Sunday afternoon and we are finished all we want to do. Today we were up early to take the ferry through Sydney Harbour and land in Manly Beach. We know that sun and beach will be a distanced memory after 1 week back in wet/cold Canada. So we gave ourselves 2 hours to dive in the waves, tast the salt water and work on our tan! The ferry to Manly was a 30 minutes side seeing tour through Sydney and the down town core looking from the water side. Last night Miriam and I celebrated our first evening dinner without the [View Full Entry]

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Well, living in the house on wheels is finished........ Now we have 4 days in a 5 star hotel (yep, again through my visa points). Tuesday we were still in Noosa head ( a little surfers Paradise) and had for the first time in our trip a day of rain, it was actually kind of nice to sit in the motorhome, read books and hear the rain..... So on Wednesday we drove to Brisbane, where we - after getting lost, driving against traffic - finally got to our hotel, dropped of the kids and brought back the motorhome. Another chapter from [View Full Entry]

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G'day mates, How is it going? Australia is heaps of fun, but reality is starting to sink in with 3 more days left. Yesterday Meindert, Kirsten and I climbed the Harbour Bridge in Sydney in the end of the day and had a beautiful view of the city sky line, the harbour with the sail boats and the Oprah house. It's a 3 hour trip up the ramps of the bridge all the way to the top. Some spots was a bit scary but you are clipped in with a harnas onto a rope. We had fun doing together and the [View Full Entry]

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Hi mates, Well you haven't heard from us for a while. The Aussies aren't as well developed in internet cafes as the Thais. After the Zoo we went up to Hervey Bay, where I wrote my last blog. The Tuesday was a rest day. For Wednesday and Thursday we booked a snorkeling trip to Lady Elliot Island........ Absoluty heaven, paradise....... What a great spot, we felt we were on one of those paradise islands. We flew from Hervey Bay Airport for 50 min. in a 8 person airplane, what a beautiful view we had ........and then arrived at Lady Elliot Island. [View Full Entry]

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Hi everybody, Well another update from Paradise. We had a great time at the surfing lesson, the kids all got up, standing and surfing !!!!! (Please Mr Bloch, tell this to Mrs Bartel !!!!!!!!!!!) That afternoon (Saturday) we drove up to Surfers Paradise, and it is paradise !!!!!!!!! Waves are very strong !!! There were about 17 people that had to be rescued that day. The beaches are very well patrolled, you can only swim between the flags. The city itself is shopping heaven !!!!!!! Then Sunday morning Kirsten had to go to the doctor as she had a huge splinter [View Full Entry]

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Hello everybody, Well that has been a while, as there are not as many Internet Cafe's in Australia as in Thailand. The computers at the RV Campgrounds are old and some have dial up. So here I am in Tweed Heads, in an internet cafe, typing as fast as I can. Remmert and Meindert are getting a haircut, bien is watching me and Kirsten is e-mailing her friends. We had a lovely time in Sydney, went for a tour, saw the opera house, stayed in a great hotel. Picked up the rv on Sunday afternoon. (Rupert we will be back in [View Full Entry]

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Well after being up for almost 24 hours we arrived in Sydney, what a nice clean city compared to Bangkok. Thanks to the shopping of me and the VISA , we are staying again in a nice hotel. And even better, just explored a bit and found a Starbucks right across from the hotel !!!! Jippie, no more Thai brew !!!! To-morrow will be the house on wheels for 2.5 weeks and after that we will come back here again. Hereby some pics from the last couple of days, enjoy. Thanks everybody for writing us, Meindert and Sabien loved getting the [View Full Entry]

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Hi everybody, here a blog from Remmert and me together. Wanted to first make clear that the 1000.00 CAD came from the choir from Cheam Elementary School. They raised the funds at their X Mas concert, this for the people that didn't know. Second I haven't done any housework or laundry for over a month !!!!!!!! Start to get really used to this, oh also no cooking for a month, we are all looking forward to a home cooked meal in the motorhome. enjoying last day in Bangkok, full of luxuries, thanks to shopping with the VISA (with the Aeroplan points [View Full Entry]

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First of all Happy Birthday Sis !!!! Thirty something ???? Forty approaching !!!!! Also happy belated B Day to Dion and Ed, we had a few Singha's here as a toast for the Birthday. Yesterday we spend almost the whole day with Karen and Ricky and their 4 daughters. They have started here a Christian Church and an orphanage for 8 boys who are HIV positive. These kids were before in a government orphanage, you know 15 in a room etc. Npow they are living with the 8 of them in a house setting, the youngest one is 7 months old, [View Full Entry]

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It's nearly 3 o'clock and we are ready to leave Chiang Mai and take the nght train to Bangkok. We had two slow days at C.M. I think all the travel from the last 3 weeks caught up to us yesterday. Kirsten became quite sick two nights ago. Most of the night she spent in the washroom followed by her Mother in the early morning. Unfortuately if you can't keep anything in, there is no sense in taking pills to stop it. We just had to sit this one out by taking it easy for two days. Both are feeling well [View Full Entry]

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