Life has been so busy I am having to refer to my diary to remember what I have been up to! So, after a great day of whale watching and jazz, Lucy and Andy kindly invited me along to their day of lunch at the Fish Market with Jill, Jim and Chloe, followed by the Bondi to Coogee walk. The fish market is fabulous - loads of stalls of freshly caught fish and you can pick and choose what you want and then eat outside fending off the seagulls! We had a great selectio...

Week 2 in Sydney! Since I last blogged, Carly and Paul have very kindly been putting me up in their flat (unit in Australian speak) in Lane Cove since last Sunday. I have done a bit towards earning some Aussie dollars whilst I am here, doing a responsible gambling course and will be doing a responsible service of alcohol course on Wednesday! (Seems kind of crazy to have to do exams to do bar work.) Also I have asked around in a few bars in Manly and I have had a...

G'day from Sydney! Just a really quick message... I now have an Australian mobile number: +61 402523754 Arrived very early yesterday morning off a packed flight from Singapore - I did get to watch The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on the plane though which made me happy! Got the train from the airport to Circular Quay to get the ferry over to Manly - I was beaming from ear to ear stepping off the train as there in front of me was the Opera House and the Harbour B...

We were determined to make the most of the last couple of days in Bali, so after an interesting taxi ride up to Amed - driving past hundreds of people dressed in their Balianese best heading to the temple for a full moon festival, and eventually finding the hotel... we had a quick swim in the pool, checked out the black and beach and the incredible view across to Gunung Agung. The following morning we had an early start to get up to Tulamben to dive the USS Libe...

Arriving on Gili T after a ride on the roof of the fast boat and we were back in travellerland (or on the banana pancake trail). No cars or motorbikes on the Gilis, just bicycles and horse drawn carriages which, after some of the traffic jams in Kuta, is wonderful. Found ourselves a place to stay after a bit of work... moved the next day, and then moved again (to an air con room!!!) Immediately got ourselves booked in for some diving - in total we did 5 dives - ...