Day 3 – London Sightseeing
Started the day with a breakfast of bacon and eggs cooked in the apartment I organized what train I needed to get to the first point of my day sightseeing - Big Ben Checking the weather app on my phone I was happy to see it was 4 degrees at 8:00am. So...
Day 2 – Arriving in London
This is a re-run of the entry that I stupidly deleted. How do you accidently delete an entry you may ask? well...I am using my phone camera for the photos in this blog, so I have the Travel Pod app on my phone as well as here on the ipad. When I take...
Day 1.. Bon Voyage -Bound for London
Today stated with an early wake up to get ready to go. A quick breakfast and Mick drove me to Bill and Joy's place where my Limo Transfer was to collect me at 9:00. The Etihad transfer has a 60km radius from Brisbane airport and outside of that there is an added cost....
Packing Light
Just over a week now until I go, and I am going to pack this weekend For some time I have been practicing "Travelling Light" While not always sticking to carry on only, I do like to have a small case that is not too heavy..After all, I am the one who has to lug that...
European Cavalcade – October 2014
Not long to go now until I head off on my Europe trip. I leave on the 3rd of October and head to London for 3 days before joining a bus tour for 18 days.See the tour here....European Cavalcade I have been saving for ages for this trip to treat myself for my 50th...
Checkout and Home 🙁
Our weekend away has sadly come to an end :(. We have packed up and just enjoying one last cuppa before we head back north. We are stopping off at the family for a Fathers Day lunch and then back to reality 🙁 We have enjoyed our stay here at the Mouses House Watch...
Things To Do
Arising from a great nights sleep, we made breakfast and headed out to look at the surrounding national park. Following the visitors guide, we visited a number of lovely lookouts and waterfalls We finished up at Puddle Ducks Cafe for a really nice pizza for lunch....
Mouse House – Springbrook September 2014
We are off on a much needed break for the weekend. Our lovely friends John and Lois gave us two nights at the Mouses House Rainforest Retreat as a birthday gift. We left home just before lunch for the 2.5 hr trip to the Gold Coast hinterland, and checked into...
Heading Home 🙁
After a quiet relaxing day yesterday, we had an early night with the alarm set for 5:00am We planned on getting to the airport early for our 11:00 flight. We were a little worried that we may have fairly heavy Sydney traffic around the airport , hence the early start....
Touring the Sights.
Today we decided to get in the car and do some sight seeing. After a quick breakfast at the bakery of Pie (chunky steak with peas) and a chicken, asparagus and feta quiche, we headed east to the beachside towns of Shoalhaven Heads, Gerroa and Gerringong. It is a very...
Saturday – Food, Shopping and Family
Today M&C are to visit us today from Wollongong First up though is breakfast :). We found a nice cafe yesterday called Hedgehogs. We are having poached eggs on toast and pancakes with maple syrup(can you guess who is having what ?) Then we waited for the shops to...
Good Friday
We both had a great nights rest and a good sleep in this morning. We had a hearty breakfast of bacon and eggs and headed into the village to see what was open. We not not expected much to be open due to today being Good Friday, but we're surprised to see so many shops...
FINALLY !!! We made it. 🙂
Wow what a day :). After a quick stop at the factory, we made it to the airport with time for lunch . We had a good flight and landed in Sydney onetime. A very short walk and we found the courtesy bus that took us to collect our hire car at East Coast Car rentals. I...
Easter 2014 in Berry, NSW
On Thursday we will have a long awaited break. We have a relaxing break planned in Berry, NSW. We passed through Berry on our last road trip over the Christmas break. We were impressed by this quaint little town and decided we would like to look around a bit further....
Christmas “Staycation” 2008
We decided that as we live in a pretty special part of the country, we would stay on the coast for Christmas and spend some time looking around Noosa. We chose to do the usual "touristy" things - a walk along Hastings Street and then a River Cruise up the Everglades....
Easter 2008 – Yamba
Throughout 2008 I have been doing a few trips to Yamba for work, so it was a good idea to spend Easter in this gorgeous seaside town and have a look around properly. For this trip we had a large unit at The Cove Apartments and was a nice surprise to be able to take...
New Zealand – September 2007
NZ Road Trip We spent a week in New Zealand to celebrate our daughter's 21st birthday in September 2007. We arrived into Auckland and found our accommodation at a self-contained apartment in the centre of Auckland. We had not been in the apartment long when it got...
Stanthorpe – Qld
As you may have guessed from out mid-winter Tasmania trip, we both really enjoy cooler climates.The closest we can get to "cold" is the Queensland town of Stanthorpe in the Granite Belt region. We have holidayed in this region many times. Sadly, we have not ever had...
Easter in Mackay 2007
For the Easter break in 2007 we chose to visit Mackay. We flew from Brisbane to Mackay - a short 90minute flight, then hired a car for the 4 days. We had found Ocean Resort Village , a nice little resort with self contained apartments. It turns out, there is a fair...
A Weekend in Sydney – May 2006
Every May the Photographic Industry holds its Trade Show. As we have a display stand at the show, we have one member stay back after the show to pull down the stand and arrange for equipment to be sent back to Brisbane.This year the weekend coincided with the May Day...
