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...
Mantra Southbank- 7 Nights 5th to 12th of January 2020 Day 1 -6th Jan
This holiday is a continuation of our Christmas Roadtrip. You can read that trip here 🙂 We arrived and checked in yesterday and had a nice night relaxing., while we did a load of washing and dried in in the tumble dryer. We slept in until around 7:30. After we had...
Final Wrap Up of the Road Trip
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 be the final numbers. Facts and FiguresFrom the time we left home until arriving here in Brisbane we have.. Been away for 16 nights...
Day 17: Jan 5th Toowoomba to Brisbane.
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 a "budget break" 🙂 we love eating out at good restaurants, so the Entertainment Book will be used as much a possible 🙂 The package I booked is Room and...
Day 16: Jan 4th Moree to Toowoomba.
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 route, but there is always something interesting to see. As we had the hotplates, were able to cook ourselves eggs for breakfast. Not...
Day 15: Jan 3rd Dubbo to Moree
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 and stop at a couple of towns along the way before reaching Moree for our check in at the EconoLodge Motel at 2:00pm This is the only motel I had booked...
Day 14: Jan 2nd Dubbo
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 on full at 18 degrees and the fan on full speed just to get to sleep, at some time through the night we pulled the doona up as...
