Blogs from Gosford, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 2

Hello uliedi! xD On to days 6 and 7, ghax I'm never gonna manage to write all the stuff we've been doing... So little time. So basically on Day 6, (last Wednesday) wen went up the Sydney Tower, which was nice, but a bit of a joke compared to the CN Tower in Canada (that was great, right Finian?). It was about 260m high. The CN Tower is about 550, and the new Burj Dubai in Dubai (like duh) is something like 900m. But even so, it was pretty, and we saw all the city from waay up high and all that jazz. Also, I decided to take a picture from every single one of the 50-something windows, so I can stitch them into a giant panorama when I get back home. Hopefully that will work ... read more

This lovely dining table was made my Steve's brother, Rob during his Year 12 woodwork class. He made it for Sarah and Steve. I took some photos when it was on display at the school. Rob made it for his Year 12 Major Woodwork Project. It is beautiful isn't it.... read more

Hellooooooooooo xD. How's life? Great here, bit cold though... Having lots of fun... I must admit, I was a bit worried when I saw the names of some places on the plane monitor... Wagga wagga, Whyalla, Warmanbul... Slightly weird. Anyway it was unfounded coz it's a rather nice place. Couple of weirdos but what the hell :D. Yesterday was a looooooong day. We woke up, drove to the train station and caught a train to downtown Sydney. It is very nice :P. And then we went to Paddy parket or something and bought an Ozzy Hat xD (Fedora). Most extremely faqa :P Made of kangaroo leather (muahahahahahaaaa). After that we walked around a bit, then we went to eat at a giant food court, where there are like 20 different restaurants and you just pick what ... read more

Today Martina, Chris, Annika and Tom (Chris is Pat's eldest son) met us at the Gosford Waterfront Park for lunch. We enjoyed catching up with them all, eventhough it was a tad windy. Steve, Meagan and I, Pat and Kes and mum and Sheelagh were there also. We enjoyed fish and chips for lunch. Annika and Tom enjoyed climbing on the playground equipment.... read more

I’ve been talking about WWOOFing for weeks. I was starting to get discouraged - every host family I called near Toowoomba and Noosa either didn’t have enough work or already had a full roster of wwoofers. Finally, while in Brisbane for the second time, I made a list of interesting looking hosts near the Newcastle area. Lucky for me, the first family I called said that I could come the following Tuesday, which was about a week later. This was fantastic! I had a week to visit Byron Bay and Nimbin and then could start making my way south towards Newcastle. The basis of the WWOOFing experience is an exchange relationship between the wwoofer and the host. As I said some weeks earlier, WWOOFing stands for Willing Workers On Organic Farms. Hosts across Australia, and around ... read more