Firstly, Ipswich…awful. Seeing Aunty Robyn and Michael was really good. But Ipswich itself isn’t the nicest of places. I stayed with Michael and Lynn whilst I was in Queensland in the house that Aunty Robyn actually grew up in. Aunty Robyn lent me her ute so Michael and I drove in to Brisbane itself just to have a look around. Stupidly Michael had forgotten that parking was ridiculously expensive so for 2 hours parking it cost $40. It was great to land in Perth knowing I was only an hour away from home. Terry picked me up from the airport (THANX [View Full Entry]

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On Saturday Jeremy and Crystal had people over as they had managed to get rid of their kids, which is good. Their oldest daughter Jade who is 4 doesn’t like me for some reason and is constantly giving me grief . Whether it is a pinch, punch or kick while no one is looking or giving me the evils. I don’t know why I was never anything but nice…lol. Anyway, the party was really cool we set up Jeremy’s sound system and had my hard drive hooked up and blasted my music. I got to meet a bunch of Justin and [View Full Entry]

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Since I have been here I have lost all perception of time, therefore it's hard to put events in order . Today we went kayaking from departure bay. We had to first blow up the raft and then carry it down to the water hoping that it could carry both of us and wouldn’t leak air. We jumped in and set off trying not to be hit by any boats travelling around. We paddled over to a little island and chilled out in the cove. On our way back we saw that a plane was coming in to land and it [View Full Entry]

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So Justin and I have been quite lazy over the last week but we are active now . The other day we went to this really cool walking trail where we got lost a few times but ended up finding the waterfall which is what we were aiming to see. You actually had to climb down a rope to get to the waterfall as the hill was super steep to climb down. That was a lot of fun and i got to see some of the great outdoors . Yesterday we went to the sand castle building competition and i saw [View Full Entry]

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I am having so much fun here. Whether it be hanging out with Justin and his friends or Canada it self I’m not sure. Unfortunately since I have arrived the weather has been pretty average, so 3 days of bad weather hasn’t been that fun . Also due to the fact I can’t withdraw any money and Justin doesn’t have a vehicle, combined with the bad weather we haven’t done a whole lot. We went for a quick spin in a car we borrowed so I got to see downtown, Departure Bay and another few places. But most of the time [View Full Entry]

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The few days in London were OK I didn’t really do too much; I went and saw TATE Modern art gallery that was about it. I have decided I don’t have an eye for art. I walked around the gallery and I thought most of the art was crap. This one lady stopped and was looking at a couple of pieces of wood sticking out of the wall and she said ecstatically “I love it! I absolutely love it!”. I couldn’t believe it! I’m not sure whether it’s I don’t have an eye or appreciation of art, or that people look [View Full Entry]

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Just to let you know Glasgow didn’t blow my mind, compared to the rest of Scotland i thought it was shit. I got to Glasgow yesterday around 1pm, I made my way to the hostel and dropped of my bags and set out to see some of the city. I walked down the main street and saw some less than average break dancers busking for money and then made my way to the park by the river and relaxed for a couple of hours. I went to back to the hostel which is massive by the way but quite nice, I [View Full Entry]

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First of all my bus ride to Inverness was long and hot, it was 4 hours but the girl behind me with her feet in my back made it longer, and the bus being stuffy and hot made it even longer! Other than that though I loved he bus ride, the scenery up through the highlands was stunning. I could not stop staring out the window, well that was till I fell asleep for a bit. But truly the bus ride was awesome. I got to Inverness and found it to be what I expected a reasonably small town where there [View Full Entry]

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Today I got up gorged at the free breakfast provided by the hostel and the decided that I would phone home *done in creepy ET like voice*. I spoke to Mum and Scott for around 1.5 hours and also played a few games of checkers and dominoes. I then called Steph and got to speak to Ben and Steph , as per usual…drunk. LOL. It was around 2pm when I left the hostel. I had met some girls from America that asked if I wanted to join them on a tour that they were going to do, I was going to [View Full Entry]

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The 29th was a boring day but a fantastic night. During the day I thought I better figure where I’m going and what I’m doing for my couple of days in between Edinburgh and Glasgow. I had a few options: Isle of Skye/Lewis/Mull or I could go to the highlands. I reviewed all my options and how easy it was to get to them, accommodation available, etc. After many hours of research I had narrowed the choice down to either Isle of Skye or Inverness which is the hub of travellers before venturing in to the highlands. I decided I would [View Full Entry]

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