Saturday, 21 March 2009

Friday, 20 March 2009

"Guten Morgan, Warum Ist Das Opera House Bitte?"

Now, Australia has its fair share of funny place names, Wooloomaloo, Parramatta and Tumbalong to name but a few. We were a little surprised, however, to discover the sheer number of German sounding towns and cities on our brand new fold-out map of Australia, a great christmas gift from Sam's Dad Pete.

As we attempted to plan our travels across this great land and couldn't find Sydney, Melbourne or even a coastline we began to suspect something was awry.....

Thursday, 19 March 2009

1984 Australia Tourism Ad

Speaking of shrimps and barbies, check out this ad from 1984 starring Paul Hogan - we saw this on a TV show the other night about advertising. Apparently still to this day, its the most successful set of tourism ads ever for the Aussies:

Sydney pics - Part 2 now online


Just click the link to view - Australia - Sydney/City/Beaches - Part 2

Part 3 will be online quicker than you can say "sling another shrimp on the barbie!"

Quick Access to All Photo Galleries


You can now just click here to jump straight to the home page with all the photo galleries posted so far and choose the ones you want to view - Handy eh?!

Blog Makeover!


Well now we have a PC in our room, it means I have unlimited time to tinker pointlessly with stuff online - hence the new look blog! I think its easier to read and loads quicker, but could be wrong - answers on a postcard please (or an email)