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

First of all huge apologies for the extremely long time since my last blog entry, the last month has been hectic, intense and chaotic as you will soon find out... Landing late on a thursday evening we made our way to the Balmain Backpackers Hostel tired and weary from the non stop few weeks in South East Asia. However we would have no time to relax. In a totally alien city we knew we had to get our bearings fast, find somewhere nice but cheap to live, and then get a job. Where the past 5 weeks had been about trying to appreciate as much culture, cuisine and fun as we possibly could, our time now was entirely dedicated to setting ourselves up in Sydney. Using the websites gumtree.com.au , domain.net , share-accomodation.net and general advertisements ... read more

And so begins another day in sunny Sydney. Bit of an earlier start as Shane chatted to his SFU advisor at 7am. "C.C." came over for a pet while I drank a lovely cup of tea. Dishes were washed, showers had and off we went! Early morning starts are my favourite. Fast-paced walk in the morning to Warringah Mall, mostly along a busy road but next to the Warringah Golf Course so it wasn't too bad. Got to the mall and wandered around for a couple of hours, trying to find zip-off travel trousers for me, a hat for Shane, and a few other bits and bobs. Having had a fairly productive shopping trip, we were off in a taxi to the dressmakers in Belrose for a fitting at 2pm. I arrived at the dressmaker's all ... read more

Well, we've got good news and bad news that we couldn't wait to report.... The good news is that we've got the ski jobs which is FANTASTIC! Starting in mid June we'll be working at the Ski Rider Hotel in the Perisher Mountain Resort. The bad news for you our faithful readers is that now we'll have an income, we won't be home until November! Sorry guys but we're sure you'll manage without us! x ... read more

Well we promised that the next blog entry would be more interesting and this one shouldn't disappoint. As everywhere started to gear up towards Christmas I think we both felt it just didn't feel like the start of December with the blazing sun but the Christmas trees and caroles made it feel a little more like Christmas. We had a pretty manic start to December with me starting a new job and Sarah's sister and her friend arriving in Sydney to stay with us over Christmas and New Year. We all decided that our first Christmas in Australia should be spent on the beach with a BBQ, the girls did the majority of the food shopping the day before Christmas Eve and started to hunt for a disposable picnic barbeque. It would seem that disposable barbecues ... read more

My journey from Coffs to Port Macquarie involved that same mischievous driver named Trevor (classic guy who always wore his nametag upside down - which was really him in a nutshell!) who always anally stacked everyones bags perfectly and thus wasted about 30 minutes at each stop.. meaning by the time we arrived at our destination we were always 1.5 hours late. So we sat at Coffs and waited and waited. When he finally did arrive he proceed to waste another 30 minutes stacking bags blaming the Christmas rush for his lateness. Nice bloke but probably in the wrong line of work. So arrived to Port Macquarie to find everything shut and it nearly sundown. Checked into my hostel and planned to see the town all in the following day. Port Macquarie is a really lovely ... read more