http://travel.leevigraham.com Drinking beer three pints at a time. Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:09:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now that Sarah & I are back in Australia and setting up a more permanent residence I have been reflecting on our travels and how hard it was to maintain a blog. In most western countries it was fairly easy however sometimes the internet did not seem to exist. I'm sure ... http://travel.leevigraham.com/2007/11/19/social-networking-travel/ Sarah and are back form a quick trip to BrisVegas where we sweated under the hot sun and humid heat. It was a great trip with highlights including meeting Eric Moi Moi at a pub on Southbank, visiting the local markets in The Valley and catching up with friends. More info and ... http://travel.leevigraham.com/2007/11/05/brisbane-southbank-slur-and-back/ Well we have landed in Japan for our 6 hour stop over. Any other country and this would really suck, but its Japan. Super clean airport, free internet and all the noodles a man can eat. I think we have chosen our next holiday destination. On another note JAL doesn't have ... http://travel.leevigraham.com/2007/06/12/6-hour-stop-over-in-japan/ After 364 days away from the great island downunder Sarah and I are returning home. Our flight leaves tonight at 19:00 and we land back in Aus at 7:00am (roughly) Aussie time on the 13th. It has been a great adventure and I will take some time out on the 24hr ... http://travel.leevigraham.com/2007/06/11/heading-home/ Afetr another long and no sleep overnight train ride we arrived at the very early time of 7am at Romania's capitial Bucharest. The hostel we where staying at was a little bit out of town so the by the time we found where the bus stop was and which number ... http://travel.leevigraham.com/2007/05/25/romania/ After leaving Budapest we headed to Lake Balaton for a small break relaxing on the sand in a seculded bay. Not the case. As Sarah and I are budget travellers we booked two nights accomodation at Rev Hostel on the south side of Lake Balaton. The train from Budapest took us ... http://travel.leevigraham.com/2007/05/25/hostel-rev-lake-balaton/ A little late, but better than never. After leaving Bulgaria we headed to Bucahrest, Romania for a couple of days and on to Sighişoara home of Vlad Tepes. Bucharest was not that great however although Sighasora was small the staff at Nathans Villa Hostel made us both feel very welcome. Sarah ... http://travel.leevigraham.com/2007/05/25/backpacker-adventures-in-budapest-hungary/ Sorry for the lack of updates on the blog recently. Posting takes a significant amount of time to recall al the great experiences we have had so far. However all is not lost. I have added more sets to Flickr of Romania, Hungary, Croatia and most importantly a new set that ... http://travel.leevigraham.com/2007/05/24/posts-on-bulgaria-romania-hungary-and-croatia-delayed/ A few of my favourite things about our Bulgarian experience in no particular order:  Hikers Hostel, Plovidv and HostelMostel, Sofia - Both great hostels with friendly staff and clean ammenities 500mls of beautiful Bulgarian amber ale for anywhere between AU$0.80 and AU$1.60 Ordering two massive salad, a coke, a large bottle of water ... http://travel.leevigraham.com/2007/05/12/bulgaria-roundup/ Today we are heading from Plovdiv to Bulgarias capital Sofia. Our stay in Plovdiv has been great cheap food and beer, icecream and the ancient ampitheatre being among the highlights. Check out all our updated Bulgaria pics on Flickr. http://travel.leevigraham.com/2007/05/10/plovdiv-roundup/