Blogs from Oceania - page 6488

Alrighty people! Okay, so based on some feedback I've received lately, I came across as being quite down in my last blog! I had not idea my blog appeared so negatively! Perhaps I was having a bad day?? Just to reassure everyone, I'm well, I'm fine and doing a okay! This past week has been a bit of a rollercoaster for me. At the beginning of the week I ended up losing my entire contents of my ipod. For those who have this, its a huge deal, but even worse for those who travel. Unless of course you have a backup or your laptop with you. My laptop at home in Dundee has all my music, but I don't have that with me. Therefore, at the moment, I am music less!! I swear, I nearly cried. ... read more

Wicked concert, sat in the sun, drank beer and wine and ate yummy food. Awesome Hawkes Bay Weekend!... read more

The good news is that I've made it to Adelaide. The bad news is the car did not. We left Perth on Monday the 22nd. The first day was a fairly ambitous one and we managed to get an early start despite a goodbye celebration the night before. After the aggravating drive through the eastern suburbs we hit the open highway. The plan was to take the secondary highway route and stop for lunch at a small town called Hyden. Once you leave Perth, the rest of Western Australia is pretty vacant of other people and buildings. We did pass through a small town called Corrigin which is slightly famous for it's dog cemetary. It took 3-4 hours to get to Hyden, which is practically a ghost town. Hyden is most famous for the spectaculur wave ... read more

MAN ITS HOT! Had two showers today already...and its not even evening! It's australia day today...so everyone is off work! That also means everywhere is packed! Had another lovely driving tour of some nearby places but apart from that...its literally too hot to do anything! It's 39 degrees...and apparently tomorrow will hit 40! *blows* Thank god for air conditioning! There will be fireworks tonight, if im not a melted pile of laura by then! A short blog, too hot to type! LOVE x... read more

A BBQ at the beach on Australia Day.... well it doesn't get much more Australian than that does it? Australia Day is Australia's official national day, on the 26th January. It commemorates the landing of the First Fleet in Sydney Cove on that day in 1788. By 1808, the day was being celebrated as 'First Landing' or 'Foundation Day'. In 1818 (the 30th anniversary) Governor Macquarie had a 30-gun salute at Dawes Point and gave government workers a holiday. In 1938 the 150th anniversary of British settlement in New South Wales was widely celebrated. In that year, NSW was the only state to abandon the traditional long weekend and the annual Anniversary Day public holiday was held on the actual anniversary day - Wednesday 26 January. Since 1994 all states and territories have taken the Australia ... read more