Blogs from Mona Vale, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania

Trip and accomodation: We went to Charles De Gaulle airport's at 14h. We were so excited, we were going to Australia!!First big problem!! Julie's suitcase was too fat and we have to pay a tax. The trip was starting good!We have a stop over at Bangkok after 11h of flight. we set of again for 9h. We were in Sydney!! We are arrived in Sydney at 20h00. We are sleep some days in youth hostel for find a home sharing with an Australian’s group. For that, we went to home sharing sites and saw the real estate agent. We found quickly a home sharing in the town.... read more

Hey everyone, just trying out my blog entry for the first time. I'm very excited about my trip. Still have quite a few things to do tonight so i'll probably be up for a while. Love to you all.... read more

I'm sitting at home trying to work out this blog thing before I take off tomorrow. Very excited!... read more

8 - 28 November 2011 What a whirlwind! I needed to get back from my holiday from my holiday so I could have a rest! We flew home this month for our very good mates' wedding - Em and Benny. It was such a fun and very cool wedding - what other bride does the worm on the dance floor and goes crowd surfing a number of times??!! We had a great time catching up with as many people as we could in a short time and it was good for Alex to know he had finished up work for a little while again. The boys loved catching up with all their family and friends but it was certainly a busy three weeks. Don't think I've ever crammed so much into that time frame before..... By ... read more

Day 94 This morning we packed up the camper van and headed onto the M4 motorway which goes straight into Sydney. We travelled for approximately 40km from Penrith to an area south west of the city called Belmore, to drop off camper van at the depot. Along the way we saw the Olympic Park and the city skyline in the distance. The train station was 10 minutes walk from the depot and it felt strange to be backpackers again carrying all our belongings. It took us half an hour to get to Central Station where Oliver's uncle David was picking us up. We drove north over the Sydney harbour bridge towards Mona Vale where David and Oliver's aunty Eleanor have a luxury penthouse apartment overlooking the Bayview golf course. In the afternoon we went for a ... read more

Day 83 We had every intention of going to Sydney today, our plan was to get the bus in to Manley, then the Fast Cat ferry over to Circular key. Once we had some breakfast and by the time we got ourselves together we looked at the bus time table and found that we would have to wait another 45 minutes for a bus, so we drove directly to Manley parked in the Australian equivalent of an NCP carpark and jumped on the fast cat from there. The Ferry ride is only half an hour, really pleasant in the sunshine, we sat at the front of the boat as if we were on a school outing. . I had heard on the radio this morning about a cruise liner that was in or coming in at ... read more

Here we are safe and sound and home at last. What a wonderful bed and what a wonderful night's sleep. Thailand was really great. We had more time than we had originally planned and it worked out very well. One last glitch was at the airport when we found out that because we had made an alteration to our previous flight time someone had forgotten to tell them we wouldn't be flying at the original time. This meant we looked like a 'no show' and our subsequent booking for the final leg was cancelled and hence we had no booking. Luckily they put us on stand by and we picked up a couple of seats at the last minute. When we go to the airport there was no shuttle bus. I made a call. They had ... read more