Today is
2973
Days since I left CHS
5135
Days since I left APS
9606
Days since my birth
&
967
Days Since last in Oz
Matt Bourke's Latest:
(August 13th 2007)
1. Update
Update
I went to Ireland again recently then 2 weeks later went to the music festival in Poland for a week which was Awesome!!!.
I've been busy working recently and looking for a new place to live, I'll start traveling again in September.
In September I'm off to Frankfurt for a weekend then the following weekend I'm off to Munich for Oktoberfest with some friends and my old man.
After I return from Munich I'm off to Ireland (again) for a week with my old man, we are doing a road trip together, after I come back from Ireland
my father is heading off to Egypt for 2 weeks, the first weekend he is away I'm off to Valencia Spain, then the following weekend I'm off to
Majorca Spain. then I'm going to have a rest from traveling until late November when I'm off to Stockholm Sweden, then I'll rest for a month.
In January I'm off to Gothenburg Sweden for a weekend, then the following weekend its Billund Denmark.
After Denmark I currently have no trips planned.
(April 20th 2007)
1. New Job 2. Trips/Birthday
New Job
After a fun year at my current place of employment I've decided to seek a new challenge and see what the rest of the UK has to offer and what I can
offer it, I'll be starting the new role as a Coldfusion/Java dev in June.
I'll be moving a little south a little closer to London. Town seems a nice area and the people I interviewed with seemed pretty genuine,
I'll miss my current town and current work mates, but will be sure to
keep in touch with everyone!
Trips/Birthday
I turn 25 (old but I feel like I'm 5) this year (September) and was originally planning on going home for my B'day but then decided to stay here that month for Oktoberfest instead.
I only just checked the date my old man arrives and turns out he arrives on my B'day :), he has his trip booked and my little sister has her trip booked
for the following month, it will be soooo good to catch up with some DNA.
My self and my number one travel mate are off to Irelands biggest city (Dublin cos it's always dublin) June 8th for the weekend. So if any of my Irish
Feens (Cork Slang) read this be sure to give us a buzz on that weekend.
(March 13th 2007)
1. Opener Festival Poland 2. Oktoberfest Dates
Opener Festival Poland
I will be flying into Poland on the 28th of June and camping three nights at the Opener Festival with some Polish
friends, the festival is on a military airport which is right on the beach, should be awesome.
Let us know if you read this and plan on being around Gdynia Poland around the same time.
Oktoberfest
Flights booked CHECK!!, Accom booked CHECK!!, friends ready CHECK!!.
So far I'm going with a friend from work, a friend from school in Australia and my father is coming over from Australia and traveling around Europe
and Egypt for several weeks so his coming along to.
We had a lot of fun last year and will be sure to be in heaven in 2007.
(February 25th 2007)
1. Europe 2006 2. Languages 3. Europe 2007
Europe 2006
During 2006 I went to Germany twice, The Netherlands once, Iceland once, Wales once, Ireland once and of cos England where I'm living.
I went to the Soccer world cup as well as the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich.
Languages
I'm currently learning the following languages. Learning is easier and more fun then I had thought.
Arabic
English (Fluent)
Brazilian Portugese
German
Icelandic
Mandarin Chinese
Polish
Europe 2007
No great plans this year, I'm going to Poland/eastern europe in late June with a mate from school.
My old man is coming over in september and a big group of us will be going to Oktoberfest 2007 in Munich, also my little sister
is coming to visit me later in the year when she finishes her HSC.
I plan on buying a house in Australia some time this year, at the end of the year I'll fly home for Christmas and hopefully
check out the house I bought.
(July 2nd 2006)
1. England 2. Europe
England
I've been in england for 6 weeks now and everything is going well.
Europe
Well to be honest I usually ramble away on here with to much crap, so from now on I'll do less typing
and simply upload videos and turn this site into a Vlog "video log".
I'll upload more videos to my Album page.
(May 5th 2006)
Salutations. 1. Me on Youtube 2. Europe
Me on Youtube
Well my movie career has finally launched, I have two movies on www.youtube.com
Click on the below images to view my movies.
Europe
I fly out of Australia to Sunny England around May the 11th.
(April 13th 2006)
Salutations. 1. Europe 2. Scuba Mad!!!
Europe
I'm moving to Europe!! Arghhhhhh!!!.
Flying over late April early May, working as a Software Developer for a company in England.
They are giving me some time off in June so I can still fly over to Germany to see Australia win
the world cup.
Scuba Mad
Had the Scuba bug lately, I've bought up all the latest gear and have dived every Sat/Sunday this year.
I've been having lots of fun and I've now been Certified for something like 10 years!!
(January 12th 2006)
Salutations. 1. Seal Rocks (I saved a Dolphin) 2. Adelaide/Melbourne. 3. Europe 2006.
Seal Rocks
I went to Seal Rocks just before Christmas and got really drunk and was walking along the beach late
at night and found a very big dolphin had beached its self.
I then found some equally drunk Israeli tourists who were road tripping up and down NSW,
we all charged down to the beach in the dark and after half hour of pushing the dolphin back out
continually it eventually got sick of us pushing it back out, so it then swam off out to sea.
Then we sat back drinking to early hours of the morning then I went spearing the next day.
Adelaide/Melbourne
Well I had never been to the southern states before and had always said I would one day go, so last year
New Years Eve was approaching and I weren't sure of what to do, so I jumped on a plane to Adelaide,
visited a mate there and hit the town 3 nights straight.
After 3 nights in Adelaide I thought "well why fly home, I aint seen Perth or Melbourne or Hobart".
I realised no one I knew in Hobart was home, so I never flew there and I don't know many people in Perth.
So I jumped on a plane and went to Melbourne and hit the town for the night and got really wasted.
Next morning came and I walked around the city, I found Melbourne to be laid out a lot better then
Sydney, well the Central Business District anyway.
After finding Melbourne's China town for lunch (I'm a big fan of Asian food) I felt a little hung over and
thought "Well gotta go back home eventually" so jumped on a bus to the airport and flew to Sydney, then
jumped on a train home.
To Sum up, Adelaide is a lot better then people make out, woman there were probably the best looking
out of all the Australian city's I've been to so far, in fact Adelaide is more like a large country town
then a city.
Melbourne I can't comment on to much as I was only there one night and half a day
so most of what I seen was night, but it still seemed pretty cool.
Europe 2006
I'm going to Europe in June/July with some mates from School, we plan to see Australia win the World Cup
as well as Visit, England, Ireland, Scotland, Holland, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Switzerland etc.
Quote of The Day: ".....Everyone has a plan until I hit em' in the Face......." - Mike Tyson
