Categories
Recent Entries
Archives
June 10, 2004

Sydney life

We have been in Sydney for about a month, staying with Jon's cousin Ness and Michael, seeing all the Aussie Sygraves (Jon's family), and working. Jon has been digging holes again and I have been working for the Department of...

Read this update

Posted by Louise at 03:00 AM | Read Comments (0)
April 23, 2004

Sausage suprise

Jon and I are nearing 30 and should be responsible adults by now. You’d think we would be capable of conducting a babysitting evening in a mature and responsible manner, but when my sister and her family came out to...

Read this update

Posted by Louise at 12:00 AM | Read Comments (0)
April 13, 2004

The Nullarbour

At 135k with no bends, the Nallarbour plain is the longest stretch of road in Australia and is the most sensible way to get from West to East. We saw a lot of bugs, a fair amount of road trains,...

Read this update

Posted by Louise at 06:38 AM | Read Comments (0)
April 10, 2004

Jon the provider

Battling against the rain, we managed to make it to the last point on our West Australian tour, Cape Le Grand National Park. It is 50 K to the East of Esperance and had been recommended to us by the...

Read this update

Posted by Louise at 10:10 AM | Read Comments (0)
April 09, 2004

Getting high...

We have been plagued by the Redback tour bus everywhere we’ve been, even to the top of the 60 ft bi-centennial tree, and we began to think that the only way to get away from them was to climb a...

Read this update

Posted by Louise at 09:44 AM | Read Comments (0)
April 07, 2004

Tall Trees

The South West coast of Australia is rather like an English style countryside awash with a sea of trees. We drove for many days through tunnels of towering Karri trees stopping off from time to time to have a stroll...

Read this update

Posted by Louise at 08:28 AM | Read Comments (0)
April 04, 2004

Surf’s up!

We finally left 1201 after 4 months of making ourselves at home. Tom and Steve were very kind to us and we are indebted to them for making us feel like one of the family. I am, however, very glad...

Read this update

Posted by Louise at 03:51 AM | Read Comments (0)
March 21, 2004

Only fools and horses

Yesterday, courtesy of Steve's (1201 hostel owner) comp tickets, Friday night became race night. Armed with more money than sense (which thankfully didn't amount to much) we went off to the Perth Trotts....

Read this update

Posted by Louise at 04:00 AM | Read Comments (0)
March 16, 2004

Just to prove we are actually in Oz...

...and not just hiding somewhere in a London pub making up tall stories....

Read this update

Posted by Louise at 01:33 PM | Read Comments (8)
March 04, 2004

Ignorance is bliss OR whoops I did it again

I was in the small space of a caravan today and I heard a buzzing sound. I looked up to see a colourful bug flying around the window looking a bit dozy. I had seen many of these things dead...

Read this update

Posted by Louise at 09:19 AM | Read Comments (1)
March 02, 2004

I've always been a late starter...

..So why change the habit of a lifetime. I am far too lazy to update all the stuff that I got up to in SE Asia, so I won't bother. Suffice to say I had such an amazing time that...

Read this update

Posted by Louise at 10:59 AM | Read Comments (0)
Latest Comments
lLynne & Roger: It all makes our Palm Sunday procession with our s... [read]

Gill: Where are you? Get off your fat ar*e and e-mail or... [read]

cvander: Torres del Paine is an amazing city. I went there ... [read]

Amy: WOW ! it all sounds well cool Lou. I tell you wha... [read]

jehan: I'm not very good with all this blog stuff but can... [read]

Dad: Thanks for the pics you obviously have been to som... [read]

Baz: Oh wow, you've got a photo of Amy swimming at sout... [read]

ash: happy birthday to jon happy birthday to jon happy ... [read]

Tina (Bob's wife): Hi Louise I have just logged on and thought I wou... [read]

Baz: Wehey! That looks cool. Dont believe what Amys say... [read]



Designed & Hosted by the BootsnAll Travel Network