Hey Guys and Girls, Parents and Grand parents!! This is my first blog since moving out here to Melbourne a few weeks ago. The news from down here is that things are starting to settle down, I've joined a local rugby team and been absolutely loving it, especially scoring a try on my debut! My rugby pitch is right next to the pit lane for the F1 grand prix circuit and our changing rooms are the garages for the cars!! I've put in a picture of my club house overlooking Albert park lake and the city as the back drop! Unfortunately [View Full Entry]

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Well everyone this is my last blog, thank you very much for joining me on my journey for the last 6 months, it has been brilliant receiving all your comments and feedback. Since leaving the Philippines and encountering a minor problem at Manila airport (them telling me I’m not booked on the flight and my ticket is invalid!), I spent a couple of days in Singapore sorting out what I was going to do for the next 10 days. I eventually decided on heading north on a train to Kula Lumpar. My plan was pretty flexible so on the advice of [View Full Entry]

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Dear All, This could well be one of my last blog entries as I leave the Philippines on Sunday 15th and head back to Singapore. It's yet to be worked through but I’m hoping to visit Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos, or at least one for a couple of weeks before coming home! Since the last entry around the time of my birthday I feel I have really got out and experienced what the Philippines has to offer. After a few days in the office with Aaron and watching Benjamin Button (great film, Aaron cried, I nearly did.....but didn't!), it was time [View Full Entry]

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Hello Everyone, Well NZ is only a distant memory now as I have spent a few days in Singapore visiting some of the sites inc Chinatown and Little India with Aaron. On Thursday 22nd Aaron and I jumped on a flight to the Philippines and went to the island of Panay, the home of Aaron’s family, and where the weekend’s famous Dingayang festival is held. Aaron’s family business sponsored a tribe participating in the main event, this meant they had to enter a team for the Kasadyahan (Merry Making) parade on the Saturday for schools and sponsors. Thursday evening we introduced [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone, Well this is my last blog from New Zealand as on Friday I'm heading to Singapore to meet Aaron before we head to the Philippines. From the last blog I left Westport after a tame night to make my way to Lake Mahinapua. On the way we stopped at Cape Foulwind for an early morning walk and to check out the seal colony, they say that you can sniff kangaroo’s as this is the closest point to OZ. The lunch stop was then at pancake rocks before heading into Greymouth to sort out the fancy dress outfits for the [View Full Entry]

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I guess I'd better start with Happy New Year everyone, I hope you have all had a fantastic Christmas & New Year and are enjoying being back at work! Sorry it has been a while since the last blog but to be honest it has been nonstop over here. Since my last blog on Christmas eve I have opened a few presents, thanks Mum & Dad, Alex & Woody, Colin & Jenny and Andrew and Kimbers, but I’m now struggling for room in the bag ;-) ( no honestly thank you all very much). So apart from the presents I spent [View Full Entry]

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Merry Christmas one and all, Today is Christmas Eve and I'm feeling a bit Christmassy with all the songs on the radio etc but its not quite the same if your not wrapped up in a winter scarf and jacket! Since the last entry I've taken the coach up to the most northerly point of New Zealand called Cape Regina, which was a fantastic experience with awesome views. The tour guide was telling us stories about how special the area is to the Maori and when we got there is was very misty with cloud rolling in off the cliffs, it [View Full Entry]

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Hi guys, Well the news since the last blog is that after leaving Airlie beach I arrived in Cairns where i was due to board a diving boat for 3 days and 2 nights. However due to our dive master missing the boat we all missed it, so I spent the rest of the day at the lagoon with Ash & Toni before we met up with the other lads. That evening turned out to be my last with 3 of the guys as they weren't coming diving but heading down to Melbourne. So it was a night out with a [View Full Entry]

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Goodday everyone, I know it hasn't been all that long since my last entry or that is how it feels to me, but I have been very busy. After getting the coach from Noosa to Rainbow beach I had a briefing for the Fraser Island self drive safari, where we were told everything from cooking, camping to avoiding the Dingo's! So we got put into groups, sorted out the important things such as who the drivers will be and how much booze we will need, the rest of the evening was spent getting to know each other. The next day was [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone once again, I hope you are all well, as I am currently having a fantastic time making my way up the East coast of Australia. Since leaving the Thomas family in Sydney I first stopped in Byron Bay. Here I met up with a group of guys I met in Sydney. Byron Bay was just brilliant, we drunk far too much goon (boxed white wine) and suffered a serious bout of memory loss and drunkeness! Several nights of this with drinking games in the hostel, making up songs such as "consume the goon" and making lots of friends was [View Full Entry]

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