It was 1st of March 2016, and I had just finished handing our accounting practice over to a team of young fresh accountants who were busy building an empire on the Gold Coast. This was the first time in a long time that I was unemployed, I still had the responsibilities of two kids and…
I went back to teaching TESOL for a brief period during the holidays at end of 2017 and into early 2018. I wanted to compile a list of some of the best aspects of teaching English as a second language, and here it is. 1. The People By far the greatest part of teaching English…
If you are looking for a rewarding experience where you get to meet interesting people, hear stories of traveling adventures, and of what it is like to live and grow up in foreign countries, then I can highly recommend spending some time as a TESOL teacher. It was coming to the end of 2016, and…
That was awesome 17 days of surfing, skating, paddle boarding, riding bikes, kicking footballs and catching up with friends and family. We managed to book some time at the Kirra Beach shack for the third year in a row (if we keep this up it will turn into a tradition) and here are some of…
April 12 2014 While I was waiting for Tiff and Chad to do their Story Bridge climb I thought I would have a look around Brisbane and see if I could find a place to sit and study some Spanish. So I dropped Tiff and Chad at the climbing place, parked at Kangaroo point, took…
May 2013 Having worked for ourselves for a few years one of the things we tell all our clients is that every now and a again you need to make sure you take some time out to sharpen the saw. Unfortunately being great at dispensing advice doesn’t necessarily mean we are all that great at…
7 May 2011 We didn’t kick off the day particularly early, as it is rather cold in Tassie at this time of the year and we had already experienced a heavy frost when we bound out of bed super early Friday morning to go for a walk along Muirs beach and had thoroughly learned…
It had been a year since our last decent holiday and we were getting a little vague when Tiff discovered that the Kirra beach shack we hired last year would be available once again, we didn’t hesitate and it wasn’t long before we were packing the essentials into the ute and wagon to head down…
Another spectacular weekend full of action and adventure, it all started on Saturday morning, well actually it started on Friday night with one of the biggest rain storms south east Queensland has ever seen. Paige’s friend Dakota had come around hoping for a surf session in the morning and looking forward to a bake off…
We were invited to my cousins wedding in Canberra and were faced with two options, option one take a short flight into Canberra or Sydney and stay for a couple of days to attend the wedding and then fly home, or option two one massive 2800km round road trip catching up with as many people…
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