Well............what a tumultuous couple of months this has been...........to say the least!!!   I guess I'll just start at the beginning & fill you in........   I haven't really done a lot of backpacker/touristy stuff in the last couple of months. Just been working hard at Hays & enjoying my weekends. I've definitely now got m...

After discussions with our family, we are staying in Australia and finishing our trip.  The actual funeral for Pop will be the week when we get home or soon after.  We are too far away and too long of a trip to be there when needed.  The memorial service will be this week some time.  No details are finalized yet.. Thanks for ...

We actually have been to Victoria twice now the first time we popped to Melbourne to visit Claire's parents. When we got to Melbourne, Claire's parents explained to us that they were in slightly inferior accomodation and appologised prefusly. At first we feared we would be staying in a prison th way they described it but when we got there it was...

Its my first weekend to myself in over 2 months and I'm loving it. Deciding I wanted to do nothing more than relax and get familiar with my new house and housemates, this weekend I told my new clan of friends (Ad, Amanda, Dave, Ming) that I needed quality Emma Time and would be out of social action for the weekend.  And I'm really glad I di...

Day 1 Arriving bang on time at 7am we collected our bags and took a taxi to the city centre, which at $45 wasn't much more than paying for a shuttle bus (which would have dropped us off down the road from the hotel - with the amount of bags we were carrying we didn't fancy the walk!) We checked into the 'UniLodge on Flinders' (in a great locatio...

Getting on the plane for the long journey, to London's Heathrow. It should be an exciting plane flight, with hours of inflight entertainment, ipod, reading, sleeping, and perhaps even a fight just fill in time. The 2 hours in Singapore will probably be the highlight in the fact that we will be able move around. Still just under 24 hours pain for...

We were making good progress on our way to Melbourne after obtaining a top speed of 186Km an hour down the long stretch of highway between Sydney and Melbourne, (noting the speed limit is 110Km/PH) when disaster hit the car stared to slow down so I was forced to pull onto the hard shoulder. After forking out 250 dollars to join the Australian ve...

Away to Melbourne again. Only this time it's just me and Claire. Jetstar are a bit like Ryanair they leave you 50 km away from the place your actually supposed to be going. We landed in Avalon which is about an hour south of Melbourne. This worked out pretty good however cos this time we were going on a road trip down the Great Ocean Road. The G...

for all of you rolling your eyes right now, do you really expect me to be in Melbourne and not visit Ramsey Street?! we drove out to Pin Oak Court (aka Ramsey Street) this morning - that was such a surreal experience! the street is a lot smaller than they make out on TV but still, it was awesome to be standing in the driveways of Harold's, Lou's...