Homeward Bound
I always knew today would be a long day, as the best flights I could get had me travelling from Melbourne to Sydney then a three hour stop over before a flight from Sydney to the Sunshine Coast, so I was somewhat prepared I had packed my bag the night before I had...
Day 3 – Art and Food
Today is the day that I actually came to Melbourne for. It’s the day I have my 10:00am ticket for the French Impressionist Exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria as well as a link to the audio tour read by Julia Zemiro.After an early night last night, I woke...
Day 2 – Foodie Tour and Sightseeing
I woke up this morning with a bit of a sleep in. When I looked at the clock, I was surprised to see that I had slept in until nearly 6 o'clock. I got up, made a couple of tea, gave M a ring, had a shower, made my breakfast and got myself sorted for the day. Today is...
Ready to Go – with an Upgrade 🙂
I am all packed and ready to go.I did not book business class flights and I know you often get the chance to bid for an upgrade. I put in the lowest bid at $65 and got an email last night to say I had been successful!! YAY. (Whether I get an upgrade on the way home...
“Weekend Wandering” trip to Melbourne
A few weeks ago I saw a news report announcing the arrival of the French Impressionists to the National Gallery of Victoria. Now of course, I live on the Sunshine Coast and it seems a long way to go to Melbourne for an art exhibition, but I thought I would have...
Monday – Heading Home
Today is our last day 🙁 I packed up most of our bags last night so we did not have too much to do this morning. Checkout was not until 10:00am, but we thought we had best be on the road fairly early as we expected the highway to be busy heading north. Again we...
Sunday- We have lunch reservations 🙂
After yesterday’s issue with finding lunch we have made a booking for a 12:30 lunch at St Bernard’s Hotel 🙂 We again enjoyed our supplied breakfast and had decided to go to the Tamborine Mountain Heritage Centre for a look around before lunch The village was small...
Saturday – Rest Day
Our breakfast basket arrived again this morning. Knowing that our breakfast is so big, we planned a quiet day today driving around to see the sights and perhaps have a late lunch. “The Best Laid Plans” Although we started the plan well it did not go totally to plan....
Friday – A Good Friday indeed.
We woke after a lovely nights sleep. Our cottage has a breakfast hamper included every day and were looking forward to seeing if was as good as described. It was delivered on time at 7:30am and ..OMG The smell of a fresh warm loaf of bread was DEVINE!! In the basket...
Thursday – Hit the Road and Hope
With the car packed, the plan for today is to pop into work and do a little paperwork before braving the highway to the Gold Coast and up the mountain to Tamborine. Finishing what I needed to do, we were on the road by 8:30am. The nav maps told us our journey was 2...
Easter Plans
We do always try to get way at both Easter and Christmas and this year is no different. After seeing a travel show a while ago highlighting the Scenic Rim and Tamborine Mountain. We thought it looked like a good option. Tamborine Mountain is roughly 2 hours from...
Homeward Bound 🙁
Our last day was fairly relaxed. Our flight from Launceston was not until 10:20am and the hotel was only under 10 minutes away. We packed the bulk of our bags the night before, and had a cruisy morning of showers, breakfast and pack up the car. We got to the airport...
Bath and Bubbles
A bath and a glass of bubbles is how today ended… Let’s start at the beginning. We had breakfast in our apartment before heading our and traveling up the western side of the Tamar River. Our first stop was the Tamar Valley Wine Centre. The website said… “The Tamar...
Monkeys and More Markets
After a good nights sleep, we got up, had showers and drove to town to the Grand Chancellor Hotel for their buffet breakfast. It was very good and we were both pleasantly full when we left.A short walk to the end of the street is the City Park. This is a lovely park...
The Market and the Mall
Every Saturday the Launceston Harvest Market is on in the centre of town. I had planned on getting the bus, but a look at the Metro app told me the busses were an hour apart on the weekend 🙁 so drive it was. It was not difficult to find a park (metered until 11:30am...
Ambling Back to Launceston.
Today we head back to Launceston. The trip up the main highway is only about 200kms but I planned to wind our way in off the highway and look at some of the small historic towns we have not seen before and revisit some we have. The first stop was Riversdale Estate. ...
A Little Further Afield
Today we drove a little west to revisit places we had been before. Sadly, things change and sometimes not for the best 🙁 Our first stop was the Salmon Ponds. We have been here a few times and it is always great fun feeding the trout and salmon. At times the ponds...
Let them eat…everything!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! We got up this morning after a very comfortable nights sleep. A light breakfast was in order today, as today is our visit to the “Taste” festival. We caught the bus to town, had a coffee/tea at a cafe, used some free wifi (thanks SanChurro 😀) to post...
Lake St Clair to Hobart
After a relaxing night in our Wilderness Cabin, we got up and ready early for a 7:00am breakfast. We decided to go for a walk around the lodge park and have a look at Lake St Clair. I could see from the map we had, that there was a jetty not far from our cabin. It...
A Day in the Wilderness
We had breakfast and packed up the car ready to leave for the Wilderness Railway. Before we left, I made sure to suitably clean the unit so as not to get a $50 charge 😀 We arrived at Regatta Point station in plenty of time to check in and get our boarding pass for the...
