Our last few days in Cairns were spent chilling by the lagoon, we also met up for a night out with Shari & Kael, and had a good trad session in Willie McBrides Irish bar on Paddys weekend. So after a busy week we got the plane back to Brisbane and rented a lovely ocean view apartment in Surfers...I know, treating ourselves again, but we deserve it !! The night we got back there was a huge storm, we had a deadly view from our 14th floor apartment, look at the pictures uploaded...not as good as the cyclone though! (And Vinny [View Full Entry]

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HEY just a quick entry about our scuba dive school...we completed our PADI open water course so were both now qualified to dive anywhere we want!! We bought an underwater camera to play around with , so please see these photo's attached!! SLAN [View Full Entry]

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Well we finally made it to our last destination on our travels up the east coast and good aul Joey got us there safe & sound!! When we left Surfers we headed up to Brisbane for a few days. Went to the Outback show with Bruce & Mavis, had lunch with Roddy MacDonald, went to the Irish Club with Keith & Sarah, and even took in a band practice with the Queensland Irish Association Pipe Band! Hadnt enough time to see everything in Brisbane so hope to get back there for a quick stop before we go to NZ. After Brisbane [View Full Entry]

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So, Next on our hit list was a place called Ballina, Only good thing we really have to say about it was that it's the same name as an Irish town,(Oh and the fact that it houses about 6 billion ants, and they all happened to live in the camp site we camped in....Typical). So after a very short stay there we headed up to Beautiful Byron Bay.. This is one of the towns where the Australian Hippie movement began, and it's right on the sea, so as you can probably tell there was lots of surfers, Lots of young people [View Full Entry]

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Well Palm Beach was fab..... didnt see any H&A filming which I was hugely disappointed about but I did get to see the surf club with Alf Stewarts name on it, bonus!! I did want to do some replays of some H&A scenes but Alen wasn't so keen so I didn't push it too far!! We also took a trip up the Blue Mountains for a night camping and decided to bring Emily & Conor with us, they had never been camping so we thought this was a great idea! We set up camp in a campsite in Katoomba and decided [View Full Entry]

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Some of the photos are a bit mixed up cause were using two cameras...the first few are from our last week in Thailand and then the rest of Oz! Enjoy!! [View Full Entry]

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G'day! so after a few days camping we arrived back to the Barrett household! it was lovely to get back to a nice comfy bed and get to wash our clothes...again! got all our xmas shopping done and then collected mick and lorna from the airport on xmas eve(they flew in from perth). Christmas day was great...very different from home! we got up at 6am ( my cousins Emily (9) and Conor (6) ) werent allowed go down stairs until the BIG KIDS (me, al, lorna & mick) got up - so it was a very early start! We got a [View Full Entry]

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So after Phuket we went back across to Koh Samui to meet up with mick and Lorna. When we got back we realised that they got caught up in the Bangkok troubles and therefore [View Full Entry]

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so after we got organised we got a flight down to melbourne, staying in the Miami hotel & hostel... it was cheap and cheerful! first day was spent sight seeing - lovely city and then we went on the hunt for a camper van ! we were dissapointed a few times but after a few days we made a deal with this guy and bought our campervan..."JOEY".. we left melbourne with JOey packed to the brim on TUesday and began our travels up the east coast...first stop was a place called Lakes Entrance...quiet town but lovely... great views and lots to [View Full Entry]

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So today is our last day here in Karon Beach, Phuket, Have to say that we have had a really good time here doing all the tours. Our first day here was pretty normal, didn't do very much only took a walk around and got a good feel for the place, We spent the evening looking aroung at what tours we were going to do and where we'd get the best price.. First tour was the James Bond island tour.. this was brilliant. We started off on a kind of a narrow boat travelling through these wide rivers to get to [View Full Entry]

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