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Published: March 3rd 2009
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Dear all,
Last time that I wrote I was really looking forward to leaving Chuuk and that proved to be quite hard! Finally the day of our flight arrived and we went to the airport. I call it an airport but it really is just a check in desk, a toilet and a runway! Anyway we soon found out that our flight was going to be delayed by about 9 hours! Our escape from Chuuk was not going to happen just yet!
Finally, after 9 hours our flight arrived. We were actually standing by the runway when the plane arrived...which was quite exciting! We flew to Guam where we were supposed to catch a connecting flight to Manila but we had missed it by hours. So the airline put us up in a hotel in Guam. This turned out to be a good addition to our travels as we got to see Guam and it seemed like a nice place.
Next evening we made it onto our flight to Manila, we stayed there for one night and then flew on to Singapore. That was just a flying visit of a couple of hours and then we jumped on our
plane to Sydney, Australia. That was a seven hour night flight and we finally got here on Friday morning. Our friend Ken picked us up at the airport and now we are staying at his flat in Sydney.
Although we had missed a night of sleep we decided to try and stay awake all day so that we would be on Australian time. We spent our first day wandering Sydney, Dan had some junk food cravings that he needed to take care of. The highlight for me was going to the supermarket..sad I KNOW. But imagine finally being in a place where I could buy Jelly sweets, crusty white bread, cheddar cheese and raisins!!!
We have spent the last few days seeing a bit of Sydney and generally relaxing. Dan and I took a walk around part of the harbour but it is quite big so we haven't even got to the bridge or the Opera House yet. We have walked through Sydney fish market...which smells quite bad! We also went out drinking in Sydney and its nice to know that even on the other side of the world people like to drink a lot and dance around
their handbags!!!
Today we are packing as Dan, Ken and I are flying to Melbourne in the morning. We are trying to travel light but at the moment the boys keep packing completely useless things! We pick up our camper van when we get there. We are heading out of Melbourne along the great ocean road for a couple of days and then heading back towards Sydney. Hopefully if we have done our calculations right we will arrive back in Sydney in a week!
Anyway I am sure that whatever happens there will be many adventures to tell you about and photos too!
Love and hugs to you all,
Wendy
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