We went to Warriors game on Monday the 31st and saw them get a hiding. Definitly the worse game to go to, definitly a working class mans game. Went to Billy Elliott on April fools day, fantastic show, wonderful acting and language!! F**king brilliant!! Russell our forth son and brother came with us, as did a German friend Mike who was randomly h...

Can you believe my luck? I fly half way round the world and "Dubya" decides to visit the same weekend! Lots of Sydney was shut down which was a shame but still got see most of the sights. However, Sydney Opera House looks a little different with snipers on the roof... Was treated like a terrorist at San Fran airport - they took me aside into a...

Friday 06.22.07..today we departed Brisbane for Sydney. This time we weren't leaving quite as early...7:30 we departed the hotel and it took at least 45 min to get to the airport. Traffic here is a nightmare as the city has been growing faster then it can keep up with. Our flight was again on a 767, and for those of you that don't know what that...

On day 6 - Roger (Ari's friend) offered to go with me to Manly, which is a peninsula sticking out of Sydney bay,, we had to get a ferry to it, it was a beautiful ferry ride, nice view of the port Jackson (Sydney harbour) as the ferry leaves the harbour. As you can see in the photos I took.  It was a scary and nice experience in Manly, tha...

Hi Everybody! How are you all? I am sure that you are all busy preparing for Christmas. Doug and I had a chilled out day today, well infact we were suppose to get up at 08.00 and explore Sydney some more however we didn't quite make it. Doug woke at 12pm - we had a really busy day yesterday and didn't get back to the unit until 10pm. Today was s...

Just some more scenery for ya. As if you haven't had enough...

We arrived in Sydney during their winter time - it was 27 degrees! On our first few days here we did the obligatory tourist things and went to the Opera House and Harbour bridge - why do things look so much bigger on TV?! We took some photos of us soaking up the sun in what we still didn't believe was wintertime and roamed the streets of Sydney ...

Uncle Pat collects us from the city this morning and we (Fergus, Ad and Dermot, Ad's father) drive Westwards to the Blue mountains. Thankfully the weather has turned, its over 30 degrees heat and sunny. Note to future travellers, its especially important to visit the Blue mountains in fine weather as the mist from Eucalyptus trees/bushes can cau...

We arrived in Oz in the middle of winter and we were bloody freezing. Ok its still 13 degrees but way colder that we are used too. People are walking around in t-shirts and Im wearing a fleece!! We stayed in Harbour City Backpackers Hostel for a few nights. $65 per night with a crap breakfast included (1 miserable looking pancake). Its still the...

Having had a couple of lazy days following new year, we got up early this morning and got on a train, headed two hours north west to the Blue mountains. The weather was gloriously sunny so the views when we got there were amazing. The mountains really do look blue! (caused by the eucalyptus oil from the tress being burned into a blue haze appare...