Mum's gone 2 Aus

Is Surry Hills on your shortlist of Sydney suburbs to explore during a visit or relocation to Australia? Are you moving to Sydney and hoping to call Surry Hills home?

We’ve lived in Sydney for over two years and although we have heard a lot about Surry Hills – it has good bars and restaurants and is known as a fashionable suburb; we had never walked the streets and taken a look for ourselves, until recently.… Read more

The school Easter holidays are fast approaching and you may be looking for new activities to fill your days. You may be receiving overseas visitors and need to draw up an itinerary of things to keep them busy.

During the Australian summer holidays we had visitors from the UK and yet again, we discovered some fantastic family friendly activities in and around Sydney. Last year, following a visit from our boys’ Great-Grandmother we shared our Top… Read more

When we planned our move to Australia we were in search of a beach lifestyle. I imagined time spent playing and relaxing on the beach but because I’m not the most surf confident of mums I wasn’t convinced I’d do much swimming in the Ocean. What I didn’t realise was how many beautiful and accessible Ocean Pools there are along the majority of Australia’s coast line.

Ocean Pools offer a safe place to swim for surf… Read more

Mr Mum’s gone 2 Aus tells me I’m a little behind the times but this week I heard Fitzy & Wippa’s Sydneysiders song for the first time, and it had me in stitches! We have watched the video several times since first hearing the song and it provides a clever and fun take on Sydney life.

Fitzy & Wippa are well known Australian radio and TV personalities, currently hosting the weekday morning show (6-9am) at Nova… Read more

It’s week two of the new school year and already we’re dreaming of the next school holidays. In The great Australian school holiday hijack, we explained why our long summer holidays went by too quickly. We are feeling far less refreshed at this time of year than we hoped.

In need of some Vitamin Me?

Tourism Queensland recently launched a campaign explaining how a trip to the Sunshine Coast will boost your Vitamin Me….Vitamin Me?

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Last Thursday a new drama started on ABC1 in Australia called The Straits. The weeks preceding the first episode saw plenty of media hype and on screen promotion to ensure maximum viewers. In need of a new drama to follow we tuned in for the feature length season premiere. If you missed it, episode 1 and 2 of The Straits are available to watch online here.

Since enjoying the first few episodes we’ve visited The Straits website and… Read more

When we planned our relocation to Australia we wanted to move to a big city; like many people we chose between Sydney and Melbourne. However, during our final weeks in the UK I recall watching a TV show about emigration to Australia and the family being featured relocated to Hobart in Tasmania. Their lifestyle and the benefits of living in Australia’s often forgotten state seemed very good. Since then I’ve held onto a positive impression of what it… Read more

It’s Photo Friday and we’re sharing some video clips for a change…

How Aussie was your Australia Day?

We hope you had a good Australia Day. Without much preplanning, Family Mum’s gone 2 Aus did a number of very Aussie things. We had a quiet coffee on the beach in the morning, had friends over for a BBQ and beers in the afternoon, and when the rain finally stopped in Sydney, we headed to the beach… Read more

We frequently comment that choosing where to live is one of the hardest tasks for families moving to Australia.

In our Where to live section we have written about; Sydney vs Melbourne – fast facts, Australian suburb profiles – where to go to get the low down, Which is Australia’s most liveable city?, and The best Sydney suburbs for families.

The best and worst of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane

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