Day 5 – 30th December 2021
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 up and drove the short distance up the road to see the Country Club Resort and Casino (the Villas we stayed in are part of the resort)...
Day 4 – 29th December 2021
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 Government were kindly giving away tourism dollars for Qld, SA and WA residents to the tune of $300, so I thought why not 🙂 The...
Day 3 – Tuesday 28th December 2021
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 the sun behind us. ( much easier to take photos 🙂 ) I walked up to the top of the block and shot the video and photos...
Day 2 – Monday 27th December 2021
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 a really nice shower and breakfast, we drove to the airport parking and found a spot to leave the car ( undercover secure parking) unloaded our...
Day 1 – Sunday 26th December 2021
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 airport for the night as we had an 8:15 am flight. With traffic and having to be at the airport 45minutes before takeoff, it would...
Tasmania here we come…again 🙂
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 a number of family occasions and travel has been almost impossible except for within our own state. Although the pandemic...
Derwent Shores
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 of flat land (certainly very little with views) so deciding on areas has been interesting.On one trip I saw an ad for "Derwent Shores"...
Last Day 🙁-6th April 2021
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 luggage last night so only had a small bag to go this morning. After showers and a cuppa, we thought we would get pastries at Baked on 44...
Lazy Day – 5th April
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 having a lazy day of food,TV, reading and relaxing. After a sleep in and a slow start, we walked up the road a bit to the Lure Living Cafe for a late...
Rockhampton Zoo – 4th April
Awoke today to another gloomy day 🙁 We thought we would go to into Rockhampton and have a look along the River Precinct and look at the heritage buildings, have lunch somewhere and go to the Zoo in the afternoon. That plan got quashed when we got to Rockhampton to...
A Drizzly Day – 3rd April
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 lucky to have dodged rain for the last couple of days.After breakfast in the apartment we decided to head into Rockhampton to have a look around and...
Good Friday – 2nd April
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 a nice sleep in and had a leisurely start to the day. The shower in the apartment was really nice and I had a lovely long shower before...
Easter 2021 – Yeppoon
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 within Queensland. We chose Rockhampton as it had been a long time since either of us had been in the area. A quick "Google" showed lots to do and...
New Car for our Travels
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 BMW Sedan, and while we did enough room in the car, we knew that upgrading to an X5 would be a good move. We collected our new car this week and...
Mantra Day 7: 12th January
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 gone to bed early last night and we woke up early at 5:30am. At least we are getting back to work routine 🙂 After showers and a couple of cups of...
Mantra Day 6: 11th January.
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 started organising our things ready to pack tomorrow morning. I had done a load of washing the night before, so all we will not have just chore to...
Mantra Day 5: 10th January.
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 - Russell, Lamb, Macleay and Karragarra. All these islands sit in the Moreton Bay and are easily reached with a short ferry ride from Redland Bay Marina. I...
Mantra Day 4: 9th January
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 decided on a Brisbane City Hall visit and perhaps a trip up the clock tower.Tours do not start until mid-morning, so we had a relaxed start to the...
Mantra Day 3: 8th January
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 Summit" at the Mount Coot-tha Lookout. Neither of us had been up Mount Coot-tha for many years and the restaurant is quite iconic. As the restaurant...
Mantra Day 2: 7th January
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 platter at a restaurant in SouthBank - YellowFin. We have been to this restaurant before and it was on our list of places to eat for...
