Blogs from Oceania - page 7371

Bonjour tout le monde! We're in the Archipel de la Société, where Polynesians ride bikes whilst clutching baguettes, eat croque monsieur, play pétanque and listen to accordian music (well, sometimes...). The laissez faire attitude comes naturally to Polynesians so it seems to be quite a good match. Indeed the Polynesians here voted to maintain their association with France in a referendum in 1958 (mind you, that was five years before the French started detonating nuclear bombs in the Archipel de Tuamotos). As far as the French are concerned Polynesie Française is another part of France itself and a fair number have decided to follow Gauguin and start a new life out here in the cyclone zone. One thing that immediately strikes you about French Polynesia is that there are flowers everywhere. Many of the locals wear ... read more

Well I am now in Melbourne. We have been here a few days, we havent really slept too much. There is a really fun pub next to our hostel. I have been whipping Aussie boys at fooseball and I have enjoyed every second of it. Well here are some updates...Miss T had her birthday before we left Michelles. We bought her some really funky clothes and Michelles Mom made her cupcakes. It was fun and there were still quite a few people there so it seemed like a birthday party. I tried to get in as many surfing days as I could before we hit the road. I have some amazing pictures but I am using hostel internet and I can't load my pictures onto it. So we hit the road with Aaron, Dave, Miss T ... read more

Foerste gang siden soendag at jeg har internett og dekning paa mobilen naa, digg:) Har vaert paa surfekurs paa ved en nyydelig strand som heter Seven Mile Beach, aa det er det kuleste jeg noen gang har gjort fy faen!:D Ah..helt vilt aa surfe, vi ser ut som vi har vaert i krigen alle sammen:) Fulle av skrubbsaar paa knaer og albuer, og jeg har ca ti saar paa hver haandflate, pluss en ukjent anntall blaamerker. Men uansett, har lyst til aa skrive kjempemye men har ikke tid akkurat naa, vi skal surfe igjen om en time saa..mere kommer:) Har kjempemasse bilder, kommer vel ut i loepet av helgen. Ville bare gi lyd fra meg naa i full fart:) Aiight, paa tide aa hoppe i vaatdrakta igjen;) Heeei... read more

Off the bikes - doctors orders 28-30/01/06 We get dropped off at Anglesea Clinic this morning where a doctor manipulates my knee for a while before announcing that I may have a torn meniscus and I need to rest it for seven days, definitely no cycling. He then tells me that after two days rest I should start exercising it, he says "a really good exercise for the knees is cycling". I give him one of those looks and we come to an agreement where I will lay off for a couple of days, then bimble around gently on the flat and see how it goes. After a week I will try some "serious" cycling and if the problem is still there I will probably have to have an arthroscopy (aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh). On the 29th we take ... read more

Feb 3 Today we droped Dave off to the vets and had lunch with Jane and Peter in Mandurah at her sisters house. The views from there were beautiful with being surounded by native bushland and a view to water on 2 sides and had lunch with a family of Splendid Wrens. We had updated our last web page and Sandy dropped us back home in the boat with a lovely moonlit view as wed came back from the island. Feb 4 Nard spent the night at a friends house so he could be up early to go fishing on the boat. Nard cought a Trevalley and one of the other blokes cought a 53 cm whiting that they cooked up on the BBQ for lunch. Meanwhile I went for a walk down the beach to ... read more