Blogs from Oceania - page 7787

Hi Everyone, Well I am finally going to finish the journal of my trip before it is so far away that I will forget everything. Of course the time I choose to do this I really should be studying, but I've had enough for the day. So I think I pretty much finished spain..... We had an interesting time getting to the Barcelona airport. We left our lovely fancy (but cheap amazingly enough) hotel with great instructions from the receptionist to get a taxi (note to self....travel LIGHTLY next time :p) to the train station and get a bus (which supposedly left every 20mins) from there to the airport. Upon arrival at the train station we got lost, got sent from counter to counter only to be told when we were finally able to ask for ... read more

Ok, firstly apologies for my very delayed blog update but unlike last time when it was due to laziness, this time the reason could not be further from my natural lethargic tendencies and is in reality due to the fact that since arriving here in Australia my life has been incredibly hectic. To summarise... I flew into Sydney on New Year’s Eve and thanks to Mark had a ticket to experience the New year’s celebrations on a boat moored in Sydney harbour, which has got to be the ultimate in New Year’s parties - Thanks Mark. What was also amazing about that day (and the rest of my time here in Oz) was how incredibly lucky I have been. I arrived in Sydney in the morning of New Year’s Eve unfortunately without anywhere to stay, as ... read more

We were up early today for our breakfast in the hostel, $7 for all you can eat cereal, fruit, toast and that, we had a good skelp at it then out to the Tourist Info for advice on cars V buses. To cut a two hour chat, and a long story short we've rented a Toyota Sprinter, (1999), 1600 AUTOMATIC for 29 days starting at 10am tomorrow, about 30 hours from now!! I've never driven an automatic but I'm sure it'll be straight forward, they drive on the same side of the road from us and the only difference I can see is that you give way infront of you if the car is turning right. What I mean is you're at a traffic light and it goes green, there's a car coming towards you but ... read more

Hello friends, family and other fabulous people! Thanks for caring enough to check out my journal. I am hoping to keep this updated should the web-gods be kind. Please add comments, it would be great to hear from you.... but remember the world at large can read them all so save the raunchy messages for the email (use the contact ZoMo button) ;) Quote of the day: A woman is a lot like a tea-bag, only in hotwater do you see how strong she is. Hazel Hawke. Z... read more

It's now nearly three weeks since new year and I'm still banging my head against a solid brick wall. Everyone's back at work now but after speaking with various agencies it seems that in order to get aircraft work, I need to get security clearance. No problem I thought. However, it also seems that companies are unwilling to grant security clearance to people with working holiday visas. 'king brilliant. No work for me. I wouldn't mind so much, but all you hear on the news and in the papers is how Australia is desperately short of skilled people, and how kids these days refuse to take up apprenticeships. You'd have thought that they couldn't afford to be so fussy as to who they take on. Oh well, looks like fruit picking for me! Gary started a ... read more