December - move to the Antipodes and EU adventures

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Paulie and Stephen return to Australia for Christmas until... well... not sure. Olivia has her 25th birthday, the Oxford lads share Christmas with the clan in Germany and then head to the family cottage en France, Nick and Elena head to Vienna after Christmas and work in Italy.

Dec 2 - first full day in Australia and a local greets Stephen. The guys are housesitting Halina's	Dec 6 - Olivias birthday the next day at her Paddington pad	.
Paulie & Stephen get gifts for their birthdays (celebrated in France)	Picnic thermal chapmagne flutes and bottle. Perfect!	A cake
with a broken candle.	Breakfast the next morning	Dec 8 - a lunch at Shari's pad
We meet the new boyfriend who is put through a series of tests including BBQ skills. He passes	.	Sisterly bonding
.	A big anouncement for next month!	Dec 12- Catch up with Michael Docherty. Also over from France for some sunshine
.	Dec 14 - Halina's guest room turns into a clinical garment factory	And festive scrubs are made. Allied Health staff request them, but Paulie is only supplying to ....
.... Miss Olivia	Birthday time for Genevieve Dunlop	.
.	.	.
Halina lends Stephen Gordon's bike.	Dec 22 - the team, including the Annerley Dunlops, head to Jan and Jim's in the hills behind Noosa	time to escape the heat
.	In the shade as well a water.	Stephen helps Jim maintain the large garden
But still has time to help Ella Bella make a bush house for the possums	And to read the latest children's literature	.
Pre-drinks before Jan and Jim take the guys to dinner.	A damn fine dinner (at Noosa)!	Christmas prep
Halina (Halka) and Seb prepare the entrées. Swedish of course.	Shari captures the gals	Olivia, Claudia, and Jess catch up
Jim and son Stef carve the ham	And it's Christmas dinner time!	Kids open their gifts
And adults chill in the evening	.	The next day Nurse Jan removes some sutures (not from a Christmas injury)
28 Dec - Meanwhile after a Christmas break in Germany, the lads head to the family property (La Cachette) in France	Dec 28 - but strikes are in place in France care of the great pension debate of 2019 (Macron trying to standardise pension ages), the lads spend a night in Bordeaux.	.
Whilst in Australia - free of strikes- old Pals Charlie Sutton and Riika drop in after a break with family. Returning to San Francisco a few days after	Back in Europe Elena and Nick head to a family friend's in Vienna after Christams with family in Italy.	And of course have to catch some culture. Betthoven's Fifth
And then the streets	.	.
And an aqua adventure	Also on an aqua adventure is Paulie's nephew Tony Dunlop - crewing once more in the Sydney to Hobart race.	Ella Bella and family flew down Tasmania to greet him.
Made it!	29 Dec - James and Keno eventually arrive at La Cachette. Stephen greets them as they arrive	A bit of gardening to do.
Dec 29 - Now shacked up with the St Lucia Atherton's, Stephen helps Chris set up his phone for their upcoming 3 week trip to Indonesia (the guys will dogsit and housesit whilst they are away)		New Year's Eve for Olivia near Byron Bay...
... at a music festival	Keno and James try a local vin pétillant to La Cachette to see in 2020	Nick and Elena celebrate with Elena's family friends in Vienna. Paulie and Stephen were wild too (an early night at St Lucia!)

Dec 2 - first full day in Australia and a local greets Stephen. The guys are housesitting Halina's

Dec 6 - Olivias birthday the next day at her Paddington pad

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Paulie & Stephen get gifts for their birthdays (celebrated in France)

Picnic thermal chapmagne flutes and bottle. Perfect!

A cake

with a broken candle.

Breakfast the next morning

Dec 8 - a lunch at Shari's pad

We meet the new boyfriend who is put through a series of tests including BBQ skills. He passes

.

Sisterly bonding

.

A big anouncement for next month!

Dec 12- Catch up with Michael Docherty. Also over from France for some sunshine

.

Dec 14 - Halina's guest room turns into a clinical garment factory

And festive scrubs are made. Allied Health staff request them, but Paulie is only supplying to ....

.... Miss Olivia

Birthday time for Genevieve Dunlop

.

.

.

.

Halina lends Stephen Gordon's bike.

Dec 22 - the team, including the Annerley Dunlops, head to Jan and Jim's in the hills behind Noosa

time to escape the heat

.

In the shade as well a water.

Stephen helps Jim maintain the large garden

But still has time to help Ella Bella make a bush house for the possums

And to read the latest children's literature

.

Pre-drinks before Jan and Jim take the guys to dinner.

A damn fine dinner (at Noosa)!

Christmas prep

Halina (Halka) and Seb prepare the entrées. Swedish of course.

Shari captures the gals

Olivia, Claudia, and Jess catch up

Jim and son Stef carve the ham

And it's Christmas dinner time!

Kids open their gifts

And adults chill in the evening

.

The next day Nurse Jan removes some sutures (not from a Christmas injury)

28 Dec - Meanwhile after a Christmas break in Germany, the lads head to the family property (La Cachette) in France

Dec 28 - but strikes are in place in France care of the great pension debate of 2019 (Macron trying to standardise pension ages), the lads spend a night in Bordeaux.

.

Whilst in Australia - free of strikes- old Pals Charlie Sutton and Riika drop in after a break with family. Returning to San Francisco a few days after

Back in Europe Elena and Nick head to a family friend's in Vienna after Christams with family in Italy.

And of course have to catch some culture. Betthoven's Fifth

And then the streets

.

.

And an aqua adventure

Also on an aqua adventure is Paulie's nephew Tony Dunlop - crewing once more in the Sydney to Hobart race.

Ella Bella and family flew down Tasmania to greet him.

Made it!

29 Dec - James and Keno eventually arrive at La Cachette. Stephen greets them as they arrive

A bit of gardening to do.

Dec 29 - Now shacked up with the St Lucia Atherton's, Stephen helps Chris set up his phone for their upcoming 3 week trip to Indonesia (the guys will dogsit and housesit whilst they are away)

New Year's Eve for Olivia near Byron Bay...

... at a music festival

Keno and James try a local vin pétillant to La Cachette to see in 2020

Nick and Elena celebrate with Elena's family friends in Vienna. Paulie and Stephen were wild too (an early night at St Lucia!)