So we have just experienced our first Christmas away from the blighty and it was great! Don't panic Mum, I'm sure we will be back for next years but after that who knows.... As in England, over here everyone had the 4 days off and we both managed to get away from work early on the Friday as we were desperate for a yule tide beverage. That Friday night we meet up with Linz's ex work mate, Alex, as she was over in Oz visiting her brother. She came round...

G'day folks, hope you're all having muchos festive fun in the build up to Christmas. Sure you'll all be glad to know that the weather forecast for Chriatmas Day here is rain - arrghhhh.So going back a few weeks, we had my birthday here in blazing sunshine and 35 degrees (sure that's a first and last for 1st December). Started off the day with a lovely suprise breakfast in the garden cooked by the fantastical Mr Thompson, with an abundance of crois...

Well, you can all stop your moaning now (JT, Farrow, Stu and the Dad's) the next update of our travels is here. Things here have slowed down a little and we are not packing in as many activities as before due to the inconvenience of having to get up for work 5 days a week. However, we are trying our hardest to do a thing (as Linz calls it) every weekend, although last weekend we just got drunk and sat on beach, shame. As for work things are going fine, althou...

G'day folks, how ya goin? As you can see we have already picked up the lingo and are blending in nicely with the beach bum locals on Bondi now - yay. Am sitting here covered in sand at this moment as have just dragged ourselves away from the beach to come and write this and make all u folks jealous :o)So, it's been 3 weeks since we arrived in Oz and it has been all go. The first step was to find somewhere to live so we got straight on the case and went to...

So with and extra bod in transit we headed off to Singapore on the momentus day of October the 17th! We had been told earlier that the journey would only take around 3 and half hours and so thought that isn't too bad and would be in Singapore by the afternoon and have plenty of time to enjoy my birthday. WRONG! Bus journey eneded up taking 7 hours and when we eventually got to Singapore where we couldn't find a hotel. Linz even&nb...