Hi Everyone! More updates from the antipodeans. It snowed here recently, so we'd thought we'd show you these pictures to cool you down during your lovely 40 degree days (can't wait to have a swim at the beach).

Also, I went to Glasgow for a day trip last week and took one or two piccys, so here they are.

Hope you are all well and looking after yourselves, aaand each other. (yep, we saw Jerry Springer the Opera on St Valentine's day, and no, it wasn't really that good. The first half was pretty good, second half started to get a bit annoying. It just got silly. We want Joseph!!)

Love Paul and Tram!

Our First Snowy Days in London

Our new Audi was covered in snow!! It took us ages to scrape all the snow of it so we could drive it to work.

Paul's motorbike was also covered in snow. Lucky he put the over on it.

Paul graffiti-ing some random car on the street.

Paul's very clever he did a smiley face.

This is one the street signs on our road. 

Paul making a snowball and getting ready to attack.

This was the snow in front of our house.

Paul's day-trip to Glasgow, Scotland

I went to Glasgow to train some people at a college near the centre of town.  It was just a day trip, but the training was in the morning, so I had to get a really early flight.  That's OK, I got to go to Scotland!  Anyway, the training went very smoothly and was quite fast, so I had a few hours to wander around the city centre which just happened to be right near the college. 

This is a photo on the way walking from the College to the city.  It's quite hilly.. I didn't realise but the next street down was the main street.  Unfortunately there isn't really that much to look at in town.

This is the next street across (not down).  It wasn't a very nice day.

The city centre of Glasgow.  It's quite a nice city, and this is their equivalent of the Queen St Mall in Brisbane. 

I didn't get to see much else in Glasgow.  There is a thing that looks like a small, metallic, flattened version of the Sydney Opera-house that I saw from the taxi on the freeway to the airport, but that's about it.  The people are really friendly, and my taxi driver was telling me that they are all much friendlier than the people in Edinburgh.  Not sure about that :) Edinburgh seemed very friendly too.

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Hi everyone.  We're bringing you some pictures from our latest adventure.. this time to Scotland for New Year's.  Hope you all enjoy....... we did. apart from the main event being cancelled due to "adverse weather conditions", or as some suspected, terrorists.  But I don't think so :)  Anyways, here you go.

New Year 2003/04

A few days earlier we went to see cyberjam with Hai and Mai. It's a musical show with lots of instruments, dancers, lasers and trampolines.  It was very different but very fun.

During the intermission of CyberJam, Tram met the prime-minister of Malaysia.  She managed to sneak behind the rope and have a picture.

The train station near where Hai and Mai stayed.

Snow on the way to Edinburgh.  It was about -5 degrees in this shot... very chilly.

We got to our hotel that night.  And it snowed!

We met some Yanks, they were lots of fun.  The guy next to Tram is a New Zealander turned Californian.  This is the Frankenstien bar, which, as you may have guessed, it a bar themed on Frankenstein.  They had movies running, candles with lots of wax, crazy props and interestingly named cocktails.  We all went here on the first night.  There were 3 or 4 busloads on the tour.

The next day we went to the Walkabout for the big countdowns in every time-zone in New Zealand and Australia.  This is us calling home :)  We had lots of bundy!

The American girls at the walkabout.

This is a monument to... something.  I think a writer.  Apparently you can walk all the way to the top, but the staircase is very narrow and it's kinda dangerous.  It was very cool with the Ferris-wheel behind.

We stood out in the wind and rain for about two hours.  We were getting quite wet.... waiting waiting for either the concert to start of the fireworks or preferably both.

But neither happened.  We weren't even drunk (yet) despite having started at 10am.

The group of people we were hanging out with from the tour at the street party.  Two of the guys decided to strip a few minutes earlier (no photos sorry).  They were brave.  Lots of strangers taking close-ups.

The big screen telling us to get the hell out.  Lots of unhappy campers.

In the bar an hour later, Scott and Paul were having green chartreuse!  Good stuff.

The next morning.... the view from our hotel room.  The buildings on the hill are Edinburgh Castle.

This is the view from Sterling Castle, about an hour from Edinburgh.  It was high up on a hill and has probably the best strategic positioning of any castle in Europe.

Tram outside the gates...

The hill where William Wallace led his rebels to victory.  The rugby fields were where the battle was fought.  The tower on the hill is a monument to our hero, Mel Gibson.

A recreation of the kitchen at Sterling Castle.  The deer is real! Well, it's stuffed...but close enough.

The view from the ramparts.

More sterling castle...

This was an Indian show.. there were lots of pyrotechnics and music and mechanical elephants :)

There was also a guy who was on a fireworks powered wheel.. he was spinning really fast for a while...

Tram with out of the performers.

Edinburgh Castle!  It was really nice at night.. and had a great view of the city.  I wish Brisbane had a massive castle on a hill right in the middle.

This is some random building that just happens to be in front of the street side-show alley place.  They shone lights on it.

Ice skating ring with the view of the castle in the background....

Another group of people on the tour that we were with.

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This is a Spring Log (or Bog).  Tram bought a spring roll from this Chinese place, and they gave us this huge, disgusting thing full of left-overs (we think).  Oh, and it was half full of oil.  Lucky we weren't like one of the other people who bought four of them (expecting them to be like normal spring rolls)

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