Category: travel

Yesterday we went to Dunalley, the small town that was devastated by a huge bushfire in January. The road to Dunalley I’ve tried several times to write about the trip, but what can you say when faced with such huge devastation? It was heartbreaking to see the effects of...

When we take Juniordwarf to school in the morning, he has a few little quirky habits. One is to tell us that “the animals and the teddies” are also driving to school, and which colour car they are driving in. Sometimes he contacts them on the “walkie talker” to...

My boss and I travelled to Launceston today for a meeting that we expected to run for about an hour and a half. It turned into more than three hours. Then on the way back we were stuck on the highway for over half an hour following a crash....

Our last day. Juniodwarf, Slabs and I went to Floriade, Canberra’s annual spring festival with Grandma. We had a couple of hours there. Juniordwarf loved smelling the flowers, even the ones that weren’t scented. In amongst the stalls was the Chilli Factory, home of ‘the world’s hottest chilli’. They...

We went shopping this morning, then did a bit of sight-seeing. Or rather, we went to Parliament House.  Juniordwarf loved the water feature at the front of Parliament House, and insisted on dipping his feet in. After that, we drove up Mount Ainslie to show Juniordwarf Canberra from above....

Today was the last day of our road trip, from Tumut to Canberra. Goodbye Grandma & Grandad We did the obligatory stop at the Dog on the Tuckerbox (where Juniordwarf, upon learning that we didn’t know the Dog’s name, decided that its name was Charlotte). We’d stopped there the...

Today’s schedule: Sleep in. Drive from Adaminaby to Tumut, through Kusciuszko National Park, stopping to visit the Yarrangobilly Caves. It was a clear sunny morning, and there were no reports of snow on the road, so we were confident we’d have an uneventful trip across the mountains. The ‘high...

Today’s schedule: Get up at 4.00 am for a 6.00 am flight to Canberra via Melbourne. Pick up hire car. Drive to Adaminaby via Cooma. The map Slabs and I gave Juniordwarf his own little trolley case as an advance birthday present yesterday, so he could have his things...

Here is the view of the River Derwent from the car on the way to work this morning....

Nothing as interesting as yesterday’s trip to the rockfields. Picture of the day is the place we stayed, the Dover Hotel Motel.  According to Pubs of Tasmania, it was built in 1925 and has a number of modern additions. I rather thinkg the brick bit might be one of...