Exploring Day 2 – The Barossa
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 have a quiet day of "nothing" on Sunday. After breakfast, we drove 40 minutes or so via the North Expressway to Gawler, where there is an...
Exploring Farther Afield – Day 1
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 car for 2 days so we planned on packing a fair bit into these 2 days. Today's itiinerary is..Collect CarDrive to GlenelgDrive to "Urban...
Exploring Adelaide
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 at 7:00 and enjoyed bacon, sausages and eggs. The chef was very friendly and asked us where we were from and how long we...
Newcastle to Adelaide Travel Day
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 and milk for breakfast, had our showers and packed away everything and we checked out just after 9:30am. As our flight to Adelaide does not leave...
A Country Drive
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 a couple of years ago. (link to those posts) but rather have a look a the towns between Newcastle and the Hunter Valley - Cessnock, Kurri...
Merry Christmas
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 boys. When we arrived C said the boys had done well and had slept in until nearly 5:30am. Of course Santa had been and the boys were super...
Christmas Eve
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 until Santa comes. We had breakfast and were just tidying up the room before going to the kids for our Christmas lunch, when we got a...
Santa Shopping and ever growing boys.
Part 2 of yesterdays post…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 turn our flight would be late. As I mentioned in the previous post, we spent the extra wait time in...
Christmas Break 2023 – Newcastle & Adelaide
Christmas !! After a very busy year it is going to be a well deserved break this year. We are off to Newcastle for a few days to see the family, then on to Adelaide for 9 days. Part 1: Our flight leaves at 9:10 from Brisbane, so we set the alarm early, had a light...
Home again
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 the day. I had packed most of our things the night before, so really needed to do not much more than have a shower, breakfast and relax.We...
7th Birthday Party Fun
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 to Sydney to take the boys to monster trucks as a surprise. Today’s party is being held at Parrey’s Indoor Skate...
Saturday 7th October 2023
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 off steam on the skate park. There was a decision made to go out for lunch before going to BMX in the afternoon. We were taken to...
A long weekend in Newcastle
We are off for a long weekend to Newcastle to visit the family. An early 6:00am start, saw us heading down the highway to Brisbane airport for our 9:15am flight to Newcastle. We got caught up with a bit of slow traffic around Northlakes, but it soon cleared and we...
Our New House – May 2023
This is our new house 🙂 We will rent it out until we are ready to retire and move down. We have a number of photos from the real estate agent. Some were taken when the house was last sold in 2017, some taken for the current sale in 2023 and some we took when we were...
We Did It!!!
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 Thursday, we spent Friday looking at some other houses I had in my "Saved Properties" on realestate.com.auNothing came anywhere near the...
Exciting and Frustrating Day – 13th April 2023
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 and all being well signing a new contract for sale. We met the agents at the new house at 10:00. The house is as good as we thought it would be....
Hobart Fly Day – 12th April 2023
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 the terminal. We checked our suitcases in and headed for the Virgin Lounge for breakfast. Our flight left slightly late at 9:50 and arrived in Hobart at...
Brisbane Bound – 11th April 2023
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. The Glen Innes motel has an included breakfast from 7:00am. We had showers and went to the breakfast room. The breakfast...
Heading North – 10th April 2023
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 few months. We had breakfast, finished packing, checked we had everything before checking out and going to the family to have a hot shower and...
More Family Fun -9th April 2023
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 and set off to have a look at a motel we had seen online that is much closer to the family’s house. We found the motel and saw that the cleaners were busy...
