Blogs from New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 1140

I am at this very moment in Sydney, the other side of the world from where I am used to! It has finally kicked in now of where I am, as on the planes it just didn't seem real. But now I am finally here after months of thinking and planning :) I slept most of the flight to Hong Kong, waking up for my absolute favourite yummy plane food :p (I know it's aload of rubbish but I just love it!) and had a few naps on the flight from Hong Kong to Sydney, which took for ever... Passport control took aaaages with a massive zig zag queue. Finally we were out, and met Fliss and Em who had come to pick us up. They were both wearing cork hats and carrying huge Australian flags ... read more

wow what a great night that was!! I don't think I need to say much about it as most of you were there celebrating with me but I must say that to have my family and friends there all at once is something special and means so much to me! I have only 4 and half days left and I have started packing my bag...kind of...I still have a list of things to get done but as always it will be done in time...I hope! I'll put some pics up of my party to remind anybody that forgot what a great night it was!! Thanks to everyone that came and helped out with everything, it meant a lot to know that everyone else was just as excited, if not more, as I am about the trip. ... read more

Well its felt abit like the really wild show as over the last week we've had lots of intentional and unintentional wildlife encounters(don't worry mum, no sharks) ! We started in Port Macquarie which although the weather wasn't the best at times is a really nice place that you could easily spend a week in. We were there on a recommendation from a girl we met in the hostel in Canberra, particularly because we wanted to see the Koala hospital. We started our day with a coastal walk, during which we encountered several lizards who suprised us (well me mostly) by shooting across the path in front of us. The views were really good with a long sandy beach stretching out in the distance. Although the beach closest to Port M's town is quite rugged, there ... read more

Hi all, Posted another entry the other day and lost it. Obviously not as clever as I thought. Had the packers in yesterday and they left at 9pm last night. What a day - rained all day and then at around 7pm John ran into the billiard lights (the table has been sold), smashed one of the glass shades and gave himself a 4cm cut on the temple. Quick trip to hospital and a lot of blood and 4 stitches later we were home to finish packing. The moving truck came today - it's been pouring - trust us to break the drought! Am writing this at 4pm and they haven't quite finished but we are about to tackle the mammoth cleaning task. Too tired to be sad. We slept in the van when we finally ... read more

We both arrived in Sydney on wed 11th, Kim flying in from Taz and me traveling on a very long and boring bus journey from Melbourne (12 hours long). Kim arrived to find me asleep already in the hostel (in Chinatown) and managed to drag me out of bed to go and see stuff around the city. The weather was very hot outside and we walked from the hostel Elizabeth St to the Royal Botanical gardens. The gardens were very scenic and there was a lot to see with spectacular views across the harbour. After walking through the gardens we came across Sydney Opera house which looked exactly like we had seen in so many pictures before, though slightly larger than we had expected. We also got a great view of Sydney Harbour Bridge from where ... read more