Thursday, July 05, 2007
Prague Summer Party
We spent the weekend just gone in Prague - attending Francis & Emmanuel's annual summer party.
This year we floated up and down the River Vltava, and of course the them was nautical. Myself, Paul and Ed are shown in this picture.
We were also able to catch up with friends, and meet baby AJ for the first time - a very cute chap.
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Life after travel ...
In case anyone was wondering - there is life after travelling, its just not quite as relaxing!
Anne has started back to work in sunny Soho. This is great news, and means that she can now keep me in the fashion to which I have become accustomed!
To fill some of my spare time until I start working again - between interviews and general household duties - I am putting together a Google Map of our travels. It will show each place we stayed, with a short note and a link to any photos. Watch this space for further updates.
Friday, April 06, 2007
Homeward Bound
Hi all,
So that's it -- this is the final overseas post of our round the world trip.
We are just about to check out of our hotel in Miami South Beach, go for lunch and then head off to the airport for our flight back to London.
Miami has been fun - its a great place for people watching!
Thanks to all who have been following our trip on this blog, and posting comments along the way.
We arrive back in London tomorrow morning, and hope to recover rapidly from any jet lag --- we will endeavour to get in touch with people and start catching up as soon as possible.
Cheers,
D & A
p.s. Looking forward to a West Ham win at the Emirates tomorrow ;-)
So that's it -- this is the final overseas post of our round the world trip.
We are just about to check out of our hotel in Miami South Beach, go for lunch and then head off to the airport for our flight back to London.
Miami has been fun - its a great place for people watching!
Thanks to all who have been following our trip on this blog, and posting comments along the way.
We arrive back in London tomorrow morning, and hope to recover rapidly from any jet lag --- we will endeavour to get in touch with people and start catching up as soon as possible.
Cheers,
D & A
p.s. Looking forward to a West Ham win at the Emirates tomorrow ;-)
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
The Final Countdown!
Hi all
Just a quick update: we are in the final week of our travels now :-( it's been a fantastic few months but it seems to have sped by.
We finished up in San Diego, and headed off to New Orleans for the weekend - we had a little condo apartment right in the french quarter, so didn't have to stray too far for the "action". New Orleans has obviously suffered heavily as a consequence of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but they are definitely putting things back together ... the tourist areas are very much alive and kicking -- the party atmosphere has not been dampened at all. We wandered the streets of the french quarter, took in some jazz, did some late night cocktail drinking and ate some pretty good dinners!
From New Orleans we flew to Miami, picked up a hire car and drove across to Naples on the Gulf Coast -- we stayed in Naples until Saturday with family friends of Anne's in their very nice house; using the pool, the beach and the residents facilities. It was the lap of luxury, and we were very sad to leave after being made so welcome; particularly by their chocolate labrador Guinness. I thought Anne was going to try and sneak him into our hire car when we left.
We are now staying in a condo just north of Naples, on Estero Island - actually Fort Myers Beach --- it is beautiful, we are right on the beach - we can hear the waves from our bedroom and watch the sunset whilst having dinner. Its going to be very hard to leave tomorrow.
Tomorrow we head to Miami, where we are staying South Beach for two nights before our flight back to London on Friday evening.
It will be sad to finish our trip - we have had a wonderful time, particularly catching up with friends and meeting new babies etc. on our travels; but at the same time we are looking forward to catching up with everyone back in Europe.
Will write again from Miami.
Cheers,
D & A
Just a quick update: we are in the final week of our travels now :-( it's been a fantastic few months but it seems to have sped by.
We finished up in San Diego, and headed off to New Orleans for the weekend - we had a little condo apartment right in the french quarter, so didn't have to stray too far for the "action". New Orleans has obviously suffered heavily as a consequence of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but they are definitely putting things back together ... the tourist areas are very much alive and kicking -- the party atmosphere has not been dampened at all. We wandered the streets of the french quarter, took in some jazz, did some late night cocktail drinking and ate some pretty good dinners!
From New Orleans we flew to Miami, picked up a hire car and drove across to Naples on the Gulf Coast -- we stayed in Naples until Saturday with family friends of Anne's in their very nice house; using the pool, the beach and the residents facilities. It was the lap of luxury, and we were very sad to leave after being made so welcome; particularly by their chocolate labrador Guinness. I thought Anne was going to try and sneak him into our hire car when we left.
We are now staying in a condo just north of Naples, on Estero Island - actually Fort Myers Beach --- it is beautiful, we are right on the beach - we can hear the waves from our bedroom and watch the sunset whilst having dinner. Its going to be very hard to leave tomorrow.
Tomorrow we head to Miami, where we are staying South Beach for two nights before our flight back to London on Friday evening.
It will be sad to finish our trip - we have had a wonderful time, particularly catching up with friends and meeting new babies etc. on our travels; but at the same time we are looking forward to catching up with everyone back in Europe.
Will write again from Miami.
Cheers,
D & A
Thursday, March 22, 2007
St Patricks Day Vegas Style
I promised Colm I'd take a picture of something suitably gaudy & St Paddy's day related in Vegas whilst we were there .... this sign was hanging from the Irish Pub which is part of New York New York, on the Strip.
We are now in San Diego, and have done loads in the past 2.5 weeks since the last post. After a hectic few days sight seeing and shopping in San Francisco - riding on trolley buses, seeing Alcatraz, and the Golden Gate Bridge - we headed out of the city, and across California to the state capitol: Sacramento. We spent one night in Sacramento, sleeping on an old converted river boat - which is now a floating hotel - and seeing the city and its impressive state capitol building.
After Sacramento, we headed off again on the road to Lake Tahoe - we spent a few days staying in a little wooden cabin in Tahoe Vista, on the north shores of Lake Tahoe. From there we were only a few minutes drive from Tahoe's skiing areas - particularly Northstar, where we spent a couple of days reacquainting ourselves with the slopes. This was Anne's first time back on skis since her knee op, and everything went really well ... after an initial bout of 'the fear'!
From Tahoe we drove south to Mammoth - again in the mountains, and again we stayed in a little wooden cabin. We were able to ski there for another couple of days as well as taking in the local sights for a day or so, before once again hitting the road out of the Sierra Nevada's and down to Lone Pine.
We stayed overnight in Lone Pine, at a hotel which was used by all the old western stars when on location filming - Roy Rogers, and John Wayne to name a couple. It was fab being able to sit in the hot tub, looking across the desert valley to the snow capped mountains we'd just driven down from. The next day we drove from Lone Pine to Las Vegas via Death Valley -- we drove right down to America's lowest point 282ft below sea level, at Badwater.
We reached Vegas by the late afternoon, and checked in the Luxor where we stayed for two nights. Vegas was all we'd expected it to be ... and a lot more. It's almost overwhelming, but at the same time quite fascinating and a lot of fun. On the first night, we wandered "The Strip", and visited several of the giant hotel/casinos - played some Blackjack (not very successfully!), had some cocktails and dinner, and watched the water show outside The Bellagio. On the second night we went to the Beatles Love show by Cirque du Soleil at The Mirage, which was absolutely brilliant - the performers are quite amazing and we would both thoroughly recommend anyone who gets the chance to go and see it too. After the show we wandered through Caesars Palace marvelling at just how over the top some of it is, and into the Bellagio where we had dinner before retiring to the Luxor much later!
We flew into San Diego on Monday morning, and checked into our hotel in Little Italy. The area is fab, and filled with great italian restaurants and coffee bars. We have spent an afternoon wandering San Diego's tourist spots and an evening in Croces in the Gaslamp having dinner and drinks whilst listening to some excellent live jazz. We spent yesterday at Sea World - I have now seen Shamu in action; plus two other shows featuring seals, dolphins, otters and more. One small boy who participated in the dolphin show, was asked to tell the audience what they felt like, he said "they feel like hotdogs." No more fast food for me!
Right, we're off to wander the Gaslamp a bit more, and maybe head to the Zoo as well --- we leave here and head to New Orleans on Friday, so we will try and post again from there; if not we will post from Florida which is our final stop before heading home :-(
Take care all.
D&A
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Room 174 - Madonna Inn
This is the room which Anne made me stay in during our road trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
It's the Madonna Inn, near to San Luis Obispo on Route 1 (Pacific Coast Highway).
It is one of the oddest motels/hotels that you could ever choose to stay at. Each of the 112 rooms is decorated completely differently, as you can see from their website http://www.madonnainn.com/
It made Anne very happy, and it broke my kitsch-o-meter.
We have now made it to San Francisco after a beautiful drive up the remainder of Route 1 -- and a very slow and frustrating drive around the city centre; unfortunately we hadn't realised that tonight is the annual Chinese New Year Parade hence loads of closed streets and masses of traffic! But we eventually made it to our hotel and then out for dinner.
Tomorrow the sight seeing begins in earnest!
It's the Madonna Inn, near to San Luis Obispo on Route 1 (Pacific Coast Highway).
It is one of the oddest motels/hotels that you could ever choose to stay at. Each of the 112 rooms is decorated completely differently, as you can see from their website http://www.madonnainn.com/
It made Anne very happy, and it broke my kitsch-o-meter.
We have now made it to San Francisco after a beautiful drive up the remainder of Route 1 -- and a very slow and frustrating drive around the city centre; unfortunately we hadn't realised that tonight is the annual Chinese New Year Parade hence loads of closed streets and masses of traffic! But we eventually made it to our hotel and then out for dinner.
Tomorrow the sight seeing begins in earnest!
Friday, March 02, 2007
California
Well, we've made it to the US ... eventually. Our flight finally took off from Auckland at about 1.30am, so we were consequently about 6Hrs late arriving in LA. Fortunately this didn't have any impact on our hire car or motel booking.
We are now in Santa Monica, and have spent a day and a half wandering about and doing plenty of window shopping. Tomorrow we head off up the coast towards San Francisco, but not before taking a look at Beverley Hills and a wander down Rodeo Drive (I will be confiscating Anne's credit cards beforehand!).
Going from the southern to northern hemisphere, and thus from summer to winter is something of a shock to the system --- I think we will both be buying some warm clothes over the next few days (just not on Rodeo Drive).
Nothing much more to say, but hopefully we will have some time to upload a few photos to Flickr over the next week or so. Keep a look out.
We are now in Santa Monica, and have spent a day and a half wandering about and doing plenty of window shopping. Tomorrow we head off up the coast towards San Francisco, but not before taking a look at Beverley Hills and a wander down Rodeo Drive (I will be confiscating Anne's credit cards beforehand!).
Going from the southern to northern hemisphere, and thus from summer to winter is something of a shock to the system --- I think we will both be buying some warm clothes over the next few days (just not on Rodeo Drive).
Nothing much more to say, but hopefully we will have some time to upload a few photos to Flickr over the next week or so. Keep a look out.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
spelling!
Just realised I hit the publish button before checking spelling and grammar so do apologise for the errors below! Doh!
Auckland airport is tedious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So we are currently enjoying (?!?) the delights of the Quantas Club Lounge in Auckland airport while suffering the equivalent delays when travelling Easy Jet / BA / Czech Airlines between Gatwick and Prague. Flight should have left at 7.30pm and at the moment are hoping to head off over the Pacific towards LA by 12.30am ... are the delights of modern airtravel. What is quite amusing is that I am just reading a Jeremy Clarkson book at the moment where he informed me about 2 hours that he would award the prize for the worst form of travel of any kind to Quantas Airlines as he has never been on a flight of their's which flew on schedule. I think it may be an omen!
Dom has had to spend the last couple of hours trying to instill guilt into me over my desire to buy up half of duty free ... the big fluffy lambskin cushions would be really comfortable for our overnight flight though! Think even the shops are shutting up now so I may have missed my chance ... just all the more reason to have a good old shop in the US. Anyway shouldn't really complain I guess as at least I am not battling with leaves on the line / overly frosty frost or some other such excuse on the trains up to town.
Anyway .... going to go and see if Dom has heard any more updates and we will blog again asap. Very strange to think that I could be on Rodeo Drive 8 hours ago when we get to the states (follow that if you can ... this whole date line thing does my head in a little!)
See you soon
A xxxxxxxxx
Dom has had to spend the last couple of hours trying to instill guilt into me over my desire to buy up half of duty free ... the big fluffy lambskin cushions would be really comfortable for our overnight flight though! Think even the shops are shutting up now so I may have missed my chance ... just all the more reason to have a good old shop in the US. Anyway shouldn't really complain I guess as at least I am not battling with leaves on the line / overly frosty frost or some other such excuse on the trains up to town.
Anyway .... going to go and see if Dom has heard any more updates and we will blog again asap. Very strange to think that I could be on Rodeo Drive 8 hours ago when we get to the states (follow that if you can ... this whole date line thing does my head in a little!)
See you soon
A xxxxxxxxx
Monday, February 26, 2007
Last few days in NZ
Hi all,
We are now in Auckland, seeing the sights and getting ready for our trip across the Pacific to America.
We have had a fantastic time in NZ, and spent the last three weeks seeing some of the North Island -- we have visited Napier and its Art Deco architecture (courtesy of a complete post-earthquake rebuild in the 1930's), where we also did a little more wine tasting, and can heartily recommend Mission Estates to anyone (note: only place they export to is Sheffield, so Becky we have a mission for you!).
We then headed on to Lake Taupo, where we spent a couple of days chilling out and fighting off traditional British colds :-( ... the lake is beautiful, and the nearby falls also very impressive. From Taupo we also visited the "Craters of the Moon" - which is a very smelly and very active geothermal area.
Our next stop was Rotorua, which also boasts a pretty sulphurous atmosphere (which Anne kept trying to blame on me) - it does also boast a fine selection of hot springs, which we sank into for a good half a day; as well as visiting a traditional Maori fortified village and attending a Hangi banquet (a traditional Maori method of cooking, where the food is buried in baskets above hot stones for several hours to slow cook). Some of the best lamb we have had in NZ - and we've had plenty to compare it with!
From Rotorua, we then headed north into the Coromandel and to the famous hot water beach -- where we were able to dig a hole in the sand and sit in hot water (heated from active geothermal underground steam etc.) whilst the cold sea water gradually washed over us. A quite bizarre, but brilliant experience. From there we drove around to Auckland for one night, before meeting up with Sarita, Hamish and their little boy Mason.
We spent a week with them in the Bay of Islands (specifially staying in several places in and around Paihia) - during the week we visited Cape Reinga, the northern most point of NZ where the Tasman Sea and the Pacific Ocean meet. We also cruised the Bay of Islands and attempted to swim with dolphins.
Photos to follow soon. Must dash, one minute left but a further update once we reach California.
D&A.
We are now in Auckland, seeing the sights and getting ready for our trip across the Pacific to America.
We have had a fantastic time in NZ, and spent the last three weeks seeing some of the North Island -- we have visited Napier and its Art Deco architecture (courtesy of a complete post-earthquake rebuild in the 1930's), where we also did a little more wine tasting, and can heartily recommend Mission Estates to anyone (note: only place they export to is Sheffield, so Becky we have a mission for you!).
We then headed on to Lake Taupo, where we spent a couple of days chilling out and fighting off traditional British colds :-( ... the lake is beautiful, and the nearby falls also very impressive. From Taupo we also visited the "Craters of the Moon" - which is a very smelly and very active geothermal area.
Our next stop was Rotorua, which also boasts a pretty sulphurous atmosphere (which Anne kept trying to blame on me) - it does also boast a fine selection of hot springs, which we sank into for a good half a day; as well as visiting a traditional Maori fortified village and attending a Hangi banquet (a traditional Maori method of cooking, where the food is buried in baskets above hot stones for several hours to slow cook). Some of the best lamb we have had in NZ - and we've had plenty to compare it with!
From Rotorua, we then headed north into the Coromandel and to the famous hot water beach -- where we were able to dig a hole in the sand and sit in hot water (heated from active geothermal underground steam etc.) whilst the cold sea water gradually washed over us. A quite bizarre, but brilliant experience. From there we drove around to Auckland for one night, before meeting up with Sarita, Hamish and their little boy Mason.
We spent a week with them in the Bay of Islands (specifially staying in several places in and around Paihia) - during the week we visited Cape Reinga, the northern most point of NZ where the Tasman Sea and the Pacific Ocean meet. We also cruised the Bay of Islands and attempted to swim with dolphins.
Photos to follow soon. Must dash, one minute left but a further update once we reach California.
D&A.
Friday, February 02, 2007
Wellington Rugby 7's
Hi all
We have arrived in Wellington, and are in the middle of attending the Rugby 7's -- as you can see from the photo there's no expense spared on people's costumes and about 90% of the crowd is one sort of get up or another.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/3949498a10.html
Just finished inflating the blow-up sheep, so we're heading off for today's matches now.
We hope to upload a few more photos to Flickr over the next few days so keep your eyes peeled.
Glad to see that England finally beat the Aussies in a cricket match -- can't believed they waited until we'd left Oz to do it though.
Hope full England rugby team do well today against Scotland. 7's team was finally knocked out last night after some good early performances.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
NZ Update
So the big news is that having avoided lethal bites from the many and varied poisonous snakes / spiders / jellyfish / scorpions etc around Australia and Asia, I have been attacked by one of the only dangerous creatures in New Zealand. Yes - I was stung on the face by a bumble bee who flew in through the window of our camper van as we were driving away from the Franz Josef Glacier. Luckily, we did have the anti-venom required (in the form of Wasp-eze) in order to counteract the symptoms, so we could wend our merry way up to Hanmer Springs where we stayed for a night and went to the thermal springs there. They were very relaxing although the sulphur baths left a less than delightful whiff in our swimwear.
I should back-up a bit though as we have had a fab time pootling around in our camper van. Milford and Doubtful Sounds were amazing if very wet (average of 7-9 metres of rainfall a year) and we saw one incredible waterfall after another interspersed with dolphins and seals and all sorts of dramatic views and scenery. We also went through some caves one day to go find glow worms which lead to this little rhyme being discovered:
I wish I were a glow worm
And then I'd never be glum
'Cos how can you be grumpy
When a light shines out your bum!
From the glow worms we went for an explore around Queenstown for a night - went up the gondolar and luged part of the way down followed by jet-boating the next day which was wicked ... 360 degree turns in a canyon on only 10cm of water. We then headed to Lake Wanaka where we did a whole load of walking (tramping to use the NZ terminology) up and down some hills / mountains and had a swim in the Lake. Next stop was Franz Josef where we headed over to the Terminal Face of the Fox Glacier when we arrived and the next day did a guided walk up over and into the Franz Josef Glacier. It was fab if not slightly nerve racking at times leaping over in crevices with only your crampons to stop you slipping.
We are now in Kaikoura and off to do some whale watching in a couple of hours. We then have a couple of days in Christchurch before we leave our van behind and head off to Wellington to see Sarita & Hamish and spend some time in the North Island. We'll add a load more photos onto the site when we get there.
Have a good week!!! (and those in Prague ... enjoy / good luck with the massive snow!!)
I should back-up a bit though as we have had a fab time pootling around in our camper van. Milford and Doubtful Sounds were amazing if very wet (average of 7-9 metres of rainfall a year) and we saw one incredible waterfall after another interspersed with dolphins and seals and all sorts of dramatic views and scenery. We also went through some caves one day to go find glow worms which lead to this little rhyme being discovered:
I wish I were a glow worm
And then I'd never be glum
'Cos how can you be grumpy
When a light shines out your bum!
From the glow worms we went for an explore around Queenstown for a night - went up the gondolar and luged part of the way down followed by jet-boating the next day which was wicked ... 360 degree turns in a canyon on only 10cm of water. We then headed to Lake Wanaka where we did a whole load of walking (tramping to use the NZ terminology) up and down some hills / mountains and had a swim in the Lake. Next stop was Franz Josef where we headed over to the Terminal Face of the Fox Glacier when we arrived and the next day did a guided walk up over and into the Franz Josef Glacier. It was fab if not slightly nerve racking at times leaping over in crevices with only your crampons to stop you slipping.
We are now in Kaikoura and off to do some whale watching in a couple of hours. We then have a couple of days in Christchurch before we leave our van behind and head off to Wellington to see Sarita & Hamish and spend some time in the North Island. We'll add a load more photos onto the site when we get there.
Have a good week!!! (and those in Prague ... enjoy / good luck with the massive snow!!)
Friday, January 19, 2007
The land of the long white cloud!
Hi all,
We have arrived in sunny (!) New Zealand, and are being wowed by increasingly beautiful vistas - there seems to be a better one around every corner.
We arrived on Wednesday afternoon, and were picked up from Christchurch Airport and whisked off for dinner and a comfy bed for the night --- many, many thanks to Tina, Dave, Kim and Alistair for getting us off to such a pleasant start in NZ.
We picked up our camper van on Thursday, and headed south to the lakes in beautiful sunshine. We spent last night at a camp site south of Lake Tekapo, and are heading round towards Doubtful & Milford Sounds today (currently stopped for a break in Queenstown and using the local internet facilities). Stopping at Te Anau for the night.
So far, we are loving NZ and can't wait to see more. Obviously, Anne has also already taken tons of pictures and we hope to post some to Flickr soon.
Must go now ... time for lunch!
We have arrived in sunny (!) New Zealand, and are being wowed by increasingly beautiful vistas - there seems to be a better one around every corner.
We arrived on Wednesday afternoon, and were picked up from Christchurch Airport and whisked off for dinner and a comfy bed for the night --- many, many thanks to Tina, Dave, Kim and Alistair for getting us off to such a pleasant start in NZ.
We picked up our camper van on Thursday, and headed south to the lakes in beautiful sunshine. We spent last night at a camp site south of Lake Tekapo, and are heading round towards Doubtful & Milford Sounds today (currently stopped for a break in Queenstown and using the local internet facilities). Stopping at Te Anau for the night.
So far, we are loving NZ and can't wait to see more. Obviously, Anne has also already taken tons of pictures and we hope to post some to Flickr soon.
Must go now ... time for lunch!
Sunday, January 14, 2007
You should see the size of the one that got away
Arch and I had a very successful fishing expedition last week --- excluding the first hour and a half, where we caught some branches, a piece of old rope and another fisherman!
We both caught a flathead - mine was about 12-13 inches, so we threw him back; but Arch caught a 16 incher and hooked him right through the gill so he had to come out.
As you can probably guess (and see from the photos) we hadn't actually planned on the eventuality of actually catching something! Consequently Arch was very unprepared for his first exercise in gutting a fish and needed me to help him out. He did have to carry the little fella home under his arm though.
Anne was our plucky camerawoman -- in between hysterical giggling at our general ineptitude.
We both caught a flathead - mine was about 12-13 inches, so we threw him back; but Arch caught a 16 incher and hooked him right through the gill so he had to come out.
As you can probably guess (and see from the photos) we hadn't actually planned on the eventuality of actually catching something! Consequently Arch was very unprepared for his first exercise in gutting a fish and needed me to help him out. He did have to carry the little fella home under his arm though.
Anne was our plucky camerawoman -- in between hysterical giggling at our general ineptitude.
Friday, January 12, 2007
Singapore Zoo
Hello all, we have added a heap of photos from our day out at Singapore Zoo to Flickr. Click the picture to see the set.
Goto http://www.flickr.com/photos/domfells/sets/ for all of our photos on Flickr.
Off to the Hunter Valley this evening for the weekend --- will report back on wine tasting next week!
Friday, January 05, 2007
Happy New Year!
Hi all
Happy New Year from sunny Sydney. We arrived from Melbourne on 29th December and are staying with Adam & Lizzie until 17th Jan, when we head off to Christchurch in NZ.
We had a fantastic New Year - starting with a water taxi from Manly across Sydney Harbour to Circular Quay in the early evening. We then spent the evening at Lenin Bar at the quay with more than a few drinks and fantastic views of the fireworks and Harbour Bridge (thanks and kudos to our hosts for organising it all). Finishing the evening with very wobbly legs and another water taxi back from the Opera House to Manly.
Lizzie & Adam have a fab house in Balgowlah nr Manly - and have been graciously entertaining us with fishing (I caught a small fish, and what appeared to be a big pair of pants!), cricket (terrible performance from England - great performance from the Barmy Army), picnic'ing, bar-b-q'ing, and seeing the northern beaches.
We have also spent some time being proper tourists in the city - taking pictures of the Harbour Bridge and Opera House.
In the next few days we plan to do more fishing (well me, Arch and Adam anyway), go to more beaches (including Coogee and Bondi), visit the Blue Mountains and/or the Hunter Valley, and we may even go to the 20/20 cricket match next week (if we can stand the pain!).
Once again, best wishes for a very Happy New Year from both of us.
We will post more soon - don't forget to keep an eye on our Flickr photo gallery for new additions too (http://www.flickr.com/photos/domfells/sets/)
Happy New Year from sunny Sydney. We arrived from Melbourne on 29th December and are staying with Adam & Lizzie until 17th Jan, when we head off to Christchurch in NZ.
We had a fantastic New Year - starting with a water taxi from Manly across Sydney Harbour to Circular Quay in the early evening. We then spent the evening at Lenin Bar at the quay with more than a few drinks and fantastic views of the fireworks and Harbour Bridge (thanks and kudos to our hosts for organising it all). Finishing the evening with very wobbly legs and another water taxi back from the Opera House to Manly.
Lizzie & Adam have a fab house in Balgowlah nr Manly - and have been graciously entertaining us with fishing (I caught a small fish, and what appeared to be a big pair of pants!), cricket (terrible performance from England - great performance from the Barmy Army), picnic'ing, bar-b-q'ing, and seeing the northern beaches.
We have also spent some time being proper tourists in the city - taking pictures of the Harbour Bridge and Opera House.
In the next few days we plan to do more fishing (well me, Arch and Adam anyway), go to more beaches (including Coogee and Bondi), visit the Blue Mountains and/or the Hunter Valley, and we may even go to the 20/20 cricket match next week (if we can stand the pain!).
Once again, best wishes for a very Happy New Year from both of us.
We will post more soon - don't forget to keep an eye on our Flickr photo gallery for new additions too (http://www.flickr.com/photos/domfells/sets/)
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