Blogs from Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia, Oceania - page 5

Hey everyone!!! So we've completed our first week in Australia. We arrived last wednesday, and are currently staying with Rohan and Leanne (Leanne is Trent's cousin.) The past week has been kind of a whirlwind! We've made numerous trips in to the city (right now we're about an hour outside of Melbourne city,) to find a place to live, go shopping, and visit with Trent's sister, Karyn. Karyn is wonderful and so knowledgeable about Melbourne, so she helped us in our search for a home. We found a place to live in Port Melbourne. Its a 2nd story apartment with a pool, but it's great because we have our own entrance, and underground parking. We signed the lease yesterday and we're both SUPER EXCITED!! We went after we signed the lease and bought a fridge, washer, ... read more

Well here we are leaving for home. After Disneyland we went on a big plane to go home. It took 15 hours. It was a long time but I slept for some of it and watched movies for the rest of the time When we arrived home we unpacked half of the container that day. We were moving into a different house. I went to bed and missed out on tea because I was tired. It was good and bad to be home. Bad because it meant the trip was over, but good to be home and see my family and friends. Goodbye world trip, I had an amazing time!... read more

I spent the first couple of days at my relitives house sleeping off the stress that was Bangkok! And writing EVERYTHING down in the blog, which reading back, is ridiculas but i think 5 days with no-one to winge to about little things meant that I took it out on the Blog. Thanks to those who stuck it out and read the Bangkok entry! Melbourne in June/July is freezing compared to South East Asia, so arriving felt a bit like coming home because the weather was similar to when I left home back in April. I spent a couple of days sightseeing with my Cousins wife, Margaret who went bush walking with me and took me to feed the Rosella's and see artists. We went to Philip Island to a wildlife park and saw the Penguins ... read more

Welcome to our first entry on our travel blog. This entry is a bit of a trial run to make sure we get things working before we go. If you receive an e-mail alert from us it is because we have added you on to the invite list. Jus let us know if you don't want to receive the alerts & we'll delete your e-mail from the list (and won't be offended either). You can forward the removal request to gawney@optusnet.com.au. Well, we have 4 weeks today until we depart and the excitement is building. Went & bought a couple of new suitcases the other day preparing for the trip and Christine will certainly standout as hers is lime green!! I went for the more conservative red! Mum is all ready for her European / UK ... read more

hey guys sorry have been a bit slack on updating the blog, been too busy site seeing, and when ever we get a chance the computers are always busy. Any way since the last entry Karina and I have barely had time to rest. We made quite a few friends whilst staying at hostel Woodstock, and they are all great people, thus far we hve been managing to get drunk with them every night on very cheap wine. I think so far the most we have been spending is about 3 euro per bottle which is about 5 or 6 dollars back home. The site seeing high lights thus far have been walking up to the top of the eiffel tower and taking in the spectacular view all the way at the top. Unfortunately we did ... read more