Category: Travel
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Sunday 12 July 2009 Highlights: Returning Home Today is the last day of the trip. After having a great night’s sleep I got up around 9 am and very slowly packed for the flight home. I was glad I went for a good hotel in Sydney and not a Backpackers / Hostel. I got to…
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Saturday 11 July 2009 Highlights: Upgrade to Business Class, Essendon winning at the SCG Well good luck smiled on me for the flight, at the gate I was stopped from boarding with 7 others due to a problem with the seat allocation. Everyone else got new allocated seats (to allow families to seat together) I…
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Friday 10 July 2009 Highlights: The coastline My last day in Western Australia started with a big thunderstorm during the night, boy it is unusual to see rain, at least this much rain! Anyway after checking out and doing a little bit of e-mail catch up I headed for the coastline to see whether there…
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Thursday 9 July 2009 Highlights: Bushtucker Winery Tour First a confession, I’m writing this with a hangover. Today I went on the ’Bushtucker Winery Tour’. We started at 10.30 am and I got dropped off around 6 pm, in between was a lot of drinking, singing and eating. The full day saw use visit (in…
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Wednesday 8 July 2009 Highlights: Bunbury Harbour, Margaret River Nature walk Today I drove from Perth to Margaret River which is about 300 kms in distance. Along the way I stopped in Bunbury a seaside city of about 30,000. The harbour was nice, and the yachts tell me there is money in this area. I…
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Tuesday 7 July 2009 Highlights: Easy flight to Perth, View of Swan River The flight turned out to nearly be empty. I got my aisle seat again but with no one in the window seat I moved over to watch the landing in Perth at the end of the flight. We didn’t have any problems…
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Facebook Photos 1, Photos 2 The London leg is now over, I suppose I should call it the Brussels, London & Brighton leg but it was 95% in London. London has had a heat wave over here, most days over 26, normally I’d make fun of that been called a heatwave especially given the 38+…
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Monday 6 July 2009 Highlights: Saying farewell I said goodbye to London today. Jon actually decided to get to his school a little late and ride with me on the Tube almost all the way to Heathrow Airport. Jon is a very good friend and I know how lucky I am to know him, which…
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Sunday 5 July 2009 Highlights: Ancient Stonehenge, London Walking Tour – Ghost Walk Jon had organised to borrow Jeanne’s car so we could head out to Stonehenge for a day trip. It took about 2-3 hours to get there including our lunch/pit stop. It’s amazing to visit a site that is believed to have been around for…
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Saturday 4 July 2009 Highlights: The West End Show (Billy Elliot), Royal Pavilion As Jeanne has a new posting starting soon she needs to find new accommodation so we all headed down to Brighton for the day. Jon insisted that I had to visit the Royal Pavilion. After some problems at Victoria station (no machines to…
