We went on an out-of-town excursion on the weekend. This involved: • First car rental of the trip. • Need to drive and navigate on the wrong side of the road • Many one-way streets • Driver not interested in discussing with Navigator, BEFORE starting the car in motion, precisely what route would be attempted…
Yes, I know this review is about 35 years overdue, but this is a book I somehow never got around to reading before (nor did I see the TV series or the recent Korean film). Now that I am educating myself about Australian “culture” I decided it was time to request a library copy of…
The variety of hostels, motels and hotels is an interesting part of travel. For Australia and New Zealand I had a list of hostels in various towns, downloaded onto my i-pod, so we would pick one and try to find it in town, and make a decision on the spot whether it was acceptable or not.…
> Please note, KB, that there is no bottle of wine in this photo. It is Friday evening and we are now in Melbourne, from where we fly out the day after tomorrow. I probably won't post again until it is time to edit my blog and add more photos.
> We're on the road from Sydney but progress is slow because there are beautiful beaches and views around every corner/curve of the road. We have quite a collection of shells and rocks to bring home. The photo shows me with some small acquisitions. Last night we stayed over a pub in the town of…
> After two weeks experiencing the gentle but scenic charms of New Zealand, we are in a big city (4.5 million plus a LOT of tourists. It is an outdoorsy city with huge and impressive botanical garden in the middle; the famous opera house is just one part of the whole shoreline complex that spans…
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