For our Sydney Spring trip to see our son Jay, and his partner Kaede, we took a late flight up. Not because we wanted to but because we had been stuck in the Domain Tunnel on our way to the airport due to an accident. As a result we were $360 poorer because of paying …
Apart from coming to Adelaide for the football, during the AFL Gather Round, a night visit to the stunning glass sculptures at the Chihuly Nights Exhibition at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens was high on our list of things to see. When you see these beautiful and colourful glass sculptures by celebrated American artist Dale Chihuly …
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Having seen items about Adelaide market on several travel shows on TV we decided we should go and see for ourselves. After breakfast the four of us headed into the city. We were able to find a car park near the market. The entry way had a couple of very colourful signboards. Soon we were …
Now that our youngest son, Jay lives and works in Sydney we fly up a few times a year to spend time with him. As it turned out one of our trips coincided with the first round of AFL football and our team, Melbourne, was playing Sydney so not only did we go but our …
Hervey Bay The fact that the Windmill Caravan Park is in Urangan was a good thing as we really like the Saturday market near the pier. So after breakfast we wandered along the street to the market to have a good look and purchase a few fruit and veggie items. It's quite a lively market …
Toowoomba - Garden City Toowoomba enjoys the reputation of being a garden city. High up in more temperate Queensland, sitting on volcanic soil, plants thrive and so do the many gardens. We visited three possibilities but you should visit at least one. Our favourite was the - Toowoomba Japanese Garden - Ju Raku En The …
Ever since we had seen Attila Kapitany do a presentation about Australian desert plants for our Mornington Peninsula Australian Plants group a few years back we had wanted to visit the garden he and his wife Michele have created out at Narre Warren North. The only problem was they only open it up in April …
Euroa to Dromana It was another cold morning but nowhere near as cold as the morning before. We were soon on the road and heading down the Hume. At the Seymour sign we exited. We drove through the town and onto the road to Yea. This route allows us to go around the east side …
Lake Macquarie - Sydney Having not spent time with our youngest son, Jay, for five months, we were really looking forward to catching up with him in his new place. He'd spent the previous five and half years studying and working in Japan and he'd only been back in Australia for a few months when …
Bundaberg to Caloundra Our next stopping point was going to be Golden Beach in Caloundra. The trip south started smoothly. Love the old buildings in Childers. Lots of roadworks after that until we passed the turn off to Hervey Bay. We stopped in Gympie for cheap fuel. After paying about $2.35 per litre of diesel …
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