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I started travelling with a trip to New Zealand..that's when I caught the travel bug. Since then I've travelled regularly overseas and around Australia. I love the adventure and my favourite countries are those with friendly people. But there's always something good about every country.

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Around southern Africa

We spent the next 4 days at Leeupoort at Lizzies B&B. Lizzie, Sandy's niece, had met Leon, her dashing SA safari guide at a pub on a visit to SA. She has worked as a cook on safari with him as well as at tourist lodges and has learned quite a bit a

Most Recent Entry: Monday, June 09, 2008

Up thru Central Aus

Up in the dark at 5:30, a quick breakfast of toast and jam, load up the bus and trailer for the 3hour drive to Mt Ebenezer, a roadhouse and campground, where we’d swap drivers. Mulgas was down one guide/driver so Glen was doing a back to back trip. To ...

Most Recent Entry: Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Climbing Mountains

I joined several guys from work to climb Mount Beerwah. They were all 10, 20 and 30 years younger than me. At 556m it's the largest of the Glasshouse Mountains. It's also the most popular. The first section at the bottom is long, steep and smooth (...

Most Recent Entry: Saturday, April 21, 2007

Weekend in Bondi

I flew to Sydney in the evening to visit friends living in Bondi. Bus 400 runs from the airport to Bondi Junction where you can pick up a local bus to the beach. Being so popular, it's easy to get from Bondi to Sydney by either bus or train. I stuck to...

Most Recent Entry: Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Going Bush, Central Queensland

We woke to a glorious day to the sound of a baby white cockatoo calling incessantly for food from it’s long suffering parent. Glad we were hiking in the gorge today! The most popular track, criss-crossing Carnarvon Creek many times, goes 10kms up the g...

Most Recent Entry: Sunday, May 28, 2006

Central Europe and Korea

Because Denmark is so small and we had all day, the next morning we drove north to see the coast and Helsinger (where Hamlet's castle is) on our way to visit Daphne, Karin's mum, who lives in the south near where we'd take the ferry to Germany. Through...

Most Recent Entry: Saturday, August 13, 2005

Chinese Adventure

We spent the morning waiting for the bus with everyone else. No one knew exactly when it was expected. When it arrived a couple of hours late, we began another wild, rough and dusty ride. The road climbed the hills into the next valley and followed

Most Recent Entry: Monday, August 23, 2004

Beach Camping

After a lazy breakfast, we broke camp and by ten were headed back to Rainbow Beach through the soft dry sand almost getting bogged at the crossing from Teewah to Rainbow. We had to wait an hour for the tide to drop enough to get along the beach and ar...

Most Recent Entry: Sunday, November 09, 2003

Borneo Jungle

Nearly 3 hours winding through jungle and palm oil plantations, sometimes besides rivers, crossed by suspension foot bridges, we arrived at Uncle Tan's B&B from where we would go into the jungle for 4 days. In the morning, we were taken to the S

Most Recent Entry: Friday, August 15, 2003

Wedding in NZ

Mum, Beth and I were going to my cousin's wedding in Nelson. Mum would fly to Nelson while Beth and I went to Auckland and picked up Sally, an old school friend and drove down. After a few days in Auckland catching up we drove down through Rotorua

Most Recent Entry: Thursday, June 19, 2003

Norfolk Island

Popular with honeymooners, Norfolk Island is an interesting place to visit. People generally come for a week and it's easy to fill that time in. Two British attempts at establishing the island as a penal colony (1788-1814 and 1825-55) were ultimate...

Most Recent Entry: Saturday, December 16, 2000

Disneyland....Gateway to the US

Near our hotel was a car rental. We got a good deal on a new mid-sized Chevy. We were upgraded from small and got 1 day free a week. So we headed off down to Newport Beach to visit Larry and Chris. Being my birthday, we had a night on the town. Larr

Most Recent Entry: Friday, July 31, 1998

Eastern Mediteranean

One of our waiter friends had family in a village in the hills behind Kalkan and they took us up there to meet them. Of course we were a curiosity as not too many non-Turks visited in homes, though they did sometimes come that way. A teahouse was pe...

Most Recent Entry: Monday, July 24, 1995

Skiing Austria and random travels

My last day and we rose late as usual and had a walk round the walls of Stari Grad. Then to the beach for a late lunch. The locals are preparing for the summer influx of tourists, repainting and spring cleaning. At 5pm I got the overnight bus to

Most Recent Entry: Thursday, April 14, 1988

Behind the Iron Curtain

Yesterday we headed for the border. After getting up early to be one of the first in the queue, we ended up getting there quite late. The Russian border opened yesterday to tourists and it took about 2 and half hours to get through. Apart from checking...

Most Recent Entry: Saturday, June 02, 1979

The 1st big OS trip

After leaving Cap Ferret we hitched a ride in a truck with a friendly Spaniard and arrived at the frontier heading for San Sebastian. The country is green and hilly. We catch glimpses of pretty coastline. Farmers are plowing with donkeys, one leadi