05
Jan
Home Again
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We set the alarm early, but we both woke before it. We finished packing our suitcases, went down and hade breakfast before checking out. We got...
04
Jan
Last Day in Adelaide
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Another quiet day for our last day in the city. A quick bus trip to Elder Park and a sightseeing trip on the iconic “Popeye”...
03
Jan
Wine, Railway Station and Glenelg
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I had planned a fairly easy day today. First was a visit to the National Wine Centre. This is located quite close to the CBD...
02
Jan
Kangaroo Island – Day 2
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After a busy day yesterday, we slept very well in a lovely comfortable bed. Given the lack of food yesterday, we thought we would use...
01
Jan
Kangaroo Island – Day 1
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Today we are setting off on a 2 day organised tour of Kangaroo Island. When I began researching this trip, I quickly discovered Kangaroo Island...
31
Dec
Quiet Rest Day
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After the last two busy days, we had a rest day today. We slept in a bit later and went down for breakfast. We had...
30
Dec
Exploring Day 2 – The Barossa
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As mentioned in yesterday's post, we only have the hire car for 2 days and have planned each day to be quite busy. We will...
29
Dec
Exploring Farther Afield – Day 1
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We had breakfast early this morning as we caught a bus to the airport we we collected a hire car. We are only having the...
28
Dec
Exploring Adelaide
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We both slept really well, sleeping in until 6:00am. Our room comes with a full buffet breakfast included so we wandered down to the restaurant...
27
Dec
Newcastle to Adelaide Travel Day
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I semi packed our bags last night ready to have the last bits and pieces packed. We used up the last of our bacon, eggs...
26
Dec
A Country Drive
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Today we decided on a “country road trip” I did not particularly want to go to the Hunter Valley wine areas as we explored there...
25
Dec
Merry Christmas
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We woke early this morning, had our showers and breakfast and went to the family. We had arranged to arrive at 7-30ish to see the...
24
Dec
Christmas Eve
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Christmas Eve is always a fun day when there are little kids involved. The boys were very excited there is now only ONE more sleep...
23
Dec
Santa Shopping and ever growing boys.
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We had an uneventful flight from Brisbane although we were pushed back by 40 minutes as our incoming flight from Mackay was delayed, and in...
22
Dec
Christmas Break 2023 – Newcastle & Adelaide
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Christmas !! After a very busy year it is going to be a well deserved break this year. We are off to Newcastle for a...
09
Oct
Home again
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Monday morning was our travel home day. Our flight did not leave Newcastle until 12:15pm so we were able to have a slow start to...
08
Oct
7th Birthday Party Fun
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Today, young T is having his birthday party. It is not his birthday until later this week, but his Mum and Dad have planned a trip...
07
Oct
Saturday 7th October 2023
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A quiet day today with nothing particular planned. We spent the morning visiting and playing with the kids at a park where they could let...
04
May
Our New House – May 2023
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This is our new house 🙂 We will rent it out until we are ready to retire and move down. We have a number of...
04
May
We Did It!!!
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Apologies for this post being so long after the last one.We had a lovely couple of days in Hobart. After looking at the house on...
13
Apr
Exciting and Frustrating Day – 13th April 2023
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Today is an exciting day. We may hear that the sale of the land is unconditional, we are viewing the house we hope to buy...
12
Apr
Hobart Fly Day – 12th April 2023
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We left the hotel early to put the car into the secure parking at the airport. From there it is a short bus trip to...
11
Apr
Brisbane Bound – 11th April 2023
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Today is an uneventful drive north to Brisbane. We are heading to a motel near the airport in readiness for our flight to Hobart tomorrow....
10
Apr
Heading North – 10th April 2023
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Waking up this morning was a little bit sad knowing we are saying goodbye to the family. We will not see them again for a...
09
Apr
More Family Fun -9th April 2023
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As we had no hot water in the unit, M had a cold shower and I had a warm “bird bath”. We had our breakfast...
08
Apr
Family Day -8th April 2023
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The family arrived at our apartment around 5:00pm. As we expected the boys are growing so fast. We had a lovely time at “Nana’s New...
07
Apr
Coffs Harbour to Newcastle -7th April 2023
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We both slept well but woke early ready for another day’s drive. It is exciting to be able to see the kids again. We are...
06
Apr
Caloundra to Coffs Harbour – 6th April 2023
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We woke up at our usual 5:30am, had breakfast and were on the road just after 7:00 Our destination today is the Charlesworth Bay Beach...
05
Apr
Easter Road Trip -5th April 2023
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Finally, our holiday plans are coming back to some sort of normality post CoVid. This year we are traveling south the Newcastle to visit the...
09
Jan
Day 14 – 8th January 2022
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We were due to depart Hobart at 12:45pm, so we asked the hotel if we could have a later checkout than 10:00. We were told...
07
Jan
Day 13 – 7th January 2022
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Another cloudy, drizzly day today. 🙁 We got up and had a shower, then tried to make a cup of tea and found we had...
06
Jan
Day 12 – 6th January 2022
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We awoke to another cloudy day with the threat of rain highly likely. We decided to not go far and run the risk of getting...
05
Jan
Day 11 – 5th January 2022
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Another sightseeing day today and a light breakfast as this was to be an “eating day” Firstly we headed to Richmond and the famous bakery....
04
Jan
Day 10 – 4th January 2022
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Today was an exciting day as we are meeting with our builder. Paul from Construction4U had been in touch and we arranged to meet later...
03
Jan
Day 9 – 3rd January 2022
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Nothing planned for today as it is a public holiday and not much is open. We spent the morning reading a doing “nothing” – after...
02
Jan
First Visit to our Land.
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In December 2021, we travelled to Hobart for our Christmas break, and to visit our land for the first time. You can read about our...
02
Jan
Day 8 – 2nd January 2022
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Every Sunday, Hobart has a Farmers Market in the CBD. We decided to get the bus to the city and have a look around. ...
01
Jan
Day 7 – 1st January 2022
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A quiet day of sightseeing today. We decided to head south along the Huon River. It is a lovely pretty river with rolling hills and...
31
Dec
Day 6 – 31st December 2021
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New Years Eve 2021. We hope that this year will be the last of the pandemic and we can get back to a “normal” life...
30
Dec
Day 5 – 30th December 2021
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We both slept well and woke around 5:30am. We had some of the pastries for breakfast with a cup of tea, packed our bags back...
29
Dec
Day 4 – 29th December 2021
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Today we head to Launceston for a night away. We had not planned to do this when I originally booked this trip, but the Tasmanian...
28
Dec
Day 3 – Tuesday 28th December 2021
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We both slept very well last night. After breakfast, we decided to drive back to the land and have another look at the view with...
27
Dec
Day 2 – Monday 27th December 2021
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Neither of us had a great nights sleep, probably due to not being in our own beds and not wanting to sleep in. After having...
26
Dec
Day 1 – Sunday 26th December 2021
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We started Boxing Day with a relaxing sleep in before a final check of our packing lists. I had booked a motel room near Brisbane...
24
Dec
Tasmania here we come…again :)
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It has been a while since we have travelled to Tasmania. CoVid19 put a stop to many people’s travel plans our’s included. We have missed...
01
Dec
Derwent Shores
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On many trips to Hobart we have looked at real estate with the eventual plan of retirement. The Hobart area does not have a lot...
06
Apr
Last Day 🙁-6th April 2021
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Today we had the return 600 odd kilometer journey back to the Sunshine Coast and home. We packed the car with the majority of our...
06
Apr
Lazy Day – 5th April
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Today is our last day of this break before we head home tomorrow. It has been raining most of the day, so our plan of...
04
Apr
Rockhampton Zoo – 4th April
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Awoke today to another gloomy day 🙁 We thought we would go to into Rockhampton and have a look along the River Precinct and look...
03
Apr
A Drizzly Day – 3rd April
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We awoke to find a grey and drizzly day looming. The weather reports had shown we were in for a wet Easter, so we felt...
02
Apr
Good Friday – 2nd April
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Whenever we travel over the Easter break, we make sure we have self catered for Good Friday knowing that not much is open. We had...
01
Apr
Easter 2021 – Yeppoon
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Any travel through this CoVid time is a challenge, but we had decided that we did need a break but we would need to stay...
01
Feb
New Car for our Travels
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Our Christmas Roadtrip was a practise run to see how we would go for space with a proposed new car. Our previous car was a...
12
Jan
Mantra Day 7: 12th January
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Today we are heading home. As with any holiday, our time away has been lovely, but it is always nice to get home. We had...
11
Jan
Mantra Day 6: 11th January.
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A quiet start before we ambled across to the Qld Museum. The Museum does not open until 9:30 so we had plenty of time. I...
10
Jan
Mantra Day 5: 10th January.
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This was a fun day of Buses, Boats and Trains We had been told to do a day trip out to the Moreton Bay Islands...
09
Jan
Mantra Day 4: 9th January
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We planned a day in the city today to do some sightseeing and then later in day meet our daughter for an early dinner. We...
08
Jan
Mantra Day 3: 8th January
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We had another lighter breakfast today and then we hopped on a bus over to the city and found the bus to travel to “The...
07
Jan
Mantra Day 2: 7th January
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We planned on a lighter breakfast this morning as one of our Christmas gifts from our “down south family” was a voucher for the seafood...
06
Jan
Mantra Southbank- 7 Nights 5th to 12th of January 2020 Day 1 -6th Jan
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This holiday is a continuation of our Christmas Roadtrip. You can read that trip here 🙂 We arrived and checked in yesterday and had a...
06
Jan
Final Wrap Up of the Road Trip
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For the next week, we are staying at the Mantra as previously mentioned. So I will split the holiday up as two trips.This post will...
05
Jan
Day 17: Jan 5th Toowoomba to Brisbane.
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This was the last day of our “RoadTrip” The next week we have booked a room at Mantra. This will not be as much of...
04
Jan
Day 16: Jan 4th Moree to Toowoomba.
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This drive would be another long-ish one at 350kms. We know by looking at the map, there is not a lot of towns along this...
03
Jan
Day 15: Jan 3rd Dubbo to Moree
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This drive was one of our longer days at around 340kms, but we were not in any hurry. The plan was to take our time...
02
Jan
Day 14: Jan 2nd Dubbo
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We awoke in our Zoofari Tent after a very comfortable nights sleep. Although yesterday was so hot, we went to bed with the air conditioner...
01
Jan
Day 13: Jan 1st Kandos to Dubbo
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We had a relaxing night watching TV and I wrote my blog post. I also Googled a bit about the history of Kandos. It had...
31
Dec
Day 12: Dec 31st Blue Mountains to Kandos
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We awoke to a rare phenomenon for this trip…BLUE SKY… We could only hope that the firies were getting some reprieve. We only had a...
30
Dec
Day 11: Dec 30th Blue Mountains
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Today we travelled around on the Hop-on-Hop-off bus. It was another very hot day, with temperatures of 37 degrees forecast, so we made the choice...
29
Dec
Day 10: Dec 29th Kings Plains to the Blue Mountains
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We had a really good stay at our last night’s stay. Even though I had booked this thinking it was just a “place to stay”...
28
Dec
Day 9: Dec 28th Canberra – Cowra. and King’s Plains
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Today’s travel takes us to Cowra and on to our AirBnB in a little town, King’s Plains, approximately 50 minutes away. We had breakfast, packed...
27
Dec
Day 8: Dec 27th Canberra.
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We spent some time last night organising a loose itinerary for today. Originally we thought we may use public transport to look around, as we...
26
Dec
Day 7: Dec 26th Wollongong to Canberra.
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After a busy Christmas Day, we had an early night and a good sleep in. We packed up, had breakfast and left Wollongong on our...
25
Dec
Day 6: Dec 25th : Wollongong
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Merry Christmas. Today is Christmas Day with family. Our “big” little boy is 3 and is SOOO excited that Santa is coming 🙂 We had...
24
Dec
Day 5: Tuesday Dec 24th – Pokolbin to Wollongong
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Today was just a travel day. As mentioned, I had thought that today would be a bit of a horror trip travelling down busy highways...
23
Dec
Day 4: Monday Dec 23rd Pokolbin
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We got up this morning to hear the quacking of ducks at our front door 🙂 A couple of crusts were made into “duck breakfast”...
22
Dec
Day 3: Sunday Dec 22 – Tamworth to Pokolbin
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I wanted to get fairly early start this morning so we could maximise our time in the Hunter Valley. We had planned a lunch at...
21
Dec
Day 2: Saturday Dec 21 – Warwick to Tamworth.
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Today was one of our longer drives at approximately 420kms so we had an early breakfast, packed up the car and we were on the...
20
Dec
Day 1 Friday Dec 20 Dicky Beach – Warwick
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Holidays!! After a busy year, were both ready for this break. We packed our bags the night before (the Engel fridge had been on for...
17
Dec
Christmas “Roadtrip” 2019 – 2020
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!! Updated to include costs !!Scroll to the bottom of this post This year we are road tripping through QLD/NSW country. We are travelling down...
19
Jan
Last day :( Heading home
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Our last day today.We had booked the 10:00am ferry back to River Heads. We packed our bags and had breakfast then put our bags in...
18
Jan
Beauty Spots 4WD Tour
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Today we are off on our 4WD adventure with a full day tour called the Beauty Spots tour. We went to the breakfast buffet for an early...
17
Jan
A Quiet Lazy Day
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With absolutely NOTHING planned today we had a super lazy day just hanging about the resort. Breakfast, a swim, a nap, lunch, another dip in...
16
Jan
Kingfisher Bay – Fraser Island – Jan 2015
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A long weened away…. We are off early this morning heading to Hervey Bay to catch a 9:00 ferry to Fraser Island for a long...
30
Oct
Home
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As much as I thoroughly enjoyed my time away, I t is great to be home again. A few days after we left the lovely...
26
Oct
Day 24 – Last day in London and Heading Home
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I checked out the hotel after having the included buffet breakfast. The hotel stored my bags while I headed out to have one last look...
25
Oct
Day 23 – Paris to London
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Early start this morning for our final day. Quite a few people are staying on in Paris and a number were flying out of Paris....
24
Oct
Day 22 – Paris
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We started the day with a sightseeing tour on the coach, stopping a number of times for photos. We then picked up Patrick ( our...
23
Oct
Day 21 – Lyon – Paris via Versailles
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6:45 bags and breakfast and we were on our way to Paris at 7:30 A misty morning greeted us as we headed down the highway,...
22
Oct
Day 20 – Nice -Avignon -Lyon
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On the bus at 7:45 we made our way along the Promenade and bid farewell to Nice. The sun was riding over the bay as...
21
Oct
Day 19 – Nice
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A free morning today, so a group of us headed out shopping. Bern gave us details instructions on how to catch the Metro and navigate...
20
Oct
Day 18 – Florence to Nice via Pisa
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Another early morning (6:45 bags and breakfast) then off to Pisa. The leaning tower was built as the bell tower for the church in the...
19
Oct
Day 17 – Florence
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We woke to a misty morning and about 15 degrees Yay to some cooler weather. The weather report says it will fine up and be...
18
Oct
Day 16 – Sorrento to Florence
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Pompeii …After a good breakfast, quite a few of us went to the pool deck to take photos of Sorrento with Mt Vesuvius in the...
17
Oct
Day 15 – Sorrento, Positano & the Amalfi Coast
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Arrivederci Roma 7:00 bags and breakfast this morning and we are on our way to Naples While we were in Rome, Bern had set us...
16
Oct
Day 14 -The Vatican & the Colosseum -Rome
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We boarded the coach and walked straight passed the lines and entered the museum just on 8:00 We passed through the antiquity halls and saw...
15
Oct
Day 13 – Venice to Rome
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We had an early start today, ready for a long road trip day today. Leaving the hotel at 7:30 we are driving through the Italian...
14
Oct
Day 12 – Venice
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Another glorious day in the beautiful Venice. 🙂 we have a strange phenomenon today… There is a big shiny ball in the sky that has...
13
Oct
Day 11 – Venice
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7:00 bags and breakfast then off to Verona.A pleasant drive down the motorway we passed through the Dolomite mountains and gorgeous Italian country side. We...
12
Oct
Day 10 – Lucerne to Innsbruck
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On the road to Austria via Liechtenstein. Bern tells us that today is brought to us by the letter “S” …. Swarovski, Schnitzel , Strudel...