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Today we left Rich and Rach’s for an 8-day road trip up the East coast of Tasmania, across to Cradle Mountain, where we might find some snow, then back to their house via the centre of the state. After waving Richard off to work, Lexie and Tom off to school, and Rach to her upstairs... Continue Reading →
Today we’ve been to Tahune Airwalk. Tahune is aboriginal and means ‘peaceful place by running water’, which it certainly was. On the way to Tahune we stopped in Geeveston, where we saw this great graffiti in a recycling yard, and visited a craft centre. Because it’s a Monday in winter and the weather was overcast, there weren’t... Continue Reading →
At last! We both had a good night’s sleep! Unfortunately, after yesterday’s wall to wall sunshine, we awoke to quite heavy rain. Nevertheless, Richard lit the barbecue outside... luckily it’s undercover... and made us a tasty cooked breakfast. After writing yesterday’s blog... I hate it when I get behind with it... Richard took us for... Continue Reading →
After our early get up to see the lunar eclipse, we dressed and went into Hobart for breakfast with Richard and my nephew, Thomas. They went to have their hair cut while John and I wandered around Salamanca Market. This is an outdoor street market by Hobart waterfront. It has over 300 stalls selling Tasmanian... Continue Reading →
I can’t resist an extra blog post because I’ve had great fun photographing the pademelons, the starry sky and the lunar eclipse. I even saw a shooting star for the first time... usually John sees them and I miss them! Pademelons are marsupials, which are smaller than wallabies, and they hop around Rich and Rach’s... Continue Reading →
Eight hours sleep! Fantastic! Unfortunately John wasn’t so lucky but, hopefully, we’ll both be ok tonight. Anyway... today we had a lovely morning meeting lots of Tasmanian wildlife, including wombats, Tasmanian devils and koalas, who were all super cute! Bonorong is a wildlife sanctuary, not a zoo, and primarily looks after Tasmanian native animals who... Continue Reading →
Jetlag sucks! I was feeling very sorry for myself today, and a bit grumpy, because I was wide awake from 1.00, while John managed to stay in bed until about 7.30! Because of this, we decided to stay locally, and not do anything very taxing. A walk to Snug Waterfalls in the morning and another to... Continue Reading →
My overwhelming feeling is of having lost 2 days. We've arrived in Sydney on Tuesday evening having left home early Monday and it feels as though the world has just kept turning around us while we were in some sort of weird time zone in the sky. We saw the sunrise over Singapore and we... Continue Reading →
Yesterday, I took my mum and dad on a trip on a heritage train from Bangor to Windsor along the west coast main line, with West Coast Railways. Unfortunately it was a diesel train, rather than a steam train, but I'd booked premier dining, which included silver service of full English breakfast in the morning and... Continue Reading →
People have been asking me and John about our new campervan, particularly what it's like inside and why we chose it. It's a Knaus BoxLife 630, which John has named 'Bertie'. I wasn't sure about this name at first but it seems to suit the van and has grown on me a lot. We loved... Continue Reading →
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