Surfing and Riffs

27/01/2016

WHAT'S THAT? A BLOG POST. IT'S BEEN FOREVER SINCE THEY POSTED ANYTHING.

We know.

The title of this blog was decided when Dan couldn't think of anything to call it. So he put his music on shuffle and found the first song title that came up. It could definitely be worse.

    We haven’t posted in a while. Again. There’s a reason for that. Read below: Travelling is a mixture of emotions both real and imaginary. It’s exhausting, demanding and takes a toll on...

25/01/2016

We are moving house on Sunday.

22/01/2016

We have jobs. In Melbourne.

Life's peachy at the moment.

19/01/2016

Job interviews aplenty today. Fingers are a-crossing.

13/01/2016

We debated long and hard about the title of the next blog post. Dan insisted on bringing up Enzo Amore. Lauren laughed. And thus it was.

You get why we are never considered cool, right?

  We said we’d recap the second half of our detour-escapade to Adelaide once we returned to Melbourne. Here we are. You may have seen that WE SWAM WITH SHARKS! This isn’t the first time we’ve ...

12/01/2016

We're back in Melbourne - a good thousand or so miles later!

It's nice to be back in our - sort of - home again.

Loads of errands to run tomorrow. Why can't we just swim with sharks every day? Life would be so much better.

12/01/2016

Fearless.

10/01/2016

A few snaps from the last few days. In no particular order.

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09/01/2016

THE BLOG IS BACK ON!

Apologies for not posting. It's a long one today. You'll need a couple deep breaths and maybe one or two beverages.

There is no Simpsons reference though, sadly. Next time though...

First blog post in a while. Yeah we know, the inhumanity, right? We’ve had no WiFi for days, and we can’t publish via 3G. We apologise for not doing this sooner and for keeping you waiting. But we ...

08/01/2016

Just made it to Adelaide. Finally.

We haven't blogged in a few days because we're still only able to get a 3G connection at this time. We haven't forgotten about it. We've been on the road solidly for 3 days. Travelled about 900 miles to get here.

As soon as we get access to WiFi, we'll update with our escapades through from Melbourne to Adelaide. It'll be a good one! Bear with us.

06/01/2016

Bad view.

03/01/2016

New roomies seem nice. They love perfume though. Really quite a lot.

02/01/2016

It's 2016 and we've already made decisions about stuff and things.

Enjoy your weekend.

  Not blogged for two days because there was that little thing which basically turned us from one supposed year to another. Our first resolution of 2016 was to cut our fingernails. Success. On...

01/01/2016

HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS.

*UPDATE*

We've decided to extend our stay in Melbourne for a couple more nights. We will now check out on the 6th January (if all goes according to plan) - this is to allow for any delays in the arrival of our bank cards, tax numbers etc.

As we have pretty much fallen in love with Melbourne, we have also decided that we will work here for a little while. For exactly how long we don't know, but this will be a good opportunity to see more of a city we like a lot.

So if all goes to plan, we'll be leaving on the 6th January for a brief detour to Adelaide and Port Lincoln to swim with some Great White sharks. You know, as you do. We'll be here for a good few days and return to Melbourne probably about a week afterwards, give or take a few days. Then the journey towards work begins. From there, only time will tell.

30/12/2015

The title speaks for itself, don't you think?

We'd be lion if we said today wasn't filled with animals.

  So the case of the noisy roommates strikes again. Our paths even up until now have yet to cross properly, where we are all awake at the same time. Well, that’s not entirely true – they were ...

29/12/2015

Shoutout to the penultimate day before New Year's Eve for giving us terrible tasting beverages, an excess of bacteria and a near-chance to meet an actual wrestler.

On the plus side, Dan's heroism really showed today.

  Did we kick today’s ass? Yeah we did. Basically we had the peakest of mornings. Our roommates were leaving early onto their next journey, but did they decide to make thunderous amounts of no...

28/12/2015

Did you really think it would be this long before we mentioned John Cena again? No, nor did we.

We like it in Melbourne. We will be here again.

  Melbourne is being kind to us. Just soaking in the vibe of being in a new place, with new surroundings, 11,000 miles away from home is a challenge. But we’re doing it, and loving every secon...

27/12/2015

We travelled 1000 miles yesterday.

And yes, now you probably have The Proclaimers in your head.

You can tell we're having fun in Melbourne, not being confined to a vehicle.

  We hope everyone reading this had an awesome Christmas and that the festive season brought nothing but happiness, joy and riffs. We certainly did. Just for anyone who’s not aware, we’re curr...

25/12/2015

Merry Christmas to all our UK readers who will shortly be getting up to a hopefully wonderful Christmas Day morning. We miss you and hope you enjoy your day.

24/12/2015

Yes, it's a dugong. This is how we spent our Christmas Eve.

Short post, no cuppa needed today.

Hope you all have a wonderful next few days.

  Merry Christmas Eve to everyone reading this and we hope that you are enjoying the holidays with each other as much as we are. We don’t want to take up too much time today as it’s going to b...

23/12/2015

We saw Sydney Opera House and Star Wars today. We're not sure how much better today could get.

  It’s Christmas Eve Eve. This time last year we had our winter coats on, a fire, more than likely a hot drink in hand and probably some Christmas movie on. This year, the 23rd was spent doing...

22/12/2015

Did someone say Australia?

    Cuppa alert. This is a REALLY long blog. You may need a warm drink. Basically......... WE. HATE. LONG. DAYS. OF. NO. SLEEP. Having woken up at 5:30am Thailand time, we were scooped up...

21/12/2015

Flight's been delayed for about half an hour. You can't avoid this anywhere it seems.

Except Germany.

20/12/2015

Lisa Simpson wrote this blog title.

Read up on our last day in Thailand....for now. We will go back again soon. Fo sho. Swear on me mam.

5:30am start tomorrow.

  Our last day in Thailand, marked by a commemorative beer to celebrate three awesome weeks of being nomad travellers. Or mad travellers, whatever you’d prefer to call us. Today featured a cam...

19/12/2015

Penultimate day in Thailand. Sharks, dogs and a hell of a load of antibiotics.

We're heading to Australia in a couple of days.

  Today was...eventful, shall we say? Yes, let’s call it eventful. Not in the purest sense, as unfortunately much as if we were back home, we woke up to RAIN. AGAIN. Turns out that due to seve...

18/12/2015

Another wrestling pun, another blog.

Please read and share with pals/family/your dog.

  For the first time since being in Thailand, this morning we awoke to rain. Yes, actual rain. Rain that was more intense than UK showers at the best of times. Well we figured because we’re in...

17/12/2015

*STAR WARS RELATED POST*

Not really.

Waves, alcohol, news, drama and wrestling references. All the things that make up a good day in Thailand.

  We may not be seeing Star Wars just yet, and we may have missed NXT Takeover, but it’s okay, because we’re in Koh Samui and got to enjoy warm weather and a bit of sunburn. No, really. Actual...

16/12/2015

Our first John Cena reference. Expect more.

Koh Samui is especially wonderful.

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    We have made it to our last official stop in Thailand. On the lovely island of Koh Samui, where the majority of its landscape is barren jungle wasteland, off of one of the more lively...

15/12/2015

Last day in Ao Nang.

Sadly our hotel does not live up to its reputation. There are no smiles at the moment. It's a sad evening leaving such a beautiful town.

We're so pop punk.

  This will be a relatively quick blog today. Not that we haven’t done much but it’s just this hotel has only one charger socket and Dan’s tablet has 30% battery. Typing on a bluetooth keyboar...