G'day

Hello all!

Well it has been absolutely ages since I have blogged and not even sure why!

For the past month i have been in Australia which was absolutely amazing. completely not planned, booked a flight to Sydney in June and left in July so to bring you upto date here are some ramblings I shared with other people while I was away.



So here i am in Sydney now been here about 24 hours! Flight was good...if long. Flew with a company called Ethiad? Never head of them but they were very good, Virgin Australia it turns out are their 'sister comany' as are air Berlin which seemed quite strange since i was there a few weeks ago. Anyhoo good films 'Best exotic marigold hotel' in which I genuinely laughed out loud; best line, 'if I want your opinion I will tell you what it is' also watched 5 back to back episodes of Miranda which I like and listened to a few albums. Was well worried about using up batteries of kindle and ipod and being stuck twiddling my thumbs but only had the kindle on once in Abu Dhabi airport, in flight entertainment sorted me the rest of the time. Abu Dhabi was not overly exciting........was there for 15 hours, 20 on the way back..great stuff! Of course its Ramada as well so I felt a bit self conscious eating because I was surrounded by some very hungry people.


So got the the airport got let into the country and went to get the train which the lonely planet recommend only to be told there was no train but a free bus service! There were so apologetic I was like free.....hello! Hostel is about a 5 minute walk and clean and friendly enough. Did very little last night then woke up my time at 5.29am, forced myself to go back to sleep till 9ish then got up. Got a free breakfast from the nice girl on reception then she suggested doing a bit of walking to get myself acclimatised so walk I did, walked down to the harbour and opera house then into the Royal botanical gardens and across to the rocks, grabbed some lunch and headed back. popped into a backpacker travel place on the way back and booked a tour from Alice Springs to Adelaide which does the rock, bushwalking and you get to go to a kangaroo orphanage!!!!!

 

Glayne xxx