Hey, we've left Sydney behind and have been on the road for 2 days. First night we stayed in Canberra which involved a tour of the city and visiting the federal buildings and war museum. Quite an active night that involved us being awoken at midnight (yes we were in bed at midnight! - had to get up at 6am) by a fire alarm and we had to vacate the building in our pj's. But, the firemen came which was very interesting!!!! Next day we moved on to a cattle ...

Hi everyone, and a belated Happy New Year!! Hope you all had a good one and wishing you all the best for 2005. Well since staying in Bondi (our last update), we moved to Manly, a seaside town on the North shores of Sydney. We had the pleasure of staying in our first mixed dorm. The fellow inmates were a bunch of young 20 somethings from Sweden. They were pretty cool, liked surfing and playing the guitar. Deb went diving in Manly (not with sharks, so do...

Arrived in Bondi on 23rd December. Spent the day wandering around and lazing on the Beach. Christmas in Oz....... Spent xmas eve on Bondi Beach soaking up some rays. Went shopping (for each others xmas presents) and then started on the bubbly ready for a night out on the town. Ended up in our not so local pub, Scruffy Murphys for some Karoke althought after 2 bottles of wine we managed to stay in our seats and not join them on stage as they didn't want the ...

Hi all Just a quickie to say we are both fine and well. Haven't been up to that much, just general sight seeing around the city. Weather here is a bit manic, one minute it is blazing sunshine, the next a wind rips up from nowhere and it starts thundering and lightening! Have been to the cinema a few times and managed to catch The Killers playing live at a theatre in the suburbs of Sydney. It was bloody fantastic. Still frequenting bars, have spent ...

Hi All, What have we been doing since Thursday........not much. Its rained quite a bit so have been to the cinema to watch Bridget Jones and had to stop in a pub to get out of the rain as we had left our pac a macs in the room! We went to Sydney's biggest club last night, Home. It was quite an early night for us so we managed to get up and out this morning as it was really sunny and we have been on the Sydney Tour and up the Sydney Sky Tower. We have lo...