Travel Blog Posts
April 2nd 2009
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 and Aine called over for the now ritual monday night Desperate Housewives night) So most of our 2 weeks was made up of dossing around and relaxing, on the beach and by the pool, We ... read more
March 27th 2009
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 ... read more
Final Destination .... CAIRNS
Published: March 12th 2009Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns » Cairns City
March 12th 2009
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 we headed north to Caloundra, a lovely little seaside town, although with our schedule we only stayed one night there and moved on to Noosa. On our way to Noosa we called into the World ... read more
The road to the Theme parks...
Published: February 17th 2009Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Surfers ParadiseFebruary 17th 2009
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 which we were happy about, and lots of stoners.... We we're camped right in the middle of the town in a small enough campsite which backed onto the beach. In the site next to us ... read more
Now the REAL travelling begins...............
Published: February 3rd 2009Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Coffs Harbour
February 3rd 2009
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 to be very cultural and take the 1 and a half hour trip to the Jenolan Caves..it was all going great until Joey (the van!) started making a back firing noise everytime we were going ... read more
January 8th 2009
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!!... read more
January 8th 2009
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 lovely present from Elaine and Tam ( my aunty & favourite Scottish uncle!) - got a voucher to climb the Harbour Bridge. Myself & Lorna then headed for a visit to my great Aunty Marie's ... read more
December 19th 2008
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 do. the first night we pitched our brand new tent and we were thrilled with ourselves!! second night the plan failed...we started off in the tent...and BY 2AM we had to retreat to the back ... read more
December 19th 2008
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 got held up for 2 days. when they finally arrived we rented out a car for the day....... read more
November 25th 2008
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 the James Bond Island.. This was where they filmed scenes from the Man with the Golden Gun in 1974.. Very spectacular place (See Photos). Also that morning we did a sea canoe and went for ... read more
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