http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Coogee-Beach/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Oceania , Australia , New South Wales , Sydney , Coogee Beach en-us Tue, 01 Dec 09 08:53:10 +0000 Tue, 01 Dec 09 08:53:10 +0000 Today I get to move into the house that Irsquoll be living in for the next 4.5 months. Irsquom up currently at 730 waiting to head out to the university to sign my lease and get my keys. I was told last night that the internet companies pretty much only have contracts for 2 years. Sean said that usually the landlord contracts with the internet company then the tenant pays the cost of the http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Coogee-Beach/blog-417018.html Lookin forward to the day i arrive in Sydney http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Coogee-Beach/blog-406143.html After CairnsThe flight back to Sydney was a strange event being alone but I soon arrived back to my beloved Coogee and met up with Lizz who had kindly offered her room for me to stay in. Straight away we got dressed and headed out for our Tuesday night at the Gaff It felt even stranger when we saw all the OzIntro staff out but we had a good night with our dancing and drinking lots of jagerbombs http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Coogee-Beach/blog-397199.html Arriving in SydneyI was still feeling pretty down about having left my life in Perth when my plane landed in Sydney and it was time for my next adventure. I collected my bag quickly and walked around the domestic arrivals area for several minutes looking for the OzIntro person collecting me. After my disaster in Perth with Travellers forgetting to collect me I was not too optimistic. And sure eno http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Coogee-Beach/blog-397197.html Today 31909 Today I had heaps of fun with my new mates from Japan. One of Yuni's friends plays rugby for a team in Japan and his mates came down to visit for a week. It was their first time in Australia and their English showed it. But after a few beers and some barbeque we found a way to communicate. It was good times We were singing having barbeque a little kareoke some englishjapaense http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Coogee-Beach/blog-384602.html G'day all this is just a really quick post to put up some photos of where we are living at the moment. We have found a fantastic place in the eastern suburbs of Sydney at Coogee Beach. For those who don't know Sydney it's about 10 mins drive to the city and about 5 mins in the car to the famous Bondi Beach. Coogee itself is a pretty sheltered beach so there's no big waves but another five minut http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Coogee-Beach/blog-383751.html Where do I begin.......I left snowy Regina to be seen off by my Mom plus Debbie and Grant. Thanks Deb and Grantin for coming in a wishing me farewell. A flight to Toronto..... lay over and 3 pints of beer and OJ... a flight to Vancouver. Seat had great leg room but a Fobared TV. Short stop in Vancouver and then the big leg of the trip 15 hours. Got a new seat tv works.... thank christ. Sat by http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Coogee-Beach/blog-375780.html Sorry again for the lack of updates but we are having such a good time so I cant update this enough as I would likeThe last week Has been Mayhem quite honestly Let me run you through itWe finally found a Hostel last friday in coogee after searching around for ages as my bag wheel slowly disintigrated its now destroyedWe had a quite night in before a huge day on saturday. Wierdly enough in http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Coogee-Beach/blog-373250.html Hi everyone Its about 9.10 in the evening here at the moment.Sorry for the delay in updates but its been pretty hectic since we arrived hereFor startes the flight was delayed coming into Bangkok beacuse of the snow in the UK lucky buggars the one time we leave the country you get the best snow for years typical. Once we finally we borded the plane we had to wait around again as a child and t http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Coogee-Beach/blog-370930.html Christmas in Sydney wersquove made it to the ldquoLand Down Underrdquo 25th December 2008Christmas Day And wersquore not having Vegemite sandwiches Wersquore off to Coogee Beach for a Christmas picnic lunch with Sue and Eric my cousin. Arrived here on Tuesday evening 23rd December and guess what It was RAINING and only about 22 degrees. Maybe the unseasonable weather ha http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Coogee-Beach/blog-357294.html Good day matesHope you're all well. We are missing all our friends and family really bad already.Well we arrived in Sydney at 7am this morning. The initial plane journey to Seoul South Korea was about 9 hrs and 45 mins and was great. We had free peanutsdrinks and even the alcohol was free. Had loads of free movies on the touchscreen TV's we had in front of our seats. Seoul airport was spectacu http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Coogee-Beach/blog-349832.html Yeah Today was our last day in Sydney we went to the blue mountains and spent the last few hours packing our bags. We're trying to travel very light but it's a bit hard to know what's we'll actually need on the road. In case you're wondering we'll be carrying about 16kg around the world We subscribed to the frequent flyer's program and hopefully will earn a lot of points with all our flights.. http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Coogee-Beach/blog-337045.html So we have been in Coogee for just over nearly 3 weeks now so we have been chilling out for the best part and exploring Sydney on the other days. There is lots to see and do here and we are having a great time. The beach is lovely and the weather is pretty hot most days.We took a ferry trip around the Sydney harbour it was only an hour in total but we had to get off early because poor Bella s http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Coogee-Beach/blog-329697.html Almost at the end of my first week here and it's been amazing. I'll try and recount as best I can rememberThe plane journey was 23.5 hours long with a stopover in Hong Kong for an hour. Its soooo long. fortunatly for the first half I was sat next to a lovely Aussie chick who spent the first hour describing in detail about all the dangerous stuff in Australia and about how I was probabley gonna http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Coogee-Beach/blog-328408.html So we have arrived in Sydney and the apartment is fantastic. I have gone from living in a shoebox to a 2 bed 2 bathroom trendy place overlooking the sea The town Coogee is also great loads of little shops restaurants and foody places. The beach is at the end of the road and we are only 20 minutes on the bus to the city. Strangely there are loads of brits. I am also happy because I have http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Coogee-Beach/blog-325417.html 1st September 2008 I had an excellent day today celebrating actually having to use sun tan lotion It was one of those days when you are just happy to be alive I believe it was the first official day of spring today and it didn't dissapoint it was so lovely and I spent all day outside with a big smile on my face. Met Craig for coffee first off then I went and told my alcoholic boss at the D http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Coogee-Beach/blog-323330.html Started ozintro on monday the 1st September. Having an amazing time. Learned to surf. Been to the aquarium been to THE GAFF club Seen the blue mountains in the pouring rain Been jetboating on sydney harbour. Had a bbq on the beach. Looking forward to the pub crawl tonight. With a really good group of people so have changed our plans to fly with them to Cairns. Also its expensive and chucking http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Coogee-Beach/blog-320322.html Arrived in sydney thursday night Everything was fine. Weather is quite cold but still nicer than endlandGot up dead early friday morning to go and see sydeny. Had breakfast on the beach. Got the bus into the town and got off at the wrong stop so ended up walking for miles till we found the harbour and the opera house. Then we realised we were in the wrong place again and walked to darling harbour http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Coogee-Beach/blog-317757.html Hi ho everyoneCome Saturday we will be air bourne for quite a while . . . So the plan is . . . we fly out of Sydney on Saturday morning and then many hours later have a long stop over in Santiago we may or may not get out of the airport . . . tax issues . . . then onward to Lima Peru. Keep updated to see how it all goes.We'll send regular blogs and you can check in. Depending on ho http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Coogee-Beach/blog-286053.html Here goes for my fiest entry I arrived in sydney on monday 12th the flight was reailly good plent of space plenty of food but no sleep doh. i got picked up by Robyn from Ozintro and taken to the hostel first impressions very good but still not commong round to the fact im in oz. I got dropped of in recption where a few of the others where that arrived just before me afer the introductions we d http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Coogee-Beach/blog-279222.html