Ipswich International Hotel

... did have funny faces and by the way they flocked to the bridge as we walked over, they revealed that the residents obviously disobey the ‘Do not feed’ notice! We were not very good at duck identification though, so we don’t know whether they were also ignoring the ‘Do not dump your domestic ducks’ part of the sign.

We have had a fabulous time with Rosie, Steve and Bea. It has been so special to be able to be part of Trixie growing up and learning ...

i was looking at flights and its going to cost me around $1200 to travel to the united states. ill start saving after my trip to straddie, and putting this money into my savings for safekeeping by mum. still need to look at insurance and accomodation options and ESTA.

... voice telling me where to go and how to get there, and I love it!! (Not the voice, just the not getting lost...) It is not fool proof (as it refuses to recognise some of the locations I want to go to) but it will generally get me to within a few hundred metres of where I want to be, which is a vast improvement on where I was getting to before. I am still battling with the system on this blog to try and upload some photographs, so stay tuned for when I finally get that sorted.

... some of becks mates and danced until the sun came up. taxi home at 7am and i got my first glimpse of the sydney opera house which i was very excited about. after that we headed up to the central coast and stayed with becks parents by the lake for a few days, went to the beach adn shopping and then headed further up the coast to crowdy head national park to go camping. it was a really pretty and quiet spot adn kangaroos and ...

... in 5". This is a beautiful house - a wooden painted house from the 1930s. I feel reassured by its history and roots. It is so good to see people we know. It feels so easy to connect again which is great - these are the friendships that matter. Today we catch up with Sarah - distracting her from her work (she works at home) and sit outside on the terrace eating and chatting. It's been nearly a year that our friends are here. The evening is spent having a drink and a ...

... s musts because just prior to their visit to Oz late last year they found that Liz was preggers and now had other priorities. We decided that we still wanted to go so when, where and on what ship? Bit more research and we decided on Royal Caribbean's Legend of the Seas, 14 nights from Shanghai to Singapore departing Feb 14. Much that I'd like to have booked another balcony our budget said no. Outside it is on deck 3. Flights. Wasn't ...

... really random things. The shops here are pretty rubbish. Infact they are probably not that bad I just dont know whats what yet so shopping is just a pain, but a few people from home have told me they agree and miss places like primark ! (hayley and gill would be lost without that place) and george and just general cheaper places which have some half decent stuff. They have a Tiffany in brisbane though so I ...

... of one of the oldest houses in Brisbane. If anyone is coming to Brisbane at any time I'd thoroughly recommend staying in Lucerne on Fernberg (easily found on Google). Spent a couple of days just exploring Brisbane on foot, and to be honest didn't need much longer. It's a clean, pleasant place with decent weather...but that's most of Australia covered in that case!

... of packing and getting on that plane. London, Paris, Amsterdam, Rome, Venice, Dublin, Borneo, Kuala Lumpur, Kota Kinabalu....... it is all waiting for me... there are to many places to name all in one thing - but I just know it's going to be a whirlwind incredible time full of memories that are going to last a long time.

... the year round. Among the numerous fruit trees they have (not on a production scale, just one or two of each) are banana, mango, tamarind, lemon, lime, and pecan. Emily has had a great time here, as she always had an agricultural bent, and she loved coming here when she was a child. I think that agriculture is in her genes, as most of her father's side are growers and her mother's side included orchard-keepers and farmers in the Central Valley ...