Thredbo 2017, Days One and Two: Comin’ round the mountain

Here we are again, on our annual sojourn in Thredbo for five glorious nights, and they will be glorious – regardless of the weather which looks a little iffy – because it is such a lovely place to be. We arrived yesterday and it was a beautiful day. I can’t remember a time when the … Read more

Port Macquarie Trip, Part 1: The first few days

We weren’t sure we were going to do any posts on this trip, given we’ve been to Port Macquarie so many times over the years – but we’ve decided that there are some things we’d like to document and share, so here we are. We’ll probably just write a couple. En route We left Canberra … Read more

Thredbo 2016, Days Four and Five

And now, the last two days of our 2016 stay in Thredbo … Day 4 Today saw us make our second assault on the Dead Horse Gap walking track in the upward direction. Described by National Parks as “the ultimate Snowy Mountains walking track”, this walk has long been one of our favourites in the … Read more

Strahan, Day 1: Another driving day, but …  

Every second day of this roadtrip part of our holiday is a driving day, and today’s, from Stanley to Strahan, was one of the longest. However, even a long drive in Tasmania is usually not that long, not like driving in central Australia, for example, as we did in July. So, we realised we had time … Read more