My Valentine's Day in Australia!   Woke up feeling a little better and not looking too Asian. I knew it was going to be a good day!   First great part of V-day, I was walking to work and this lovely old man sang and played on his accordion "You are my Sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy, when skies are gray....." It was just ...

Hello from sydney, Bit of an adventure getting on the plane to get here - I was initially in seat 54A (second row from the back, window seat), but then there was a problem and we had to switch aircraft... This meant that everyone's seats got shuffled, and I was moved to seat 55A (very back row, window seat)... Then the plane backed up a bit...

We stayed with our friends Nicki and Chris at the wonderful "Lesbian Lodge" where the service is always friendly. We had another farewell party for the Sydney folk which was a lot of fun. The following morning, we arrived at Sydney airport only to be stymied at the Thai Airways check-in counter. It transpired that the problem was with our one-wa...

Happy New Year, Everybugger. We have just spent NYE with James Abrahams, Kirsty Palmer, Andy Duggan and Gina O'Rourke in a restaurant called City Extra, overlooking Sydney Harbour Bridge! For those who don't know, James, Kirsty and Gina were colleagues from the ill-fated Solihull office of British Gas and they're travelling the world! The d...

well we arrived to a cold rainy sydney closely resembling england and decided we should dedicate the song "we always take weather' to us! we stayed in hostel where we shared a dorm with people constantly sleeping and got given a free very yummy choccie cake by a german girl which was v exciting! we checked out the landmarks of sydney harbour bri...

Hi all, it's been a little while since the last entry, so I thought I'd put in a quick update. Life has been fairly hectic actually, with BJ busy at work and Ben on his CO course. We have managed to fit in some social functions though, and Ben has continued flying, gaining an endorsement on a slightly bigger plane than what we normally fly....

This morning we left the train and arrived in the centre of Sydney. Sarah's first thought was "there's a lot more hills than I was expecting". This is a big city. Unlike Adelaide and Perth which are both "quaint", Sydney is a big city with lots of people, lots of traffic, lots of traffic queues, lots of skyscrapers. The first thing that we did w...

Left surf camp early the next day for our long drive into Sydney. It was made even longer by our annoying oz experience guide, who couldn't help but repeat everything she said and the fact she only had old Mr. Bean episodes on DVD. Some people actually wanted to watch it! Got into Sydney with rain pouring down so we sheltered in our dorm that ni...

We were starting to move down the coast quite quickly now and arrived in Sydney 2.5 days after leaving Brisbane. Our thoughts on work presently are... we don't want to work just yet. We feel it would be best if we keep travelling down as far as adelaide and we will then decide where we want to go back and work at. This means we get to see everyt...

Back to Sydney. It's miserable weather so I'm really glad I saw it a while ago in the sun! I flew over with a girl from the Kiwi bus so were staying in the same room at the hostel which is nice, as well as a mother & her daughter from Tasmania so we've got a nice room. Thanks to Mum & Dad who kindly paid for me to see a concert at the Opera Hous...