July is miserably cold in Sydney. The actual temperatures are nothing compared to English winters, but the houses are not built to keep warmth in so it feels cold inside, which can really suck at times! Therefore I have resolved to go north and get warm whenever the July holidays come around. I still make […]
Mum has always loved Sydney, after living there for a year and a half in the seventies. The funny and nicest part about her visit was how natural it was for her to be there. We had talked on the phone a lot since I moved, so our conversations just continued and it didn’t feel […]
Mum arrived just before my Easter break. After a trip down to relatives on the south coast, with a day of luck at the Nowra races, we decided to head up the coast to Byron Bay. I have a soft spot for this beach town, recommended to me by my Dad, but Mum had missed […]
After a fun Christmas and New Year with ex pats, all together on the beach complete with decorated “sandmen”, I took my next visitor to see the highlights up the east coast. We started at Hervey Bay, where unfortunately a cyclone had just passed by so Fraser Island was closed to self drive visitors (what […]
When another friend visited who only had a few days in Sydney, we had to select a few choice morsels to sample. Instead of Taronga Zoo, we went to the Wildlife World in darling harbour, as that houses all the specifically australian animals. We had the advantage of being able to enjoy harbour views from […]
This is when it really starts to feel like home, when friends or family come to stay and you get to show them around Sydney. Living out in the north west suburb of Hornsby, I didn’t really receive many visitors, but as soon as I moved to a beautiful apartment on the harbour with a […]
So, I haven’t been in touch for a while because it has actually been quite tough going-settling into a new country and new school, and I haven’t wanted to write negative stuff. But now…the best part about teaching is the holidays!! And being in a private school now, we have got 3 weeks off! So […]
Heading back to Australia for real life, rather than backpacking, I chose to fly Korean Air. Lovely airline, with the benefit of have a stopover in Seoul. So I decided to spend a few days there and have a little look around. I was really glad I did. The snow on the ground made everything […]
Well, on the way back to UK, I had an interesting couple of weeks in Hong Kong and mainland China with my friend Cheryl. We stayed in the “mid levels” area on Hong Kong Island, and could use the 20 escalators from the centre of town to get up the steep hills home-except that they shut […]
Well, I think I left you in Magnetic island. The weather didn’t stay bad for long, and I hired a bike to explore the island and all it’s little bays. Should have really taken notice of the woman’s warnings about hills!! It gave me a bit of a work out anyway, and made me appreciate the rest stops […]
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