It has been 6 weeks or so since I last wrote. We have been staying with Louise’s Mother while Louise’s Sister has been away on a holiday. Bathurst is very nice this time of year, with the colourful trees losing their leaves. It’s still not too cold, but cool all the same. While we have been here we have had something to do every week, so we have kept busy.We were here for Easter and I went to the Bathurst Car races. There were classes of older cars from 1930’s onwards racing. We also went to Sofala and Hill End, gold mining areas to stay the weekend. The following Saturday was the Rally of Lithgow. I went and took some video. Over the Anzac Weekend we went to Lithgow for Ironfest, a medieval festival with Jousting sword fighting and battle re-enactments. We volunteered to help set up and arrived on Thursday to help with making and putting up flags. We stayed in the campervan and it was very cold. The next weekend we went to Dubbo and visited the fantastic zoo there. This week end we have been down to Newnes Valley this side of the Blue Mountains. It’s very beautiful there and we stayed at Louise’s Uncle and Aunts.
As I said we have enjoyed our time in Bathurst and it’s been a great chance to relax after our nonstop travelling. However, we are about to set off again. We are heading back to Queensland this week to prepare for our trip to Vietnam. We have been offered jobs in Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh City in the south of Vietnam for a 12 month posting. We will be working for Sea English Academy and running the new Saigon based Sea English campus. We did our Tesol courses last year in Penang, Malaysia and have been teaching in India earlier this year. We travelled to Vietnam about 5 years ago, it was only a 2 week trip but we really enjoyed it. So we are really excited about our new positions and look forward to the challenges ahead. We will keep you posted.Ric & Louise
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