This is how I came to have a black eye, it was Wednesday morning and having checked the surf cams the kids and I decided to go down for a surf before work/home schooling. We arrived to amazing blue skies, crystal clear water and magic little 1 – 2’ waves, perfect for practicing. I left…
We were invited to my cousins wedding in Canberra and were faced with two options, option one take a short flight into Canberra or Sydney and stay for a couple of days to attend the wedding and then fly home, or option two one massive 2800km round road trip catching up with as many people…
We just arrived back from a couple of action packed days down the coast that was provided as a thanks for the effort from one of our clients, we were staying in a unit just off Tallebudgera beach. We packed in a stack of stuff over the couple of days including a walk across the…
Tiff and myself recently attended my sister’s wedding in Nowra, we chose to drive down and covered a distance that would cross about 30 European countries. On the way back we decided to stop at Coffs Harbour and spend the night, mainly because a couple of Christmases ago we stopped in at Coffs to grab…
As far as Christmas Days go that one was up there as one of the best, we had a bit of a shaky start when someone (Byron) decided to wake up around 2am and found that Santa had already been, he was so excited that he decided to go and tell Paige. Tiff managed to…
13 October 2013 I have been studying Chinese on a fairly consistent basis since the beginning of 2009, and although I have a long way to go, I have managed to pick up a fair amount of vocabulary and have had some cracking experiences along the way. I have put together a few tips and pointers…
22 July 2009 We headed down to another market to collect some toys for the kids stopping at a Pizza joint on the way, western style pizza joint in Beijing equals expensive not particularly tasty food, perhaps there is an opportunity there. We managed to get some cool things for the kids including a couple…
21 July 2009 We drove out into the suburbs to take a look at what was left of some local hutongs and so Song and Peichen could get us to try donkey meat. We finally found a restaurant and what was left of the hutongs that used to surround it. There was a low brick…
20 July 2009 After breaky we drove about 70Km west of Beijing to a section of the great wall. As with most of the tourist attractions we had been near, it was full of people, mostly Chinese who had come to see one of their national icons. It was great to get out of Beijing…
19 July 2009 We had organized with Jiaao and Xiao the night before to meet up and go to the forbidden city and Tiananmen square, as the night wore on the meeting time grew steadily later in the day. So it was fairly late when we finally kicked off and caught the train to Tiananmen.…
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