Tickets confirmed

Hola! Well, this is my first post so I might as well give a quick hello to everyone on both sides of the equator; to everyone there in England and to friends and family of Chris in South Africa- I hope that this blog helps you keep well informed on our adventure.

Now that the formalities are out of the way... time for some news! I just booked my ticket yesterday and the good news is that I recieved my ticket today. It's an e-ticket, i'm sure everything is "e-" nowadays but yeah, it's all booked, confirmed and as Chris mentioned: locked in! Hopefully you would have read the plan posted by Chris on the previous post. He's going alot earlier than I am (see: countdown on the right)- so he's going to be updating this blog more frequently than me (from now until I get to London). However, when the time draws nearer for both of us to leave, we'll be keeping you updated on the planning and preperation until we depart. If you wanted to know, here are some flight times for you all to look at:

Chris (to London):
Leave Sydney: 5th June 2008 at 16:55pm
Arriving London: 6th June 2008 at 6:40am

Chris (to Greece):
Departing London: 6th June 2008 at 11:45am
Arriving Athens: 6th June 2008 at 17:40pm

Chris (to London):
Departing Athens: 11th August 2008 at 14:45pm
Departing London: 11th August 2008 at 16:40pm

Chris would be meeting me in London around november time. Still waiting on getting a confirmation on his return flight home to Sydney. We'll post it up once we get any confirmation. Chris will however, be flying back out to Sydney on the same day as me though. I can just picture both of us reaching Heathrow airport, ready to go back home after one crazy adventure and saying to each other "well mate, see you on the other-side" haha, and then get on our seperate planes. Who's going to get there first Chris! Anyways, here's my flight info:

Rishi (to London):
Departing Syndey: 29th November 2008 at 03:50pm
Arriving London: 30th November 2008 at 05:00am

Rishi (to Sydney):
Departing London: 12th February 2009 at 21:30pm
Arriving Sydney: 14th February 2009 at 07:00am

Well that's it. Confirmed. Only thing left to purchase now is the Eurail ticket. For those of you who don't know, a Eurail ticket is a train ticket that is valid for upto 15 days to use within 2 months. It works pretty much anywhere in Europe and it apparently works out alot cheaper than buying every train trip individually. These would most likely be booked at a later date. After speaking to Chris, the Eurostar ticket- that is the train from London Kings Cross Station (yes the station in Harry Potter) to Paris will be booked one week before I arrive in London. From my experience, mainly from my trip to London last xmas, Eurostar tickets need to be booked in advance. But I think we're both pretty much well organized, got everything in order for the Europe trip and i'm sure Chris is set for Greece too.

Oh, and for those of you who are trying to subscribe to the blog: I know we mentioned that you should subscribe to keep updated, well there's a slight problem... (typically) Niether of us can figure out how to do it so my advice to you is bookmark the blog and check it on a regular basis!

That's it for now. I'll be posting up our itenerary for Europe in my next post. This includes a map of Europe with our intended route and pretty much our entire plan for the trip. It is a rough guide, we're not going to be following it exactly, but atleast everyone will have a better idea of where we are going and what we plan on doing.

Talk to you guys later.

Rishi