The Solway Lass is a historic tall ship cruising the Whitsunday Island. The “Stina’ as she was first called was built of German Blue Steel in 1902 in Holland for a German Shipping Company to be used as a coastal trader in the rough North Sea. Renamed “Adolf”, she was seized by the British at […]
Crocs Rule!
When he was about 12 years old, my son Paul wrote a letter to Steve Irwin in the far away country of Oz, asking if he could work at Australia Zoo when he was older. Several months later Paul received a big fat letter from Australia Zoo telling him that they normally give preference to […]
South Queensland
Gold Coast, Surfers Paradise We have been steaming up the coast as we feel the time for our roadtrip is getting ever shorter! Therefore, we have chosen where to go carefully rather than drifting up the coast, which is what we would like to do ideally. We could spend much longer exploring but it’s necessary […]
Getting hippy! The Central Coast, New South Wales
Patonga Patonga is a small township up the coast from Sydney and the place where we set up camp after our big city adventure. There really isn’t much there apart from a hotel, holiday chalets, a couple of streets and a campsite in the nook of the merging point of the Patonga creek and the […]
Sydney. The hype is real!
Excitement ran high, driving to Sydney on a rainy day, downhill all the way from the Blue Mountains at over 1000m to sea level. This was always going to be a great day. An early omen of greatness was seeing The Ghan chugging alongside us, parallel to the road. This huge train normally runs from […]
The Blue Mountains, NSW
Between the capital Canberra and the supercity Sydney lie the beautiful Blue Mountains and we were headed for the small town of Katoomba to stay for a few days, enjoying nature. Even whilst driving we were confronted with nature as we were bombarded by thousands of flying locusts like this one. It was like being […]
Canberra, Wheels within Wheels
From our campervan on an O’Connor campsite we contemplate the capital. Canberra is the East Kilbride of the Southern Hemisphere – which makes sense to Scots familiar with “roundabout city EK” – a purpose built city with lots of roundabouts. Our first day there coincided with Valentine’s Day, so we did the romantic thing … […]
Gippsland, Victoria
After Tasmania, we only stayed for two nights in Melbourne, just enough to visit the Victoria Markets to buy fancy cheese and beeswax. I want to make my own waxed cotton lunch wraps, the latest eco items, which are ridiculously expensive to buy for what they are. I am on a save-the-world-trip, hence want to […]
Tasmania
Kate said we would love Tasmania and she was right! After this month in Tassie we are both in love with this special island state that looks up towards the big island with self-confidence. The two could not be more different. Bye bye Melbourne! Tasmania is small. The distances are short and there is a […]
The Great Ocean Road and Melbourne
It was not quite the New Year yet when I returned from Scotland to Perth. In fact, it was German Nikolaustag, 6th December, but new beginnings can start at any time. Like many women I have been dying my hair for the longest time but for the last year I have noticed that the crown […]
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