In the park

Here are some pics from one of the parks in Bathurst. There is also one of the kids and I seating at my amazing new table. And the others are just a few shots around Bathurst itself.

Dusting it up in Bathurst

You might have caught the red haze that we and Sydney got yesterday. Our once grey drive way is now an interesting orange. The dust was blown in from the west nsw outback on the winds of a super storm we had. We lost power for half the night, so having a bath in candle light was just the ticket. The noise of the rain on the metal roof was unreal, Timothy did look a bit concerned but since it didn't stop him from getting his bottle of milk at bedtime he dismissed them. The water coming down was enough to wash our otto bin down the road and know our post box wonky.

Red Light District Police

Just a wee footnote to the Amsterdam trip.

We kept one of the little visitor guide things that the Hotel gave us when we arrived. In amongst all the usual tourist stuff is a section written by the police of the red light district. The whole thing is well written and casual, but here are some of the more amusing bits:

"If you visit one of the women, we would like to remind you, they are not always women."

"If you have any problems with a girl or a pimp, do not hesitate to ask a police officer. We know why you are there and can hardly surprise us."

"If you feel sick after smoking or eating space cake, drink lots of water with sugar."

Truly, theirs is a different world.

Back online

Greetings All, sorry about the delayed absents from the blogging scene but you know how it goes. Move country and loss all sense of time :P But since we last check in, we have packed up our Cambridge house, went to Amsterdam on a trip and then made a forty hour trip back to oz. Following day we drove three hours to our new home in Bathurst.

The trip back was amazing, the boys were so good. We got up around 4am and got a taxi at 4.30 to the train station where we caught a train to Brussels. We then got another train from Brussels straight after that to London. After working out how to get down to the platform for for the tube with a double pram and seven bags and two children with no lift in sight, the rest was easy. We got the airport with loads of time. We were a bit paranoid about this as on the way into Amsterdam we had track work so we did not want to get stuck again.

So with a few hours to kill before check in we walked about Heathrow and tried a cafe or two as well as numerous trips to the baby changing stations. The boys took it all in their stride, sleeping some on the trains. Finding new things to play with as we came upon them. And then it was check in. This was around dinner time so it was a bit rushed but again the Singapore Airlines folk were fantastic and the security people at Heathrow were pretty good too. I mean we had a lot of stuff, one carry on was full of toys which included a complete and huge wooden train track set :P We had laptop bags, nappy bags, we took the double pram to the gate (very worth while service) we had a camera bag and a bunch of other stuff and me being a doofus forgot our marmalade in the carry on so the poor people had to search them all.

The flights were great. I can't recommend the A380 Airbus highly enough. It is new, groovy and has lots of space, and if you can get one with Singapore airlines they are just the nicest people.

So here is a few pics of us seeing the sites in Amsterdam. We did the two main muesums Gogh and the Rijks and we did drop by the Anne Frank house but Ben is still yet to stick all the pics together to make the panarama of the line to get in. We did do the canal tour, so nice and walked into the red light district which looked the same as the rest of the place. Very relaxed and groovy place though.




Now for the first day back in Oz, we went to this mad play park near the beach in Sydney. Very groovy



And here of course the best for last is our huge, big and enormous house in Bathurst. All guests welcome, we could fit around eight couples in the place without feeling the need to bump into any of them ;)

(Note from Ben - a slight exageration. You will note that the kids are very good at distributing Toys throughout the house. Can't wait 'till the furniture turns up.)