Blogs from Cabramatta, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania

So i have been in Australia for a little over a week now. And already met so many people and did some pretty exciting things. I had not much time to update my blog, and even now i have to hurry because we are going to drink a few beers tonight. After the first 3 days settling in i decided to move to another hostel, in another part of Sydney called Manly. Its a little bit bigger then where i stayed the first 3 nights, and there are more clubs. That night people from the first hostel called me and asked if i wanted to join a beach barbecue, and it was close to my new hostel. So i joined, and it was an amazing experience to have a BBQ on the beach. Though the new ... read more

Collo has been doing his homework and found some sites to visit along the way. Take a peek and see if you want to add these to your own itinerary......... Before you leave St. Andrews Scotland’s best kept secret for over 40 years, Hidden beneath an innocent Scottish Farmhouse, a tunnel leads to, Scotland’s Secret Bunker. 24,000 square feet of Secret accommodation. The size of two football pitches, one on top of another, On two levels 100 feet underground. Had there been a Nuclear War, this is where Scotland, would have been Governed, from within http://www.secretbunker.co.uk/ Royal Mile in Edinburgh The Real Mary King’s Close is a warren of underground streets and spaces. It can be a strange concept to understand – back in the 1600’s, Mary King’s Close and neighbouring Closes were at the heart ... read more

Lorenza and I have been a bit house bound of late, so this morning we decided to get and do something other than stick around home. We made a quick list of the ingredients for a Vietnamese dish we wanted to try cooking called "Bun Bo Xao" ... wok fried beef salad with vermicelli noodles, plus Nuoc Cham sauce (fish sauce, chilli, garlic and lemon juice). With our shopping list in hand we took the one hour drive to Vietnam (well the nearest thing to it - the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta). Our first stop was Pho 54 for some lunch. We enjoyed a Saigon style beef pho and watched the sky outside turning very black. Once our meal was done the sky opened up and dumped a torrent of rain down. It was such a ... read more