Blogs from Coogee Beach, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 2

Hey guys, It has been many months since I have wrote here but I thought I would add a quick one following an indulgent 2 weeks in the lovely Sydney. Our good friend Conor put us up in his new pad close to Coogee Beach. Thanks mate. We arrived to beautiful blue skies the Thursday before Christmas, immediately hooked up with Ger and hit the beach to try and banish our Irish pastiness as fast as possible. The beach was beautiful, but the sea was freezing. Next stop: Schooners (thats little pints to the rest of you). The schooner stop became a daily event for the remainder of the holiday in fact. Ger of course arrive in perfect Ger style, having skipped a weeping family in the queue to grab the last seat on the plane. ... read more

Well - we're not exactly travelling again, but this has proven the easiest way for us to get photos and videos out, so we thought we'd put a few of the little bloke up. Time has flown by, and he's now only a few days shy of 3 months old. It's amazing how quickly he's changing - it seems like every day he's doing something new so its a pretty amazing experience. Anyway, here's a few photos to check out! Thankfully he looks like Fi!!... read more

After Cairns The flight back to Sydney was a strange event being alone but I soon arrived back to my beloved Coogee and met up with Lizz, who had kindly offered her room for me to stay in. Straight away we got dressed and headed out for our Tuesday night at the Gaff!! It felt even stranger when we saw all the OzIntro staff out but we had a good night with our dancing and drinking lots of jagerbombs! Over the next few days, Lizz and I just chilled out and I got to meet her new housemates: Sian, Lindsay, Niki, Justin, Mark, Carly and Steve. A new housemate was welcomed whilst I was there also, an Aussie girl called Gen. Come that Friday however, the parentals arrived in Sydney and it was time for me ... read more

Sorry again for the lack of updates but we are having such a good time so I cant update this enough as I would like! The last week Has been Mayhem quite honestly Let me run you through it! We finally found a Hostel last friday in coogee after searching around for ages, as my bag wheel slowly disintigrated( its now destroyed!) We had a quite night in, before a huge day on saturday. Wierdly enough in a dorm room of 8 people 2 lads from Coventry moved in and then a scrum half from Kings norton moved in about 5 minutes later, so we where all set for a good night! England V Italy on the Tv Perfect. What we diddnt realise was that the bouncers in AUS dont like letting people who have had ... read more

Christmas in Sydney; we’ve made it to the “Land Down Under”! 25th December 2008 Christmas Day! And we’re not having Vegemite sandwiches! We’re off to Coogee Beach for a Christmas picnic lunch with Sue and Eric (my cousin). Arrived here on Tuesday evening 23rd December and guess what? It was RAINING, and only about 22 degrees. Maybe the unseasonable weather has followed us from New Zealand? Whatever, it was nice because we thought that it would be uncomfortably hot and humid, as indeed it was here earlier in the month, and it would have been like walking into an oven on landing. We now have time to acclimatise. We got to our hotel fairly rapidly from the airport (transport links are excellent in Sydney) to find that we are in a great buzzing location. We are ... read more