Blogs from Albury, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 3

Safe and sound and now to catch up on some serious sleep, thank you to all who have followed our little trip and for the comments and emails received. Michael and Jeff... read more

Ok, admittedly this isn't about travelling, but I haven't found anywhere else to put this for the moment. It's a little story I put together over 2 lunch hours and a friday morning. I find it amusing, so I hope you do too. The Story of Edward and Belinda - A Twisted Valentine's Day Fairy Tale. For Eliza, Happy Cholera Day! Once upon a time, there was a boy and a girl. Their names were Edward and Belinda and they were in love. They lived in a little cottage on a little street, amongst neighbours who also lived in little cottages on their little street. Every morning, Belinda would wake up first and say, ‘Good morning Edward my love!’ Edward would waken and turn to Belinda and say, ‘Good morning Shnookums!’ ‘I love you so much!’ ... read more

Hi everyone Sorry its been a while coming - not been working or anything just too lazy to get our butts in gear!! We awoke on the last day of Oz Intro nice and early to get to the airport for our 12 o clock flight. Did all of our last minute packing and took our quilt (doona they call it!) and pillow to the reception. We got our deposit back and that was it! Oz Intro over and on our own!!! We had an ace week and made lots of friends and it was a bit sad to think we would all be off in seperate directions. We had eveyone's numbers and some of the girls had already left early in the morning. One girl was going to a surf school, another picking grapes. Some ... read more

Part 3.... For the Saturday pub crawl we met at the Coogee Bay Palace hotel around 8 and got a couple of free drinks from the organisers. Everyone was dolled up and chatting as we had all got to know one another by now. We spent a good half hour there before the call came from the organisers that we had to get on the party bus to take us into Sydney. It was about a 40 seater coach that had been, intentionally, spray painted with all sorts of graffiti to make it look like a "party bus" - those crazy antipodeans!!! Like I say, it was a 40 seater which was fine but there were about 80 people on the crawl (2 ozintro groups and one of the leaders mates - it was his birthday!). ... read more

16-2-8 spotted, two bays and brown looking black horses in paddock musterside. cricket pitch eyed sc&b flying tentside in cluster of bundy, blue ensign and shield on gold, gracious gums, aussie rules goalposts. thurgoona. edge caught out at crease, crickets in the distance, country music from ute mob. you beaut catch and 'bowled him'. shower and another go at muster. not the sixty thousand. just shows don't believe every loudmouth you hear in the park. 17-2-8 thredbo. 'don't talk to young girls' from the dark space of fear. lovely chat with four teenagers, all supporting sc&b, two promised to email glyn davis. hectic morning backroads, bikies and backtracking. boomerang trajectory returning to khancoban and then up thru gorge with majestic white-trunked gums. lookedout tea, trees and ticket for park good til 6:30 from couple going 'out'. ... read more