The Wool Brokers at Darling Harbour Sydney

... weekend on the A League (premiership equvilant)- can't spell well you can't compare as the football or soccer as they call it is so poor compared to the premier league. I support the Queensland Fury who Robbie Fowler plays for, I have done ok with the bets but think I need to stop before all my wages go on gambling but I did win $100 on the Melbourne Cup, but actually did only win that because Evan ignored me! I asked him to bet on a horse with the worst odds so I would win more ...

... as im not a student anymore and need a bit more comfort!

Well ive been to Manly and it was scorching!! like opening an oven door after its been on full for an hour- apparently it will get cooler tomorrow thank god! Ive really got into the swing of things here in Sydney- it took a bit of adjusting to after the sleepy pace of Christchurch and NZ but its great. Ive already seen so much of it- and im getting to grips with the little things like the buses, ferrys etc and where ...

... Buddhist Temple…largest Buddhist temple in the southern hemisphere), before getting ready for Sydney. Part of the morning’s departure plans included a surf lesson for the boys…they are now pros as you will see (sorry, no time to post pics at the moment but will do soon)!

Once in Sydney, we found our hostel near Central Station, and then met up with our friends Bre and Glenn from Cairns. We all went out for a delicious ...

Es hat ja sehr vielversprechend angefangen... Nur dann hat sich wohl das Universum gedacht: "Naja, 3 schoene Tage sind genug." Und die Temperaturen, die vorher schon net wirklich warm waren, sind seit Freitag fix bei 10 Grad stehen geblieben und ein Non-Stop Regen macht noch den Rest von Gemuetlichkeit weg. Somit war ich nicht sehr motiviert, den ganzen Tag in der Stadt herumzustreunen. Ich hab zwar das Naeschen mal für 3 Stunden ...

Today wasn't all that exciting. I checked out of my dorm at 10am, then had another amazing breakfast at Side Bar. After this I went to Global Gossip, the rather nice internet cafe round the corner, and commenced slaving away for a four hour stint on the following fun project: do a little bit of travel blog then collect together all of your medical expenses receipts from South America, print off travel insurance claim forms and fill out copious documents plus write a ...

How does that song go, "I've packed my bags, I'm ready to go....." . But really folks we're only a little bit excited at present. We all get our final injections tomorrow which is one less thing to think about. Remaining preparations include celebrating Zorach's birthday (think Swatch and camera bag) and choosing a perfume to purchase at the duty free counter. Ben ...

... had been there the day before all let out a huge sigh of relief. So, we were off on what would turn out to be a fantastic three days. The off road driving is truly off road and Karl was a demon driver, who managed to give us an extremely in depth commentary along the way. So, what did you do and see, I here you cry. Well I’ll get to that in a sec. First a few Fraser Island facts. It’s the biggest sand island in the world. It’s 122 km’s long and up to 22 ...

... amazing videos of it but could not upload them because of pop up blockers.

One of the real good attractions I have seen whilst here in Sydney is Toronga zoo. It is a really amazing zoo which is really quite big. A friend of mine and
I managed to catch the seal show, and it was the best thing I had seen for a while. The seals were so well trained, and they performed so well, their trainers had really ...

Next stop was Canberra, we arrived there on Wednesday 8th April and spent a few days seeing some of the many sights. This is a beautiful Capital city surrounded by lake Burley Griffin. We were pleasantly surprised all the places we visited had no entrance fees - a nice change. We visited the new Parliament House, Australian National Botanic Gardens, and the Royal Australian Mint (no free money though). We also visited the Australian War Memorial and National ...

... same as the last two times so I knew my way around. Got to room 302 and I was in bed B and there was a Chinese guy in bed D. There was a group of French students on my floor so it was quite busy with people milling around. I went to the local convenience store to get a sandwich and a couple of magazine to read and then nipped to the bottle shop for some Vino. Sydney is pretty expensive to drink out so I thought it would be ...