Goodbye Australia (for now)

All my bags are pack, i'm ready to go...I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again!

Almost 15 months to the day, it is time to leave this amazing country and head back to the UK. Fear not though as the blog will continue.  Although under a new name and in a new place. 

Looking back over the last 15 months it is hard to sum it all up, but I have had the time of my life here, it's been unreal.  I have met some fantastic people and made some fantastic friends, and I am truly gutted to be leaving them all, but trips to the UK are already planned for some of them so I am sure I will be seeing them soon.  And I do promise to come back to Australia one day soon, and do everything that I have not got round too on this trip.  A highlight of the last 15 months would have to be swimming in the great barrier reef or my trip to New Zealand, both were fantastic.  There are so many more things I wanted to do but just haven't had the chance too, but I will be back. 

I part of me actually does feel ready to go now, there will always be many reasons to stay, but if you do, you will never know what could have happened if you had left!  This is kinda how I am now looking at going to London, if I had stayed in Australia for another 2-3 years, or longer, I probably would have never moved to London, but this has given me that opportunity, and it's time to try it out.  I have always believed that everything happens for a reason, and that what's for you, won't go by you!

I am not going to put many pics up in this post, just the one pretty one of the bridge.  I will create a video montage over the next couple of weeks and will put it up on here as my final post for Australia.

I will miss Australia, and all my friends in it, old and new! I can't wait to come back here and I can't wait to see you all again.

It's been epic!

See you later Australia!

My Last week

The last week here in sydney has been a bit full on with moving out the flat, staying with friends, leaving dinners and drinks, so I have not had the chance to post on here.  This is going to be a bit of a hurried post, as I do have a flight to catch this afternoon.

Last weekend was spent moving out the flat in bondi.  I moved in with Sabrina and Nick for a 6 days, they stay in Leichhardt, so it was a bit of a challenge moving my bags from Bondi on public transport, but we got there in the end.  They were great to live with and sabrina made us an awesome dinner on my first night there.  The next day I went back to Bondi for the day, did a bit of cleaning in the flat and then handed the keys over to the new tenants.  I can't say I was sad to be leaving that flat, but I will miss living in bondi, the social life, the beach and the local eye candy make it an awesome place to live.  And I also went a year there without having to appear on an episode of Bondi Rescue.

My last week was spent seeing people and just generally getting organised for going home.  I also went out for brazilian BBQ with chris and Greig, where we all nearly killed ourselves by eating too much meat, they just keep coming to your table with more meet, and I am talking every kind of meet you can imagine.  It was amazing though.

I also had a final trip to Manly to see my cousin Rachel.  We went for some food to help her recover from her hangover, and then headed to her place of work so I could try out a couple of the fancy beers they have there.   I then enjoyed one of Sydneys best sunsets on the ferry ride home.

Friday was mainly spend recovering from the meat hangover I was suffering from the night before and then I met up with Jo, and we went to see Stephen K Amos in the Sydney comedy festival.  He was great, one of the best stand ups I have seen, he is a lot cruder than he appears on TV, and was great at interacting with the crowd.

On saturday I said goodbye and thank you to Sabrina and Nick and moved in with chris and lisa.  Then on saturday night, I had my leaving drinks at the Opera bar.  I was truly touched by the amount of people that turned up, and have to say it was a fantastic night.  The Karaoke at the end of the night being the highlight.

Then on sunday, recovery was definetly needed and Chris and I headed out for a late breakfast and then took a walk down the coast to watch the surfers.  We then decided to go to bowls, I have never played lawn bowls before, but it was really good fun.  Back home I know bowls is seen as a bit of a fuddy duddy sport for old people, but in Australia it is more of a trendy game to play.  It was very relaxed and there was live music playing while we were playing bowls in the sun with a beer.  It was a great way to relax on a sunday afternoon.  My last day here was spend saying the final goodbyes and getting the final things ready to come home. Not too exciting but nice none the less.