Medina Executive Canberra

... very well be early 30's) who didn't speak english at all. So while she could understand my Russian, I couldn't understand her answers. We didn't talk.

It was dark in Moscow by 4:30pm, and I arrived in St Petersurg at 5am, where surprise of surprises, my friend Marina met me at the station. It was a little colder now. Getting on for 3 degrees or thereabouts. I couldn't get to my flat so we holed up in a Coffee House to wait. (Gratuitous picture of Marina). Now ...

Started the day by going to church. Went to one we found on the internet called Calvary Chapel United Pentecostal Church. Quite a difference from last week Jeremy felt very underdressed as all the men wore suits and ties (been a while since Jeremy has worn one of those). Hard to explain but kinda a mix ...nah can't even explain but they were very friendly and played a few songs we knew and the boys enjoyed Sunday School and the minister spoke well so think we chose well. After ...

Hi all, well shebies isn't feeling well tonight so its back to me(nae) to be the blog master. Ok so today we got to sleep in a little bit and had breakfast cooked for us by the hotel. very yummy!!!!! then off to the Questacon which is the science centre in canberra. we watched as a stream of children entered the questacon doors and we all thought how silly we might look heading in to this childs domain, however in true us style that didnt stop us:) and we suprisingly found most ...

... really. I dare anyone to travel for six weeks through the arctic, then onto L.A. in summer and back to Vancouver where it just rains and rains, and do it on 20kg per person. True, we do have 10kg worth of gifts, but it is quite tricky to pick up vegemite, caramello koalas & Aussie footy jumpers along the way. So, scientific-style, we began weighing things to see what just HAD to stay behind. Yes, i know you're all screaming 'SHOES', but no. I have very good reasons for all ...

... luggage, well any of ours anyway, wore poncy pantaloons tucked into their knee socks and Scottish style hats, eh why? But it was quaint & cutesy. Admittedly it was not that big a deal queuing for breakfast the morning after daylight savings came in which is one thing but being so disorganized as to have a massive 30 minute queue going the next morning as well is another entirely. I don't care about the logistics of how they run the breakfast room but as I am paying ...

... tog os lige til vores hotel, Parkview i St.Kilda. Ogsaa her fik vi vort hotelværelse med det samme. Hotellet og værelsefaciliteterne var helt i top. I tilslutning til selve værelset var der en garderobeafdeling med thekøkken, hvor der baade var plads til bagage og omklædning. Og paa tagetagen var der spabad, sauna og fitnesscenter gratis til raadighed for gæsterne. Der var ligeledes adgang til vaskemaskiner og tørretumbler. Der var tilmed et lille businesscenter ...

So following the decision by Jo & myself to make a road trip to Canberra for Sat and Sun 21st & 22nd of June I was looking forward to a quiet friday night in, in anticipation of the early morning drive to Canberra! Clearly that attempt failed and we totally slept it out the next morning and ended up dragging ourselves to the car hire shop early afternoonish on Sat to collect our hire car ...

... welche in warmgemaessigtem Kuestenklima gedeihen. Mit zunehmender Entfernung von der Kueste kann man auf diesem Wege gut den Uebergang zum kontinentalgemaessigtem Klima nachvollziehen, welches in Canberra vorherrscht. Die Vegetation zeichnet sich vor allem durch Eukalyptus und Graeser aus, die aber durch den Menschen mit gepraegt worden ist. Canberra liegt in mehreren Taelern, die von ...

... with the gals for our last night and this old dude brought us a 115 dolla bottle of champagne which was a nice freebie! Last day we got everything together and left our flat then went for last drinks with a few people before catching the train,onto melbourne!......

... just to see them walk up the beach. We are asked not to stand up, take pix, or talk loudly. There are thousands of them. They seem to walk up in small groups of maybe 12. Every so often one turns around & goes back to the water & tries again. Their bellies are so full & sea gulls hover over them hoping one won't make it back before throwing up. We also had the opportunaity to see one actually feeding their baby. What a wonderful day.