Blog 63 As if we've been living in Sydney for 5 months already, and away from England for 10 and a half months! Time flies! Jobs picked up nicely so it was great to start seeing progress on the travel funds again! Yippee! It was equally nice to spend some of our hard earned money on our onward travels to New Zealand, Tasmania last month and heading up and into Asia again! In about a 2 weeks we'll be polishing off the backpacks and packing up again, but this ti...

Blog 60 A weekend away from the hustle and bustle of city life couldn't have come soon enough. With the sun shining, croissants, Bircher muesli and back packs on, Gaz, Alex, Bryn and I bordered the 2 hour train to Katoomba, along with some rather odd looking people. It possibly took 1.5 hours for one or other of us to pluck up the courage to ask one of the strange Pagan looking folk what was going on (no offence to any Pagan people but you do rather stand out ...

Blog 59 So I can't quite believe it but we've now been living in Australia for 2 wonderful months already! It doesn't feel like travelling anymore so haven't got round to jotting down life as it rolls by on our blog. On arriving in Sydney, jet lagged and after a very rigid 6 hours on a plane on Asia's version of Ryanair we were welcomed in by family friends Colin and Martin which was a gorgeous introduction to Sydney life, managing to squeeze in a few sight se...