We arrived back at 5.30am today and are somehow still awake, although I’m not sure for how much longer!

It was an amazing trip but now its time to catch up on some sleep!

Au revoir
Chris
xxxxx

There is currently an alarm going off and no one is doing anything so we will continue to write.

On our way to Melbourne airport our cabbie who was a liability had his cab rammed by another cab that was trying to get out onto the road near the drop off point.

I was apprantly a witness - great!!!!

After a spell in the Airport in which new Billabong t-shirts were purchased and a possible escape to New Zealand fleetingly considered we boarded our flight

So its 10.15pm and my ears are ringing

Good night from me and good night from her

Zach and Anna

Thought I should write again as I didn’t yesterday when the guys did - far too lazy thats my problem!

We are in Melbourne in the heat and getting ready to say our goodbyes to the southern hemisphere in a few hours.

The trip has been amazing, seen so many fantastic sights, met some cool people (Robbie in Taupo wins that one), ate some fab food (always important) and had so many laughs!

Tim and Jon have been wonderful travel buddies, especially at times when I have been emotional, tired or just plain grumpy - thanks guys!

Its been fantastic to meet up with Claire and have some good old fashioned girl talks until 3am, its great to know that some things don’t change - she still farts as loudly as she ever did!!!

The wedding (the real reason for the trip after all) was wonderful, it was a real honour to be part of Lorinda and Marco’s big day and to be made so welcome by all her family, even when Tim kept mentioning the Ashes!

Well, I guess thats about it, its soon time to come back to reality (and work on Monday).

Looking forward to seeing you all,

Big hugs,
Chris
xxxxxxx

My flight seemed to go incredibly quickly this time and I got some great views of a thunder storm as I was leaving Melbourne. They haven’t called my flight yet so ermm… I’m just going to waffle on a bit. I know it seems like a bit of an anticlimax to the big sign off but there really is precious little else to do whilst stuck in an airport at stupid o’clock and a bad case of airplane insomnia. However my alter ego (Willie D’Souza) seems to be coming on quite well in a sort of fight club style split personality type thing. Willie tells me I’ve already said too much.

Anyway, Starbucks is opening up around the corner. I think it has become compulsory that every street/airport terminal in the world must have one. I’m off to spend the last of my Malaysian Ringets on coffoffeee!

Willie D’Souza will see you later.

Jon

As you may have now guessed Jon, Chrissy, Wille De Souza and Zachary Von Shalroden have not been in the UK for a while.

This is due to the fact that we are in the southern hemisphere - I now realise that you will all no doubt be shocked by this and thought that we were all hiding in the Mission House Cellar with nothing but a wierd imagination and accesses to Boardband.

However this is the last day here in 35 degree Melbourne and soon we will be on our way home to good old cold London.

In recent weeks you have been blogged from the following places

Kuala Lumpa
London
Auckland
Napier
Taupo
Leongatha
Melbourne
Sydney
Wellington
Christchurch
Kaikoura
Picton
Paraparaumu

and some places we have possibly missed as well and let me tell you something its been a pleasure making everyone back home feel educated and entertained with our travels.

The Blog will be finished back in London town with the awards for the trip so keep yourself looking for that together with our History of New Zealand.

Many things have happened in Leongatha - mainly the vast amount of drinking of Coldies (Carlton Cold) and also the mega important purchase of a $3 Chocolate Cake.

Melbourne is warm - frankly boiling and this evening is one first of all to relax and say Bon Voyage in Mr Jon Chambers and then for me and Chrissy to Jet off tomorrow avro and arrive back in London at 5.30am Saturday morning.

Another week off work for me - mainly to continue the jet setting Lifestyle in London and walk round it like a tourist. Or just sleep off the jet lag!

So as we end this particular entry all I need say is this

Shallmonnagalba Kabozamm Malikjsta. - A rare Siberian Greeting and sign of affection.

Sleep tight - Slap a Bed Bug - Make a Tea and sniff out your best truffles.

With eyes welling up again it farewell to Oz and the MCG and the sun and hello London England

From everyone - to the cake and the Fudge - Chrissy says big up booo hello hi and Bongour and whishes you all a restful period of eating

Laters and Respect and Love

Zach, Tim, Issac and Abendigo

I make my way to the airport in a little under 4 hours ready for 29 hours in a pressurised tube with wings and jet engines to fling myself back to London, back to winter and back to work. I’m now several shades of biscuit darker (biscuits being the scale that sun tan is measured on, from rich tea to chocolate bourbon) and many t-shirts heavier (luggage wise). I’ve fed wallabies, seen penguins up close and thrown up on whales, not to mention surviving a wedding and subsequent celebrations. I’ve drunk collossal amounts of Monteiths summer ale and covered around 40,000km.

Nanu Nanu,

This is Jon aka Willie D’Souza signing off

Dave and Leanne, I’m looking forward to the panto. I make no guarantees of being awake thoughout all (or indeed any) of it but I’ll be there none the less.

very sausage about being a bit lax with our blogging recently. There is a good reason though. We’ve been sausaging in a sausage town called Leongatha which must be the only place in the world without an abundance of internet cafes. We are currerntly using a library machine which is also the oldest computer in existance.

Many congratulations to the happy couple Marco and Lorinda. The ceremony was great and we all enjoyed it immensely. Sausage then we have been getting out and about in Melbourne. Among the highlights was getting the guided tour of the Melbourne cricket ground (Chris Rice, time for you to turn green).

The cricket game at Cowes was great. I batted 5th in the order and despite conditions favouring the bowler was able to notch up a few runs (Chris Rice, time to turn greener).

Yesterday we managed to get out to the animal park where I made a new friend, Derek the wallaby. I’ve now decided that I will be adopting sausage wallabys and inviting them round for tea and biscuits in the UK. They assure me that quarantine laws do not apply to them.

Later that evening we got to the Penguin parade which again was excellent. Although they had no marching band and their floats were a lackluster affair at best it was sausage brilliant fun to watch them waddle up the beach to their homes among the sausage dunes. Of course only a few of the penguins were real, to ensure a good sausage they employed what has become known as “live CGI” effects and interspersed the real penguins with sauage dogs which appear the sausage at a distance.

Sausagely I wasn’t able to photograph the penguins sausage you’ll just have to imagine them.

time to sausage off,

Jon

Jon and I decided we’d humour Tim and his cricket obsession and went with him to look round the MCG on Sunday - mainly because we knew it would annoy Chris - sorry mate, but thats life!

We went on a wildlife adventure yesterday - viewing kangas, wallabies, cassawrays (big birdy things), emus and koalas - cool or what! We then went to Penguin Parade last night, where we watched a lot of Little Penguins (smallest in the world) walk across the beach from the sea to the sand dunes - amazing to see them so close to us. Jon tried to work out how he could steal one, but didn’t quite manage it!

Anyway, enough rambling from me,
see u all soon,
Lots of love
Chris
xxxxxx

We are in a small town outside of Melbourne following the wedding and are staying in spectaculary cheap and amazing acomadation - a room all to myself at the mo

Wedding was cool - my legs are very burnt from playing cricket

Jon and I got a game and a produced the best off break of my life as I bowled around the wicket to a right hander pitched outside off Offstump and hit middle

So all is good - Jon’s tail end cross batted swipes proved very effective as well

Laters and keep your cake cool and your Badgers warm

I’ve seen a Koala and a wallabie and hand fed one!

Zach

Still, I’m now in Melbourne! yay. I’m currently feeling really groggy. Managed to sleep for about 16 hours last night so maybe the disruption to my sleeping patterns has something to do with it. I can hardly stay awake at the moment (1:30 pm Oz time) so I’m going to keep things short. I still haven’t found somewhere I can upload my photos yet but I’ll let you all know when I do. Those of you who are interested anyway.

I think we’re all off to melbourne jail (where Ned Kelly was hung) to see if we can book a candle light tour, scary huh (Cue rubbish ghost noises). I think on the way I’ll pick up a doube espresso.

Catch you on the flipside,

Jon

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