October to November 2006 – Turkey
Hello. We were unable to bring you an issue of JAB last month (our apologies) so we have combined two issues into one. The reason: we’ve been busy buying an apartment in Turkey and today we got the keys. So the thanks this issue go to Mike and Lutfi of The Right Move Abroad and to Turgay.
Medusa, Apollo Temple, Didim, Turkey
Posted in Househunting Travels, Our Travels, Travelling 
Tags: altinkum, living abroad, ohrid, skopje, turkey 
No Comments »September 2006 – Albania & Macedonia
Hello. As usual JAB always seems to fall on the day or day before we are moving but today Deirdre is unwell – our unwritten rule when one of us is sick is not to travel unless we absolutely have to. Otherwise we would be heading to Skopje today.
St Jovan, Lake Ohrid
Last issue we were due to leave Gjirokastra the next day. We got up early, got a lift to the station from our helpful hotel owners and stood by the road waiting for the bus. The swine drove right past us all and in swooped the taxi drivers with their lies and extortions.
Posted in Househunting Travels, Travelling Tags: albania, gjirokastra, hitch-hiking, korca, macedonia, ohrid, rakija No Comments »August 2006 – Greece & Albania
Hello, we finally left beautiful Corfu Town and headed north to explore other parts of the island and then it was back to the roughty, toughty backpacker life, travelling to Albania.
Gjirokastra, Albania
Saranda is by the sea directly opposite Corfu, close enough for some brave Albanians to have swum the channel between the two countries looking for a better life. The town seemed to be experiencing a building boom and we momentarily considered the place as somewhere to live. Had we been looking for a long term investment it may have been an option but as a place to live we felt we didn’t have the experience to buy in a still developing market.
Posted in Househunting Travels, Travelling Tags: albania, butrint, gjirokastra, saranda No Comments »May, June and July 2006 – Greece
Corfu Town, Greece
Hello, we started working again and relaunched the Jobs Abroad Bulletin, our monthly newsletter of job vacancies around the globe. A number of events – including family illness and bereavement, homelessness, and some serious computer, server and connection problems – knocked us a little bit wobbly and it took some time to get reorganised. We have been getting lots of work done on the website over the course of the past month as we have found accommodation with an ASDL connection.
Posted in Househunting Travels, Travelling Tags: corfu, greece, jobs in kavos, world cup No Comments »March and April 2006 – Bulgaria, Romania & UK
Hello, we came so close to finding a home. Done and dusted, we thought, so easy. After the mandatory row with the taxi driver we briefly explored Sofia, noting the plethora of porn shops, and headed into the mountains to the ski resort of Bansko.
Veliko Tarnovo
There we got down to the business of finding somewhere to live, poking around the cobbled streets and drinking and eating in the Mehanas. Though I liked the town it was too small and Deirdre quickly got fed up walking around in the snow and slush.
Posted in Househunting Travels, Travelling Tags: bansko, bulgaria, plovdiv, romania, veliko tarnovo No Comments »January and February 2006 – Egypt
Big Pyramid Shaped Thing
Hello. We left the stress of Aswan and Luxor behind for the far more relaxed Dahab. Travelling via Hughada. We lost our cool twice, once each, on the way to Dahab. Mine took place when buying the bus ticket and had found that a small sum had been added onto the price agreed. If you can’t even trust the bloody bus company, I thought, and actually stamped my foot like a ten year old in my efforts to get the extra fee waived.
Posted in Househunting Travels, Travelling Tags: cairo, dahab, egypt, hurghada, pyramids, sinai, touts, uk No Comments »January and February 2006 – Egypt
Temple of Horus, Edfu
Hello. Unable to hear the word ‘felluca’ without flinching we decided to take one of the small cruise ships that journey up and down the Nile between Aswan and Luxor.
Good little backpackers that we are we weren’t going to take the first price offered. There are scores of ships of varying comfort docked in Aswan and the easiest way to get a cheap trip is to walk on and ask. Walking the length of the corniche we asked the same question dozens of times: “How long is the trip? Where do you stop at? How much?”
January and February 2006 – Egypt
Temple of Horus, Edfu
Hello. It didn’t take long after landing in Cairo to realize we weren’t going to get much relaxation. This is the most hasslesom country we’ve ever been to. Almost the whole of Egypt seems to be involved in the hassle industry: taxi drivers, hotel touts, shop touts, restaurant touts, caleche touts, felucca touts, even toilet touts. I’m not kidding: “my toilet is the best, best toilet paper, very clean. That toilet over there, very bad, very bad people.”
December 2005 to January 2006 – UK to Egypt
Hello. We’re off travelling again and, this time, we are looking for a home. On our return from our travels around the world a few years previously we were lucky to find somewhere to live in Wales, in my Dad’s newly bought two bedroom cottage. He needed a tenant and we needed a home without having to pay an expensive deposit so things worked out well for all of us. But, though he still worked and lived in Essex, we knew eventually he would want his home for himself.
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