Category: Oz Odyssey – Australia, Fiji,Hawaii 2016
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Day out to Kailua
Woke up to showers today which didn’t bode well for my planned excursion to Kailua. Still, we’re British and a bit of rain doesn’t stop play. The drizzle increased once we were on the bus and the mountains in the heart of the island were hardly visible. However, once we arrived in Kailua the rain…
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Honolulu continued
Found the PMA difficult to come by this morning when woken at 6 am by over excited American whooping noises. I don’t know whether it was “Woohoo! I’ve been up all night and I’m such a bad ass!”or “woohoo! I’m at boot camp doing my workout!” Either way I’m not interested and shut up. Why…
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Honolulu Blues
Time for the bad pennies to move on again. Never nice leaving, but made worse for me as I picked up some virus and felt very unwell indeed. Still, we had a flight to Honolulu to catch so after another emotional parting from the Ozlings, Saturday saw us at Brisbane airport for the fifth time.…
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Bad pennies/boomerangs
Kept waking up throughout the night. Heard the wind howling but didn’t hear rain. Got up at 5am to a text message from the airport saying high tides will cause the roads to be very flooded at 4am and get as close as possible to the airport. Shit! Taxi driver was supposed to pick us…
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We came, we saw, we’ll leave (hopefully)
Arrived in Fiji last night to a tropical storm. Rained all night. Stayed near the airport and in the morning we went over to the airport to collect our hire car and drive to our hotel, the Bedarra Beach near Sigoktga. The rain continued to pour down and I began to get very concerned re…
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Sydney (day 2)
Needed to get our washing done today. The hotel has a laundry room but the tumble dryer wasn’t very good so it was lunchtime before we got out and about. Shopping was on the agenda but it was such a beautiful day, we played truant and went to the beach instead. Saturday is a bit…
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Sydney (day 1)
It’s really nice being back in Sydney. It hasn’t lost its laid back yet major city feel. This time, because we haven’t come straight here from manic Bangkok, it feels different. Less sleepy. Also, having a more equitable exchange rate helps as it doesn’t seem anywhere near as expensive as last time. we did the…
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Blue Mountains/Wollongong
The sun came out at last, allowing us to see the Blue Mountains in all their glory. We did the scenic drive around the main tourist spots and very pretty it was too. I’m so glad we got a chance to see the mountains at their best. Our next stop was Wollongong, a large town…
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We started this walk from West street in Wentworth Falls (it’s a town as well as a waterfall). We dithered for ages as the track was not obvious. Eventually we discovered it, the entrance and sign covered by undergrowth. Obviously not well used, and judging by the glares from the homeowners across the road, some…
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Blue Mountains
We decided to do the above walk as the views are supposedly some of the best in the Blue Mountains. Woke up to fog. Not just a bit, a real pea-souper. Walking down the road towards the falls, we could have been anywhere. Couldn’t see a thing. By the time we got to the falls,…
Middle-aged flash packers 