Blogs from Surrey Hills, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 7

Thanks very much everybody for the messages and comments which enhance an already great travel experience. I've left some replies which I hope reach you. It's Saturday morning in Central Sydney and it's very hot and sunny though I am mindful that it's very different back home and I hope that the severe conditions are not affecting you too badly. I've had some excellent coffee whilst sitting in Railway Square listening to Jason Miles and watching the "beautiful people" passing by. Not so much a matter of seizing (?) the moment as of savouring it. Yesterday I went down to THE harbour and caught my first sights of THE bridge and THE Opera House. Both are undoubtedly fabulous and it sounds churlish, even unkind, to say that, wonderful as they undoubtedly are, they are almost victims ... read more

Aww...so this is my last entry from Sydney! Actually I've already left Sydney, in Melbourne now. So I'll start with my trip to the Blue Mountains. Once the holidays were over I thought I should maybe try getting out of the city and seeing some different places for a change, it of culture and all that. So I booked myself a Blue Mountains tour. Caught the coach at 6 yes 6am.....but Zellini's have got me well used to my early mornings so not so bad. From Sydney we made our way inland to....yes you guessed the Blue Mountains. The views were stunning, took some beautiful walks in the national park area. Got on the steepest railway in the world to take us down into the parklands, actually the train was almost vertical going down and then ... read more

I have neglected the journal as of recent for numerous reasons. One: Im a lazy boy and Two: I do not enjoy writing about work and going clubbing. THe past few weeks has consisted of both these things: Uneventful yet I have still enjoyed them thoroughly. Im an idiot and persued things with Chrissy which have been going well. They will continue to go well until I step on the plane to Thailand tomorrow. :o 'Thailand you say?' Plans have changed again (Yes, I know, I feel like Laura). Flights to Bangkok were a mere $50 more than going to darwin so I figured hey, why not? Im leaving on a Thai Jetplane and I will be abck again. Two weeks in Thailand with no plans but loads of ideas on things to do. All that ... read more

Well Im sure some of you have heard that I may have been coming home early: this is sadly untrue. I did give my two weeks notice at work today to an extremely unhappy manager. I also decided that I'm going to make the most of my australia adventure (however lame that sounds) and head to perth. I want to be in a less busy place and apparantly Perth is beautiful with awesome surf and is also a small city. The plan is to go there and try to get hostel work or something to pay for accomodation and see a bit of western aus. I was thinking about comign home early but its going to cost me close to $300 to change my ticket and I really cant afford that. What else is new? Ive ... read more

I havent had my laptop runnign in the past week and a bit so I appologize for my absence. Frustration of reformatting my harddrive kicked in and I decided just to bring it in. $20 later I had an up and running laptop good as new. Yee-Haw. Sorry, on to the good stuff. Or... well, whatever you want to call it. Last week I met Poppy for the first time. For those of you who dont know (which is almost all of you), I ahve distant cousins in england. My little family has another branch that I barely know about. One of these family members, Poppy, is now living and working in sydney. This came as a huge surprise and excitement for me as I barely knew this family existed let alone thought of meeting time ... read more