Grand Chancellor (Previously Known As Launceston International)

... of liquid refreshments for the next few days. A short 20 minutes on to George Town, where we had a late lunch at Peppers in York Cove, right on the waterfront. We shared an antipasto platter (one of the best we have seen and eaten) and a couple of pizzas, caught up on some more birthday phone calls & messages for Liz, then headed down the western bank of the Tamar back to Launceston. We have booked to eat and celebrate Liz ...

... Le débat a été réduit à outrance à une chicane entre les les ouvriers forestiers (loggers) et les environnementalistes (greenies) mais bien entendu c'est plus complexe que ça. Je ramène 2 magasines avec moi, pour ceux que le dossier intéresse.

Les back roads nous font passer à travers des villages minuscules (entre 50 et 200 habitants, dépendamment). Ce sont des villages ouvriers, ça paraît, l'atmosphère lourde, les rues vides, les petites maisons mal ...

... we also visited the Ben Lomond National Park which is an easy drive from Launceston. It's mainly dirt road that winds through a spectacular wooded forest before heading up the range like a snake to the top of the mountain. This track is named Jacob's Ladder. This drive we would rate as the best so far on our trip, as the road winded up by dolerite organ piped rock columns that took your breath away as they seemed to travel endlessly towards the sky . Finally we reached ...

... thing that has happened so far. Considering it was only 2 freakin hours after we rented the thing! and after we got done crashing thru the field, the tape player kept pumping out Niel Diamond while the engine smoked in the rain. and i would like to say that in the midst of a crisis I am still able to utter profanities, I believe "OH ****" came out of my mouth right before I screamed like a little school girl. Oh and as a great finale to our Taz Mania day ...

... She cautioned against trusting the Egyptian. Scared the wits out of me that did. The 3rd was a Singaporean English and Accounting teacher whom I met when I was opening my bank account in Commenwealth branch, Mowbray, just 15 minutes away from campus. Imagine our delight at seeing another Muslim, Malay wearing the same hijab! She was smiling from ear to ear. Literally! It was a pretty ...

... de ver) ni ningun ornitorrinco(pese a haberme pateao y caido en los rios intentando ver alguno). Pero a cambio he tocado un wombat, que es uno de los bichos mas geniales que he visto! tb he estado con possums, padi melons y wallabies(canguritos pequenyos). Aps, tb se nos cruzo una serpiente subiendo a la cima de una montanyita, era negra y de acerca de un metro; por la manera en la que huyo(tranquiiiiiiilamente) seguro q era venenosa y sabia que ...

... yesterday was Boo's 15th Birthday and the team made sure she had a great time wearing a sexy hawaiian lei and grass skirt. We checked in to our accomodation yesterday afternoon and were pleasantly suprised - the apartments are really good! There is plenty of room and they're quite classy, despite the Queensland team moving in ...

... wiec w swiat ruszamy dzis znow ..." Minely 4 miesiace od dnia kiedy oposcilismy Kanade i wyruszylismy zwiedzac Swiat. W grudniu wyladowalismy w Australii. Tutaj zatrzymalismy sie u naszej harcerskiej znajomej i jej meza - Sary (Berezowskiej) i Michala Dobbs. Spedzilismy u nich rodzinne Swieta Bozego Narodzenia i Sylwestra. Ale nasza "harcerska dola radosna" zarzucila nam plecak na plecy i zaprowadzila na Zlot Choragwii Harcerek i Harcerzy Australii ...

... try something new- this is a plague that has been with me since Spain I believe. My pizza was good, but it tasted on the salty side due to the archovies and it could have been better. We stayed at YHA after touring in the dark for quite a while looking for something that was Hotel 8ish, in the idea that we could all share a room. The next morning we went to the Bay of Fire just north of St. Mary's and then took off down the coast...the most impressive scenery there was Cole's ...

... and feeling her presents like a 5 year old, since breakfast. We were both really surprised about how many presents we received off everyone, expecting to sit there with false smiles, while everyone opened theirs. Instead we were the targets of observation, with all of them fixed on our reactions to the Aussie presents they had bought us! We were given music from Aussie bands, boomerangs, Aussie rules footballs, beer stubbie coolers, and of course a cork hat ...