Hey everyone bit wierd to be now writing my Blogs in a completley different country!!! Our nightmare of a time in Sydney airport continued as i left you last time our flight was delayed for another hour so we were in the airport for over 8 hours a long time!!! The flight was pretty gd for me anyway i managed to sleep for most of the journey with harry not getting much sleep to my knowledge. We arrived in New Zealand about 11.30pm there time 9.30pm our bodyclock time!! Got through baggage claim and customs all easy before we got the Super Shuttle into Christchurch City Centre. Then we got outside our hostel to find ourselves next to the beautiful Chirstchurch Cathedral. We checked in and the guy at reception was so friendly and helpful a ... read more
Well im writing this to all of you guys back at home as we currently are waiting 7 hours for our flight to Chrischurch from Sydney later on today and they had free internet so i thought id take advantage. After Whitsundays it was the next long overnight bus up to Cairns. We had a really funny bus driver the second half of the journey which made it a little more bearable. Then we arrived at Cairns at 6.30am in the morning to check into our hostel only to find out that we were not allowed to check in till 2pm absolute nightmare!!! So we left out bags there and head off to the lagoon for a relaxing swim which was really nice. Then we took a walk around the city well it called a city ... read more
Hey everyone speaking so soon again after Fraser Island just 2 days later and it was time for us to set sail onto the Whitsundays. First of all before all that we had to stay a night at a hostel and we met up with a few others from the previous trip and had a few drinks with them!!!! Then it came the next day time to sail we first went to a meeting to get information and rom keys for the island we were staying on. After that we set off down to the little harbour with all the boats. This was where i decided it would actually be a good idea to hire a stinger suit so i didnt get stung by a box jellyfish which would not have been to fun at all. ... read more
Hey everyone im writing you know after just finishing Fraser Island yesterday and though id write about it seeing its fresh in my mind!!! At first before we even got to on the island we had to go through a briefing back at the hostel about the do's and dont's of the trip and so on. Then after that we were arranged in our groups and told to go and get some food and drink for the nest 3 days over there!!! The group consisted of me harry and giles obviously then there was Loius the little Swiss bloke who became prob my favourite of the group he was so funny without meaning to be and a genuinly nice bloke. Then there was Holly english girl from london a complete control freak who had a split ... read more
Long time no talk for me mainly because there has not been a lot for me to tell you lot that would excite you. Its been well over 2 weeks since my last blog now so ill try to remember what we have done to the best of my knowledge. As far back as i can remember we went to the rugby 7's at the Commenwealth Games we went to every single session so we were there from 10 in evening 2 hour break in afternoon and then finish at half 10 in the evening. The Rugby was brilliant fun the atmosphere was amazing and it was gd to see all the lesser countries like Uganda, Kenya and Sri Lanka get there chance to shine. The most notable thing from the first days play was the ... read more
Hey everyone again i am now writing to you from Melbourne a day before the commenwealth games starts i will explain as i go on. Anyway the last week we have all been very busy!!! Last Saturday the one before the one just gone it was time for our second cricket match. Me and Harry got picked up outside our hostel at about 9 o'clock to set off to the ground. We arrived there very shortly and to our dissapointment the ground was a bit of a hole!!! The outfield well i have not seen anything like it before it was like a football pitch only longer and as for the strip that looked a complete mess like they had not spent any time preparing it. Anyway we won the toss and batted first we got ... read more
Hey everybody again i am writing to you know after having spent 2 full weeks in Sydney now and i am loving the place!!! Ill Start where i left off last time and that was on the mention of cricket!! We did end up trecking it that night down to Linfield on the train and walked a bit till we found the ground and were able to meet some Aussies and join there nets. Giles seemed to bowl quite well from the off where as i took a while to get going and i was spraying wides then full tosses i had the lot. Straight as we arrived a packistani bowler was bowling to there ones captain and he drove it back the guy tried to catch it and broke his finger!! Nice!! After bout half ... read more
Hey everyone again last few days in Sydney have been really good and enjoyable. This is what we have been up to...... Last Sat the boys wanted to go to the powerhouse museum but i was not to interested in it myself so i decided to go up Sydney Skytower the tallest building in Sydney with a veiw over all of the city. It was a bit wierd seeing it from above after walking back and forth through it each day but the tower sure had so me spectacular views of the harbour!! Got some gd pics for the photo albums!! Also there was a little lame ride after the tower called the OzTrek which was a simulator which took you on a ride through the major landmarks in Oz. Then later that night it was ... read more
Well i am writing to you on my 3rd day in Sydney and i can say it has been all good but very tiring!!!! Anyway here is how our last few days went in wonderful Mellbourne. Last sunday we visited Werribe Zoo which Helen took us to with Rob which was about a half hour journey by car. It was more of an african zoo than an Australian zoo to be honest but it was still highly enjoyable. While we were there we took the Safari tour around the park which was really good we got a chance to drive past all the animals and get right up close to all of them which was a great experience. After we completed the Safari we set off to the otherside of the park to see the lions, ... read more
Hey everyone again! The last couple of days have all been good ones as far as it goes for us in Melbourne over the last few days. The weather has been more up and down than we have come to expect actually had days consisting of a lot of rain!! Right as far back as i can remmber since i last wrote was sunday. On sunday we decided we would go into town to have a look for some things to take back home, some presents for friends family and for Tony and Helen for having us. We already knew what we were getting Big T (Tony) as when we played squash with him he had a really old school small flooresent pink racket so we thought it would be only fair to get him a ... read more