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At 1:29am on March 5, 2008, Aphie said…: In the Australian vernacular and with our accent, the pronunciation sounds like "WOOL-un-GONG". I'm so used to Indigenous names I don't even notice them now - Cockfosters and Earl's Court were AMAZING to me! ;)
It's a name from the Indigenous people local to this area. Lots of our smaller Australian cities and suburbs have names taken from the local peoples' languages.

This is the sixth largest city in Australia (though it seems ludicrous to call it a city - it's about the size of Chester, I think!). We're approximately two hours down the coast from Sydney. All those golden beaches you think of in Australia? Our city beach is like that. It's lovely.

You didn't speak French before you moved to Belgium? WOW, you are very brave! I was terrified of coming to England to live, without the language barrier. Seriously, I think I'm in awe of your courage.

I meant to ask too - are you on Craftster at all?

At 8:08pm on March 3, 2008, Aphie said…: (There's no "L" in my name - it's pronounced like Effie, but with an "A" as in "cat" at the start)

Without expecting to I fell in love with the city, quite honestly - there's a Pepys quote which sums it up beautifully; 'When a man is tired of London he's tired of life.'
I've never lived in the heart of a major city before, and Australian cities have a different flavour to European ones, so it was a really fabulous experience, though I completely get what you mean about homesickness - it's so hard to just keep in mind the amazing and exciting new things all around you and never give in to that desire for a little bit of the familiar and "safe".
I love how exotic so many Europeans seem to think Australia is, compared to how I feel, having grown up here. And I think growing up in Europe seems TERRIBLY exotic, surrounded by all that history and art and different cultures!
Where in the UK are you from?

Australia surely does have enormous expanses of land - especially compared to London and England! I was terribly rude and snickered something dreadful when the tourguide on our bus out to Stonehenge declared "This part of the country is really creepy - you can go a whole half an hour without seeing a building or sign of human habitation apart from fences!"

At 3:56pm on February 29, 2008, Aphie said…: Hey Nelly, welcome!
I thought some of your photos looked distinctly European - I spent six months in 2006/2007 living in London. We don't have anything like those beautiful old buildings here in Australia. It's all colonial Victorian era stuff.
Love the pink hair. :)