life is all about scooters, watching sunset, meandering down the little main street, drinking Mythos beer and eating lots of gyros (kebabs)..Can't get much better...

We missed a week though in the installments, that was when we were on Santorini island for 3 nights, before here. that was killer too, more scooting, volcanic beaches, sunsets to die for and a room for 20€ a night...Spinach and feta filos, more gyros (kebabs again!!), tsaziki and yummy bread.. A mammoth 9 hour ferry from Athens which kick started the whole trip *not to be repeated, it's pretty harsh* and sun sun sun!!! Most days are about 30 degrees, not a cloud in the sky.. But the wind at night is pretty chilly.. Lots of dogs running around, very friendly people and I don't know what else to say!

ps... we finaly found the internet but dont have the camera on us! doh!! so no pictures again... we have some rip snorters but ya'll will just have to wait..

bye bye... gyros time

xx

Greece!!!

Were here and lovin it... super hot and sunny!!!

pictures to come but were outta time...

see ya