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Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland June 26th 2006

I was left feeling disappointed when leaving Fiji, we both really enjoyed our time there so much. New Zealand had a challenge to impress us to the same degree as Fiji had. The flight was ok and we even watched a good film. When we arrived at the airport and picked up our bags a dog came running over and would not leave one of our bags alone. This dog was one of the ones they have to make sure your not bringing things into the country that are not allowed. New Zealand is extremely strict on what you can enter the country with. It just so happens that the bag in question was the one we used to carry all our food in. It had no food left in it but must have still smelt ... read more

Goodbye...for now...

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney June 26th 2006

It's a little nippy in here...

pianosupernova

My last day in Australia consisted of packing all my belongings, which had somehow spread across a fair part of the dorm...posting my last lot of things home and then out in the evening with friends. We went to Circular Quay and went into Minus 5. I finally used the 20% off coupon that I'd been saving for months in my purse, it got us all 20% off as well! Minus 5 is a bar made completely out of ice, you get a free vodka based drink when you're in there which you drink from a glass made of ice. We all had to wear two pairs of gloves and a big thick coat (which I want to take to New Zealand!). It was so strange seeing ice suspended on a rope, knowing that it won't ... read more

Morialta Conservation Park with Max

Oceania » Australia » South Australia » Adelaide Hills » Morialta Conservation Park June 26th 2006

The waterfall at Morialta

SA hiker

Introduction On this walk, we had the pleasure of our friend Max's company. For his first bush walk, we chose Morialta Conservation Park as it is stunning, fun and not too difficult. How to get there … Morialta is located east of the city of Adelaide. I usually go down North Terrace, then Magill Road, and turn left on to St Bernard's road. About a kilometre or two along there is the right hand turn off to Moulles Road, that runs along the edge of Norwood Morialta High. You travel up this road until you get to a T-junction (in front of Rostrevor school) and then turn left and continue until you get to another T-junction and then turn right. A short way along this road, it turns sharp left and at this point there is ... read more

I still call Australia home

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney » Penrith June 26th 2006

Kathy & Allan's wedding

jecjec28

Touched down in Sydney tonight and was so happy! I actually flew into Sydney on Thursday but went to the Gold Coast for my cousin's wedding. Tonight will be my first night in my own bed!!! I am so looking forward to it! Our Europe trip was so much fun! We saw a lot of things in a short amount of time! I'm looking at the photos now and it's really hitting me what we actually did! In summary... * Fave cities - Barcelona - it's clean, has wide streets, best shopping, getting around on public transport is easy. I also liked Lucerne. Lucerne was just beautiful! Also had fantastic weather there. Amsterdam, friendliest people! Singapore, first-class city. Very modern! * Least fave cities - London, so expensive and people not so friendly. Paris, smokers smokers ... read more

Ice Ice Baby

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney June 26th 2006

minus 5

Jeffy

my last night in sydney.......its strange but ive grown accustom to this city, having only been here a week its still going to be strange having to look around a different town/city nearly everyday. But its an adventure. Yesterday was a day alone in the City as Lucy went to meet some friends somewhere and have lunch, so i was left alone to wander the city and do as i seem fit. which wasnt much as Nationwide went down and i couldnt get any money out...so i just walked for about 3 hours. Today was a bit of a lazy day. I woke up at about 12, after watching englands awful game at 1am the night before. And i felt like hell, now it may have been because everytime i put my empty pint glass ... read more

Getting ready for the trip

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Wellington June 26th 2006

Scott n Sarah

Welcome to our first installment of the 'Great Blondini' tour. Please excuse the bleakness of this entry as I am only new at this journal writing caper, but am hoping to improve spelling and grammer the more I write. With only this week to go at work we are getting real excited about what lies ahead. The plan goes a bit like this. On Sunday 2nd July we set off on a whirlwind tour of the North Island from Welly. We will visit friends and reles in Wangas, New Plymouth, Hamiltron, Auckland, Whangamata, Tauranga and Hawkesbay with hopefully a stop to do a bit of skiing. We return to Wellington on the 15th July for niece Zoe's birthday party. Then its off on the big trip on 22nd July. We stop in Singapore for 8 days ... read more

Queenstown 1

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Otago » Queenstown June 26th 2006

Kiwi Bus June 2006

Team Handsome

Team H arrive in Queenstown, a leg of the tour that we couldn't wait to get stuck into. Bungy jumping, Skiing and party, party, party!!... read more

Franz Josef to Queenstown

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Central Otago » Wanaka June 26th 2006

Lake Matheson

Team Handsome

Check out the views. No cotswolds but awesome nonetheless!!!... read more

Going going...

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland June 26th 2006

Party

GreenGuy

Well here i am finally about to leave, cant wait to get it over with! The last week has been pretty hectic, i thought i'd have things under control, and well i mostly do, but there's still a few loose ends still to finish off. Just as long as i dont forget anything! So a quick summary of the highlights of the last week; Friday 16th - Party! Thanks to everyone who came despite the miserable weather, was good to get a chance to say goodbye to most of you. Saturday 17th - Discgolf! The farewell round was great even with mixed weather there was still a good turn out, i dont really remember much of it, but i'm pretty sure i must've won since it was my course! That night had a BBQ with the ... read more

So hard to say goodbye...

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney June 26th 2006

Fun fun times...

pianosupernova

Well my first chapter of travelling is almost over. I had no idea I would fall in love with Australia this much! I am just fascinated by its diversity and range of people who all seem to be happier and friendlier because of the weather I think! It's amazing to think I have been here for nearly 5 and a half months, all of which has flown by so fast yet I've still had time to do everything that I wanted to and not feel rushed. I'm leaving Western Australia (which is like half of the country!) for when I return... The last few days in Sydney have been more about the evenings and sleeping in. My whole dorm gets on soooo well and we've been going out as a group all the time, therefore all ... read more

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