Hola desde Sydney! Hemos llegado a esta estupenda ciudad despues de viajar por la costa este de Australia por dos semanas, y estamos muy impresionados! Despues de navegar por las islas Withsundays dejamos la zona tropical y con ella la lluvia. Entonces exploramos el mundo rural, asi que nos vamos a Krombitt, una granja en el medio de nada pero q...

There was some atmosphere for the gay and lesbian festival, the Mardi Gras. The parade went on for 3 or 4 hours. Some women had adams apples and some guys had there ass cheeks cut off there pants. We met up with Feena, from Mayo, a friend from when we were in the north island of New Zealand. One of her friends put our names on the guest list for...

9th Feb We decided to head out and see what Bondi was like as a nightlife area. So off we went and checked out the area, it was a mixed bag of rough Aussie joints and upmarket cocktail bars. Eventually we found our own level in a beach hut type of bar that served tapas and we had a very good night here. 10th Feb Woke up a bit tired after our nig...

G`day! Wie schon per Email berichtet, lebe ich jetzt in einer neuen Familie und mir geht es 200 % besser als vorher! Jetzt kann mein grosses Abenteuer endlich starten, ich lebe mir echten Australiern und bin gluecklich, da ich endlich in einer lieben Familie bin, die mich in ihr leben miteinbezieht. Viele Liebe Gruesse

The day that we arrived in Sydney it was 30 degrees at 7:30 am. We left Christchurch at 7:00 am - it was a 3 1/2 hour flight on Air New Zealand but Australia has not yet moved to daylight savings time and New Zealand has to we had a 3 hour time difference. Sydney airport was very busy and we had a little difficulty in finding a shuttle to the ho...

Well, after a flight that you could call a red eye and some layovers, I'm Down Under. Arrived this morning at 6 am and got the working visa all sorted out. Life is good, Sydney is real beautiful city. Much more than i expected. People are great. Had a coupon for a free beer and while i was enjoying it and doing some reading, a middle aged man ca...

We woke up today and it was SUNNY, with very very blue skies so we decided to take a return trip down to bondi beach, and have late breakfacst/brunch/lunch in a cafe over looking the beach. It was lovely and we finally felt like we were in Australia! From here we caught a bus up into the centre of town and a train to Haymarket, where the famous ...

We made it...5 days and 3000km later we got into Sydney safe and sound...and we didn't kill each other! (But it was a small van)We had a pretty good time driving and sleeping in our camper van. We are glad that we decided not to use this mode of transportation all the time, but happy that we did it. We spent most of each day driving and stopping...

First good nights sleep this week. Lisa sleeps on while I get up and potter about the hostel for a while. Then The Royal Tenenbaums comes on the TV and I get the feeling I may be stuck on the couch for the whole afternoon. Thankfully my phone goes with an offer of work so I have to leave the common room to answer. Interview tomorrow, work starts...

Today I got up early so I could get ready and spend time with my parents and grandma before they left. They weren't leaving the hotel until noon, but I was going up to Palm Beach for the day with all of the other girls and we were leaving at 9am. We said our goodbyes in the morning and then my parents and grandma went back to their rooms to fini...