Blogs from Manly, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 17

Just spent the weekend with Jen! Is a bit surreal when you're on a ferry to Manly beach with one of your best friends from school, who you haven't seen in over 6months, looking at the Opera House!!Weird! Haven't really got much else to report, but thought everyone would be dead jealous if I put up a photo of Jen, Dan and I at the beach!! Jen and I caught the ferry over the Manly on sunday morning (luckily the crossing was calm-we'd been out the night before!) and met up with Dan who'd just arrived. Had a bum round Manly, then sat on the beach until stomachs were seriously rumbling! That was quickly resolved by the largest bowl of soup I've ever seen! We watched the sun set over manly wharf then hit the bars ... read more

Well we got here in one piece, although the jet lag has rather taken its toll. Today is the first time I have felt human. Anyway, after a grey start, the sun has come out and we have managed to explore some of the city. Coming in from Manly across the harbour provides a perfect introduction to the city, with the opera house and bridge the cliched but true indication that we had arrived. We spent today pottering around the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain, taking hundreds of pictures of the harbour from all conceivable angles. We also visited the Hyde Park Barracks, which makes two museums in two days - we saw the Museum of Sydney yesterday, not that I can recall much of it due to lack of sleep (cockatoos outside the bedroom at ... read more

Hi pals! We're writing this from Honkers but this blog is actually about the three busy days we had last week travelling between Auckland, Sydney and then on to Hong Kong. Phew - it's the most active that we've been for months. We left Auckland on Tuesday afternoon - a big thanks to cousin Ian for driving us to the airport in his lovely new Pajero, and for Auntie Sylvia for accompanying us. It was ace having you both there to ensure that we got on the plane, but you were probably glad to see the back of us! From there it was absolutely terrific to be back in Sydney, albeit only for a couple of days. We arrived here late afternoon, got a cab straight into town to meet Bingo and promptly had ourselves a ... read more

aamupähkäilyjen jälkeen tultiin siihen tulokseen, että ei se taidakaan sataa vaikka säätiedotus niin lupas.. Aurinko nimittäin paisto kirkkaalta taivaalta ja lämmintä riitti. Ei siinä sit auttanu ku laittaa bikinit päälle ja suunnistaa Manlyn lautalle. Noh ei meistä tuu mitään auringonpalvojia. se on ihan selvä! puolen tunnin jälkeen alettiin oleen, et vois lähtee kotiin, mutta kyllähän me tunti siellä jaksettiin maata.. Sit piti käydä katteleen Manlyn kauppoja. Piti nimittäin saada flipflop kengät ja kyllähän me sellaset löydettiinki! :) ja sit lisää tuliaisia. Kohta onkin kaikki ostettu! :D hyvä me! noh rahatki on sit sitä myöten kulunu, että eipä sitä enää toukokuussa taida edes olla rahaa ostella.. Kotona tehtiin kalaa ja hymynaamoja. ei jaksanu muutakaan. ja joutu meneen kylmään suihkuun, jotta sai hiekat pois. se hiekka on niin ärsyttävää,kun se takertuu joka paikkaan! argh!!! :( ... read more

Well I am here. The trip over was a disaster with my luggage getting lost and delays and cancellations, but I got my luggage on the second day thankfully. I have my apartment on the edge of campus by myself despite previous intentions because it was virtually impossible to find anything for 3 people let alone furnished at this point in the game. I was lucky to get what I did, and it is expensive, but everything in this freaking city is ridiculously expensive anyways. I move in there Sunday. I won't bore anyone with the details of settling in, but I am back online with my computer and that is a very amazing thing. Here are some of the things I have been upto other than checking out Sydney as a whole and figuring things ... read more