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Life in Australia

Regular readers will know that, more often than not, my post on Monday is about what we did at the weekend. But today, I’m finding it difficult to bring myself to do that.
Why?
As you will know, I used to live in Europe, England to be precise, and I still have friends back there, possibly, and [...]

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If you haven’t yet read Vivienne’s email to me which was the subject of yesterday’s post, it might be an idea to do that now before reading my reply.
My reply.
Firstly, wild horses couldn’t drag me back to England now, I love my life in Australia and I’m here to stay. We all love it here, [...]

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Two years ago to the day, almost to the hour as I write this, (its 6:30 p.m. here in Australia, so it’s around half eight in the morning back in the England), I was waking up in the UK for the very last time.
So today I am celebrating two years since we left England.
Two days [...]

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What did you do on Sunday?
Here’s what we did:

Lunch at a winery.
The kids played in the rolling fields.
We visited the film set of an up and coming blockbuster.
We then had drinks in a bar by the sea.
Then we went to Wellington Point.
We paddled.
We looked for seashells.
We watched the [...]

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I have a Tropical Cyclone Hamish update for you later. But first……
We nearly didn’t come here to Australia, we were always going to go to France. That was our plan for 5 years. But that was before Elizabeth was born. She is such a lively outdoor little girl that in some ways, France seemed just [...]

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Taken For a Ride in Melbourne

by BobinOz on January 30, 2009

in Australia's Places

After staying up until 3 o’clock in the morning watching Premiere league football (I will NOT call it soccer! the Aussies picked the wrong horse with that) I was a little bleary eyed behind the wheel the following morning. After about an hour driving, my eyelids said “No”. So I swapped seats with the wife.
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The Journey from Sydney to Melbourne

by BobinOz on January 29, 2009

in Australia's Places

With Sydney now in our rear view mirror, we were heading for Melbourne. The quickest way to get there would be to cut across land along the M31, driving past Canberra and dropping down to Melbourne. But how could I desert the M1 after all those good times? Besides, it would only add an extra [...]

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It seems like ages since I last mentioned the M1. But at last I was back on it again, heading for Sydney. In no time at all I’d covered about 130 miles when I made a decision that may surprise you. I decided to turn OFF of the M1. I didn’t need to, it would [...]

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