Well, another Christmas and New Years have come and passed, we haven’t really done too much during the holidays but if you really must know, this is what we’ve been up to so far in Auckland. A few days before Christmas Eve Suz and I went walking, together with lots …
We’ve now been here in Auckland, New Zealand for a month and we’re both doing good. We’ve found jobs and have just (this past weekend) moved to a much nicer apartment than the one we first stayed at. It didn’t all start out that easily though….and we encountered our first …
Since Queensland doesn’t use daylight savings time, people from New South Wales (and Victoria as well) say that when you cross the border you have to turn your clock back 1 hour + 10 years. People there are supposedly crazy. This has been one of the reasons that I’ve wanted …
To celebrate out one year anniversary we decided to have a weekend away, and what better place than the Hunter Valley! I had never been there before (well, I had actually never been north of Sydney before to be honest) and Suz had only been there once so it seemed …
We’ve now been back in Sydney for a while….in Suz’s case a little more than a while. As seen from the North Side… She came back to Sydney in early August and within a week, managed to score herself a three month temping contract with a facililities management company – …
It’s getting close now, less than two weeks before we leave on our around the world trip. Have purchased Tickets and travel insurance. We used the program “Star Alliance Mileage Calculator” to calculate our milage and it worked perfectly. Created our itinerary, went to the travel agent and he used …
Since I’ve met Suz we’ve talked about lots of different things, one of them is where the whitest sand beach might be! I’ve always told her that it has to be one of the beaches I saw in Thailand, on the Similan Islands, and she tells me that she thinks …
Cricket, before arriving in Australia I knew of Cricket, but had absolutely no idea on how the sport was played. I had seen it on a few occasions before, not a full game mind you, just a few minutes here and there while it was being shown on the TV …
The time to visit Australia’s Capital City had now arrived….although I wouldn’t really call it a city, it’s more like a town. And a small town at that! Canberra was built in between Sydney and Melbourne in 1913 and its design was the result of a competition. The winning entry …
January in Sydney is very hot so to get away to a cooler area we decided to head to the Blue Mountains. But before going there we continued on towards the Jenolan Caves, the best known limestone caves in Australia. They are located approx 175km west of Sydney, and the …