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Vomo 2017

Another year another trip to the Fiji resort of Vomo - it really could not be a better location for family with kids. It has great nanny service, the island is beautiful with amazing walks and Oscar and Evie have an excellent time! So do the parents as we get

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Queenstown 2017

I'm a big fan of "winter breaks" - I like the idea of going to somewhere cold once in a while (but only for a little bit). So we headed to Queenstown - it was very cold indeed but we had a great time. We even ended up being in

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Paris Megeve Montreux

Part 2 of our trip to Europe last summer! The Euro Disney part of the trip was very expensive and the Disney hotel we’d stayed in hadn’t had a renovation or update since I stayed there with my parents in 1992 it was like going into a time

NSW Heritage Plate Price Performance 2012-2017

I’m a big fan of heritage plates – they are numeral only plates that were first issued between 1910-1924 that are quite hard to come by. Shannon’s does a twice yearly auction in Sydney. Are they an investment though? 3 Digit plates like ‘317’ or ‘960’ appear to have

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Fiji 2016

Well I decided to start doing the blog again - so that there's a memory of all of the things we've done. It is a shame I didn't write words down at the time but with modern internet. In 2016 we went to Fiji it was awesome as you'd expect

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Sydney Dubai London August 2016

We did a mammoth 6 week trip with Oscar (3) and Evie (4 months) to Europe in August. I’ve started to edit the video for the trip here’s Part 1 of 2!

Baby Evie

Welcome to the World Baby Evie!

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Thailand Again

We went to Thailand in 2011 it was a great holiday however it rained every single day and it wasn’t even the rainy season! We stayed at a place called Six Senses and I always said to Amy we should go back and see it again without the rain.

Curl Curl 1913 to 2014

I found this historical photo of Curl Curl which looks like it was taken almost from where we live. Mouse over the image to see the transition.

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Oscar Visits the Farm

Amy got my a Go Pro for my Birthday – here’s the most extreme footage yet (a visit to a farm with real pigs and chickens!)

Garage Revamp

I was going to get someone to paint the garage floor for me but in the end I decided to do it myself. I watched a video on YouTube to show me how to do it than bought the paint and equipment required. Total cost $280 – $200 of that was

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Vomo Resort

At the end of the summer Amy organised a trip for us all to go to a place called Vomo in Fiji. Fiji is a convenient 4.5 hour flight from Sydney so it’s an awesome overseas adventure without having to really go very far. The flight was very

Annual Updates

Back in the day blog posts used to happen a few times a month, now they barely happen once per year. I was trying to think of the reasons behind that and I’ve boiled them down to – * Having a baby boy/toddler takes up time * Running a business full

Hamilton Island

For my Birthday this year we went to Hamilton Island for a short break. Hamilton Island is a small Island East of Queensland, also referred to as “Hawaii” by people from the United States. It was a surprise trip so I didn’t know I was going until I opened

8 Month Update

How did 8 months go by without a blog post? Well it’s probably because we can now share images with family and friends at the click of a button on the iPhone now. It’s still nice to write stories as there’s so much you forget so I’

Fleet Review

This week Sydney hosts it’s 2nd centennial event to review the Navy fleet. As a previous member of the Navy (Scout Squadron RN06) I had to go down and see some of the ships. I especially wanted to see British warship D32 HMS Daring, which is the currently the

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UK Trip 2013

This has to be the longest blog dry spell for as long as the blog has been in existence! 5 months of no posts, you’d think I’d have abandoned it, well that’s not the case, blogging is still fun to do, it’s just the time now

Manly Sunset

Quick update, I’m going to get around to doing a full blog post soon about things but here’s a cool 15 minutes of a nice Manly Sunset from Queenscliff shrunk down into 15 seconds of enjoyment.

G2008

Welcome to Earth little baby Oscar!

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Happenings 2013

If everything goes to plan in the next few days we’ll have a new little member of the G2007 network! The spare time might be decreasing soon so I thought I’d get this last post out with what we’ve been doing! We’ve been really busy planning

Best of 2012

Best of 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and now 2012! Another year and another change to the categories of “best of”, which shows the pace of change mostly in technology in the world. Album of the year is now gone as buying albums are a thing of

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In the Berg

Last weekend Lorraine and Matt were kind enough to invite us down to Helensburgh (pronounce Helensberg) for the weekend. Lorraine and Matt moved there a few years ago and have taken a lot of the Woolloomooloo crowd down there with them, Gaétane, Andrew, Chris, Esther, El, Al and their entourage

Wedding

I’ve finally updated amy-gary.com to be post-wedding rather than pre-wedding. It was an awesome day and hopefully the pictures and video can take you back if you were there or see what happened if you were not –

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Uluru

A few weekends ago Amy and I went to Uluru, which is a rock in the middle of Australia (it’s actually more to the left of Australia) and it is just about in the Northern Territory, but very close to the Western Australia border. We got on the plane

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Ayers Rock HD

Last weekend Amy and I had a long weekend away to Uluru. Which is a famous rock known as Ayers Rock in the middle left of Australia, in the Northern Territory, which means I’ve now (and Amy) have visited every state in Australia; New South Wales, Western Australia, Queensland,