Hi Guys, Just like to say hi & I see you been busy with the post cards & the camera, I see Mark still cant find that razor !! Anyway its great to see you looking so well & all is going brilliant by the sound so it.The weather here is still pretty dull & cold but now its raining as well to really top things off. I bet the Opera house was amazing plus getting on the Mona-rail around the city sounded pretty cool especially as its going, what a shame ! All the guys at 4SQ say hi & wish they where there. All the best take care & keep the postcards & pictures coming.

Hi Everyone!! We have just spent the most amazing week in Sydney, 2 of our girlie friends Jackie & Anita came out from the UK to meet us here, We climbed that bridge thing, We went to Opera in The OPERA HOUSE. We saw the DUSTY stage musical and We have had some lovely suppers in the moonlight.
Thanks To Jackie & Anita for joining us out here..And we wish you a safe journey home via Singapore.
If anyones want's to read more dont forget to read the postcards, We will attach photo's soon. Keep writing all!!
Den & Mark x-x

Hi,
Well you look as if you are really enjoying yourself. The photo,s are fab, the weather even better not any of this good old British weather when one day its snowing and the next it feels like summer. I hope every thing is going well for you both. Hope to hear from you soon and keep the photo's coming. Tracey x

Hi Mark & Denise
Just got connected to the internet at home hopefully get a home e-mail address tomorrow. Peg & Jim's party went well. we sat down 35 adutls plus Finlay - Declane - Harriott and Adele's twins - it was some day I think everyone enjoyed it. Got a phone call from Bill on Monday night to say that Jean had to be taken into hospital. When they ran tests on her she had had a mild heart problem on the Friday she put it down to intergestion. Just heard from Peg that Jean is having an angiogram tomorrow then hopefully home within the next few days depending on what they find. i spent about 2 - 3 houes this morning looking through your photos and your commentary on where and what you've done. All that action and excitement there will be no stopping you, I expect in the back of your minds you are starting to make a list out of where you are going to go to on your next trip when this one is over.
Anyway take care of each other and i know you are enjoying everything that is around you.
Love Larry & Ursula xx

Hi Everyone, New photo's will be added shortly, We are currently in the back country and struggling to find Internet cafe's. We are currently using Info centre's and the pc's are blocked for uploading facilities, Dont give up on us you can read the written word of our experiences in Tasmania.
Please all stay in touch its great to hear from you all. Do you realise we have been away for 4mths already. Great when you are enjoying yourselves eh!!

Next Stop SYDNEY!!!

Thank god you missed the UK winter!!
We are both ok and so too are our families. I do keep up on your website and very pleased that all is going ok.
Tale care Lots of love XX

HI D&M

back home in snowy france now and your pics are warming me up.
Looking good where you are and really pleased you are both enjoying.
You will have to do a pitstop in the Pyrenees to come and see us. The place has changed loads and we have two dogs - Cheech & Chong. Border collies who are as mad as a box of frogs:)
I've now taken up snowboarding and havent broken anything (Yet) this year.
Carole has given up on the big skis for baby blades and she just looooooooooooooooooooooooooves them.
We both have big quad bikes too and go travelling across the mountains - you must come and have a go.

I jacked my job in last week so am now going it alone as an accountant and business advisor - bit scary but it needed to be done

got to go downstairs for a warm up by the fire now. Best chuck another log on too!
take care
guinness & carole cheech & chong

Hey Guys Thanks to all for so many updates on how everyone is doing back there in the cold dark british Isles Unfortunately we can not respond to all via this site. But new guys like Mick,Shacks, send us em on above address just once then we got you.!!!

Updating postcard today so view when you have 5mins
take care all D&M

Sent you an email earlier this week - hope you pick it up. I always forget about this method of writing but just back from Ethiopia. All that hype from the Foreign Office about "too dangerous, don't go there, kidnappings, demonstrations and stuff" all a load of b....s/rubbish. Never met such amazing people. Poor, yes; they walk up to 38 kilometers to market and back just to sell 5 eggs or a bundle of wood. In the market places, way down the Rift Valley, we had people touching our skin and feeling our hair and then going into peels of laughter as they had never seen white skin before. Rounding a corner of a tiny, dusty track to be jumped out on by a dozen or so naked tribesmen with spears and full body paint was a bit daunting at first but the Ethiopian friend driving us around spoke their language and we were welcomed into their villages of mud/straw huts and offered ganga, coffee, taj (local beer made of barley and with half the barley field still in it - yuk). Vast open, dry spaces in the south towards the Kenyan border where the rift valley is 40 Ks across. Then, coffee and banana plantations, mangoes, papaya, melons etc. We tracked through forests full of elephant and zebra - camping by a river one night was a bit scary when 50 elephants came down to drink at 4 in the morning all roaring and trumpetting only 25 yards from our tent! We visited the original rastafarian village, dreadlocks still in vogue, ganga (cannabis) everywhere and the chief of Rastafaria dressed in yellow with a bright yellow crocheted beret and red painted shoes shook our hands for 20 minutes babbling on about Haile Selasie being God and how they needed money!

If anyone is interested in making a trip of a lifetime to Ethiopia, "cradle of humankind", get in touch with me. I can put you in touch with the best guide in the world.

Have just caught up with all your latest photos. Can't get over the beard! And all those incredible places you are tramping over. New Zealand sounds like the most beautiful so far - and so much more to come! Let me know when you move on, can't remember how long you're in Oz.
Bestest love Gretta

G'day Denise and Mark; great photos. Looking forward to seeing you both when you come to New South Wales. Maureen says you may be going to visit her and Ray at their place near Bathurst; I'll be there! Even if I have to plead with my boss to let me have some time off if he's got me rostered on. What do you think of Australia so far?
Take good care, see you soon.

Hiya Denise & Mark. Greetings from Farnham - I'm sure you're missing the biting north-easterly wind and snow flurries here at the moment! The photos are great, what a good way of keeping in touch. Hope you are able to catch up with the Shackses while you are in Oz, I know they would love to see you both. Have a great time and hope to see you B42 long when you return. All the best, Mick & Lesley.