Blogs from Chatswood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania

Australia was my biggest adventure to date. I lived an amazing life there for two years travelling all around and falling more and more in love with the country, the people and my life. I worked as an Au pair and lived in 4 different states Sydney,Melbourne,Perth and Darwin. Sydney is like your first love you fall so deeply in love with it that you don't know if you will ever find anything better. Its by far the most beautiful place in Australia and i loved every second of it. Every inch of this vibrant and lively city is filled with fashion,love,beauty and hope. I arrived in Sydney from a 24 hour plane ride but the adrenaline kept me going. I arrived with my new host family to my gorgeous house on a hill in St ... read more

Hi, so Dario and I are getting ready to leave. I just booked our final flights, from Sydney to Johannesburg in South Africa for June-September next year. We leave for central america on 26th November, so exactly 26 days today. But before we leave, we are going to Herron Island on the Great Barrier Reef for a week from 11th and on 20th November, my brother Zach and his fiance Kristen are tying the knot! yay excitement all round! Our itinerary is as follows: Los Angeles for 3 days (transit time, I managed to book our trip to coincide the thanksgiving weekend, woops! so we couldnt get on the connection to mexico until the 29th). Yucatan peninsula, Mexico Guatemala Belize Cuba Nicaragua Costa Rica Panama (possibly) Brazil Uruguay Argentina then I head to Ecuador-hopefully the galapagos ... read more

After a couple days of work, I am exhausted! Yesterday I got to work around 9:15 and was immediately thrown into meeting everyone and updating powerpoint presentations for Kraft Foods. Our company is doing work for them right now in regards to their cheeses! Yumm! Unfortunately I have not been given any free samples. I have found it rather difficult to understand what my supervisor, Hana, is saying a lot of the time. For example, nappies = diapers, fortnightly = every other week, and take a piss = make fun of you. She sits right next to me and we have spent a lot of time laughing about the differences in English and in the cultures. She's originally from Slovakia, so she is especially difficult to understand. Essentially, I have spent the last two days at ... read more

Hi all..... Well the time is almost here and we are in countdown mode.........checking and double checking everything....we are only taking carry on luggage so that is becoming a comic source of conversation....Mary is just realising the consequences and I think re assessing that decision......we will see what we end up with on Sunday....my suspicion is that Mary will want to take another bag to check in when she gets packing...... If any of you want to look at the blog that I will be endeavouring to update a lot you will need to register to read it unfortunately....I am not really sure how often I will get to write as it depends on a few things but at this stage I have intentions of putting as much as possible on the blog........and photos......us on camels ... read more