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Moral no. 1. Never be complacent
As we had a whole day to kill before our 10pm flight with Sri Lankan airways and all our packing etc was done, we decided to pop out and buy a new microwave. (As you do.) While shopping, we bumped into our neighbours who commented on how relaxed we looked considering we were flying that…
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Tea, Trains and Temples – A journey around Sri Lanka
It’s been a while since our Oz Odyssey and the feet are getting itchy! Plus the fact it’s been horribly cold here in dear Old Blighty, so it’s time to pack the bags and set off for sunnier climes. Why Sri Lanka? No particular reason really, other than lots of good reports and a very…
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Day out to Kailua
Woke up to showers today which didn’t bode well for my planned excursion to Kailua. Still, we’re British and a bit of rain doesn’t stop play. The drizzle increased once we were on the bus and the mountains in the heart of the island were hardly visible. However, once we arrived in Kailua the rain…
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Honolulu continued
Found the PMA difficult to come by this morning when woken at 6 am by over excited American whooping noises. I don’t know whether it was “Woohoo! I’ve been up all night and I’m such a bad ass!”or “woohoo! I’m at boot camp doing my workout!” Either way I’m not interested and shut up. Why…
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Honolulu Blues
Time for the bad pennies to move on again. Never nice leaving, but made worse for me as I picked up some virus and felt very unwell indeed. Still, we had a flight to Honolulu to catch so after another emotional parting from the Ozlings, Saturday saw us at Brisbane airport for the fifth time.…
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Bad pennies/boomerangs
Kept waking up throughout the night. Heard the wind howling but didn’t hear rain. Got up at 5am to a text message from the airport saying high tides will cause the roads to be very flooded at 4am and get as close as possible to the airport. Shit! Taxi driver was supposed to pick us…
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We came, we saw, we’ll leave (hopefully)
Arrived in Fiji last night to a tropical storm. Rained all night. Stayed near the airport and in the morning we went over to the airport to collect our hire car and drive to our hotel, the Bedarra Beach near Sigoktga. The rain continued to pour down and I began to get very concerned re…
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Sydney (day 2)
Needed to get our washing done today. The hotel has a laundry room but the tumble dryer wasn’t very good so it was lunchtime before we got out and about. Shopping was on the agenda but it was such a beautiful day, we played truant and went to the beach instead. Saturday is a bit…
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Sydney (day 1)
It’s really nice being back in Sydney. It hasn’t lost its laid back yet major city feel. This time, because we haven’t come straight here from manic Bangkok, it feels different. Less sleepy. Also, having a more equitable exchange rate helps as it doesn’t seem anywhere near as expensive as last time. we did the…
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Wollongong/Sydney
Met Hannah for breakfast at her home this morning. She shares the cutest little house in the mount Kiera area of Wollongong. The views from the terrace are amazing. Hannah is a great cook and served up a feast. Fortified, we set off to conquer mount Kiera and also Robertson’s Lookout. They are both accessible…
Middle-aged flash packers
The ramblings and wanderings of two middle-aged travellers up for adventure
- 2021 – There are no plans. Covid
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- Australia/Vietnam Revisited 2025
- Bulgaria – Roses and Trains 2025
- Cabo de Gata 2024
- Costa Rica 2015
- Escape to Italy 2017
- Going round in Circles – Circumnavigating Spain 2021
- Gran Canaria – The Isle of Dogs
- Greece – Pottering The Peloponnese 2021
- Into Africa – 2022
- Into Africa -November/December 2022
- Jordan Jaunts 2023
- Mini adventure in Northern Portugal – 2018
- Mission Triglav – Slovenia, Italy, France 2017
- My blog
- Myanmar and Thailand 2019
- Oman 2019
- Oz Odyssey – Australia, Fiji,Hawaii 2016
- Panama 2023
- Return of the Road Warriors – Europe revisited 2019 Liechenstein, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Germany
- Road Trip to Anywhere – France, Italy, ? 2022
- Roaming the Rhodope – Bulgaria
- Sicily wanderings – on the volcano trail
- Tea, Trains and Temples – A journey around Sri Lanka 2017
- Tenerife 2024
- The Grand Tour – Driving from UK to Turkey and back again 2015
- The Hills are Alive – Austria road trip September 2025
- The Silk Road – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan 2019
- Turkey – 2020
- Wainwrights Lake District UK part 2 2022 March
- Walking the Wainwrights part 1 – Lake District UK 2021
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