We got to Dubai

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Andreas (of www.ginfan.com fame) my great friend from Iceland was originally going to come over for two weeks and we were going to drive over

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We headed down to South Bank for lunch followed by my really brief tour of what was what, and of course a token

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Wednesday Jacob & drove up to Brisbane airport at 12pm , checked in and hit the Coronas. The flight is nearly two hours and with the time zone

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Andreas was in town so we headed off to Rob’s Place for a bbq and a touch of cricket before heading down to the infamous Story Bridge Hotel to

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Getting up early we headed out to do some more sightseeing. We decided not to go down into the valley but have a look around on our way out. We managed to find a vantage point from the other side of the Three Sisters. We then headed off to Sydney just to make

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Today we headed out to the Blue Mountains. Another infamous place to see! Rather than get there too early we headed west towards Bathurst. This is home to the famous Bathurst 1000 – a V8 Supercar Championship event.

The track is in fact a normal road by day, only differing slightly to any other

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Starting the day we another hearty breakfast we headed out to the Deep Space communication Station. This is one of three places in the world that tracks objects & satellites in space. It is in fact connected directly to Nasa.

We also tried to visit the Observatory but it was closed for Xmas. We got to

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Andreas was up early and very grumpy as he didn’t sleep well. He wanted to get to Canberra as fast as possible so we hit the road.

We stopped at another one street town called Braidwood. Not much here apart from a decent cafe serving breakfast. In fact it looked like it used to

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We were up relatively early and got out of the hostel as quick as we could. Driving down the road to the local cafe to have breakfast.

The original idea was to stop off at some nearby wineries – after all this was the Mornington Peninsula. But it was only about 8am and frankly

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We were up early so decided to hit the road. A wise thing as the road was empty apart from cyclists everywhere. We even saw a Koala merrily sloping down the edge of the carriage way.

This was the section with the most twists and turns. A couple of interesting sights along the

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We headed out early and went in search of the ‘famous’ limestone / blue Lakes. The blue lakes in Mt Gambier are formed through tens of thousands of years of water slowly disolving limestone. It has left behind some magnificent deep blue coloured lakes.

We then hit the road. Passing through Portland

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So we headed off early to Adelaide. It didn’t take long to get there as it is only 70Km down the road.

Adelaide is a strange place! So Interesting that we didn’t even get out of the car. It was almost as though we had entered an early eighties time warp –

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So today we started off late. We were collected by Tracie our guide for the day (okay more like a private chauffeur who knew a lot about wine).

Now before I go any further I would like to clear up something that has irritated me for a while. Over here in Australia and New

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So today started late. We went up to Mundi Mundi Lookout last night to watch the sunset – it was amazing! This is where we met John Dynon – a local artist. I eventually had enough (I’d been driving all day) but good old Andreas was in fine form and went out with

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After getting up early we headed out of Nyngan at 8am. It was bright and sunny as we headed west out to Cobar. Cobar is a mining town where they typically dig for copper and gold.

We arrived early and got the chance to have a good cooked breakfast. We then spent an

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I drove down to Coffs Harbour yesterday. It takes about 5hrs and is about 400Km from Brisbane. We had a couple of drinks last night out on the town and finished relatively early.

We started out early today as it was going to be a long day. The intention was to head to

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Another action packed Saturday event was kicked off when James, Andreas, Ness & I headed off to watch the finale of the Bledisloe cup & Tri Nations. 

We arrived in Caxton Street at 3pm

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After dropping the bags of at the hotel we headed out. Stopping in one of Sydney’s oldest pubs for a couple of beers. We met a couple of old timers John and

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I headed out into town to catch up with a subbie and a couple of other guys to go and watch rugby. After a couple of drinks at the Belgian Beer Garden we headed to the match. It was time for the Wallabies to kick

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On Saturday we drove up to Mooloolaba – a sleepy town on the sunshine coast. With the weather being bad (a life saver for the drought) we were unable to go kite surfing. Not forgetting Andreas’ dodgy leg. Anyhow we met up with another Icelandic

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We (James, Rob, Andreas, Gerard, and myself) flew down to Melbourne on Friday to see the first F1 Grand Prix of the season.

By the time we got to Melbourne it was late. Our trip to our hostel in St.Kilda was slightly long winded but we finally arrived.

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A very strange and insular event where everyone goes around with flags in their car windows whilst wearing shirts emblazoned with the Australian flag. It is indeed a strange spectacle and reminds me a lot of the USA when I visited a couple of

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After a couple of drinks on the way we had a few more at the venue.

Overall it was a pretty mediocre affair with a fair few recognisable songs and quite a few unknown. I guess the saving grace was Sting’s performance

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We returned early to watch a couple of films and grab a bite to eat.

Anyhow

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It was all quite intresting, but very boring. Not something I really fancy doing again apart from the social aspect.