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Friends family students 2004

This is not part of my travel blog, it’s a photographic record of the people in my life in 2004.

Friends family students

Friends family students

Friends family students 2004 & very little travel other than two trips to Thailand due to a large home extension which doubled the size of my home.

Japanese students

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Here are some of the lovely Japanese students renting rooms in my extended home.

Ziggy & Kasumi

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My beautiful Doberman Ziggy.

Barbecue for friends family students

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Friends family students was my main focus in 2004, I filled up all my available rooms to try & get some return on the capital I outlaid on my home extensions. My original budget of $120,000 doubled to $240,000 Follow THIS LINK to see the fantastic result..

Phil Thomson & the students

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My good friend Phil joined us for dinner, barbecued sausages & red wine. 

The big catch

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The girls got very excited when they landed this monster from the jetty. 🙂

Happy students

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Barbecued sausages and corn for dinner.

In the carpark at the Eagles concert

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My friend Rossco & I dined on fresh seafood in the car park waiting for the Eagles concert to begin.

Cold beer & fresh seafood waiting for the Eagles

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Rossco digging in. 🙂

The Eagles on stage

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My favourite band of all time. Sadly Glenn Frey passed away on January 18, 2016. Take a couple of minutes to listen to him sing one of my favourite songs, it really describes perfectly how I feel about my life.

Drinks at Melbas with Michelle

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  What better way to celebrate Melbourne Cup than being in the company of a beautiful blonde.

 Phil Thomson & I enjoy a seafood lunch.

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It’s AFL grand final day, what better way to enjoy the game.

John Sinclair, Dennis Freemongrel & David Herd

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Friends for many years, but please don’t ask me to comment on Dennis, in fact now in 2018 both these guys have me on their black list. 🙂

Tony Murphy & his Moke

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Another very good friend, we met in the early 80s.

 My Nephew Michael celebrates his 21st

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  Warren’s family & I gathered at a Brisbane restaurant for Michael’s 21 st birthday.

The birthday boy

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Time just seems to fly, I can’t believe this little guy is 21.

Happy birthday Michael

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Michael would end up in Germany with his partner Björn Lüders, a lovely man who sadly passed away in 2016.

Richard Blair, aka Mr Stingy.

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 Lunch at Stingy’s Sanctuary Cove villa, he lives in Point Piper in Sydney and visits the Gold Coast often.

Vannessa Teo

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Another lovely friend on the Gold Coast, one of the sweetest ladies I have ever known.

Bryan Dart, Wayne Jones & Eddie.

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Coffee with friends on Chevron Island.

 Sharron & Nick

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Sharron & Nick opened a nice cafe on Chevron Island, we became friends & they looked after my home when I traveled to Brazil.


 

Joe, Mark Grofski & Anilyn

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Mark & Anilyn now live in Melbourne and are raising a large family.

The Nerang River with Chevron island on the left

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Now is 2016 this skyline has changed a lot. My last trip was November 2014.

Letter to the editor.

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One of my letters that was published in the Gold Coast Bulletin.  

Here is another

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So much for Paris. 🙂

See the guy in the red shirt?

Friends family studentsGuy! What guy? I don’t see any guy. 🙂

One last shot of some of my tenants.

Friends family studentsThanks for visiting my Friends family students photo blog.

And here I am 12 years later writing a blog & living in Thailand. 🙂

 
                   Here are some more posts on my wild wicked ways. :)  
 

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Click here to see the whole story of my big home extension.

 

Counter only started June 16 2020.

Author: David Herd

My history, particularly over the last 30 years is dominated by overseas travel. I sold my home in Australia October 20th 2011 and have have been living in Thailand since then. I don’t know where the time has gone? It seems like you go to sleep one night, wake up the next morning, and 20 years have flashed by. Not sure how many years I have left, however I have enjoyed a wonderful charmed life, and if it all ended today I would leave this world with no regrets. I was born in Sydney halfway through the last century, started my travels in the 60s with the usual U.K. Europe adventure at the age of 20, back to Australia and worked in Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide in Sales & Marketing with multinational companies including Sanyo, Canon & Remington. Engaged to be married 3 times and never quite made it to the alter, finally realized by the mid 90s I was not cut out for "long term relationships" so I moved to the Gold Coast in Queensland in January 1987, worked for a couple of banks as a Financial Planner, I took a year off work in 1998 to travel and never went back to full time work again, after 25 fun filled years on the Coast I packed up and moved to Thailand. What is the purpose of this blog? Well I really want to use it to record my travel experiences & to display my photographs, give and receive travel tips, comment on places I visit, restaurants I eat in and use it to replace the autobiography I intended to write, apart from all that it helps me fill in my day. :) I moved to Thailand mainly because I wanted to keep travelling while my health allowed me to, there are huge advantages being closer to all the places I want to visit. Cost of living in Thailand is around 35% of the cost in Australia, plus flights are 50% cheaper because you are much closer to everywhere. ???? Consequently I am able to travel to many more places compared to living in Australia. Having said all that, it is & has always been my intention to return to Australia when my travelling is finished, I predict this will happen around 2021.

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