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Published: October 13th 2007
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Heyyyyyy!!
Well im here in oz!!
Finally made it!! I have to be honest, the flight was a bit of a killer!! Took 48 hours to get from Heathrow to Sydney in total!! I slept for the first leg of the flight, to Dubai, then we had a half hour walk around the airport and had to board again! The second leg wasn’t too bad, long and boring, think I watched the first half an hour of 7 different films!!!
Arriving in Brunei was random as it was suddenly day time! I met a couple guys from England and Perth so we went to a shopping centre, and as we chilled out on the grass outside for a bit and had loadsa people taking photos of us, I was left on my own for 5 mins whilst they went to the loo and two reporters from the local paper came up to take photos and wanted to put a story bout me in the paper, said they’ve never known people to sit around on the grass verge!!!! After a couple hours, we came back to the airport… still with 10 hours to kill!!!! I tried to sleep, but you know
how uncomfy airport chairs are!! Eventually we boarded and it was def the worst leg, I couldn’t sleep and had a random weirdo next to me!! But the view coming into Sydney was awesome.. the sunrise and seeing the opera house! So, landed in Sydney about 6 in morning, went straight to hostel and met my very random room mates (one being an old dutch guy who just talked and talked and talked.. even when I was falling asleep in front of him!!). the hostel is fantastic, its massive and has 7 floors, and hundreds of people staying. There's a kitchen, internet, bar / club, lounge etc, its all modern. Im in a room with 4 people, so its not too bad. Anyway, I went to sleep from 9 till about 4 and then had little wonder around Sydney. It was at this point I was pretty daunted by the whole thing and wondering what on earth I was doing, galavanting to the other side of the world! But then Duncan (a guy I went to Uni with) came and found me, he had couple hours off work so we went to see the opera house.. was awesome, tho I
kind of felt like “ive seen the main sight… might as well come home now”!! ;-) when I got back, I went to the hostel bar with my room mates and a few people I’d met at the airport, tho like many others there.. trying to be sociable whilst jetlagged is not always a good plan and many people were falling asleep in their scooners!
So the next morning I woke up at 4!! Had to get up as I couldn’t cope with the random noises the bloke in the bed above me was making!! So had a coffee outside and went on internet… was actually a good time as everyone in England was awake!!! Then I went and got a new ozzie phone!! Woo!! And at 11 I met up with bout 30 others and we did a walk along all the beaches, starting at coogie all the way to bondi beach. Met loadsa peeps, mainly a girl called Nat who’s awesome and 2 guys, chris and dimitrix! (both camp as Christmas!!)
It was hilarious.. half way on the walk it started to absolutely pelt it down.. it started ‘spitting’ but then turned into severe hailstones!!!! Ponchos were given
out and you can see how cool we all look!! Anyway, when the walk finished at 3… being typically English, us four went straight to the pub!!!
Found an awesome Irish pub and stayed there putting the world to rights till about 7! After a quick change we met up with a few more peeps and went to Darling Harbour for the evening!! Its posh, swanky and expensive but was awesome!! The coolest bars ive ever seen!! You can see me and nat prancing around on the stepping stones.. the equivalent of the fountains in bristol!! We then all got a taxi to “the gaff” a club on oxford street, was pretty cool, stayed there till bout 5!!
So today, we went to hyde park and just chilled out, its not all that hot at the mo, but its ok. And then just chilled in hostel, watched dvd etc. so we've just cooked dinner and now getting ready for tonight, its ‘octoberfest’ so there's a massive party in the bar… cabbage rolling apparently so ill update you with whats that about later on!!!
Miss you all loads, thanx for your emails / facebooks / texts
Love you
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Paul
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Wicked :P WOOOOOOOOOOO
Hey sounds like you are havin a fab time :) geting drunk like in england but in auz lol! good you have met cool people :) Speak soon xxx Paul