From the category archives:

Moving To Australia

Buying Your Dream Home in Australia

25 August 2010 Moving To Australia
Dream house

Without a doubt, one of the great things about moving to Australia is the opportunity of buying your dream home. Yes, we’ve had many a debate here about which houses are cheaper between the UK and Australia, but there is no doubt which houses are bigger. In fact, as you will have read in my [...]

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Further Tales From Your Favourite Magazine Columnist.

18 August 2010 Moving To Australia
Australia magazine

Australia & New Zealand Magazine Pt 2. You will, no doubt, recall me announcing with some pride my appearance in the UK magazine Australia & New Zealand as a columnist in their series called Expat Diary. If you haven’t yet read my first ever article to appear on the shelves in a national UK Magazine [...]

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Welcome home

Moving to Australia and Moving Back to England Again.

2 August 2010 Moving To Australia

Last week I told you about my night out at the pub when a group of us went into the city to have a farewell do for some good friends of ours. You can read about the “leaving do” here. But in a nutshell, our friends came here to live in Australia for two years [...]

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BobinOz. Available at All Leading Newsagents Now!

9 July 2010 Moving To Australia
Australia and New Zealand magazine

Would you believe it? Little old BobinOz has gone into print. Yes, I’m on shelves. I think it is only in the UK, but I’m on sale in newsagents and I’m even available in Tesco’s and Sainsbury’s. And it’s a right riveting read.. No, I haven’t written a book but I have started to write [...]

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Moving to Australia: What Would You Miss?

2 July 2010 Moving To Australia
indoor football

When I lived in England, which is almost 3 years ago now, I used to regularly play five aside football. I played quite a bit of it actually, two games a week, one on Thursday nights and one on Sunday nights with the games lasting one hour each. And I did that for 28 years. [...]

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Who’s Going to Visit When You Move to Australia?

21 May 2010 Moving To Australia
My Family

And will you make new friends when you get there? I have spoken about this before on a few occasions and it is still one of the big worries for most people considering emigrating to Australia. Will I ever see my family and friends again? Will I make new friends when I get there? You [...]

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An Awesome Easter Weekend in South East Queensland

7 April 2010 Moving To Australia
Maroochy River

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, we have had a very busy weekend. Action packed! So what did we do? Well, Good Friday was our quietest day but we still managed to have our favourite Australian family round for a barbecue. All the (four) children play great together, us four adults get on pretty good [...]

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Moving to Australia: What You Must Know About Bringing the Children.

3 February 2010 Moving To Australia
Baby

What crosses your mind when you think about the Hague Convention? Is it… a) the sequel to the Geneva Convention? b) a collection of men in grey suits meeting to talk about legal stuff in a place called The Hague? c) an international law you should seriously consider before moving to Australia with your children? [...]

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