Blogs from Ramsay Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oceania - page 2

Greetings Friends, I am in my kitchen preparing my first Travel Blog. I am intrigued by this technology and hope that it will be easy to use as I travel. If not, I'll go back to my infrequent emails. Vince bought me a whizbang digital camera from his recent trip to the USA, so hopefully I'll be able to add photos to this journey that I am taking. I have really enjoyed Kate and Ryan's travel blog but I am a bit apprehensive in that they are 'digital natives' and I certainly am a 'digital migrant' so therefore new to this technology. So here goes!... read more

Interesting day today, 13 hours on a bus, minimal air conditioning, no tv, radio playing Rhianna. Surprisingly good fun though. Yesterday, I arrived in Melbourne early, pratically fell off the bus, so tired, had my now traditional 3 hour power nap before facing the outside world. Had no clue what to look at in Melbourne so wandered round clutching my guide looking lost. Ended up in jail. The old Melbourne Gaol, final resting place of Ned Kelly amongst many others. Have to confess, I went because Billy Connolly went on his world tour and it was the only thing I'd heard of down here. Weird sort of place to open to tourists. The slightly sick element of reading up on everyone's crimes, then seeing the place they all died. They even made death masks for everyone. ... read more

Hello folks! Bet you're all glad to hear from us, I can just imagine you all biting your nails, losing sleep, constantly wondering whether we made it to Adelaide or were stranded in the desert living with the Nullarbor Nymph and the kangeroos! (Google it:P) Well it's good news, we did make it to Adelaide and left Western Australia for the first time in a lot of months! We had a few adventures and many more hours of very boring driving - it's a bloody long drive and we did it in 3 days which is nothing for a trucker but a lot of driving hours for poor Ben! Our first 2 days were pretty uneventful, no camel sightings but lots of dead kangaroos - the way the road trains charge down the road at nighttime ... read more

Easy folks, just thought id let you know that i passed my course and am now looking at figuring out where the hell im going next. I will definitely be going to hong kong, but its unlikely ill work there because im looking at entry level jobs and HK is very expensive..i really dont feel like having to rent a windowless room and living off crisp sandiwiches...so hopefully by the next time i write on this blog, an executive decision will have been made, either try japan/s.korea, or maybe, just maybe, i might chance my arm somewhere in europe. (That does appeal to me when i bear in mind that a certain monkey alan has a stag weekend coming up in 2008). But we'll see, im just glad i passed the course, it was pretty tough... ... read more

Hi, just a quick one to let you know that im still plodding on with this course. Its been a bit sketchy this week (i blame this infernal heat), but i seem to have righted things now and am back on track in my bid to teach english swear words to japanese businessmen (you can never know too many ways to say 'leave me alone and stop bothering me'..and we brits have lots of ways to say that) Other than that ive been up to bugger all. There is a guy on the course called darren (need i say more) who has an MA in evangelical minesterism. As you can imagine he is a barrel of laughs, so me and scott ( a lad on the course) try and find ways of winding him up. Scott ... read more