Reedy

Hi Tony,

Haven't watched your show but we are Welsh also looking to move to Melbourne - it is nice reading a positive post and glad everything is working out well for you.

Laura

mike-Ju

Hi Tony

Im so chuffed you and yours have settled so happily over in Oz, I loved your story and am a bit miffed taht the kiss thing was all pre-planned, I was really suckered into thinking you'd used your Welsh charm to worm your way in. Blooming producers.

Anyway do you still live in the Welsh quarter of Melbourne? or did you build your house further away? Do you still have loads of Welsh friends over there because it looked like there was a whole estate of Taffs! must of been really reasuring when you got there to have so many kin folk all around.

Lovely to hear your doing so well, mate.

Love to all your family

Ju and Mike

Daviesfamily

You will love Melbourne, give us a call when you get here. Michelle and myself will be back in Swansea for a holiday July 2008.
Tony

Daviesfamily

Hi,
If you remember from the show we were looking to build a house, well we have and its not near the old place on the lake. The welsh crowd in the show were not really our friends we really only knew Tony & June and they are friends of my parents. The film crew said for us to hold a bbq and invite people round but we didnt know anyone so Tony & June asked the Welsh crowd to make up some numbers. After the filming we never really saw them again untill christmas. They never helped us or supported us like it made out in the show we were on our own most of the time. Since then we have made some friends (expats) that saw the show and were inspired to emigrate after watching us. Lots of people have come up to us when we are out and ask us about the show and we always enjoy talking about it.
Tony

Daviesfamily

I just remembered something about the KISS thing, the guy who set up the meeting with Kiss and was the camera man at the meeting also had a bit part in the Kevin & Perry movie a few years back. If you remember they were in Ibiza and one night they were in a club and someone was sick over them from a balcony, the guy that was sick is our camera guy who set up the meeting with Kiss. A little bit of trivia for you.
Tony

kez81

i remember seeing you on the programme im really happy your moved worked out well for you all, congratulations on the grandkids too!!!

Daviesfamily

Thanks for the kind words. Did you or anybody else see Michelle and myself on channel 4 RISE breakfast show, we were on it I think it was wednesday of their final week. They asked us to do on it while we were home on holidays.
Tony

mike-Ju

OMG Im totally disapointed, what a con, these programme makers are really manipulating arn't they. After reading about what really went on with the Russells as well.

Im glad you made some real friends out there.
is there anything you would change about the whole experiance of moving to Australia?

Reedy

We live in Caerphilly at the moment.

Not sure where we will settle when we get to Melbourne. Think we will stay in holiday rental for a few weeks until we find the area we want to go.

We are hoping to be over for the New Year....

This July was a bit of a wash out back home - make sure you pack your waterproofs and wellies.....

Will be in touch as soon as we get the visa as it would be great to meet up.

Speak to you soon,

Lau

geelong

Hi Tony,
Seeing your family on the show was a big inspiration for my wife and I to make the move. We still enjoy watching the re-runs. We are hoping to be out in the New Year once we get our visa.

Regards,

Tim

mark 'n' joe

Glad everything worked out for you. Shame the show is so manipulated, still watch it though. We are going to Melbourne this weekend for our recce/validation trip.

All the best

Joex

Scrawni 2

Hello Tony,

Great to hear from you. You came across as really down to earth and so did the family.

How long did it take for you to settle? I am so glad everything seems to have turned out good. Is there anything that you would have done differently?

Mandy

Daviesfamily

I dont think so, as I said in the show there is nothing bad except that its so far away from UK. When a member of your family in the UK is ill you really realise how far away you really are. Moving to Australia is recommended.
Tony

Daviesfamily

Hi Tim
Thanks for the kind words. We tried to just be ourselves in the show and enjoy ourselves. We didnt moan and complain like some of the others mainly because we didnt have anything to moan about. We love it here and try to enjoy everything we do. We are happy to meet and talk to anyone, as we have been doing since the show first aired. We still get stopped while out shopping or going for walks etc. by people that recognise us, we always stop to talk as some people have a lot of questions they want to ask. So if anyone spots us come over and say hi.
Tony

Daviesfamily

Hi Mandy,
Thanks, we just tried to be ourselves and enjoy it.
I think we settled almost straight away which is not the norm. It takes some people a year or so. The only trouble we had was when we went back to Swansea after a year for a holiday which was to soon and a bit of homesickness kicked in after seeing family again.
I cant think of anything I would have done differently we have enjoyed everything so far.
Tony