Blogs from New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 1206

My first log! Monday 5th July and there are 34 days to go before we (my partner and I and our two children) embark on this journey to the other side of this small planet. It used to be a much bigger planet by the way when I was a child. Australia was so far away then that you actually had to book a telephone call with those people who owned the telephone system. I suppose someone had to pay for the long winding cable which stretched from these shores all the way around the globe. Nowadays, the other side of the globe is 'just over there', its seconds away, the time it takes a web cam to re-scan and transmit. Who moved Australia? Thats what I want to know. Someone did. Once, Earth was so huge ... read more

Sunday, 19 June My job for the next week was in the central NSW town of Temora. I waited until 9 am before starting what turned out to be a five hundred and forty kilometre journey. It took about three hours before I crossed into New South Wales, near the towns of Albury and Wodonga. I left the Hume Freeway twenty five kilometres out of Albury and joined the Olympic Highway and drove north towards the town of Culcairn. The weather was overcast but it only rained a few times as the road took me through the towns of Henty and The Rock. Near Wagga the road by passes the township and I was on the last eighty kilometres into Temora. I had pre booked my accommodation at the Goldtera Motor Inn. I know the proprietor ... read more

I am restless. It's summer vacation here and I mulled over the idea of spending all of 2 months in Australia. My nephew, the one who left in 1999 to migrate to Australia, just bought a house with his sister. Between him and his sister, they have lined up a number of odd jobs and repair work needing to be done on this 10 year old house. That meant a number of appointments with the carpenter, mason, plumber, etc. So, I towed my 6yr old grandniece and my sister to spend the next 2 months with me somewhere in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Suburbs meant somewhere in MacQuarie Fields, some 45 minutes by train from the city center. From the house, it meant a 7 minute walk to the corner, a 10 minute bus ride ... read more

My first month in Sydney I hated it! Mainly I was just frustrated that I couldn’t find a job. Then I realized that’s just the way life is in a big city and once I found my niche I began to LOVE it! I started attending St. Paul’s, a Lutheran church in the city, and met heaps of people my age who were fun and helpful (I ended up living with many of them for short periods of time) and best of all they were actual aussies unlike the friends I made in New Zealand who were mostly travellers. I worked in telemarketing, at Subway, at Oporto (a fast food chicken place), at Donut Express (classy, I know), I house-sat, I even counted ballots for the New South Wales election. And I made good money at ... read more

Good Evening, this is Captain John Bones speaking, and I've been taking you through on this flight. This journey has been a long one-tiring, especially when we were hungover, but we trooped on and we are just about to land in Sydney. Helping to fly you in on this particular journey has been my co-pilots, especially to the most selectest and sexiest of destinations... -Robbie (Queensland) -"Rocket" (Melbourne) -Baz And what about our lovely cabin crew? They did the very best and offered the best hospitality to make sure that the journey was pleasurable and successful... -The Ipswich Crew: Gina & Family, Zoe & Bec -The Buderim Babes: Jess & Mrs Robinson, Libby L, & Dan + Family (and Wazza) -Scott & Alicia -The Melbourne OSF Girls!: Cat, Samb, Mgl, Copper, Raine and the rest ... read more