Blogs from Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Oceania - page 12

The phone rang and I looked at my wrist watch, it was exactly 2.00am and I had been in bed for four hours, that horrible feeling went through me, I knew it was going to be bad news. I went in to the living room where, where I had left my phone and looked to see if the caller had left a message, they had!! I picked the message up and it was from a colleague, but listening to the message, I knew I wasn’t going to be getting much sleep. I called my boss in Sydney, he was up and aware of the situation, he said words to the effect of “get your bag ready, I think you may be going on a trip!” I called one of our directors who told me the same ... read more

G'day! It has been so nice to have Canberra as a home base. Yesterday I rode my (!!) bike around the lake to the most impressive war memorial I have ever been to. One could spend days here, unfortunately I only had a few hours. I learned more about the Gallipoli war, and many more of the unfortunate wars Australia fought in. The exhibits were amazing! They have a closing ceremony ever night at closing hour. A guy basically plays the an aussie version of 'Taps', on a trumpet. It was powerful and emotional! Will be renting the movie Gallipoli when I get home. Also, visited a little 1800's tenant farmers old cottage near the lake. It was cute and cozy! Bought some used CD's downtown at Flipsides....two 1980's classic Australian hits CD's (Han, the Go- ... read more

Well it was the same old story, I came in from Brisbane on Thursday evening and Caroline picked me up, gosh we save the company a fortune in taxi fairs, still what could be better, having my favourite wife pick me up, compared with some taxi driver that usually doesn’t speak much English and who doesn’t know where he is going, which constantly winds me up. I had a normal day in the office on Friday, well what is normal, we don’t quite know at the moment, as we are flat out. My day consisted of being with my boss, all day ,as he had come up from Sydney for a particular meeting we had to attend and it was one of the reasons for my delay in going back to C.I. It was great ... read more

Thursday 23rd December 2010 Our cab didn’t turn up - the hostel hadn’t booked it for us as promised - so we hailed one from the street as running short on time. Arriving at the airport we were told we didn’t have a visa for AUS. Well, actually, they said Richard did have one already, which didn’t make sense at all since as it was news to us that we needed one in advance and we hadn’t applied! Luckily we managed to sort it out online with customer services costing £50, we still weren’t convinced we needed it but they wouldn’t let us board the flight without it, so it wasn’t the time to start investigating! When we arrived at Sydney airport we collected our Greyhound coach to Canberra. 10 minutes after leaving the airport the ... read more

Blog Day 833 Well, we had had the most fantastic week away with the T-Van, it had been great spending a bit of time with my favourite wife (my only wife actually!), those times seem to be so few and far between at the moment. No sooner as we were back, it was getting ready to go again, as I was off to Weipa in far Northern Queensland and then off the Darwin. As it was Caroline’s fist day back, I didn’t think it fair for her to get up extra early and take me to the airport, so I just booked a cab to pick me up. As usual, I left my packing until 4.00am the next morning, so all done, I kissed my beautiful wife and with my case in tow, slipped out of ... read more