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...
Day 13: Jan 1st Kandos to Dubbo
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 proven to be a larger town than we had expected, so we figured there must have been something happening in the past. We were correct, it turns out...
Day 12: Dec 31st Blue Mountains to Kandos
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 fairly short drive today, so we took the advantage of a slow start, and, with clear skies, we took advantage and headed back up to the...
Day 11: Dec 30th Blue Mountains
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 to basically stay in air conditioning as much as possible.We walked down through the little village of Leura browsing the...
Day 10: Dec 29th Kings Plains to the Blue Mountains
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” to break up the trip…it turned out to be one of the nicest AirBnB’s we have been in so far ? Super comfy bed, lots of thoughtful...
Day 9: Dec 28th Canberra – Cowra. and King’s Plains
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 up the car and headed off at about 8:30 First stop was to top up the fuel tank then head to Cowra, where we wanted to see the...
Day 8: Dec 27th Canberra.
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 had noticed that parking in the city was $3.00 per hour, however on a closer look at the bus website, we found that there was...
Day 7: Dec 26th Wollongong to Canberra.
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 way to Canberra where we will stay two nights. Rather than going straight down the highway, we wanted to look at a motel in the town near...
Day 6: Dec 25th : Wollongong
Merry Christmas. Today is Christmas Day with family. Our "big" little boy is 3 and is SOOO excited that Santa is coming 🙂 We had breakfast at our AirBnB before heading to see the family and swap presents. We then made our way to an extended family Christmas Day. It...
Day 5: Tuesday Dec 24th – Pokolbin to Wollongong
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 in and out of Sydney as well as Sydney traffic itself. As it turned out it was not too bad. I must admit it was great to have the...
