Blogs from Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Oceania - page 15

TRIP DETAILS: December 12: Fly Sydney to Santiago via Buenos Aires, Chile - arrive 3 25pm (Chile time) - Overnight in Santiago December 13: Flying from Chile to Cusco, Peru via Lima, Peru - arrive 3 35pm (Peru time) - Overnight in Cusco. December 14: Day One of Trek to Macchu Picchu on Inca Trail! 5:40am pick up from Hotel, train to Inca Trail then walk all day to Aguas Calientes - a town near Macchu Picchu. Dinner, rest and camping out at about 4,000m up! December 15: Day Two of Trek to Macchu Picchu! Breakfast and walk to Macchu Picchu. Walk around the site then train back to Cusco. Overnight in Cusco. December 16: Fly Cusco, Peru (via Lima) to Santiago, Chile - arrive 6 25pm (Chile time) - Overnight in Santiago. December 17: Travel ... read more

Well, we are finally home, and have hit the ground running. We have decided that rent is too expensive in Canberra so have settled in to live with Mum until we can find a house to buy. Please all keep your fingers crossed for us - we hope that we have found one and will be putting in an offer during the week :) Now, I need to apologise, as there were two quite special occasions on our traveling adventure that I ommitted to include in the travel blogs... Llandudno, Wales and Antwerp, Belgium. It was just after we had left Ali and Jan in Stratford upon Avon that Joel and I continued on our road trip up to the beach town of Llandudno in north Wales. It was beautiful, the sun had decided to come ... read more

Days to Citizenship +7 Well I will give you an update on our citizenship first of all, my documents have been submitted and I have heard no response, and Caroline has her documents being submitted on 29th, I have made sure that they are all in order and just wait for them to be put in the mail. One of my colleague I sit next to who has come over on temporary secondment, from the UK, and has embraced his time in Australia, Martin and his family have come over for 8 months or so and is due back to the UK, in April. Martin and his family have, have come over and have done some of the usual Australian things and he has travelled a fair bit the company. Caroline and myself took him “Under ... read more

Days to Citizenship application 17 About a week ago, we had a happy e-mail from our friends Jan and Ted in Sydney, the last time we saw them was the day we picked up our new cruiser in Parramatta and they kindly let us stay at their house. Well they told us that they are coming to Canberra on “Official Table Tennis business” and they wanted to catch up with us. When we got back from our Winching course in the Brindabella’s we finally managed to catch up with Jan and Ted on the mobile and arranged to meet them on Tuesday at the Eastlake club, which is just around the corner from where they were staying and just around the corner from where we both work. We were really excited about seeing them as ... read more

“Your husband does realize, doesn’t he, how very dangerous they can be?” “He does, but unfortunately he never seems to care about such things.” These statements, reported to me after-the-fact, culminated a conversation between an Australian gentleman and my wife as they watched me approach and photograph an adult emu at Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve in southeastern Australia. The concerned Aussie finally turned away with a shake of his head likely thinking that the world had too many Yanks anyway, so the loss of one wouldn’t really do it any harm. It is actually correct that, if upset, emus can, with relative ease, eviscerate a human using their long claws/nails. However, during our six years of living and working in Australia, we found them to be more pest than threat. As when one strolled brazenly up to ... read more