Blogs from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oceania - page 6

Mødtes med en pige fra tyskland i fredags, som jeg er kommet i kontakt med igennem en hjemmeside/forum der hedder "Gumtree". Hun hedder Barbara (Kaldenavn: Babsi) og er på alder med mig, skal være her i 6 måneder og snakker godt engelsk! Vi endte således med at bruge hele formiddagen, eftermiddagen og aftenen på at gå rundt i Melbourne for at finde spændende ting at se. Vi vandrede først lidt rundt i den indre by og gik dernæst til "Shrine of Rememberance", som er et tempel rejst for at hylde alle australske soldater i 1. og 2. Verdenskrig. Vi gik generelt efter den kæmpe botaniske have i Melbourne (en af verdens største), og brugte hele eftermiddagen derinde på afslapning, frokost og kaffe! Vi så også tennisbanerne (dem som blev brugt i Australian Open for nyligt), men ... read more

Sadly we have left NZ after 16 wonderful days of emotional encounters and great travelling... Our flight to Melbourne was good despite the high winds and rough landing we picked up our car from Alpha Car Rental ( the cheapest ) and then battled with the freewyays, highways, melways, tollways, bridges and tunnels that made getting from the airport to the Mornington Penninsular a challenge! It was almost 9pm when we arrived at our timeshare home for the week only to find that the reception was closed! We made an expensive uk mobile phone call to the resort emergency number and eventually got the keys to the house. It is clean and comfortable and on the golf club but rather impersonal so it will be a change from our airbnb experience in NZ. Woke up far ... read more

I think the fact this is my first blog entry since I arrived in Australia shows just how busy I've been. Finding the time to stop and write has been difficult, but I wanted to now to record my experiences of the last few weeks before I forget it all. The most logical place to start this blog is directly following the last one - my time in Sydney. I had 9 days in Sydney in total and I made sure I saw all the best bits. The weather was glorious and the G&Ts flowing. I was sharing a room in a hostel with 3 other girls that journeyed over as part of the Working Holiday group I was in. The hostel was pretty good, had a big kitchen, cinema, TV lounge, decent bathrooms and a ... read more

This time last week we were preparing ourselves for the flight home. As I sit here in the kitchen drinking a long black (no more buckets of Americanos), contemplating whether we should turn the heater on (!!!!), or just suck it up and wear a jumper, I realise the enormity of the task ahead. I am going to return to the beginning of our blogs, fix them up and then add some photos so we can publish them to remind us of our wonderful adventure. So, I'll be revisiting our travels and putting them through the editing process. To those people who need a fix of the andrewfamily life on a regular basis (Obie, that's you!), I'll make sure we blog our experience over the Labour Day long weekend. Until then, I'll leave these thoughts to ... read more

So we arrived in Australia on the 18th of December. We flew into Sydney but didnt even leave the airport as we needed up booking another flight straight away to Brisbane where we met up with Francuz, Mehdi, our French friend whom we have met in Mexico 7months earlier. ...our last minute planning wasn't very efficient as it turned out when we couldn't find a hostel over the Christmas period, once we did we decided straight away to rent a caravan and drive down to Sydney, along the coast and the waterfall way. A beautiful ride, with many nice towns, illegal parking and camping overnight, "car-cooking", too many mcdonalds breakfasts, amazing people and a few ups and downs along the 11days of road trip. Overall some great memories. Once arrived in Sydney Tatiana found us the ... read more

Ik vertrok de avond van de 21ste januari van Denpasar Bali naar Melbourne met Garuda Airlines (Indonesische maatschappij ). De vlucht vertrok iets voor 23.00 en kwam een goeie vijf uur later aan in Melbourne. Door het tijdsverschil moest ik bij het landen echter de klok 3 uur vooruit zetten waardoor het al voorbij 7 uur in de ochtend was. Trouw aan mijn gewoonte sliep ik ook deze keer bijna niks waardoor ik me de eerste dag maar belabberd voelde. Ik had op voorhand al een shuttlebus geregeld om mij naar mijn hostel te brengen net buiten het centrum van Melbourne. En met net bedoel ik een goeie 15 minuten wandelen. Bij aankomst was het vrij koud, in vergelijking met wat ik achtergelaten had in Bali tenminste. De thermometer gaf 14 graden aan maar dat is ... read more

Going through the security footage of the burglary that happened whilst I was still ibn Manila and found this . . . . . . It's footage of Max and Rory's reaction when I got home Wednesday Morning - a hero's Welcome Dogs are simply the best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzTJqCone_M... read more

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Happy Australia Day (26th Jan)!!! It's been a fairly busy few weeks since I last blogged. Most of my time has mainly been taken up with working both jobs and my time off has been catching up on sleep and trying to explore Melbourne and the surrounding areas when I can. Having two jobs has proved to be very frustrating over the last few weeks. Trying to get both employers to work around each other in terms of shifts and ensure that I'm not working too much has been quite difficult. I was keen to put Swatch as my priority as this was the job I secured first and the job I prefer out of the 2 as the hours are better. In doing that, my manager at GYG wasn't ... read more

New temporary prepaid australian phone number (+61)429144293 Call me maybe! :) Oh and here's a picture of lil' Freddie!... read more