My friend Gavin with his gorgeous girlfriend Andrea. One of the nicest Sydney seaside suburbs, Magnificent Sydney skyline Sue and I at ManlyДЇish & chips is compulsory for lunch at Manly. рџ™‚ Visiting my brother BryanД«ryan built a lovely home at Cobbity which is near Camden west of Sydney. She was with him at Buckingham Palace when he received an award from the Queen, not bad for a girl from Nana Plaza. Apple was the best Thai cook I have ever seen.ДЇinally after the love affair finished with Pothole Apple wound up married to an ex cop in London. Strange how things turn out, it is 2016 and Pothole live in the same building in Pattaya Thailand.

John Martin aka Pothole, Apple and Sue in Sydney for the weekend. Luckily my friend Peter Hesky had a private box which makes the game more enjoyable. I was at theВ Sydney Cricket Ground to watch my beloved Sydney Swan play Australian Football. Sonia & I went out together for a while, we met in Toowoomba where she was going to university, then hooked up last year in Beijing. Sayuri stayed at my home for several months while studying English. On the left isВ Sayuri withВ her friend andВ Ziggy in the background. рџ™‚ David Herd unforgettable year with some sweet Japanese girls I rarely miss a day going to Chevron Island for coffee, breakfast, lunch or dinner. Coffee on Chevron Island with Ross Kennedy. My friend Tony Murphy lived on his houseboat here in Surfers Paradise and previously in Townsville. It would cost me a years wages (if I had a job) to fill it up with diesel. My 60th birthday with John Sinclair, Bruce Donachie, Ross Kennedy & Phil Thomson. рџ™‚ life 2003 celebrating my 60th birthday Did I mention life 2003В was frantic? Well our 7000 km journey in 2 weeks certainly was. My 3 Japanese friends Yukako, Noriko & Megumi who came on the Outback road trip. One of my favourite people watching locations. Lunch at Omeros Brothers restaurant with good friends Ross & Mariana at the Marina Mirage. Lunch with friends Ross & Mariana Kennedy

The 500 m long beach faces east and is located between the northern 400 m long entrance wall of the Tweed River mouth and the 30 m high black basalt slopes of Point Danger, which marks the Queensland-NSW border. Duranbah Beach Tweed HeadsДuranbah Beach (NSW, also called Flagstaff Beach) is the most northern beach in NSW. I owned this lovely car for 17 years, I reluctantly sold it in 2007 when I was starting to downsize with a view of moving to Thailand. I enjoyed these beautiful sunsets for 21 wonderful years living in my beautiful home on the Gold Coast in Australia. I lived here from 1990 to 2011 & loved every minute. Harley is looking like a stunned mullet, the other guy is Jack, an Aussie who I met in Vietnam in January. A very happy groupВ Friends family students I had a couple of Japanese girls staying in my home, they loved my yellow Mercedes & here they are after I had taken them & their friends for a Yum Cha. My friend Vannessa Teo is the lovely lady on the right. Most of these lovely girls were students, I took 3 of them on a 7,000 kilometre road trip through the Outback and to Uluru. This is not a travel blog just a personal photo collection from 2003.

In August I took 3 lovely Japanese girls on a 7,000В kilometer road trip through the Outback to Uluru,В stopping at Broken Hill & Coober Pedy then on the way home we went to Airlie Beach& Hervey Bay to see the whales. I went to Vietnam twice in January & April, Thailand in April & July, then around the world in November starting in Chile,В then on to Rio De Janeiroin Brazil, Barcelona & Bangkok on the way home to Australia. David Herd unforgettable year 2003, not sure how I survived, it was one of the busiest & best years for travel, & at home on the Gold Coast, that I have ever experienced.

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