For Ali's brother Rob's birthday we were heading down to the south coast for the weekend. We took the train down the South coast line to Gerringong where Rob picked us up having driven down with Rach and the kids earlier, although we also hitch hiked about 1km with a lovely lady who insisted on taking us up the hill to the village centre. We arrived at the campsite, quickly put up our little two man tent and watched the Wildigs and others struggle with their canv...

After our lovely weekend at Pearl Beach we headed back to Bondi and moved back into the dungeon at Dudley Street. We spent a couple of days exploring the city and successfully getting our visas sorted for India as well as catching up with Jo and James again before settling down for the start of the Ashes, it's been funny watching the Aussies get worked up about the fact that there team doesn't look up to much, I guess they're right. It's been pretty relaxed and w...

Pearl Beach was the site of a weekend away from the kids for rob and rach, and a beautiful engagement treat from them to us. Pearl Beach is about 2 hours north of Sydney, opposite Palm Beach (location of Home & Away set) and a fantastic place to spend the weekend. We arrived long before other weekend trippers did as R & R weren't working and despite a bit of a worry about the rain that threatened, we walked to the nearest pub in Patonga, two hours along ...

Arriving back in Sydney from melbourne we headed just down the road from Rob and Rach's to stay with Steve's friend Jo for a couple of days before heading off for our mystery weekend with Rob and Rach. Jo and her boyfriend james took us to the local pub where we felt pretty underdressed as the Bondi beautiful people were out in force. The following evening we met up with the family at the local Icebergs club where young James was helping with the raffle as well a...

After dropping Muriel off in Christchurch airport we hopped on our flight to Sydney, spectauclar views as we flew over the Southern Alps with one final view of Mount Cook. Arrived in Sydney and jumped in a cab to see Rob, Rachel, James and Izzy which was really nice. We spent the evening getting pretty piddled and then were lucky enough to have James wake us up nice and early for Lightning Mcqueen races. After a little nap we headed out for a wander down to Bondi...