Metropolitan Motor Inn Brisbane

... me it will be back fairly soon! In approximately two weeks. Around this time, I will be in Italy. So, this doesn't help me one bit. Back to the internet cafes, and if you've read my blog from my first time in Japan, you know how ... interesting they can be...

Of course, losing my laptop wasn't enough. My son, has been under the weather and has decided to give me gastric as a going away present. It was very thoughtful ...

... but a trip to Oz wouldn’t be complete without a trip to Bali. I can’t recommend this place enough and even what I am about to write won’t do this place enough justice. For the money minded people Bali has to be easily one of the cheapest places I travelled to so far with beers available for a £1 or less! Some of the best food from a £1 to about £5 a meal depending on how fancy you like your places to be. We stayed in Kuta for the first 4 days of the trip which is the main ...

... to getting books out there more. I’ve written down heaps of ideas and will try to implement some for Milk to Meat when I get back.

Saturday 15th August

Today we had our first use of the GPS. Left Westfield Shopping centre (I needed a morning traveller coffee) to go to friends from Adam’s Arrow course. Set the GPS and off we went along the Motorway, a few turns, feeling like we were going in the wrong direction, but trusting in the ...

... the van on wednesday lunchtime so all was set.
Tuesday we cleared everything out of our home and gave it a thorough spring clean inside and out.
Wednesday we drove it the last few hundred metres and gave up the keys, signed the contract and headed for Brisbane town by train.
It was sad to leave our vehicle since, despite the earlier mechanical difficulties it had become a trusty ...

... shoes in Macys (Philly, New York) and tickets to Chicago. Largest single purchase- "Wicked" in San Fran; cheapest buy – extra bag in San Fran for $3; 3 bottles of beer in Bosnia for 5 Marks($5AUS; total expenditure – mmm I don’t think my Excel spreadsheet is big enough to work that out but as the advert says “priceless”
6. Favourite locations: Dubrovnik , San Francisco
7. Favourite sights: Trashy: Madame Tussards; Cultural: Sacre Couer ...

Our journey started at 6pm on Wednesday, and we arrived at our hostel at 1pm friday. The plane was fun, we all had our own TV sceen, plenty of food and drinks, and Nytol worked a treat and I slept through both flights! We stopped at Singapore airport which was lusssh ...

... the city centre (shops again)and that evening met up with Hayley and Bec (2 girls we met in South America) we had a nice Thai meal and went to a bar for some drinks, it was good to catch up. The next day we went to an area called Southbank, which has a fake beach and was a bit like a theme park with food courts and kids running round, but a very nice area. Our last day was fantastic! Hayley picked us and ...

... It had a small pool and downstairs outside area, a games room, TV room and kitchen and then dorms throughout the house. We were in a 4 bed dorm with 2 English lads, but we didn't really see much of them. They had claimed the two top bunks so we were both on the bottom ones, which I preferred as you don't have to climb up and down all the time. We dumped our stuff and then headed into the centre to do a bit of retail therapy, where I bought a couple ...

Jack: We arrived pretty early and I'd managed maybe an hours sleep on the plane so Iwas quite spaced as we made our way through passport control and quarantine, why is it they only ask you questions when you are exhausted and disorientated. Yvettes E-Visa did not have her middle name, despite having been accepted, on so we had to wait while they did something to correct it. These time saving internet or DIY check-ins always take longer ...

This is what Wikipedia has to say about Australia Day: Australia Day, also known as Anniversary Day and Foundation Day, is the official national day of Australia. Celebrated annually on 26 January, the day commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, the unfurling of the British flag at Sydney Cove and the proclamation of British sovereignty over the eastern seaboard of Australia. This is what I have to say about ...