Hello everyone,   It has been a while since I put up a new post.  Sorry about that, but I have been pretty busy, as I am sure you can imagine.  Anyway, here are a few updates.   Since I got back from Tasmania classes have been pretty full.  My work is basically two fold: keeping up with the readings for the class discuss...

Firstly, Happy New Year to you all.  We hope that this finds you in happiness and good health.  New year is a time for new beginnings and as we say goodbye to 2006 we also said goodbye to wee Homer.  Two weeks ago we decided to advertise him to see if we would get much interest, less than a week later we received our first phone c...

The following day we moved to a new hostel ,St Arnaud in the South Yarra district of Melbourne, where we would spend Christmas.  The hostel was in a lovely old building near to the Botanical Gardens and Mary the owner and Darrel her son made us feel really welcome.  Better still there was going to be a free BBQ on Christmas Eve the fol...

OH Dear, behind in the blogs again and have to through my mind back to Melbourne...... ..right last blog was the grampians...so...argh yes back to Melbourne and Xmas. So we arrived back in the city on Christmas Eve, crashed out when James returned about 1am, so technically xmas by then!!! Up fairly early to pick up the girls, rush over to catch ...

My first day in Melbourne I wandered around the city with Ea and Maria looking at the sites. We went up the Rialto tower for a view over the city and went to Chinatown and things like that. The following day I went on a trip to Phillip Island, which was very pretty with lots of rugged coastline and pretty rock formations. I even saw a pod of orc...

Seriously, am starting to think my life currently revolves around grabbing a coffee, relaxing and people watching. Was up and out this morning and into St Kilda, where I got chatting to a guy who was a teacher from London who was flying to Sydney that afternoon and had recently been to Peru and done the Inca Trail. We agreed to meet up again if ...

Hello Everyone! We arrived earlier in the week in Sydney. We were very happy to be moving on and starting this part of our journey. We spent our first four nights in Sydney sightseeing and spending time with our friends, Dana and Trevor from Canada. Our first night we went to the Sydney Opera house. It was a little rushed. We got to the opera ho...

Off for a quick trip to the home of Ramsey Street for a look at the great ocean road and a slice of Victorian hospitality. And a day and half of rain. Spent the first day in Melbourne itself, looking around the AFL Hall of Fame and Sensation, basically a minority sports musuem. Meant nothing to me, but seemed to have made a good job of it. Got i...

Arrived in Melbourne this morning. Lost a day thanx to crossing the international dateline. Took a shuttle to downtown from our airport hotel, checked out the casino, rode the circle city tram around the city center. It's a very busy place, lots of buses, trains and trams. We have to take a minute to think before we cross the street, cuz we alwa...

19-4-05 Last night, we went into our local pub, there was a free quiz/comedy night. It was a music quiz, which comprised of several round during the night. There was about 12 teams playing. The most amazing thing is that we won a round (Andy you would have been proud of me getting all the music questions correct), we got free drinks! Hooray goes...