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We set off on the 6am Virgin flight from Melbourne via Brisbane to LA flying Virgin comfortably, with Virgin Pyjamas, champagne and tasty food. Highlight was four hostesses singing Happy Birthday to Greg and presenting him with a bottle of champagne (win for me, eh girls). arrived in LA at 7am the same day we had left, giving Greg a 37 hour birthday. With bad things happening in threes we thought we were safe with 1. me nearly leaving my handbag on a train, then 2. Greg leaving the bag with the tickets, passports etc at the Arbory, the bar along the Yarra where Owen works (luckily some nice person handed it in and we were able to retrieve it), and 3. my glasses breaking in half on the flight over.. so imagine...I'm on holiday, and ... read more

2015 appears to be the year of both travelling and weddings... with one wedding down in lovely Sorrento Victoria with Mel and Mick... Greg and I are now off travelling to New Zealand... hitting in the North Island: Auckland, Omapere, Bay of Islands, Rotorua (with gas masks ready), the lovely Art Deco town that is Napier and Wellington, we then move onto the South Island where we will visit Picton, Blenheim, Kaikoura, Christchurch, Mt Cooke Moeraki Boulders, Denedin, Invercargill, Bluff, Te Anau, Milford Sound, Queenstown, Haast River, Franz Josef, Arthurs Pass and Picton.... not necessarily in that order. We will travel by air, boat, tram, train and coach. I will be attempting to drink champagne in as many places I can, whilst Greg will be checking out the wine vintages and the beer. So watch this ... read more

Hello all..... sorry I have been so slack, but I have been having a great time drinking champagne in the air and around Europe... I have tried 5 so far and think that Bollinger is the front runner for favourite at the moment (others are Chandon, Laurent Perrier, Pommery and Marquis de la Tour). I left you last in Bath and so far have also visited Edinburgh, York, Oxford (for Lunch with Uncle Ray) and back to London.... I am writing this from my hotel in Budapest (Buda on one side of the Danube and Pest on the other) The hotel is actually in Pest, but we looked at both sides this morning. With regard to the other towns I have visited... I am going to send you to Greg's blog (His blog name is being ... read more

Arrived in England 40 Minutes early after travelling for almost 2 days. It was definitely a long time since I woke up at 6am in Sorrento Victoria on 17/11 Aus time after a great girls weekend, until I went to bed at 8pm on 18/11 in England. Got the tube to my Aunts Place and am now sitting here in South Harrow (Harrow if you are posh and 'arro if you are cockney), one tube station away from where I grew up in Rayner's Lane. We are staying right next to South Harrow market where I used to go spend my hard earned pocket money on a new 'single' by the Beatles or even Deep Purple. I still have these singles at home. For the younger of you a single was a 45 RPM (revs per ... read more