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...
Day 4: Monday Dec 23rd Pokolbin
We got up this morning to hear the quacking of ducks at our front door 🙂 A couple of crusts were made into "duck breakfast" We had decided to do something a little different today and do a half day winery tour... By Horse and Carriage !!! I made the booking online...
Day 3: Sunday Dec 22 – Tamworth to Pokolbin
I wanted to get fairly early start this morning so we could maximise our time in the Hunter Valley. We had planned a lunch at a nice looking restaurant in Pokolbin that we had an Entertainment Book voucher for, so a light breakfast was in order ? The morning...
Day 2: Saturday Dec 21 – Warwick to Tamworth.
Today was one of our longer drives at approximately 420kms so we had an early breakfast, packed up the car and we were on the road by 7:30 Heading south along the New England Hwy we were saddened to see how dry the country was. This area has...
Day 1 Friday Dec 20 Dicky Beach – Warwick
Holidays!! After a busy year, were both ready for this break. We packed our bags the night before (the Engel fridge had been on for a day to chill down well) and were ready to go after breakfast. A quick stop to fill up the fuel tank and we were off to Warwick....
Christmas “Roadtrip” 2019 – 2020
!! Updated to include costs !!Scroll to the bottom of this post This year we are road tripping through QLD/NSW country. We are travelling down to see family outside of family Wollongong for Christmas Day, And to avoid the coastal crowds, where accommodation costs...
Last day 🙁 Heading home
Our last day today.We had booked the 10:00am ferry back to River Heads. We packed our bags and had breakfast then put our bags in the luggage room ready to go on the luggage truck for the ferry. We went down to the Jetty and had a walk along the beach and waited for...
Beauty Spots 4WD Tour
Today we are off on our 4WD adventure with a full day tour called the Beauty Spots tour. We went to the breakfast buffet for an early breakfast, as we have to meet the 4WD coach at 7:50 in the village square. We packed a small back pack with a change of...
A Quiet Lazy Day
With absolutely NOTHING planned today we had a super lazy day just hanging about the resort. Breakfast, a swim, a nap, lunch, another dip in the pool, and another nap was about the extent of the day 🙂 Tonight we had our included sunset prawn platter and a bottle of...
Kingfisher Bay – Fraser Island – Jan 2015
A long weekend away.... We are off early this morning heading to Hervey Bay to catch a 9:00 ferry to Fraser Island for a long weekend at the Kingfisher Bay Resort. I managed to get a good deal through one of the daily deals sites...
Home
As much as I thoroughly enjoyed my time away, I t is great to be home again. A few days after we left the lovely Bern in Paris, she sent us an email with the contact details of all our touring mates. It will be great to keep in tough with a few.In the email, Bern also...
Day 24 – Last day in London and Heading Home
I checked out the hotel after having the included buffet breakfast. The hotel stored my bags while I headed out to have one last look at London. I had found that the Old Spitalsfield Markets were within walking distance from the hotel, so I set off to explore.I found...
