UK Life - From July 2006
UK Life - From July 2006I'm still alive! Just not taken many photos recently. Will try and get hold of some photos from last Fridays work night out and post here :)
Extra photos for 21st June, The Whitsundays
Underwater Fish photos! The big Hump Back Wrasse was called Elvis.
Extra photos for 18th June,Mission Beach to Magnetic Island
Here are some photos I took with my waterproof camera whilst Kayaking
First Night in UK - On both blogs!
Well I will be home again in the UK from the 12th July - And as I quite like the idea of a blog I may just keep it up when i get home but obviously under a new name!! It may not be as exciting but you never quite know!!
The following photos were from my first night back!! I drove straight up to London to met Karen and Ava - And drop them off at the airport on the Thursday so they could continue their travels!!
UK Blog
For those that might be interested..I've now created a UK Blog - I'm afraid it will be a lot less exciting than the Oz site..but now I've started I'm going to try and keep it up...the link is on the right hand side if you want to take a look...
Flight Home
My flight was at 9.15pm. The first stage from Sydney to Dubai , approx 14 hours, then Dubai to Heathrow, 7 hours...tried sleeping on th plane but not that successful..watched a few movies..took it easy...
Landed 12:15pm, 12th July.
Chilled out at home a while before going up mum and dads - Leaving my house which had looked so tidy looking like a bomb had hit it!
Still rushing around I drove up to Hammesmith to met Karen, from Melbourne and her friend Ava, both of whom I'd last seen in Melbourne. I started flagging at about 10:30pm whilst sat in the pub, infact I could have just fallen asleep there. The weirdest thing with being back in the UK was that it didn't get dark until gone 9pm - Of course in Oz I'd been watching sunsets at about 5-5.30pm each day as it was Winter.
..it looks like I also have no worries with time differencies as not really suffered at all! In fact I'm feeling great (well apart from the fact I'm now in the UK jobhunting!!
So I suppose this should be my last post - I can't express enough how fantastic the last 3 months have been and especially the last 5 weeks whilst travelling - I've met some really terrific people and hope that I will at least keep in touch with a few of them and hopefully sometime in the future maybe met some of them again...
Tues 11th July, Last Day
Well up fairly earlier - Packed my suitcase for one last time then went for breakfast with Kelly, my room mate I went to the AFL with. It was also Kellys last day as she was off back to Melbourne. Then caught a bus down to Circular Quay to do the pylon climb on the Bridge - My last views of the Harbour and the Opera House on a lovely sunny day - How much did I not want to go home..really wanted to stay another week..then mabe another...
Mon 10th July, Blue Mountains
I caught the bus for my trip to the Blue Mountains at 7.20am, No hangover! I was able to catch up on some of my sleep with the 2 hour journey to the Mountains. When we first go there we went kangaroo hunting, so I saw my last wild kangaroos before returning home – Again it was another fine day with blue skies and great views. We went for a walk with a Park Ranger in the morning and then in the afternoon went and saw the “Three Sisters” – the 3 turrets on the photos and had a ride on the Katoomba Light Railway “the steepest incline railway in the world”, steepest incline 52 degrees and a length of 450m with a vertical drop of 250m.
When I got back to the hostel I caught up with Rocky and we went out for a meal at a German Restaurant in The Rocks – A great way to spend my last evening in Australia..
Sun 9th July, AFL Game
We met down in the Side Bar for the Aussie Rules game Sydney Swans V Adelaide. There seemed to be lots of people I knew! Kelly my new room mate had joined me, Michael and David from Chicago, Ted and Sara from Cork, Leaza (Meeting me at the SCG) and then there were Amy and Nick who’d just arrived from England and Rocky from the States. It was a really good afternoon with great weather even though the Sydney Swans lost. Afterwards we made our way back to our hostel were we spent the rest of the evening drinking cocktails. It was a great way of spending my last Sunday evening tough I had an early start on Monday.
Sat 8th July, Richard & Janes
Today I went to visit Richard and Jane who made me feel really welcome. Their children are great fun. We had a BBQ (cooked by Richard of course). We then went for a drive to Bradleys Head and then Balmoral Beach which was really good. After which I caught a train back to Town Hall and went uo the Sydney Tower and the Oztrek – Though it was dark which was a bit of a shame so I never got the benefit of seeing the city from 270m up in daylight it was the only way I was going to fit in the experience! It’s also school holidays was very busy with long queues and meant that I missed any chance of catching the tail end of the evenings sunset.
Fri 7th July, Opera House Tour & Bridgeclimb
I went on the tour of the Opera House at 10am this morning was quite interesting. Then ambled around the shops for a while before going to the Bridgeclimb, I had intended climbing the pylon prior to the Bridge but had to leave it as was probably cutting my timing a bit too fine. My climb was at 3.55pm and counted as a Night Climb - It was the first one after the late dusk climbs so it meant that I did actually get to see the sunset over Sydney as well. The photos on here aren’t great as I never got them in digital format so I had to try to take photos of photos indoors using the flash – Hence my distorted face, honest I don’t look quite that bad! I did enjoy the climb but would have been disappointed if I’d paid the extra for an early or late dusk – As advised by a couple of people the last dusk group was just in front of us and had paid about and extra 60 dollars for the privilege.
