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Edinburgh journal: The 80's Party

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:30:29 GMT

Well the deal wasn't quite signed sealed and delivered - but that didn't stop us from celebrating the sale of XXXXXXXX well I can't really put any details online until it's kosher but you know what I mean and who I'm talking about. It's all a bit hush hush.....I'm trying to sound 80's.....

Jeff bought an 80's brick mobile phone from Ebay - as you can see fom the photo's he conducted several important deals that night - the most important buying 50 tonnes of lanb from Australia! I had to take some calls and answered "Mr Jeff Shillito's phone - no I'm afraid he's not available at the ...

Blairgowrie journal: Saturday Night Dinner Party

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:36:45 GMT

Hello all - took some pics over the weekend when Jeff and I went to Stay with Helen and Stewart. I didn't realise it had been so long since I had been up there - I think it was before easter!

Check out these photo's - Helen is blurred in most of them because she was continually running around getting dinner organised!! I managed to get one shot when I asked her to sit still!!! It was a lovely dinner with antipasto to start with - then beautiful steak pie (excellent pastry arranged by Stewart) followed by Blairgowrie rasberries and strawberries (which they know I LOVE so much!)

Gord ...

Edinburgh journal: Camping and other stuff...

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:03:30 GMT

Thought I would write ANOTHER Blog about camping and stuff we have been doing over the last couple of weeks...

COLDINGHAM

The first camping trip of the scottish summer season was down to Coldingham - which is about one hours drive south of Edinburgh. We had been down the beach for a BBQ the weekend previously and thought it was such a pretty spot that we should go and camp there. It looked like what I imagined a typical british seaside town would be like. A medievil village and loads of country cottages with boathouses lined along the coast. Of course it wasn't hard camping there ...

United Kingdom journal: Camping and stuff

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:32:56 GMT

Went camping down the coast of edinburgh and over to the west coast of scotland. It was great.

Loch Ness journal: Easter road trip to Loch Ness

Mon, 05 May 2008 02:47:50 GMT

Just thought I'd update you on stuff I've been doing! Thought I would put some photo’s together of the Easter Road trip Jeff and I did and also just some things we have been doing on weekends like driving up to St Andrews and visiting Roslyn Chapel (where The Da Vinci Code was filmed!) Also went through Edinburgh Castle for the first time - and I have been here for over a year!

Easter Road TripWe Started driving north and planned to visit Loch Ness - so we drove up through Fort William and then up through the Highlands which were amazing - just bald mountains covered ...

United Kingdom journal: Easter Road trip to Loch Ness

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:15:46 GMT

Jeff and I went on a road trip around scotland over easter. We went up through fort william and through Loch Ness...

Blairgowrie journal: Visiting the Grandparents!

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:19:27 GMT

Here are some pictures of me Dad and Val visiting Helen and Stewart in Blairgowrie when Dad was here in December. It was so cold when we went up there (it's about an hours drive from Edinburgh but oh so much colder) the entire landscape was white - it wasn't snow it was actually frozen. All the trees and fences and fields were covered in ice....and the river was also frozen!!! Reminded me of the land of Narnia from the lion the witch and the wardrobe...everything is white when they go through the back of the cuboard!!

After I went skiing in France I jumped on a bus and went to visit my ...

United Kingdom journal: Visiting the Grandparents!

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:07:42 GMT

Went up to Blairgowrie to visit Helen and Stewart after they got back from Australia.

Les Gets journal: Lets Gets Skiing in the French Alps!!

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:30:27 GMT

I have just had the best couple of days skiing in the French Alps at a resort called Les gets about one hours drive from Geneva (Switzerland) and absolutely beautiful!! It's the first time I have skiied in Europe and I was blown away by the ENORMITY of the Alps they are huge!!! Too big to describe and about 500 times bigger than any Australian ski resort - as we flew into Geneva I took some photo's from the plane of the tops of the mountains poking out of the top of the clouds and this was at about 10,000 meters!!!!aug

Jeff and I arrived on Tuesday afternoon and met Jade and Vaugny at ...

France journal: French Alps

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:08:47 GMT

Les Gets

Dublin journal: Tree days in Dublin!

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:59:30 GMT

Dublin was grand! I met Jade at the Dublin airport she flew in from London and I flew in from Edinburgh and we caught a local bus into town. It’s not as ‘old worlde’ as Edinburgh but it still has it’s own charm and I love the Irish people!

We stayed in an area called Temple Bar which is the oldest part of town with cobbled streets and hundreds of bars! It’s very touristy but lots of atmosphere and buskers and music playing in the pubs. We found it really hard to find any accommodation for the Saturday night and were lucky to find a room in a good hostel called Oliver St John Gogarty.

Ireland journal: Tree days in Dublin!

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:42:46 GMT

Marrakech journal: Trains Planes and Petite Taxi's to Morrocco!

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:42:50 GMT

Day 1

Well after catching a flight down from Edinburgh to London on Tuesday 2 October I caught the stanstead express train into London and then the tube into the city. Jade told me to get off at Tottenham Court Road underground station, but I accidentally got off one stop early and got lost!

Lost in London at about 7.30pm and raining – what’s a girl to do? Find a pub of course and wait for Jade to rescue me!! She found me about 8pm and we walked back to her apartment which is near Oxford Street (famous shopping strip in London). But never got the time to check it out as we were up ...

Morocco journal: Marrakech, Agadir and Morrocco!

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:40:20 GMT

Well Morrocco was certainly a lot different to what I was expecting....although several people had tried to warn me (including mum and dad) I didn't listen. I thought it was the warmest place to holiday and I had my mind set on sunbaking by the pool! Well to be fair there was a pool!

Paris journal: Parfait Paris

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 06:26:42 GMT

Well - just spent 2 days in Paris and managed to fit quite a lot of sightseeing in. I got a really cheap flight with Ryan Air (our competitor) for 1 pence! (plus taxes)But didn’t realise that both the airport in Scotland and in Paris were in the middle of nowhere so I spent hours and hours travelling and had to get up at 2.30am to get my flight over there…but it meant I arrived in the morning and had the whole day in Paris.

So I met up with Ellen, and stayed with her and boyfriend Micka in a suburb called Le Kremilin-bicetre just on the outskirts. We went to Sacre Coeur first which was ...

France journal: Parfait Paris

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:09:26 GMT

Edinburgh journal: Russell's Adventures...

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:43:47 GMT

This story is for Shelle who sent me a new pet...Russell. He came from far away shores in Melbourne and travelled all the way to Edinburgh Scotland UK.

He has settled into his new home more than comfortably...he has a bit of attitude the same as any naughty cat as you can see from the following photo's! He is very easy to look after however and came aready house trained, doesn't eat much and is very cuddly!

I love him very much and he sleeps with me every night and even managed to scratch me on the first night he was here - probably just separation anxiety from Australia but now he ...

United Kingdom journal: Russell

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:38:48 GMT

Russell's adventures at Dousglas Crescent....

Edinburgh journal: Happy Birthday To Me....

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:01:52 GMT

Well it’s official I’m 31 years old…..oh my GOD!! It’s not that bad really – pretty happy with being overseas and feeling content with my life so far!

My birthday celebrations started pretty well in advance. I think it was a food birthday on Sunday Shaan made pancakes which were great. We went out on Monday night – had some Moet at home before we went out and some ordeves (spell?) dips and cabbana classy! We went out to a couple of clubs in the city and had a bit of a drunken night...have now decided to detox for 6 weeks at least! Decided to start my 31st year with a healthy focus and ...

United Kingdom journal: Happy Birthday to me...

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:59:00 GMT

Thanks for all my pressies....can't believe I'm now 31 yeasr old!!!

Edinburgh journal: Our new apartment

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:24:14 GMT

Hello - finally here are some photo's of our new apartment in Edinburgh. It's so nice to have a permanent address after travelling around and lugging a massive suitcase around for the past couple of months. It was strange to unpack!

It is in the best position - Haymarket is a big junction with a train station about 10 mins walk to the heart of the city and it's also where the airport bus departs from. So it's about 5 - 10 min walk to the bus in the morning and then takes 20 mins to get to the airport. It leaves early enough 4.30am to make the first flight 5:15am report time!!! I actually ...

United Kingdom journal: Our new apartment

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:24:14 GMT

Finally here are some pictures of our new house...

Edinburgh journal: Sunday afternoon in Edinburgh

Sun, 20 May 2007 10:12:22 GMT

Well had a nice walk today through Edinburgh and around the castle - it's so amazing and imposing. Can imagine people from the 1700 - 1800 walking around through the old cobbled streets etc

Went into the national gallery and looked at some monet and van gogh - it was free entry which is great get to feel cultured even when broke!!

Not much else has been happening - we have found our new house which is on Douglas cresent. Shaan and I went for a walk around the Haymarket area (which is the suburb) and we have our own private gardens opposite the apartment (feels like the secret ...

United Kingdom journal: Sunday afternoon in Edinburgh

Sun, 20 May 2007 09:55:27 GMT

Had a lovely sunny sunday afternoon walk through edinburgh today...

London journal: Arriving in London

Wed, 02 May 2007 10:43:34 GMT

Hi Guys,

Haven't had much time to update because of training and time available on computers....but here are some photo's I took when I was exploring London. I hadn't met anyone when I took these so I jumped on a train from Luton which is north of London and cost me about £15 pounds return which I thought was pretty expensive but then EVERYTHING is expensive in London! So i caught a train into Kings Cross and changed lines to Piccadilly then got off at Leicester square (which I was pronouncing lichester not lester...) anyway walked around and stumbled on Trafalgar square which is ...

London journal: Finished at Last!

Wed, 02 May 2007 10:41:35 GMT

Here are some photo's of us during our training...although it doesn't look like we did much work we did study (occasionally) but we also enjoyed ourselves....

United Kingdom journal: Finished!

Wed, 02 May 2007 10:39:17 GMT

Finished at last and now I have my wings!!

London journal: On the boat again

Wed, 02 May 2007 10:36:48 GMT

May be my last time in London for awhile...

Went into London to visit Jade and we first went to Notting Hill where that movie was made and she showed me the Portobello Street Markets which are amazing and I have never seen so many stalls and clothes and vintage shops just full of clothes of shoes and everything - I was just walking through with my mouth open and forgot to take and photo's. I went into one vintage shop and it had the walls lined with glass cases that stretched up to the ceiling and probably about 20 shelves top to bottm about 10 meters long - filled with shoes, Prada ...

London journal: Nearly finished....

Wed, 02 May 2007 10:28:22 GMT

Well I have three days left of training in London (and i really should be studying now) but thought I'd send another update and some more photo's! I only have my first aid exams to go - these are pass and fail and becasue it's aviation first aid it's harder than the normal course - becasue we are up in the air and we are it in the event of an emergency basically! So we are learning how to deliver babies etc (gross don't think i ever want to have one after seeing video's about it) but it's interesting at the same time.

So the three of us are going up to Edinburgh next Sunday to check out ...

United Kingdom journal: Nearly finished.....

Wed, 02 May 2007 10:27:06 GMT

Hi guys,

Sorry I have been slack with updates but have been busy studying....

United Kingdom journal: On the boat again...

Wed, 02 May 2007 07:34:39 GMT

May be my last time in London for awhile...

Edinburgh journal: Enchanting Edinburgh

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:00:26 GMT

So I have finally arrived in Edinburgh and it took my breath away when I first arrived by bus from the airport with Shaan - just seeing this castle come out of nowhere it's practically in the middle of the city and enormous! It's so King Arthur I love it!

Staying with the lovely Val who has put the three of us up for a couple of nights so that we can explore the city and also look for some accommodation - although today we went looking and thought we had some houses lined up but they fell through for some reason or other so I was a bit disheartened. But we have a few more to look at ...

United Kingdom journal: Enchanting Edinburgh

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:56:57 GMT

Edinbur

gh at last and it's even more beautiful than I could imagine..

United Kingdom journal: Arriving in London

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 05:34:25 GMT

Hi Guys,

Haven't had much time to update becasue of training and time available on computers....but here are some photo's I took when I was exploring London.