We arrived in Canberra on the 16th June 2008. We were in Canberra for nine days and while we were there we went to the following places, Cockington Green - this is a miniature village of England and also has some international displays. All the buildings are 1/12th the size of the original. We went to the mint and there was a great display of ho...
After a good night's sleep on the ferry we headed north for an overnight stop in Albury/Wodonga on the Victoria/New South Wales border. Not really anything to right home about here but we made the most of it and had a night out at the cinema watching a romantic chick-flick, Made of Honour. We arrived in the capital on the 12th without even reali...
Due to last night's festivities we woke up late today. This is fine since it has become a Brotz family tradition to wake up as late as possible on Christmas morning (a reversal of when I was a kid, when we'd rip into our presents at about half past 5). We had a quiet morning of a stollen breakfast (the second one was even better than the first) ...
After spending most of the day around the Twelve Apostles, I drove the remainder of the Great Ocean Road before turning back east. This would be as far west as I would have time to go, on this trip at least- I originally planned to make it to Adelaide, but decided I had enough of living out of a van. I remembered this audio clip (and was able to...
After finding a campsite we headed in to the city to have a quick look around as time was getting on.We were a bit shocked at the city because it didn't come across as a capital as there was not many shops and not much in the way of tourist things to do. Caught the bus to the war memorial which was a very nice building to look at and in side it ...
Hello from Canberra (the Capital of Australia...not Sydney) We thought we would have a few days here..a lot of backpackers seem to miss it out but we thought it would be rude not to see the nations Capital. We have to say it didn't seem like a capital when we first arrived....it looked a bit like a run down town but when we went on a tour of can...
The Calvary Christmas Party was held at the Yallalumla Woolshed on Friday 24th November. As it was a rock'n'roll theme, the OT's decided that we'd dress up as pink ladies. Ngaira was the mastermind behind the outfits and organised everything we needed. Mel drove us all from work to the Y-Woolshed via the drive through Grog-shop. We turned a few ...
Hello there. I just wanted to let everyone at home know that I'm still alive and well. I realized that in my last entry I falsely promised to finish my entry for my trip to Cairns. It seems that schoolwork and/or work and/or catching up with friends has pushed the 'ol blog to the backseat. So, I apologize for that. Don't fret though, my last pro...
Click here for our Photo Album We had booked a breakfast at Macdonalds the night before, so when 20 minutes away on the bus, we rang to confirm our booking. We desperately wanted to Rosie-proof our day. When we arrived we noted that she had rocked up before us and the staff took 45 minutes to get out our meals. We made use of our spare time by s...
