The Great Ocean Road

Way back….um…I can’t remember when now…August I think, my partner in crime Ed ‘The Kid’ Gregory headed south from our base in Sydney to Melbourne. There we met up with our favourite Anglo-Franco duo, Ellie and Julie (otherwise known as Pommie and Frenchie) for a little road trip. We rented a car and headed out […]

Cooking Class In Bali

The highlight of my week in Bali was, without a doubt, the cooking class I did. I was inspired my Sister, Claire, who did a similar thing when she was in Bali and raved about it. I happened to walk past a restaurant called Cafe Wayan on Monkey Forest Road in Ubud and by chance a […]

Back in the UK – Long time no post!!!!

So I got lazy! My last post was some time ago now. Since then time seems to have flown and what with Christmas getting in the way, I have not got round to it. Nevertheless, I am now in catch up mode. At the end of the week I start a new adventure back out […]

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,400 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 57 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the […]

Australian Open Golf

Today I get to spend the day at the Australian open (thanks to my aunt, Marion, getting me a ticket). I travelled to the course with my Uncle Ray who is a volunteer Marshall. He has had the pleasure of going round with Tiger woods and Greg Norman in the last few days. I have […]

Bali – Padang Bai

I have been in Bali about 4 days but it only took me about 5 minutes to realise that it is beautiful. I have been staying in Padang Bai, a small, quiet town in the south east of the island. Being as it is the low season there are not that many people around. I […]

Rossi Farm

Last weekend I had the awesome pleasure of being invited by my mate Luca to help out on his family’s farm. Rossi Farm has about 60 cattle on around 100 acres so not quite as large as I had worked on before but this time instead of vast open rocky paddocks Bathed in brilliant sunshine […]

City 2 Surf

I can’t believe it took me so long to write about this! Anyway. Long story short. I ran 14km with the Western Earth Moving Team (where I work)…or rather, I ran 11km and stumbled/crawled/limped the last 3km after my knees cramped up. It was the furthest I had ever run and now I know why […]

My Outback Adventure

Nearly two weeks have passed since I returned from Queensland and I have just found the time to write about what I got up to there. It is difficult to put into words just what an amazing time I had up there. The Jackson family took care of me so well that I cannot thank […]

Working Bodalla Station – the first few days

I arrived in Charters Towers at about 5.30 pm last friday after a couple of hours on a bus from Townsville. I found Genine near the bus stop with her son, the awesome (and talkative!) Mack and his knew nanny/governess, Jo. Robert, Genine’s husband appeared shortly afterwards. They had been in town that day buying […]