I caught my train the Indian Pacific, from Sydney with 2 mins to spare. All the passenger doors were locked so I had to board from the luggage section. I was so close to missing my train I had to run for my life! I could hear my heart beating in my head and was coughing like a... unfit person.. So the first leg of my journey started at 3pm on the 26th July from Sydney and ended in Adelaide at 3 pm the next day. It was a 24hour train journey with a 2 hour stop at a small town [View Full Entry]

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Today was my last day at American Express and the project I was working on will soon be launched. All instructions have been lodged so that managers can easily update the system in continuation of my ‘good work’ (in the words of my manager…) I was really taken back when I was given a cake, flowers and a goodbye card. I am very lucky to have met and worked with such lovely people :) I have now got a day of rest and packing and then I’m off to continue with my travels on Wed the 26th July. My overall plan [View Full Entry]

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Me and Jen were looking cool this weekend whizzing around in her new black convertible MGF! She is called the ‘Minx’ and is a nifty little mover. We just could not help but cruise the city top off pumping the music and then driving to the local beaches to do some sight seeing…Shame the car is only a two seater… ;) Jen firstly took me to Palm Beach which is where Home and Away, Summer Bay scenes are filmed. We saw no action but reenacted a few scenes ourselves! We also popped into Manly and Coo gee Beach, seriously these beaches [View Full Entry]

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Why didn’t anyone tell me how good weekends are??? It is the first time in my life that I have got a job that has not required me to work weekends and I love it!! Especially when you go out the Friday night making your weekend even longer.. Since I have been in Sydney I have definitely been catching up with lost time. Last weekend I went out to a karaoke night with Jen and her work Co’s, and what was a microphone in my hand at the beginning of the night ended up as a wine bottle! Also last Saturday [View Full Entry]

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What has been happening in the life of Turkishdelight in the past 2 weeks, well let's see.. my weekdays have consisted of the bog standard work routine with a trip to the cinema to see the animated Pixar movie "Cars" which was highly entertaining and recommended, and also a trip to the gym for a 'body jam' class with Jen which again was highly entertaining... from a spectators point of view that is!! However, the weekends have been the main hip shakers.. SO what did I do? The weekend before last was a busy one; It consisted of a night of [View Full Entry]

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As all bank holidays go it rained the whole time and there were renovation works on train lines! This did not stop the Angels from going on their adventures so we bused it for 3 hours to Port Stephens, Nelson Bay. After meeting up with Chris (the mad scientist guy whom Jenny and Jo had met on a previous holiday) we made our way to the local pub to watch the England vs. Paraguay football match, wearing England t-shirts, being the true supporters that we are… and goal!!! Well done England you did us proud!!! That night we were out this [View Full Entry]

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A thing I have noticed about traveling is that you end up meeting some really nice people. It may be the case that you only know them for a day or maybe a few but you exchange details as if you are genuinely going to stay in contact. Half of the time you don't but then there is the other half chance you will... And one of these examples is when I exchanged my details with Jenny and Jo whom I met in Fiji... What happened is after spending my 4 nights at Nananu Island I had 2 nights booked and [View Full Entry]

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Once arriving to Sydney again I had nothing booked only the name of the hostel to go by so I caught a bus and arrived at the Wake up hostel. I was put in a dorm of 7 blokes... am I complaining..!! Actually the one downsider was that there was snooring symphonies going on. Good job I'm becoming a heavy sleeper. When I first walked out of the hostel and looked around I didn't realise how many Chinese people there were in Sydney, then found out I was actually in the China town region... I have been out and about discovering [View Full Entry]

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Bula!! Once arriving at LAX airport I was pleased to hear the good old British accent again. While checking in I requested a window seat on the plane, however I ended up getting a window seat without and a window?! But I did have all 3 seats to myself. The 10,5 hour flight did drag as I couldn't sleep I was very excited about moving onto my next destination but also very anxious about the fact that 1- I was on my own 2-I hadn't arranged where I was staying in Fiji I have to say that it was all really [View Full Entry]

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Throughout my 5 days in NY I was lucky enough not to have any of the predicted rain, it actually only started raining just as I was boarding my airport transfer, how lucky was I. However I wasn't lucky when the bogey man got me.. I don't know how I managed to catch a cold but I bought some strong cold and flu tablets and took the maximum dose just before boarding my 6 hour flight to LA which knocked me out completely...I didn't even get to have my flight meal.. not sure that that's such a big loss. Anyway, once [View Full Entry]

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