Blogs from Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 7

Hello, after NYE spent a few days with Ros and Eleanor’s family going the beach and round to peoples houses for lunch. Getting well looked after anyway and all the Aussies are really friendly and welcoming. . Catching the 'rip' is good fun and you just get thrown about in the waves . . been a bit cloudy and windy on a couple of days but still good fun. Went out to the local rugby social club with Ros, Sam, Eleanor and Nan. For 86 years old Nan gets round better than most! Was a good night but these people are addicted to gambling . . everywhere you turn you can have a bet - these are not normal social clubs like we have they're absolutely massive! Went up the Blue Mountains next day with Ros ... read more

It has been five long years, but I am finally back down under, like Dorothy I fell asleep one day (I happened to do it on an airplane) and arrived the next day in Oz. We spent the first week or so of our trip in Wollongong, a beach community about 1 1/2 hours drive south of Sydney. After a small bump in the road getting here (our plane was delayed 1 1/2 hours), we finally arrived to one customs official and a huge line of people, but managed to finally make it out of the airport and in to the fresh air by 11am (we were suppose to be out and about by 9am). We were immediately greeted by my good friend Matty G. Many of you will remember him from his trip to California ... read more

Wollongong is a really nice little place a little south of sydney. Whilst there we met up with Kirsty's relatives, one of whom lives in wollongong. Once we met up with them we went to the pub and ended up spending the next 8 hours there. This was really good as they are very nice people. We also did the city walk, a walk that takes a couple of hours and takes you past all the things to see in wollongong. This was good and gave us quite a few photo opportunities, it also helps you get your bearings. On christmas day we went out for a really big and tasty meal. Just to show you how much we got this is what we had: Aquas xmas set menu: Breads: mini tomato brushcetta olive tapanade grilled ... read more

19/12/08 = Cool Kiama Campsite Had a good sleep once I stopped worrying about van sliding off the banking and into sea. Nice to wake up in such a beautiful location and when did venture out of van, saw that 2 other vans had come and stayed overnight too. Looked like a really nice day again, so quickly did the breakfast and wash thing, then went to lay on and apprectiate beautiful beach for last time. Creamed up and was only there for 10mins when giant cloud came over and got really cold. So, drove on to Kiama. Not a far drive to Kiama and was still a little cloudy when got there, so had a look round shops. Nice town and some really lovely shops - v.quaint and old style. Glad I didn't find anything ... read more

Ross: We managed to escape from Fiji with relative ease apart from a bit of a mix up with my iTrip that I’d carelessly left on one of the islands but, after some coaxing with the resort over the phone, had been successfully transferred to the Nadi ferry, only to be picked up by a Fijian do-gooder with the inability to stick to a pre-arranged rendezvous - bye bye iTrip. Bloody Fiji time! The flight to Sydney aboard a United Airlines 747 was fairly uneventful except for the fact that we’d been seated next to the galley and were therefore exposed to dangerous levels of enthralling air hostess conversation on riveting topics such as shopping and cosmetics. After touching down and passing through customs, we were finally set loose on the unsuspecting Aussie population. We had ... read more