Blogs from Australia, Oceania - page 4529

Ive spent the past few days with vera and ron, they are amazing hosts. They took me to all sorts of sights where I was able to get more beautiful views of the sydney area. They also took me to a provincial park where the sun came out over a beautiful setting of Lion Island and Palm Beach. Unfotrunately, all I really wanted to do was sleep; I was running on two crappy hours of on and off sleep. Apparantly Im allergic to something in the air near their house. I couldn't breath all night as my lungs had tightened up and all I could make was a wheezing sound all night. I felt terrible that as they showed me all this scenery, all I wanted to do was sleep or at best, breathe. By the ... read more

med ett nytt innlegg i bloggen her naa ser jeg! Skulle ha skrevet lenge foer, altfor mye aa skrive, men har vaert litt hektisk i Airlie Beach de siste fire-fem dagene. Jeg dro altsaa fra Airlie Beach til Brisbane idag. Hadde vaert i Airlie i kanskje elleve dager naa! Flere grunner til det. Det var den forbannede syklonen Larry som naadde oss loerdags ettermiddag og varte utover natten og morgenen. Vi slapp heldigvis unna det verste. Morgenen etter var det en del palmer og traer som hadde knekt/blaast overende. Ellers hadde folk vaert flinke til aa sirke ting, saa det var ikke saa mye som hadde blaast avgaarde. Hele loerdags formiddag var jeg ganske saa nervoes, bare spoer Elisabeth!:) I Airlie er det nesten bare backpackere aa finne, de som jobber paa hostellene er ogsaa backpackere, ... read more

Today is the final day of fun and frollicks in a favourite car. Having woken to find a council dude prowling the carpark we decided to make our get away. We took our time coming home, a nice convoluted route past Lake Cootharaba...huge but brown...nice! then the Louis Bazzo Drive (!) lead us north to Kin Kin, which I think must be officially australia's quaintest town. Proper, hicksville country town with a very old traditional Hotel and a general store. The school was built in 1911 and is a stunning building. Locals were genuinely shocked at the sight of tourists and declared loudly that we must be mad to come here on purpose. But we liked it. The nearer to home we got the less keen we were to keep going. Parting with the car would ... read more

Hi all, On en etait ou deja.. ah oui, on en a eu marre des 2 jobs.. donc on a arrete de bosser pour Amnesty le mardi 21 mars et au resto, Claire a continue quelques soirs de plus.. et puis on a profite de notre liberte!! Le soir meme, on est allees se promener sur le Darling Harbour.. jusque l'Opera House, encore..! Et oui mais de nuit cette fois: c'est splendide! Vous en jugerez par vous meme en regardant les photos.. (NDC* : les photos donnent pas mal, mais la realite... : c est tout autre chose!) Sydney est une ville toujours animee: On est retournees le samedi et le dimanche soir se promener pres de l'opera. Il y avait une soiree ''classe'' en plein air avec live music.. au bord de l'eau.. evidement on ... read more

Ahhh today we invited ourselves to Darren's granny's B&B!!!! The boys have been staying there all this time....... She lives in a little Beautiful place called Rye...................... Got the train there...................... then the boys picked us up in the "yute"!!! Only room for 3 so Darren climbed into a sleeping bag in the back of the van for the 30mins drive!!!! Ahhhh granny had a big chicken dinner ready and waiting for us when we arrived!!!!!!! as well as a few boxes of Goon (cheap Aussie wine!) Very nice to be looked after................................................. read more