well, in byron bay. very pituresque and pleasent. the boys have gone of to find out if they can do a day of water sports or else rich might make his own dogery doo! Guess who is putting us up in sydney?? James Oliver from ascross the road in durham. he just happens to be in sydney for work for a year i think, and the timing is perfect so we are going to stay there a couple of days. I am looking forward to getting a car as it will make travelling so much easier. well, not a lot of news. oh yes, we saw a wale of the coast todat on our walk, and also dolphins so i have seen all the animals i wanted to see here! the dolphins were having such fun playing in the waves. we have finished the first disc of geoff’s digi cam so will try and get them onto cd and send them home for you to look at. geoff’s mum got the other photo’s developed, and she will either send my copy to you or elase you will have to wait until next year to find uot what they are like.

well,off to find the boys,
Love tanya

www.fidius.org/quiz/pirate.php

quite amusing questions.

i am “iron” jack kidd

julio

thanks for the email mama! i hope cleaning my room won’t be too stresfull. do i have a new bed yet?

julio

ahoy! i believe i knew about the sand/planet thing for many years. and in related news: the saying “splice the mainbrace” is a noutical command meaning a tot of rum to all hands.

liv: read you mail and the tale. good stuff, i will get cracking when i have a lesure momant. probably in about 3 days time.

we are in kuta feeling very sunburnt after an ill advised noon beach session. oh well. the day before yesterday we went to a nifty clifftop temple near the bottom most part of bali. we pottered around for a bit accasionaly fending off monkeys who will steal any thing not nailed down. speaking off monkeys: when we were in ubud we went to the monkey forest there, strolled aroung maveling at the wierd humanlikeness off the monkeys. they were quite unafraid and will sit on you and demand food. one enterprising chap sat on my shoulders and searched my hair for ticks and lice, finding none he sttled on consuming my golden locks.he had to be prised of like a limpet!

our days are lesured when not traveling. we go to the beach, read and play cards. we bourt two fresh packs, nothing wrong with mamas but we needed more to play a strange version of Happy that annika knows. this game is interesting as it cannot end. asfar as i can tell it is impossible to finnish the game. we played it for four strait hours when i padanbai andgained no headway. good fun though.
we will probably go to lovina instead of that island place as annika wishes to see the mountains and stuff, and stay at bedegul.

of to see annother temple tonight, one in the middle of the sea!

julio

Apparently, according to a report I read recently, there are as many planets ‘in space’ as there are grains of sand on earth. Consider that next time you’re lolling on the beach.

Hi dod,

THanks very much for the info/tips.
Hopefully our instincts will be working on “the day”.
Buying from a traveller about to leave NZ is what we are hoping to do so we should be able to get a better deal.

Geoff