Aspley Acres Caravan Park Brisbane

... all this I anticipated feeling a little rough after 5 weeks in a campervan so managed to get a good deal for 1 night in the 5 * Hilton!!!!!!!!
Imagine this ...we turn up dressed in our scruffy travelling gear and wheeled our little bags into the marble lined foyer of this posh hotel ha ha ha felt like it was a film or something. The receptionist was an absolute poppet and when we told her how much we were looking ...

hey all
yesterday after settling in to this new amazing house and being welcomed to this fanatastic family!!!!!!!
spent the day yesterday visting an australian zoo!!
it was great got to feed kangeroos, stroke a koala and see a red panda which is pretty rare to see
it was briliant, nath and his sister Ash were my free tour guides for the 'Alpha brisbane zoo', they described all the animals to me, some they even got in their backyard ...

After arriving in style in Fremantle I spent a day in the port town enjoying the micro breweries especially the beers at Little Creatures before moving north the following day to Perth. The train ride from Fremantle to Perth was an interesting one as I talked to two locals one of which was drinking cans of Smirnoff mix at 10:30am not having one but 3 in the space of the journey to Perth. The conversation was varied but the underlying point seemed to be get out of Perth as soon as ...

... t ready yet – I’ll have to give you a convertible but no extra cost”.................oh yeah thats a good one boy....laughing at the olds in a convertible....seeing us having to squeeze our oversized bodies into bucket seats. But none the less that is what happened. On our way we go ...

... of four. :-)
Alas, it was goodbye, and soon it was time for me to go down the escalator away from them all and make my way to the boarding gate.
It was a stark contrast from the tears and heartbreaking last words, when i landed in Auckland NZ to a pre-school painted sign with my name on it (dry pasta included!), with a shriek and a skip to the open arms of my tanz!

... fool set that rule, oops.

Still no definite offers to rent our house, this could be bad. With no rent coming in while we are away I will have to reconsider travel arrangements, we will have to hire bicycles and a tent, and that reminds me, I still haven’t rebooked that flight from Orlando to Cancun (shhhh, surprise for Jody and Niamh), and Havana to Caracas. At last we have found a kind soul to take care of the cats so ...

... it was so much more than I had imagined. Its like a full on show in a stadium with loads of different animals - birds flying in, elephants coming for a stroll, and of course, the crocs! Bindi and Terri Irwin were there as it was the Easter hols and we were "treated" to the Bindi and the Croc Men show. Possibly the campest show you ever saw! Quite hilarious though! The actual croc part was really good - and quite scary.....

So here I sit in the Singapore airport after an overnight flight from Australia, waiting for our connecting flight to Indonesia. My choice of activities is to: (1) "Take care" of the children; (2) Work on our tax returns; (3) Make clever conversation with Tracy; or (4) Write the blog. No, wait, a late breaking option has presented itself. I could follow the gaggle of Thai stewardesses that just giggled and wiggled their way past me...now before anyone ...

... while also supplying playmates for our friend-starved children (and lively conversation for two friend-starved adults). Dennis, who previously had fessed up to some questionable Istanbul car importing in an earlier life, this time mentioned a previous job as a Tahitian rum mixer and fish cooker. Our lives as (unemployed) accountants just don't seem so exciting after visits with Dennis. And by the way, Brisbane seems to be a ...

... voltaremos aeste ponto num outro artigo). Por outro lado, estavamos em Janeiro, por isso, provavelmente, muitos dos desportistas que vimos talvez ainda estivessem empenhados nas suas resoluções de ano novo, e alguns definitivamente aparentavam cair nesta categoria. :-) Tendo presenciado este espectaculo decadente, enfiámo-nos no primeiro bar que encontrámos (e no segundo também!) para mais umas bebidas antes de irmos para casa. Por falar de resoluções de ...