Blogs from Coogee Beach, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 3

So we have arrived in Sydney, and the apartment is fantastic. I have gone from living in a shoebox to a 2 bed, 2 bathroom trendy place overlooking the sea! The town, Coogee is also great, loads of little shops, restaurants and foody places. The beach is at the end of the road and we are only 20 minutes on the bus to the city. Strangely there are loads of brits. I am also happy because I have managed to buy marmite and the latest copy of Heat magazine - who says I'm hard to please!? So we spent the first few days just finding our feet, finding a park and cooking, yes it is great to have an oven again. First thing on order....some roast potatoes, and then some baking with the kids and jacket ... read more

Arriving in Sydney I was still feeling pretty down about having left my life in Perth when my plane landed in Sydney and it was time for my next adventure. I collected my bag quickly and walked around the domestic arrivals area for several minutes looking for the OzIntro person collecting me. After my disaster in Perth with Travellers forgetting to collect me, I was not too optimistic. And sure enough there was no one there. So I sat down with my backpack and waited but luckily not for two long as a guy soon walked in and flashed me his OzIntro card. His name was Michael, who I was soon to find out was the owner of OzIntro. We jumped into the OzIntro-mobile and headed off towards my future home: Coogee. We soon arrived at ... read more

Started ozintro on monday the 1st September. Having an amazing time. Learned to surf. Been to the aquarium, been to THE GAFF (club), Seen the blue mountains in the pouring rain! Been jetboating on sydney harbour. Had a bbq on the beach. Looking forward to the pub crawl tonight. With a really good group of people so have changed our plans to fly with them to Cairns. Also its expensive and chucking it down here, so will be hotter and cheaper in Cairns. Will be flying on Tuesday!! All of our photos are now on facebook. its the quickest place to upload them so you'll all have to get a facebook account, Sorry! ... read more

Hi ho everyone! Come Saturday, we will be air bourne (for quite a while . . .) So, the plan is . . . we fly out of Sydney on Saturday morning, and then (many hours later) have a long stop over in Santiago (we may or may not get out of the airport . . . tax issues . . .) then onward to Lima (Peru). Keep updated to see how it all goes. We'll send regular blogs, and you can check in. Depending on how skilful we become, you may even get photos! We will miss you, and wish us a comfy (!) flight xo Kath and Amy... read more

Here goes for my fiest entry I arrived in sydney on monday 12th, the flight was reailly good plent of space plenty of food but no sleep (doh). i got picked up by Robyn from Ozintro and taken to the hostel, first impressions very good but still not commong round to the fact im in oz. I got dropped of in recption where a few of the others where that arrived just before me afer the introductions we decided to go for our first beer in oz as we couldn't get checked in till 12. the first beer in oz a schooner, very nice. Then got back to the hostel and meet the rest of the group and get settled into our room for the next week. We was picked up and taken to botanical gardens. ... read more