Day 9 – 3rd January 2022
Nothing planned for today as it is a public holiday and not much is open. We spent the morning reading a doing “nothing” - after all, we are on holiday 🙂 Such at the pub was deemed a good idea, so we went to the restaurant and had Eye Fillet and Lamb Rack. In the...
First Visit to our Land.
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 trip here.To say we are pleased with our purchase is a HUGE understatement. The view is just perfect. From everywhere on the block we can...
Day 8 – 2nd January 2022
Every Sunday, Hobart has a Farmers Market in the CBD. We decided to get the bus to the city and have a look around. It was a quick 20 minute trip on the bus from the Shoreline shops to the Elizabeth St Mall in the centre of town. The farmers market is good but did...
Day 7 – 1st January 2022
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 large orchards. We arrived at Franklin at around lunchtime, and the Lady Franklin Hotel looked good for a meal. We have eaten here...
Day 6 – 31st December 2021
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 (whatever that means) I do wonder if we will ever have a “pre CoVid” normal. When considering how other major events like 9/11 etc have...
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...
