Hello all, We are still soaking up the sights and sounds of Sydney, thankfully most of the big museums are free so we are feeling very cultured and stuff . . . we have also done a lots of walking around the city, its quite compact so no need for trains and busses. Yesterday we took the ferry out to Mannly Beach (steve insert dodgy joke here . . .) it was beautiful, unfortunately not very sunny so we had sandwiches and watched all the surfers falling over. The f...

Hello from Sydney! we enjoyed new years eve in Brisbane - we went out for a lovely meal with David (my second cousin) and Jess his girlfriend, and then walked up to the kangaroo point cliffs to look over the city and the river for the fireworks. It was a really good view and we got to see all the fruit bats swooping about too! our last day in Brisbane was spent going to the gold coast to see the beach, it was beautifull. we swam in the sea and walked along the c...

Hello from Brissy! We have been chilling out for a few days over christmas - we ate traditional turkey on christmas eve and then a mountain of scrummy seafood on christmas day, including sand crabs, morton bay bugs (look a bit scary but very tasty) shrimps and oysters. We were stuffed! and now i know how to shell a crab, bit of a messy job but worth the effort. We have also visited Australia Zoo or Steve Irwin land . . . we hand fed kangaroos and i got to strok...

Hello from the land of oz, We arrived here on the 22nd very very early in the morning after a 3 hour delay in singapore airport. . . after starting our run up to take off we came to a screeching halt - apparently a warning light to do with our streeing controll came on and we had to go and have it fixed . . . unfortunately on our way back to the stand another plane broke down in front of us. . .then the tow truck that came to get it broke the tow pin, so then we...

Hello from the land of oz, We arrived here on the 22nd very very early in the morning after a 3 hour delay in singapore airport. . . after starting our run up to take off we came to a screeching halt - apparently a warning light to do with our streeing controll came on and we had to go and have it fixed . . . unfortunately on our way back to the stand another plane broke down in front of us. . .then the tow truck that came to get it broke the tow pin, so then we...