"I wake up when I want, except on Wednesdays when I get rudely awoken by the dustman. I put my trousers on, 'ave a cup a tea, and think about leavin' the house." (Parklife, Blur). I never thought those words would come back to haunt me but as Nikki earns a decent living, I have been living a bit of a Parklife. It's not that the job market is not...

What a way to spend New Year's Eve: On a boat in the middle of Sydney Harbour, watching the fireworks and drinking Yellow Tail Sparkling Chardonnay until it comes out of our ears (not quite literally, although none of us felt quite right the next afternoon), eating oysters and dancing The Maccarena. It's got a reputation for being the best New Y...

The festive season was approaching faster than a speeding turkey and I was beginning to wonder what I was going to do with it, given that I had suddenly become a bit of a 'Billy-No-Mates' in Melbourne.  Rescue came in the shape of Lisa, my former London housemate, who was living and working in Sydney with a bunch of her Irish mates... I had...

Up at 5.30 this morning as we were off to The Blue Mountains for the day. As we were picked up first we had an hour tour of Sydney picking the rest of the bus up but we finally got going about 7.30. Our first stop of the day was at a Wildlife Park, I have been to quite a few now but I was pleased to find out this one had Koalas. The girls were s...

Someone inspired me to accept my companies offer to write my thesis in Sydney/Melbourne. Danke-Yve! The flight was not to exiting - chouldn't really sleep... On the airport I was picked up by Julie and her daughter. I was imedially introduced into Australian cuisin (Vegimite)

Just over a week to go and we will be in the air and on our way. A busy week with the end of school and final travel plans. One of Emma's trips never goes ahead, without a DFAT warning which was set for Thailand late last week. But rest assured with inside info all is fine and we have nothing to fear. Looking forward to meeting up with friends a...

So.... we were off and then we were lost driving round and round Sydney's one way city system and we were litterally doing loops! .........Hello again, i'm back and i'm gonna do me best to catch you up on where i'm at now, it may take a while and i may have to do this in a few sittings as i have TONS to write and with my super slow snail like ty...

Well, there we have it, christmas is over for another year. Its gotta be the strangest crimbo ever in my boots. We went out on the eve into town for drinks, cheese and general merryment. Here I had the most foul pint of guiness a man has ever drunk, and then some aussie Bunderburg rum, which even captain jack sparrow would have a hard time keepi...

Hello. Well as they say "Thats all Folks" You find me waiting in Sydney for a flight to Singapore. Only 12 more hours to kill... After another enjoyable 15 hr bus and train ride from Byron. This time its the end of Schoolies week. So the train is full of little rich kids going home and saying goodbye to their school friends who no doubt they wil...

This is just another way to keep track of our travels should you want to. This way we can keep you posted in a way that you can trace our location using the route map. Also every post is listed chronologically by location. Pretty cool huh?