Blogs from Oceania - page 7055

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

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

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

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

Wellwe hav jjust returned from the six day trip around the yasawa islands and it has been really good.... if not a lliittle unexpected. We cruised out llaast tuesdaay and arrived by catamarin at the first islannd where we were transported by a tin bathh type boat to the island, and basically had to get off knee deep in the ssea! The hostel had no hoht water electrivcity or lights in aany of the toilets, and there were creepy crawlies everywheree!!! it was a bit of a shock, buyt amasing never the less. We relaxed on the beach and then haddinner and played bingo. its really interactitve with other people aswell. then travelled to about 5 other islands, not got ttime to ffo into it yet, as we are at the airport. we hae too geett ... read more