Day Seven Hundred and Thirty

Two years down under

And so its now 2 years since we emigrated to Australia. In the second yearly review I'll summarise the previous year. You can read about year one here.

June 2010 saw us travel from Sydney up to Darwin for Anna and Ricks Wedding. Was a good chance to see Hazel over here in Australia too.

July 2010 was focused very much on long hours of work for Trailwalker event in Sydney. We also house sat in Willoughby for a week and I made trip to Brisbane for the first time.

August 2010 was again very much focused on the Sydney event with long hours and lots of briefings. No interstate travel though.

September 2010 was dominated by my trip alone back to the UK, was a great opportunity to catch up with people and the folks. Shame Kate couldn't make it across this time. We also did lots of wedding prep during September.

October 2010 was spent between Sydney and Brisbane. We made 3 trips up to Brisbane to find somewhere to live and finalise moving up. More wedding prep during October too.

November 2010 saw us finally move from Sydney to Brisbane. Lots of trips backwards and forwards on Virgin Blue.

December 2010 saw us make 2 trips back to Sydney including a lovely Christmas in Willoughby.

January 2011 was a manic month with floods in Brisbane, lots of resulting replanning for event as well as lots of prep for our wedding the following month.

February 2011 was a delightful month which saw us get married surrounded by family and friends here in Australia. Was great to have folks over as well as H&P and others.

March 2011 saw us head back to the UK via Dubai to continue wedding celebrations in UK. On return to Brisbane spent lots of time planning event for June.

April 2011 including a trip for me to Melbourne for their event, plus a trip back to Sydney to finalise our wedding album.

May 2011 was primarily focused on very long days and hours at work in preparation for the upcoming event in June.

Year 2 Trip Count

1 x Darwin
6 x Brisbane (from Sydney before we finally moved up)
7 x Sydney
2 x Melbourne
2 x UK
1 x Dubai


Exchange Rates (1GBP buys $)

June 14th 2009 2.02
June 14th 2010 1.71
June 14th 2011 1.53