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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…
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Blue Mountains/Wollongong
The sun came out at last, allowing us to see the Blue Mountains in all their glory. We did the scenic drive around the main tourist spots and very pretty it was too. I’m so glad we got a chance to see the mountains at their best. Our next stop was Wollongong, a large town…
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We started this walk from West street in Wentworth Falls (it’s a town as well as a waterfall). We dithered for ages as the track was not obvious. Eventually we discovered it, the entrance and sign covered by undergrowth. Obviously not well used, and judging by the glares from the homeowners across the road, some…
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Blue Mountains
We decided to do the above walk as the views are supposedly some of the best in the Blue Mountains. Woke up to fog. Not just a bit, a real pea-souper. Walking down the road towards the falls, we could have been anywhere. Couldn’t see a thing. By the time we got to the falls,…
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Time to say goodbye
I hate goodbyes, especially when it’s people you are particularly fond of who live 12000miles away and you only see them once every three years if you’re lucky. We’ve had a great time in Noosa and it’s been a privilege sharing Ian,Kylie and Zeke’s home with them. The last few days have been a whirlwind…
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Brisbane
The time had come to sort out our replacement luggage following Steve’s case disaster on arrival in Oz. We decided to use the opportunity to explore Brisbane and booked ourselves an overnight stay in the South Bank area. This did not start well as several hours after booking an apartment, I realised I’d given the…
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Adelaide- Meet the Jurhmanns
The Jurhmanns are Kylie’s side of the family consisting of Michael, Jane, Hannah, Maddy, Max, Marina, Helen, Caitlin, Rowan and the indomitable Ooma plus a few others we didn’t get to meet. They live in gorgeous Adelaide and Kylie arranged for us to spend 5 days with them. We also had close family friend Wayne…
Middle-aged flash packers
The ramblings and wanderings of two middle-aged travellers up for adventure
- 2021 – There are no plans. Covid
- About
- 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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