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Hey all,
Am sitting here in our hotel in Brisbane and we have so much to catch up on. Cant believe how hard it has been to get internet for the laptop! We arrived first in Sydney were we spent a fantastic week with an Sally (who escaped from Ireland four years ago!) and her partner Phil. Thanks a million to them for showing us around and making us feel right at home. We started are trip with a fantastic meal in a Tabinyaki restaurant which was the first time that I have ever been asked to catch my dinner before getting to eat it which as you can imagine got a bit messy!! Poor sally ended up with a nice raw egg all over her lovely jeans before we headed out to the three monkeys for a few drinks and some live music. During our stay in Sydney we began to plan our trip North and in our search for transport we fell in love with our big red 1997 Ford Falcon station wagon which we knew was the perfect car for us.
Since we left Sydney we have stopped at many beautiful places. We began with some wine tasting in the Hunter Valley were we stocked the car up with a nice supply of vino for the rest of our trip. As we headed along the coast we stopped at Nelsons Bay, Coff’s Harbour (Corindi beach), and Byron Bay. In each place we spent about two nights in the lap of luxury (our four man tent, thank god for the air mattress!!), were we spent the days soaking up the sun and surfing and at night were sent to sleep with the sound of the waves. Conor has also become a gourmet chef on our two hob gas camping stove were he has cooked us many delicacies.
We have a few more nights here in Brisbane (Thanks to the tax back!) were I am continuing to enjoy having a real bed and not having to walk outside to go to the loo! Will write again soon with all of the latest news.
Love Claire xxx
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Hey all, Have finally arrived in Oz after our adventures in Thailand. We ended up spending 8 nights in Phi Phi Island (we were only planning to stay for 3) and doing quite a bit of diving. We did our open water and adventure dive courses and got to see some fantastic dive sites (King cruiser wreck, Anemone reef, sharks point to name a few). We did this with a fantastic dive school ,VISA Diving, and would like to thank Jan, Petra and all the team there for such a wonderful few days. We hope to get back to them in the future.
Anyway, we have loads of stories to tell and i’ll try to post again later today.
See ya
Conor
