We got the hire car and hit the road on a beautiful Sydney scorcher of a day. A great drive through the suburbs and a bit of countryside to Woollongong - our first stop. I had planned for us to stay at Nan Tien Temple - the biggest Buddhist temple in the Southern Hemisphere! It has conference facilities and budget accommodation with breakfast thrown in as well as the beautiful huge temple and stunning gardens so we simply couldn't pass up the chance of such a...

Well what a week! Rather surprisingly, no work has been forthcoming - which is scarey but i am secretly delighted because it's meant Mum and i have been able to leisurely lounge around Sydney and do all the things i had hoped we could in the best case scenario. Hooray! We visited all my favourite shopping and coffee haunts and snapped up a few bargains to boot. We visited a museum or two and even fitted in some sunbathing. The boys and I had planned a little...

The site is still here! What's going on? Well i had numerous messages offering to help with my renewal which just made me so happy. Thanks to everyone who offered - it means a lot to me. And a special thank you to the person whose offer i took up for just sorting it out - no messing! So the Tour will continue. Spose i better come up with some news and photos then! I've been living the high (skint) life in Sydney and just having a ball. One particularly mom...

Well it's all worked out, thank God! Got a temp job immediately, thanks to one of my great agencies. It's at a property valuers and i'm PA to the two MDs (who are both called Greg). Sounds scarier than it is. In truth i just get to type up valuations of six million dollar properties all day. "Infinity pool....home cinema/rumpus room....uninterrupted views of Sydney Harbour Bridge..." etc. After a very hard sleepless week in one of the worst hostels in Sydney,...

Another financial crisis looms and i've been sleeping on my friend Paul's floor (thanks Pauly) whilst looking for work and some permanent digs. Sydney is supposedly the place to be for New Year but i couldn't really face it let alone afford it so i stayed in and watched telly. I was going to go up to the roof of Paul's building to watch the fireworks but i received a special phonecall at the appointed hour and so just heard them instead. Who bl**dy cares anyw...