Around (Half) the World in 45 Hours!

As we said before it was essential that we returned home quickly for family reasons.  After some quick planning and a bit of help from some friends we managed to book tickets on a Wednesday and arrived back in Plymouth on the Friday – not bad, eh?
Although the trip went smoothly, it was a bit [...]

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Golf Course Kangaroos

Unfortunately we received some bad family news from home which meant we needed to get on a plane home fairly sharpish.  On our last day we took Charlie for a long walk on Pippi beach and on our way back to the hostel we passed the golf club which had loads of kangaroos on it!
The [...]

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Justin’s Birthday

So another big night in Yamba rolled around as it was Justin’s birthday.  Justin is rather partial to his alcohol and so he started drinking early but we couldn’t join him as we were working.
I finished working at the bottle-o  at about 10pm and when I got back Ruth and Kellie (Justin’s wife) asked for [...]

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Watching Australia (in Australia)

Although it wasn’t high on our list of films we wanted to watch, we decided to go and see the film Australia whilst we were there.  Yamba has two cinemas, one up the road and one slightly out of town, and it was it was the one out of town that was showing it.  Kellie [...]

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Detective Siewruk at Work: The Trail of the Missing Thongs! (That’s Flip Flops People!)

Whilst kayaking along a river in Murwillumbah, Ruth’s right thong (flip flop to us Poms) broke when attempting a jump onto land. On the way back up the river a right footed thong floated past. We did a U-turn and fished it out the river. For the next few weeks in Murwillumbah, Lennox Head and [...]

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