Blogs from Victoria, Australia, Oceania - page 622

Well, allot has changed the last month. My friend Nikki, from Calgary, arrived from the Gold Coast at the end of October, so I have had someone to accompany me for the last while. She also convinced me, with little resistance, to switch hostels to one right in the heart of St kilda. which is much closer to everything. Shopping, groceries, bars, internet access, and people my age and only a minute to the beach. We took a short tour of the hostel, X Base Backpackers, and found it to be much more like a hotel than anything else. Quite nice. Only 150$ a week. So I have since been living there. Meeting loads of people from all over the globe. Been having an absolute blast. St. Kilda is a very trendy beach community right outside ... read more

hello avid readers stan lee here again with another gripping installment of 'why did i leave everyone and everything i know to live in a foreign country?' so as the title suggests i have a new job and the bar i'm in is populated by suits, for those of you who are suits, sorry, but these guys are all tossers in my book no reasons why but they are you know, so after being removed from my last job i had a week on the beers and stumbled into a bar with my cv in my teeth tripped on some blind girls dog bounced off the resident obese woman and spilt her vodka and DIET coke, like its some slimming agent, landed face down on the ground and the boss picked me felt my balls and ... read more

Hi all. With 2 weeks off work to get organized (and those of you that know me know I can be anal retentive in this area) I am busy organizing for our trip. We have the camper, we have the car, we are starting to pack and will hopefully be ready to leave on the 2nd of January. The going away do is set for the 17th of December, open house bash in the forest (which is the closest thing we will have for a home for a while) which we hope if you live locally will come and enjoy. Hopefully for those of you who are computer literate we will be able to keep in touch and keep you up to date with our travelling adventures and misshaps. Don't forget to e-mail and phone and ... read more

Toute bonne chose a une fin, mais nous quittons les Grampians avec le sentiment d'avoir vu le principal et le plus inoubliable. Alors, en selle, et hue Raymonde... First stop, pardon, premier arret, Arrarat. C'est une charmante petite ville, creee grace a la decouverte d'un filon d'or par des chinois (il faut ce qu'il faut !) et qui c'est arretee de grandir a l'epuisement de celui-ci. Nous y avons visite une expo sur des nus feminins, superbe mais comme toujours beaucoup trop courte !!, un magnifique musee " Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre" tres interractif, nous expliquant le parcours des emigres chinois dans le Victoria, leur culture, les causes et effets de ce perieux voyages (cela fait parfois froid dans le dos). On a meme pu s'initier a la recherche d'or en milieu fluvial reconstitue, resultat ... read more

Hey mates! Alles goed daar in het verre NL? Hier is het weer een drukke week geweest. Niet zozeer met nieuwe dingen, maar ik begin wel te merken dat alle indrukken toch wel veel energie kosten. Daarnaast ook nog eens het feit dat ik nu al een maand hier alleen zit, maakt het er allemaal niet makkelijker op!! Maar goed, wat heb ik gedaan... uiteraard de hele week gewoon gewerkt. En dat gaat steeds beter mag ik wel zeggen. Ik begin steeds meer betrokken te raken bij het eigenlijke werk, en besteed (gelukkig...) steeds minder tijd aan het “mezelf bezig houden”. Er speelde al een tijdje een probleem in de software dat om onverklaarbare redenen ervoor zorgde dat bepaalde lokaties een negatief volume en aantal kregen... ik zal jullie niet vermoeien met alle details, maar dat ... read more