I've uploaded more photos into the gallery on the forum. For those who have noticed I've been a bit slow in updating this blog sometimes. It's been a bit busy and I usually get tired in the Read More

We witnessed the most amazing phenomenan for New Years Eve. Alex had been promising me that the number of fireworks that we'd see going off on New Years Eve would look amazing, however it didn't quite Read More

I feel like I'm in a war zone at the moment, the number of fire crackers going off has increased to every few seconds! I've gotten used to it now though to the point it doesn't scare me anymore and Read More

Tonight we went to dinner at a friend of Alex's, Ieke and her partner Andre. Ieke is vegetarian and since I'm not really a huge meat eater I really enjoyed the vegetarian meal we had for Read More

In the morning once we got up (had a bit of a sleep in after the late night) I spent some time helping Vicki with her website. We were hoping to maybe do our private balance class, but we ended up Read More

Today I finally got the amazing opportunity to meet some long time forum friends. Vicki (Red) and Robert (Sigma) arrived first and I've known them for 4 or 5 years or so. Especially Robert who I've Read More

Quiet relaxing day for Christmas Day which was nice. Much nicer than previous years I remember which used to involve getting up early, rushing to one set of parents house, over eating, rushing to the Read More

It's a dutch tradition to celebrate Christmas Eve more rather than Christmas Day, so for Christmas Eve we had dinner at Alex's place. Alex's brother and family, sister and his dad all came over for Read More

Today we met up again with Ben and his family and drove the hour and a half trip to Madurodam, which is a tourist part with minature replica's of The Netherlands. During the drive we stopped at Read More

Last night we went to meet Alex's brother, Ben and his family with his wife, Ineke and kids Sara and Benjamin. It was really wonderful meeting them and I felt so comfortable with them. Ben and Inneka Read More

I don't know if you can call this a frost, but by Australian standards it definitely puts a "frost" to shame. When there's dew overnight it freezes on top of the previous dew and it ends up Read More

The trip to the Christmas markets in Germany only took about an hour and a half, which by European standards is a long drive........but I think it's cool that you can be in another country in such a Read More