Meet Nicola Ellis aka Sideshow Bob I need to clarify something. Nicola has told me that some of you asked about the Sideshow Bob reference. Well, I think Nicola shares a few characteristics with Sideshow. What do I mean? Is she an evil genius who wants to kill someone though fiendish, devilish means? Erm no. Does she have massive feet? Erm, yes a little bit. Does she have a huge, sprouting curly bonce? YES! If Nicola is Sideshow, I'm still trying to figure out...

We're a long way from home Toto ... Just over 11,000 miles to be exact, in the "City of Sails" aka Auckland. We arrived late on Wednesday night/early hours of Thursday morning and spent our first full day walking the city. Auckland is a pretty unremarkable city in itself but is relatively compact, with the usual skyscrapers. However, it does possess lots of natural harbours full of sailing boats and dock areas which have now been converted for leisure use. It is...

Spiders, Shining and Screws Yesterday afternoon we decided to take a peek at Glebe - another suburb of Sydney. We have pretty much done the main suburbs now. I have it on good authority that Karl once lived here and funnily enough when I asked one of the locals he said - "whaaat? Do yow know my Karly do yow?" Over the past few weeks my bonce has grown to uncontrollable proportions and I was walking around with what looked like a helmet on my head. Time for a h...

A View to a Kill "Night fall covers me But you know the plans I'm making Still overseas, Could it be the whole lot opening wide" It's been a few days since my last update and in the meantime, myself and the dear little creature accompanying me have been settling into Sydney life just like locals. As such, nothing "out of the ordinary" has occurred. To recap, it was time to check out of our luxury Meriton apartment on Friday and engage in a trek across the c...

Still enjoying Sydney .... After a relaxing day spent in the city on Tuesday, enjoying a picnic in the Royal Botanic Gardens, we went on our second day trip to the Hunter Valley wine region yesterday. First stop was an animal park where we got to meet some friendly koala bears and kangaroos. There were a few Emu's running about as well, but no Rod Hull funnily enough. Rumour has it that they were having some "reception" problems and so Rod was on the visitor cen...