Blogs from Manly, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 6

When I was a kid I spent a lot of time in the wilderness. Our family, living only a short 40 minute drive away from some of Canada's most spectacular scenery (the Rockies), would take our little tent trailer and drag it behind the van into this camp site or another for a couple of nights. There are bits of memory now - the scent of pine, the sound of chipmunks in the trees, creaking tree trunks, crackling fire, soot smelling clothes, crisp night air, the soft squish of moss. My brother and I would hop immediately out of the car and head for the patches of grass and needles blanketed between the scattered poles of fir trees and spread out. Make homes in our mind. Wander. The aimless wandering is something that becomes increasingly difficult ... read more

hi all just wanted to quickly say thank you to those who are keeping track of us and sorry if this blog is hard to use. i will try to put some more pictures on but it takes soooooo long. Also my phone has broken so can you email your numbers to leannewilby@hotmail.co.uk or you can tx on my oz number +61450084379 anyway, i last wrote when we were in melbourne and we are now in sydney and have been to tasmania in between. ill try and keep it brief. MELBOURNE- is a lovely city which consists of the cbd (central business district) and there is a stretch along the Yara river. Seen as our hostel there was poo (and thats being polite!) we tried to get out of it as much as possible. while we ... read more

I WENT TO A LAND DOWN UNDA' I bet you were all hoping that you wouldn't be seeing any more e-mail updates from me in your inbox, right? Well, lucky for you THIS is my last entry....tear. It seems that since arriving in Sydney, Australia I have succumbed to the "no worries mate" attitude and completely lost all sense of time, direction and money hah...not to mention keeping in touch with you all (sorry pop pop!). No energy to write the play by play from these past two weeks so here are my highlights. First off, did you know there are two airports in Brisbane, Australia (this is the city where we were to catch our connecting flight from KL, Malaysia to Sydney). Well there are! And when booking flights from North Hollywood, CA the airline ... read more

Blogging has now resumed normal service following Christmas and the New Year! Special guest Alison James-Hart aka Kirstin's Mum Leaving the cold winter of Japan behind us, making our way to the sunny skies of Oz, we donned our thongs (that's flip flop's or if you have two left feet, flop flops!) sun cream, sun glasses, we had arrived in Australia only to get wet feet, sun cream dripping in our eyes which we couldn't wipe through the glasses. We checked our tickets again and we were definitely in Australia, but where was the blue sky, the sun and the cold tinnies, instead greeted with the Great British summer without the the Kiss Me Quick hats!!! Okay, not that bad, but it was cloudy the day we arrived. So far the weather has been wet and ... read more

Sorry it has been so long since i have updated you all...Been busy having lots of fun...but don't worry I haven't forgotten about you...now this is a long one as it has been over a week and half... Now.... I don't know where to begin... I think i left you wondering if the weather was going to clear up and change about 50 degrees...well it did!!! pretty unbelievable if you ask me...so i went to my first lilo party....it was pretty interesting as it was sooooooo windy...and when i say windy...it was like category 3 hurricane style...so the lilos were blowing allll over the beach.. it felt like we were being sand blasted by the blowing sand....the best lilo was the bob the builder pool that they put in the ocean and paddled around in....it took ... read more