We are having some amazing weather here at the moment in Melbourne while my family and friends freeze over there in England. This is , my place of worship and only a 15 minute train journey away. The weather today was a nice 34 Celsius which is 93.2 Fahrenheit and Sunday is expected to be the same but Monday is going to be 41 Celsius, 105.8 Fahrenheit, thankfully I am going to be at work in a nice air conditioned office. read more
We are going through a with temperatures reaching 35 Celsius which is 95 Fahrenheit to the British. On Sunday I went to Brighton beach to escape the heat and discovered I had forgotten my cream, not very clever but I managed to do 4 hours before having to escape back to my flat before I fried but the sea was so lovely and calm I could have spent all night there. I kept comparing it to a Sunday in Manchester or a Sunday on a beach recovering from the ... read more
This is my video when I was camping on . is a place of exceptional beauty, with its long uninterrupted white beaches flanked by strikingly coloured sand cliffs, and over 100 freshwater lakes, some tea-coloured and others clear and blue all ringed by white sandy beaches. world heritage listed , queensland australia, , world heritage listed , frazer island, world heritage listed ... read more
Well I am finally in Sydney , the flight was great, one tamazepan and I was out like a light. The airport was a pleasure , 2 visa and my luggage within 30mins, I think the USA should pay some attention to how a major airport can run. Just had breakfast on the beach watching the surfers enjoying there morning surf. read more
Morning, Just come out of the shower after spending Xmas day on St Kilda Beach watching all the locals having the customary bbq xmas lunch in the sun. Everyone was dressed up as Santa or in anything red they could lay there hands on. I fell asleep on the beach and burnt my eyelids, Nothing planned for the next few days , New years eve I am off to a club and New Years ... read more
Well , Wednesday evening I will be on my way to Sydney to check out my next beach location. Just booked myself a nice hotel to stay in for the first night so I can recover from the flight and relax whilst chilling on Bondi Beach. read more
HiyaIn Phuket now, just on Karon beach, I have been exploring the island and now looking for a hotel on Krabi Island to check out Railay Beach and the famous Phi Phi. I am currenly on the slowest connection ever known to man and its still not stopping me, its just taking me longer to achieve what I want to do. read more
If the meeting goes well this afternoon then hopefully I should have a 3 month contract working in in the Gold Coast. Ronina is supposed to be the information technology hub of the Gold Coast, with vast new technology parks opening up. Combined with that and the beach and being so close to Surfers Paradise makes this job sound perfect. read more
On Sunday the temperature rose to 110 so getting to the beach was not even an option, so i locked myself in my flat, put the air con on and watched tv all day. I discover after that Charlize Theron was there but I missed her :( I watched NO.8 seed Justine Henin-Hardenne's beat Lindsay Davenport in the quarter-finals and watched some of Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis and Croatian Ivan Ljubicic. The mens match was almost like a football match, with a strong Greek and Croatian community here they ... read more
Welcome Home who has been travelling around the world on her own for over seven months and she is only 16.
It reminded me of my days at sea, rowing around Prestwich Park Lake, Fairhaven Lake and pedaling many a pedalo around Spain. I even recall once taking one from the beach and into Puerto Banus port in Spain which was a funny sight amongst all the millionaire boats.
The only time you will see me on the seas nowadays is on a cruise... read more
I landed in England at 12pm and by 10pm I had seen my grandparents, my friends, had dinner and been to a football match. A very busy first day , on the second day I was up,dressed and walking around Bury by 10am. I am in Spain now, I landed last night and what a lovely view I am greeted with each morning when I pull back my curtains. read more
I have not updated my site in a long time so here I go.Thank you all for your birthday cards, I did not do anything special for my birthday and just watched the Manchester Derby. Yesterday I went to beach which is where the cruise ships come into port. Last night I watched Melbourne Victory clinch the title and today saw England loose the ashes. read more
I arrived at around 12pm to find a half mile queue , ten deep so nursing a hangover from the night before I decided to come back to later on in the hope that the queue had vanished. I went to a friends house party near Brighton Beach and chilled in the garden listening to tunes in the sun with a bottle of Newcastle Bitter. I am soooo looking forward to getting into my bed ... read more
We went to today and had lunch at a place that was more appropriate for a Saturday Night then an afternoon. But it was very nice and an hour sat outside by the beach was enough to continue our journey back to the hotel. Check it out read more
My first week is over and it is great to be back working my brain again rather than drinking and chilling on the beach all day. I was looking forward to a lie in tomorrow but as this hotel I am staying in can not process a simple credit card I have had to book into another one. so I will be able to watch the premiership on sat night. read more
Now this is the best thing I have seen since I arrived in Australia. A 1Mbps wireless data network has been set up around Sydney. This is technology, no morewires and I can sit on the beach and keep downloadingat lightening fast speedswithout fear of being out of range. read more
yo yo , in Mission Beach. They have some strange laws out here, because the pub is a smoking pub by law you MUST NOT eat any food inside , you must eat it outside. The pub must not smell of food but tobacoo and booze is fine. read more
This was me in a few days ago on the way to Mission Beach. I had just purchased a new pair of shades , or as they call them here sundies as I lost mine on Frasier Island. read more
I have finally found where all the pictures in the brochures are taken from. This is Whitehaven Beach and its awesome, you cant live here as its protected but its defo worth a day out. read more
Just here with some friends I met in Surfers and also Frasier Island just drinking by the lagoon. I would write more but I have weeks of pics to upload and I have had 4 hrs sleep last night due to a heavy drinking session. read more
You are allowed to smoke there and people are selling buds in the street and selling hash cakes. They havea festival called the I have just booked my next part of my trip, off to Harvey Bar , then a 4 wheel drive around fraser Island for a few days and off to Airlee beach where i will chill for another few days before i set sail around the great ... read more
Well I got sick of moving around and packing and unpacking and having to lock all my stuff up everytime I went outside. I have rented a beach house for 2 weeks , not by myself though. I have shacked up with someone :D read more
Hi, I am back in Beach in Phuket. I just booked a flight to Bangkok for lunchtime tomorrow so I will ready to catch my flight to Sydney in the evening. I am really look foward to getting back to a countrywhere they speak english and not everyonecalls me there friend. read more
Hi, Got up this morning at 6 to catch a boat to , I've had some lunch hereand a shake and I now have 2 hrs to kill before my next boat. I am catching a boat to Ao Nang and from there I will need to get a tailboat to Railay Beach where I am supposed to be able to see my hotel. I hope this place is nice as I wont be moving until I need to make my way back to Bangkok for my flight to Australia. read more
I rented a car this weekend and drove down the coast to the which is just over an hours drive out of Melbourne City. I've just come home from the football where Melbourne was playing in the Semi-Final against Adelaide United. Knowing a draw would not be enough for Victory, Robinson secured the win in the dying stages of the match, sending the Telstra Dome crowd into a frenzied celebration. read more
Happy New Year from Melbourne, Australia. The past few days have been so hot I am going to enjoy the cool change over the next few days. It does mean that I have a perfect excuse for abusing the BBQ, I am on my 4th this week. read more
Today is , so I went down to Barbeques Galore to purchase a BBQ only to discover they had . No BBQ on . I'm nearly a Fair dinkum aussie :) I was thinking this morning, why did I not get my citizenship done so I could have become an Australian on . read more
Last night I was making some duck and I ran out of disposable dishes so I placed the duck on some tin foil wrapped around an oven tray. When I took the duck out of the oven, all the juices ran off the tin foil and down my arm. Pain I can not describe shot up my arm and I then spent the rest of the evening putting layers of pain relief gel on. read more
This is a small portion of the Movember crew at Lonely Planet. Next Saturday is the Christmas Party at LP and they have decided that with nearly 40 people at worked with mo's it would be a good idea to have a 70's theme party. I have just purchased a jacket from a retro shop and headed straight to the dry cleaners. read more
My Mo is going well, I have gone from a beard to a goatee and then finally some sort of handlebar mo. Help me change the face of men's health by sponsoring my mo. Please go to read more
I have just spent a lovely day at my who live by the coast in St Annes which is next door to Blackpool. I went down for lunch and dinner and fixed my grandpas computer so now he has no excuse for not posting on this website. Thanks for lunch and dinner and a great day. read more
Enough was Enough , my hair had got so long I wasbeginning to resemble a cross between a reborn Jesus and an ACDC fan so this morning I ventured into the barbers and got my hair cut. They have massage chairs when you have your hair washed, its so relaxing you do notwantto get up. Still waiting for my electric scooter to arrive , images will follow... read more
Today I had the afternoon off work and Lonely Planet had a Family Xmas Party. We had a BBQ in the park with free booze and plenty of activities for the children. A jumping castle, fairy floss (Australian for candy floss), mobile zoo and of course, Santa Claus. read more
I know i have not been adding to this as oftern as I should but in Byron Bay I can not connect my camera or memory card to the PC so I have been unable to update it with all the funny pics and movies I have. But dont worry, I hope to do a mass update in the next week so keep tuned. Oh , this pic is my which has been a life saver, 8,500 tunes and ebooks. read more
2. Balance your wife, yourself and your kid on a moped 3. Wear your coat back to front to keep them from getting dirty on the bikes 4. Taxi drivers think customer care is the more abuse you throw at the customer the more he will tip you 4. The ability to show no emotions. 5. Wearing oven gloves and a bubble jacket in 100 degrees on a bike. 7. Mastered chopsticks but cant understand the highway code. read more
Nothing planned for the next few days , New years eve I am off to a club and New Years ... read more
