Early February....

As our time grew to a close in Sorrento we realised what amazing friends we had made in the town. Especially our lovely work-mates in Stringers! We had a lovely leaving do-thrown for us by our bosses of Stringers (We'd quit the Koonya in Jan when we couldn't cope with the double shifts anymore!)

Our leaving meal in the Continental Hotel, Sorrento

We had soooo much to sort out with the car before we left. We had the arduous task of getting a road-worthy certificate....we needed 2 new tyres, a new windscreen, a new side-mirror and ball joints (we don't know what these are either!) and various other little jobs. Then we needed to get it transferred from Andrew's name into our names, and get a rego (which is the Aussie MOT and Tax and Insurance all in one!) Needless to say its been crazy trying to get this done but a few grand later we're all set and have shiny new Victoria plates to show for our toil! Carla looked completely blank when at the DVLA she was handed a screwdriver and had to remove our NSW plates...

so...Bex got on the case!

Before we left our gorgeous friends Jessy and Camille took us out for an amazing meal of tapas in Dromana and then for a spin up Arthur's seat, a winding road up to the highest point on the Mornington peninsula. Que a whole lot of leather!

Bex's turn to don the leather!

and then over to Carla! (Jessy's on the right!)

That's all for Sorrento...we sailed (well caught the ferry) away the next morning!!


B and C xxx

January in Sorrento!

No we've not forgotten to include our NYE exploits on here! They weren't that exciting if we're honest! We had two back-to-back 18-hour shifts to do so we weren't feeling particularly festive! Though Carla did get in trouble for doing a tequilla shot in work! At the stroke of midnight I believe we were pulling pints! They don't sing Auld Lang Syne here so we got some odd looks when we joined arms to dance after we were done with our pint-pulling!! :P Didn't get off til about 2.30am and we were back in at 8am!

Enough whining-Happy New Year from the both of us!!!

 We pretty much worked the entirety of January but did manage to steal a day away to watch the Australian Open Tennis Championship! We met Mrs Williams (Venus and Serena's mummy) and watched Venus, Andy Roddick and Justine Hennin all win their second round matches! It was a lovely sunny day and our seats in the Rod Laver were melting in the afternoon sun!!

Queuing for the tennis!

Here's a pic of Andy Roddick and Igor Kunitsyn!

As sad as this is that's probably all the info needed for January!


B & C xx

Christmas and the Boxing Day Test

Forget today's date...here is our much awaited blog post! We've been busy girls!!

Xmas Morning in our Santa Hats!!

Christmas was spent with the lovely Bailey Family in Melbourne. We had a nice day of food (not your average British Christmas of turkey and the trimmings! The Aussies have a more weather appropriate- baring in mind its summer- approach to Christmas with lots of salads, meats etc, etc) Very enjoyable none-the-less! :)

Christmas food!

We opened Christmas pressies from our parents that had made the journey with us (and were thin on wrapping paper at this point!!). We had some pressies from the Baileys which was lovely including a lovely Myer's gift card! :)

We watched films etc with everyone and had a few drinkies which made for a merry day!!

The real fun was to be had on Boxing Day!!!

We got up, made sarnies and headed down to the mighty MCG to watch the 4th Ashes Test (Cricket-Australia Vs England for all you non-sports fans!)

Us as the MCG before play! (taken by a man from Cardiff!!)

It was such a brilliant day! We haven't got our Aus Vs Eng Tee shirts on here and you can't see our Welsh flag so you'll just have to imagine how patriotic we were!! We went with Arthur and Jessy and their daughter Nicole and her boyf came along too!

We were sat in the 'dry area' so no booze in the stands but we managed a cheeky cider and some chips so were very happy indeed!!

As you all know, we thrashed the Aussies it was the lowest total Australia has made against England in 54 Tests between the two countries at the MCG! So we witnessed history in the making! :) Poor Nicole and Boyf Taz went home shortly after lunch! Didn't really enjoy their first ashes test as much as we did!! :P

That's all for now!


B and C x

Sorrento life!!

Hello all!

Again we must apologise for our lack of posting! We have had good reason though, we've been very busy!! We now have a couple of jobs in Sorrento, Victoria. We work in a lovely place called Stringer's as waitresses and a bar called The Koonya as bar ladies! :) Its all good fun! Its like we've made a little life for ourselves in Sorrento! The people are so nice and we have heaps (aussie sic) of friends here! Here is a pic of Stringers!

Stringer's stores! A bottle-shop/supermarket/cafe!

This is our local beach the Sorrento Back Beach on a nice day!

It hammered down with rain about 2mins after this pic was taken!!

 

 

Then we have had a couple of trips to Chadstone! This is the biggest mega-mall around! We were told it was too big to be signposted anywhere!! :) We loved this designated 'man' area! See below!

Where hubbies and boyfs can be safely deposited when shopping!!

We are now living with a guy we work with - Anthony - in a house 15 mins walk from work!

We have marked our territory! Nice to have a sofa and TV to veg out in front of too!

There is only one real club in Sorrento, the infamous Conti Hotel! Here's a pic of us with a workmate and a random out there!

See...we do have a life out of work! :)

That's all for this one! Next.... Christmas....in summer! xxx

Pictures at last!!

Hey all! Here follows (hopefully) some pictures of the trip so far!

The last night we were a trio...sob!

Cheers from Canberra!

 Some pictures of Brucie the Ford Falcon Stationwagon we now call home!

The lovely Andrew showcasing Brucie at Kangaroo Valley!

Our bed-chamber/boot/larder! Note the crisps!

Rest-stop water supply! No drinking here!!

 

 

Here's a wombat and her baby! Awwwww!

Here's a lovely picture of the sun setting over the sea at Wilson's Promontory, Victoria. Beautiful place!

So while we are now settled in Sorrento, we have no pics to upload at the moment! Sure we can get some up soon! Spent a lovely couple of days in Melbourne with Jessy and Arthur, some lovely Aussies Carla met on her last travels down under! The weathers been glorious and disgusting in a matter of hours but have had a great time, cakes at St Kilda's and lots of window shopping!  Headed back to Sorrento tomorrow so stay tuned and we'll get some pics of our new 'home' up!!
Love B & C xxx

To the left you can see the rain falling earlier today! The first official day of summer would you believe! Feels like we're back in Wales!!



To the right you can see two lovely cakes that caught our eye as we were browsing in St Kilda! Yum yum!

Sorrento!

Well, we had a bit of a change of plans (a heart attack more like) this week!
Having planned to go over to Tazzy for the weeks leading up to Christmas before the festivities with the lovely Bailey Family, we had a bit of a shock when we learned it was $450 each way on the ferry! Damn summer prices! We had a bit of a think about what we should do, but having been told there was work on the Mornington Peninsula we headed on down here, armed with our CVs looking for a bit of summer work!

The area is really gorgeous, we have bought a whopping 6-man tent and now have heaps of room to move! The car has become a rather extravagant larder! Decided to set-up camp in Sorrento, a seaside resort for Melbourne's elite holiday makers! The houses here are insane $9million beach houses all about! We're camped about 10m from the seafront, and paying no more than $10 a night for the priviliage! Hot showers/free laundry and plug points! Its heaven...apart from a few hairy stormy nights this week we're loving our new home!

Great news, we have managed to get jobs! We now are cafe-waitresses/bottle shop attendees in a posh little store with seaviews! Its very plush, a box of mince pies costs $25!!!! Everyone we work with are really friendly and lovely and we had a great first shift on Saturday! :) Plus minimum wage here is over $15 which means we're getting paid about 10 pounds an hour before tax! So we can start to save for our future adventures!

Thats all folks! Tried to upload pics but no joy....defs next time!
Ciao!
B and C

Wilson's Promontory and the Mornington Peninsula

Hey all!
Hope all is well!
We've had a lovely few days! Spent the weekend at Wilson's Promontory which is the most southerly point on mainland Australia! Saw Emus, another snake, wombat and so many gorgeous birds! Cheeky rosellas (red and blue and green parrots) that sat on the arms of our chairs waiting for crumbs!! We climbed Mount Oberon which had amazing views of the whole peninsula from the top. Took photos but alas again we can't upload them in the time we have on the PC! We promise we will put some up soon!!

We had planned to pop over to Tazmania before christmas for a few weeks but the ferry is super expensive $450 until mid-Jan so our plans are on hold until then. We have travelled to the Mornington Peninsula and are sat in Mornington Library debating about looking for jobs/carrying on travelling for a bit longer! We'll keep you updated on this!

Carla is froffing at the bit about the upcoming ashes! Looks like we'll give the aussies a good thrashing! :P (Sorry Arthur and Jessy!!!)

Bye for now!
Love,
B and C
xxxxxxx