Juju bon voyage dog

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Nancy091158

Sunday, April 08, 2001 - 04:33 pm Click here to edit this post
juju i love your 'tour'..im going to england in a week--but not bringing my pc with me..maybe i can find an internet cafe to use ;-)

Twiggyish

Sunday, April 08, 2001 - 05:34 pm Click here to edit this post
Nancy, do share if you can.

Soeur

Sunday, April 08, 2001 - 05:44 pm Click here to edit this post
um, Nancy...here is a large list of internet cafe's in the U.K....

cafes for Nancy

I'll happily document where you go for all your TVCH buddies...

Nancy091158

Sunday, April 08, 2001 - 05:55 pm Click here to edit this post
lol sis i doubt it will be as exciting is only for a week--and most of it is theater related--4 plays in 7 days..(my fair lady-the secret garden-only a shakespeare play(the name escapes me right now but its the one with oberon and the fairies) and a new play called god only knows..plus seeing shakespares home--warwick castle and another castle..plus a couple of backstage tours..PLUS the normal big ben etc..all in and around london staying at a hotel called "millenium gloucester" which is funny because i used to live in gloucester mass..(named i think for that gloucester england)

Moondance

Sunday, April 08, 2001 - 06:18 pm Click here to edit this post
King Oberon and his Fairies is A Midsummer Night's Dream!

Have a wonderful time ... I LOVE Shakespeare!

Juju2bigdog

Monday, April 09, 2001 - 02:31 am Click here to edit this post
Nancy, there will probably be internet cafes all over the place. I think I mentioned there are ten here in one block. What I am finding is that any place you see a backpacker's hotel, there will be internet cafes nearby.

Went to the Blue Mountains today with Oz Experience. As predicted, we were by far the oldest folks, at least for the first part of the day before some more people got on. Oz Experience does seem to be an economical way for the backpacking set to see a lot of the country economically.

We rode up and down on the world's steepest railway while in the Blue Mountains. 52 degree grade. That is quite a thrill. It is supposedly in the Guinness Book of Wrold Records. We were supposed to walk down a thousand stairs and just ride back up, but considering there was a thunderstorm just starting, Bigdog and I opted for sensibility and let the kids hike down in the rain and mud, while we rode both ways. Twice the thrill that way.

On the way back, we stopped at a kind of neat place called Featherdale Wildlife Park, where a man started caring for injured animals, and it grew into this whole wildlife preserve. Got to pet both a wallaby and a koala.

The meeting at the webcam sounds like a cute idea, but we would just be wearing noses and glasses anyway.

Soeur

Monday, April 09, 2001 - 03:41 am Click here to edit this post
Featherdale Wildlife Park....

hmmm...wearing noses and glasses, gee! I wonder if we'd be able to pick you two out of the crowd?

My oldest sister was given a stuffed koala bear (a real one!) and it was really a treasured item. Imagine. It used to be considered a good think to give kids 'real' stuffed animals. We also had real baby alligator purses. Hard to imagine today!

Bijoux

Monday, April 09, 2001 - 09:24 am Click here to edit this post
Hey Soeur! and Juju. It's been a blast reading, especially now since I visited some of the areas Juju is describing. Went down those 1000 steps. It's cool, they pass by Katoomba Falls. That railway is very steep. Not for the weak of heart!

Juju2bigdog

Monday, April 09, 2001 - 11:08 pm Click here to edit this post
The "real" koala bear was probably made from kangaroo fur. We had those as kids, and they were still selling a lot of them on my last visit here thirteen years ago. Not so much now, although there are still some kangaroo hide things for sale and kangaroo skins. Kangaroos are plentiful. I have never seen anything made of koala fur. It is sort of dense and fuzzy, not unlike sheeps wool (she said knowingly, having just petted one yesterday).

Last day here. I think we have taken our last ferry ride and last train ride. The thing about taking a real long vacation is you are ready to go home when it is over. We just sort of messed around today, got some laundry done, then decided to take a ferry over to Manly, had lunch, bought a few souvenirs, came back.

So.... this is probably it. See ya'll back stateside in about 36 hours.

Guruchaz

Monday, April 09, 2001 - 11:54 pm Click here to edit this post
WOW! Has it been a month already? That's amazing.

Wink

Tuesday, April 10, 2001 - 09:02 am Click here to edit this post
That should get you home just about in time to see Survivor on Thursday JuJu. A good chance for you to get on board the KEITH RULES train.

Safe trip home.

Juju2bigdog

Tuesday, April 10, 2001 - 03:42 pm Click here to edit this post
Is this great or what??!!! I found a FREE internet terminal in the Sydney airport, right near our waiting room seats. Thank you, Samsung.

Flight takes off in about an hour and a half. Bigdog does not know where I am, so better not mess around too much. Less than 24 hours to getting back now. Quick, Soeur, find am internet camera in the Sydney airport, and we will go wave at it.

(Uh oh, can't find the backslash on this Chinese keyboaard to do my logo)
Juju

Noslonna

Tuesday, April 10, 2001 - 04:02 pm Click here to edit this post
JujuComingHomeDog

Soeur

Tuesday, April 10, 2001 - 05:54 pm Click here to edit this post
Sydney Airport Have a safe flight home Juju!! Sleep on the plane so that you can log on asap after you arrive home. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING YOUR TRIP WITH US. (It makes a very nice warm up for Nancy...)

Soeur

Tuesday, April 10, 2001 - 05:57 pm Click here to edit this post
Sydney Airport (serious) enthusiasts site

Soeur

Tuesday, April 10, 2001 - 05:58 pm Click here to edit this post
Sydney Airport webcam

Moondance

Wednesday, April 11, 2001 - 12:01 am Click here to edit this post
Welcome Home Juju!

I just got home tonight and it looks like something was up on the board and I missed it... glad you're back, now whip this place into shape!:)

Juju2bigdog

Wednesday, April 11, 2001 - 05:04 pm Click here to edit this post
We're baaaaaaaaack!! Got in about 7:30 a.m. this morning which is 2:30 a.m. tomorrow in Sydney. The flight took off at 10:30 a.m. Sydney time, so all the travel was during normal waking hours according to the body clock, as opposed to the flight over being during normal sleeping hours. So we are way more jet-lagged on this trip than on the trip over. Plus, this flight was over-booked, so not only did I not get emergency row seats for my long legs, but we had somebody in the middle seat (and wouldn't you know the BIG kid ahead of me kept his seat reclined for ALL 14 hours). We flew into LAX and are spending the night in Long Beach, CA, then will head north tomorrow, taking a couple days to get to San Francisco, spend a couple days there and then a few more days getting to Washington state. I should be able to log onto chat tonight and tomorrow (if I can stay awake) to catch up.

<Hmmmmmm, wonder what was up on the board that Moon missed???? Better go check the juju2bigdog e-mail>

Willi

Wednesday, April 11, 2001 - 05:05 pm Click here to edit this post
Welcome Home Mate :)

Soeur

Wednesday, April 11, 2001 - 07:10 pm Click here to edit this post
{{{JUJU!!!}}}

Schoolmarm

Thursday, April 12, 2001 - 12:20 pm Click here to edit this post
Juju!!!

Welcome home, and thank you for sharing your trip with us. It was wonderful to read, and I'm sure even more wonderful to actually "DO".

Wink

Thursday, April 12, 2001 - 12:46 pm Click here to edit this post
JuJu it's wonderful to know you are back. You've turned Soeur into our official travel guide (she doesn't have enuff jobs) and we've had a great time following you around.

Hurry up and catch up and get over to the Survivor thread.

Bamagirl

Thursday, April 12, 2001 - 01:16 pm Click here to edit this post
Welcome back Juju!!!

Juju2bigdog

Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 10:12 pm Click here to edit this post
Made it home from Los Angeles to Washington state. We also had a great time driving back by way of the scenic routes from mid-California to Washington. Highway 299 from Redding, CA to Eureka, CA was just gorgeous, with spring breaking out all over and the redbuds blooming, rivers and springs gushing, mountains showing white tops. Oregon coast was haunting as always, Washington Olympic peninsula deserted and bucolic. And we ended with a ferry ride. All is well at the condo. Again, many thanks to Soeur for her dedication to my vacation. Now, I can go back and look at the sites and see everything I missed.

Soeur

Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 10:22 pm Click here to edit this post
That was pure pleasure Juju. Now I know what I want to see when we go to Australia!

Juju2bigdog

Friday, April 20, 2001 - 08:41 am Click here to edit this post
Soeur, here is something I wanted to share with you (if I can do it right). Well, I will just put the link in here and not get fancy about it.

http://155.187.10.12/sounds/magpie-group.au

It is the voice of a magpie. We used to feed them from the kitchen window at Wandong, and they would sing like this when they got impatient for us to give them the food, or maybe they were just happy to see us.

Twiggyish

Friday, April 20, 2001 - 08:53 am Click here to edit this post
That is awesome. I love the sounds of birds. We have a lot of birds around because of a feeder and birdbath in our front yard.

Soeur

Friday, April 20, 2001 - 08:54 am Click here to edit this post
can't get the sound to work Juju...brb...fiddling with wires...splicing...

Soeur

Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 03:44 am Click here to edit this post
Juju! What a wonderful sound. Saying it sounds musical is kinda silly, that song is the definition of music. I spent over an hour working through the help program trying to diagnose what was wrong with the computer's sound and as a last resort <try this one first, children> I checked the back and saw that the sound jack had come unplugged. Next time, I'll check that first.