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A day on Puffing Billy, Dec 2024
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
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2023-10 Marysville
We planned to head up to Marysville for Hazel’s birthday and to do some hiking but the weather forecast was terrible and so we cancelled. The forecast was accurate, and we were glad not to have gone. The following week, the forecast was great and so we rebooked and headed up. The weather was fantastic,…
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2023-06 The Kimberley
The holiday that was originally booked in early May 2019 finally happened in June 2023 more than four years later. We all know what happened in between. Anyway, it was a terrific holiday over 30 days with both a land and a sea component. The trip is described below. To skip everything except a few…
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2023-04 Lord Howe Island
Lord Howe Island is a dot in the south Pacific ocean, 600km due east from Port Macquarie in New South Wales which in turn is roughly halfway between Sydney and Brisbane. We set off for Lord Howe Island via Sydney from a miserable damp Melbourne and travelled via taxi (Steve of course) and two flights.…