Kalorama and our travels
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2025-10 Japan
After our travels around the outback we flew to Japan for round 2 of our extended trip with Chris and Sara. We visited quite a few places as can be seen on the following map. Our trip was to start in Sapporo, the largest city on Hokkaido, the most northerly of Japan’s large islands. Annoyingly,…
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2025-09 The Top End
A new adventure with our friends Chis and Sara from Lymm. Our holiday began with 4 nights in Darwin, a city that we love for its relaxed atmosphere and interesting history. In all the photo galleries that follow, just click on a photo to enlarge it. That opens up various options such as captions and…
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2025-05 Portarlington
Our friends, Julie and Julian invited us to travel to the Bellarine peninsula for a night in Portarlington. We travelled across on the Sorrento to Queenscliff ferry which makes the trip so much more enjoyable than driving all the way. None of us had been to Portarlington before and we all really liked it. The…
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2024-12 A day on Puffing Billy
Just before Christmas we were lucky enough to be invited on a full day trip on Puffing Billy from Belgrave to Gembrook by our good friend Julian Ripper who is one of the volunteer conductors on Puffing Billy. So we set off with Julie and Juian and had a splendid day out. Web gallery ZoneramaHTML…
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2024-10 & 11 Africa
We set off from Melbourne and travelled to Kilimanjaro international airport in Tanzania via Doha in Qatar. Tanzania We had a very comfortable flight and arrived at our accommodation in Arusha (A on map below) at 09:30 in the morning which was of course too early to check in. Anyway, they rushed around and got…
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2024-07 Western Australia, Indian Pacific and Sydney
Not long after returning from our Europe trip, we were off again. This time to Western Australia for a few days before boarding the Indian Pacific train from Perth to Sydney. Around Bunbury We stayed in Bunbury for 3 nights. The first day, the weather was not great and so we went to the Dolphin…
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2024-05/6 Europe
Our route around Europe. We flew into Helsinki from Melbourne via Doha and returned to Melbourne from Prague, again via Doha Our long and complex trip to Europe began by heading to Helsinki to meet up with Bill and Tuula. The first leg was to Doha on Qatar airways and then to Helsinki on Finnair.…
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2024-03 Lorne, the Ottways and Port Fairy Folk Festival
As has become tradition, we again headed for Port Fairy for the annual folk festival. This time we decided to use the Sorrento-Queenscliff ferry to avoid all the Melbourne traffic and break the journey in both directions with 2 sets of 2 days Lorne. On the second day of the 1st Lorne visit we went…
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2024-01 Blue Lotus & Warburton
Early in 2024 we had a day out at the Blue Lotus watergardens and Warburton with our new friends, Julie and Julian. Here are some photos of the day. Web gallery ZoneramaHTML gallery: 1
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2023-12 Christmas in Brisbane
For a complete change, we decided to spend Christmas in the Stamford Plaza in Brisbane. We were lucky because the weather in Brisbane was far better than it was in Kalorama and so we were able to wander around the parks and gardens and see many birds and animals. Web gallery ZoneramaHTML gallery: 1