Lisa Lollipop

I may have told a little porkie pie about my last blog post being my last! Well this one is only going to be brief! 2 flights down and just one mammoth one to go. Flight from Melbourne to Sydney was all good, I think i fell asleep before we took off and woke up just before we landed!! Richard Branson is on our Virgin Flight from Sydney through to London. He's been out in Australia rebranding the Aussie products. He had the cheek to push in front of me, yes me! in the Transit queue.... does he not know who I am?! Anyway, just sat at the gate waiting to reboard. Haven't got the energy to go and spend my Hong Kong dollars that i got 2 weeks ago so I'll have to use them ... read more

So there's no rest for the wicked eh?! Another 7am pick up - however there was a problem with the bus so it turned out to be 7.30!! Those extra 30 mins sleep would have been more than welcomed! After all the hotel collections we made our way out of the City and travelled along the Western Highway through Geelong. Our first stop was at Bells Beach - here we watched the surfer dudes out on their boards! It was a particularly chilly and breezy morning and not so many big waves breaking but they were still having a go. Having watched them I think i'd spend more time falling off the surfboard and only managing to hoist myself onto it once it landed on the beach! I think I'll leave it to the professionals!!!! Our ... read more

Oh yes, you read that right!!!! Neighbours tour day!!! Arghhhh, getting up at the crack of dawn as we needed to be at the tour office for 8.30am and we made our way to the train station in Sandringham. It only took 35 mins to get to Flinders Street station in the City and the hustle and bustle of the city and those off to work! I'd driven past the tour office on the Sunday when I'd hailed a taxi from the Hilton at the Wharf to the train station but, in true Lisa Thomas fashion, had failed to realise it was over 300 building numbers away from the train station!!!! Ooops. Distance and size have really never been my strong point! I refer people back to when i ordered new pin boards for work and ... read more

G'day one and all, How ya going? Hope you are all well. My last blog entry was from a train in the middle of nowhere practically. So what I didn't get to write in that entry was that the train journey just went from bad to worse!! I mentioned the screaming kids.... they actually managed to scream for the entire journey - not only that, the train kept breaking down!!!! It must have been just after i published my blog that the first breakdown occurred. Some fuses blew for the engine cooling system but we were assure that the, and I quote, 'Clever drivers have managed to solve the problem and we're on our way!' Well all that sounds good but when the initial breakdown is at a station and further overheating problems occurred in the ... read more

Well after being the first on the bus yesterday I was last off at The Seafront resort. Unfortunately it was dark once we arrived so no idea what the scenery was! I had dinner in the hotel restaurant with Craig and Diane a couple from Las Vegas. Really lovely and we swapped travel stories and discussed future travel plans. I think I turned in about 9pm exhausted from the 12 hour travels of K I ! So maybe I was overtired or maybe just over excited about what today may bring but I woke up at 4am!! Unable to get back to sleep I had text chats with Mum and Donna and Marky Mark. Luckily once it was time to get up and be down for breakfast the sun was coming up and I went along ... read more