Sunday, April 23, 2006

More of Ireland

Blarney Castle, Cork, Ireland

http://www.blarneycastle.ie/

Kissing the Blarney Stone at the top of the castle

O'Connors Pub in Kilarney, Ireland

The 4 of us on a cliff on the coast of Kerry


The Skelligs Region, off the coast of the Kerry, Ireland
Ancient monastries where monks lived in rock caves.
http://www.moorings.ie/skelligs.htm

Easter in Ireland


Our first Irish Pub

Along the way in the mountains from Kilarney to Waterville, Easter Saturday

Another view along the way

Corey eating breakfast on Easter Morning

Full Irish Breakfast on Easter morning at our B&B on the Coast. We stayed at The Old Cable House B&B in Waterville, Ireland.
www.oldcablehouse.com

The beach in Waterville

View over the bay near Waterville.

More photos coming soon...

Friday, April 21, 2006

In the know...

Just so you know, we now have a home phone connected and Corey has a new mobile number.
So if you want these numbers, please email us.

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Belgium

On the 1st and 2nd of April Simone and Justin kindly allowed us to visit the lovely country of Belgium with them.
Corey and I caught the £1 bus (bargain) from London to Wokingham on the Friday night – just making it in time, no thanks to the silly “minor delays on the circle tube line”.

Then the next morning we all jumped in the car and drove to Belgium. That’s right, we drove. We took the car over on the Eurotunnel. Which is a train that goes through the tunnel under the channel between England and France. So technically we visited France and Beglium (we stopped at the petrol station in France).

The Eurotunnel is fantastic. Its cheap and easy, it only took 30 mins from one side to the other. You don’t really feel as if you have left England because theres no need to get out of the car. Its weird being in the car on a train moving fast in a deep tunnel under the sea. It was fun!

We then drove to the city of Gent in Belgium where we stayed the evening.
Gent is a lovely little town with canals and a cathedral (with a great collection of artwork) and a lovely square where we had lunch ... belgian waffles covered in chocolate, cream and icecream!



We stayed there over night in a hotel where we had a delicious continental breakfast in the morning before heading off for home, with a detour through Bruges.


This is the place that dreams are made of ... pretty much every second shop is a chocolate shop!



After here we drove back home to London, England.

Friday, April 14, 2006

Aussie Rules in the UK

Last weekend a few of the West London Wild Cats crew travelled to Reading to help out the Atlanta Kookaburras as they were a bit short. When we arrived, we found out we had enough for our own team!
I hadn't played footy for ages and it was so great to have a kick again! It was such a fun day. We played 3 games against different teams - Reading, Atlanta and Denmark.
In the end, the London boys cleaned up! We won all our games and even got medals and a cup!
Not bad for just filling in!
Afterwards, we all headed back to the Walky for a couple of pints. It was like back at home!
Needless to say that I was so sore the next few days! I only started to walk properly again on the tuesday after!
Keep up to date West London Wildcats at www.wildcatsfc.com


Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Surfing UK

This is me testing out my surfing equipment! I miss surfing so much! We're planning a trip to either Cornwall or France to have a surf!
Just to let you know, that isn't a spare tyre I've got there! Its the 2 layers of wetsuit I've got underneath that makes me look fat! I haven't put on that much weight!

Tahnee's Birthday

I went out one night with all the guys from work for Tahnee's birthday! Tahnee is one of my work mates at O'Neill. She's from Cronulla in NSW.It was a great night and the dancing was at an elite level.In other photos you'll see some more of my good mates including Nanna Mags, Crazy Joe, our manager Andy Pandy & some of Joe's crazy mates! Go team!