From New Zealand we travelled onto Australia for three weeks. Aw Yeah!!! I'd fallen in love with New Zealand so was a little reluctant to move on to its bigger neighbour but I soon got over it when were were collected at Sydney airport by Ferg's cousin and hubbie, Daniel and Aideen. They whisked us off to their apartment in Balmain East which ha...

Leaving Perth was a bit of an ordeal. We thought I might not be able to make it after discovering my Letter of Invitation from the Russian Government had an incorrect date of birth. However, due to some very timely assistance from VisaLink, we were able to get the visa completed on time. We left our house in the very capable hands of experienced...

Ok, so i have now been in Oz for 4 n half months and decided that i should have some sort of record of what ive been up too, i know i will never remember all the great times ive had. So from the beginning.....Having arrived in Perth, after flying via Singapore i landed very tired and excited and ready for my big aussie adventure. I met Vicky who...

So this will be out first time to the U.S.A,, weird as i have been wanting to go there for as long as i can remember,, but kept heading of in the other direction,, Koh Sumi,, 2001,, 1 mth after 911,, great timing!! Joined up with Juls & Kim,, had a amazing time,, 2 weeks,, best thing out of all that we gained there was meeting up with Lou &a...

Finally we arrive in Oz and land on the West Coast, Perth to be exact and end up staying in Scarborough which is a coastal town about half an hour outside the city. The weather is abit of a shock to the system after South East Asia and we are disgusted that there is a gale force wind blowing that freezes the nads off us despite the sunshine! Did...

IMH: Lesson one on our trip has been to never ASSUME anything. For example, the fact that a wife and husband check in for a flight together does not mean they will end-up sitting next to each other (luckily we picked-up on the misplacement and they were able to seat us next to each other on the flight). Second example is for a husband to assume ...

Sunday morning we left Kalbarri and headed for a drive along the coastal national park there and saw some nice gorges. We then headed off to another country.........Hutt River Province, down a dusty dirt road where we almost ran over some huge blue tongued goannas. At Hutt River we ran into John and Michael from the day before - John had called ...

Meet urnie It's a tradition here that if you have a campervan you give it a name-we don't have to think too hard for ours-this ford transit 6 berth nearly new beauty that will be home for the next few weeks has a registration number URNI81 so URNIE it is then - it could be the fastest milk cart is the west! Most vans have girls names but we are...

Hi all, yesterday me and laura went to a pub called mustang to watch the rugby, it was a great place but we went at half time cause was so tired! I was chatting to this aussie guy, he was really friendly, he told me that Stan Lazaridis (who played for blues) now plays for perth and he has been banned for drugs that he was taking to prevent hair ...

I recently found out that one of my friends from back home in Huddersfield died. I have no details of how or why he died. Dave and I were friends for about 10 years. He drank in the pubs I worked in, we went to watch HTFC and even spent a full season sat next to each other but I had to move seats cause we were sat too close to the pitch and I wo...