Australia
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Friday, 19 Oct 2007 | Views [535]
Met up with Nicki and Griff in Brisbane yesterday and had coffee and cake and a good old gossip in a cafe by the river. We took a sight seeing bus tour of the city and learnt many interesting facts such as the bus building factory manufacturing a new ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
Wednesday, 17 Oct 2007 | Views [632]
Went on a trip to the Great Barrier Reef on Monday. The sea appeared quite calm in Cairns harbour, but as soon as we got out into open water the rollercoaster ride started. It was like being on a bucking bronco, and before long Lou's breakfast reappeared.... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
Friday, 12 Oct 2007 | Views [485]
Had a nice few days chilling out in Byron Bay and not doing alot. Despite us both saying that we had done far too much walking on our trip and had no further plans for such energetic activities, we ended up walking to Cape Byron light house as loads ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
Wednesday, 10 Oct 2007 | Views [486]
Left Bondi on Monday morning and returned to Sydney for a day of sightseeing. Managed to fit in the Botanical Gardens, Sydney Opera House, Harbour Bridge, a ferry trip to Manly, walk around the rocks area, browsed around an art gallery that had drawings ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Sunday, 7 Oct 2007 | Views [576]
We are now in the Sydney area for a couple of days. Met up with our Slovak friends for a couple of hours at Darling Harbour last night as they are flying home today. Then went to find somewhere to watch the England v Australia rugby and endede up in ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
Saturday, 6 Oct 2007 | Views [579]
Had a good afternoon being shown round Cascades Brewery in Hobart on Wed. We were told its better to drink beer out of a glass than a bottle cos you get more of the flavour. Give anything a go once especially if it involves alcohol! After the tour we ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
Wednesday, 3 Oct 2007 | Views [482]
We both had horrendous hangovers on Monday morning and spent about an hour dying on a park bench. Got accosted by a local tramp/drunk who was "just checking we were OK". When he didn't like the reply we gave him he called us "a pair of ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
Tuesday, 2 Oct 2007 | Views [411]
While we were staying with Kirsty and Tim they took us out for a drive to look at the local area. We went to find Ramsey Street or Pin Oak Road as its actually called. As we were driving towards the road Kirsty noticed that the end of it was cordoned ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Monday, 1 Oct 2007 | Views [484]
The second and third day of the tour was mainly about the views of the Great Ocean Road. This is split into 2 parts, the shipwreck coast and the surf coast. The ship wreck coast had some really wild sea and waves yesterday-our tour guide hadn't seen ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Monday, 1 Oct 2007 | Views [521]
Not quite sure what we expected booking an adventure tour of the Grampian mountain range and Great Ocean Road but we are fairly sure it didn't mention tramping up mountains and scrabbling up rock faces! However the views from the top were well worth the ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
Thursday, 27 Sep 2007 | Views [571]
We are now in Adelaide for 2 days. Lou had her bag swabbed for traces of explosives at Perth airport! Must be a good terrorist cos they didn't find anything. Staying in a really nice hostel right in the middle of Adelaide city centre. Booked a twin room ... Read more >
Tags: Chilling Out
Monday, 24 Sep 2007 | Views [457]
We are now in Freemantle for a few days. Got pissed last night in an irish bar in Perth which had a backpackers night with cheap booze. Lou discovered that cough mixture followed by Strongbow is a very good combination for getting totally rat arsed! ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Saturday, 22 Sep 2007 | Views [365]
We left our hostel in Singapore at 5.30am to catch a cheap tansfer mini bus to the airport. Louise was somewhat confused when packing her rucsack to find a padlock that didn't belong to her in with all her clothes! Customs had obviously gone through ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
