Don’t pay the ferryman
Don’t pay the ferryman Victor Harbor, Australia Victor Harbor, Australia And so the predicted bad weather came upon us like torrential rain and gale-force winds, and we were safely tucked up in a cabin at the caravan park feeling not the least bit sorry for the people in campers....
Don’t go chasing waterfalls
Don’t go chasing waterfalls Apollo Bay, Australia Apollo Bay, Australia Today the road trip began. We said goodbye to the in-laws after breakfast and hit the road for the start of the Great Ocean Road: Torquay, surfer town. We stopped at Soul Fuel Cafe for coffee and, after a...
Walk in her shoes – 2 days to go
The Walk In Her Shoes challenge starts on Tuesday. I thought that Tuesday was a strange day to start, and it’s taken me several weeks to realise that Tuesday is International Women’s Day. Because the focus of the challenge is on helping to fund projects that “help reduce the...
12 of 12 November 2015
Thursday. Work day. Early start day, though it seems like there have been more early start days than not lately. 1 of 12 – Showers were forecast. They arrived. 2 of 12 – Yesterday’s haul of letters seeking further donations from charities I have donated to. Now attempting to...
Day 12: Dunedin days
Day 12: Dunedin days Dunedin, New Zealand Dunedin, New Zealand Dunedin. I love it. I’m currently sitting here drinking my very last Wanaka Beerworks Cardrona working out how I can stay here and not go home. OK I know that’s not going to happen. We had a great day....
Day 10: No time no place to talk about the weather
Day 10: No time no place to talk about the weather Te Anau, New Zealand Te Anau, New Zealand Everything was go for our trip to Milford Sound this morning. We’d been checking the weather for this day ever since we’d arrived and it was going to be the...
Day 9: Driving rain
Day 9: Driving rain Te Anau, New Zealand Te Anau, New Zealand We left Queenstown this morning heading to Te Anau, where tomorrow (weather and roads permitting) we will be taking a day trip to Milford Sound. It was a great day for driving, with strong winds battering much...
Day 7: Queenstown
Day 7: Queenstown Queenstown, New Zealand Queenstown, New Zealand Wanaka, like Greymouth, was a stopover on the way somewhere else, but somewhere I could quite happily have spent more time. Today we had to get to Queenstown, which was only about an hour away, for another two-night stay. Our...
Day 6: Rain, rain go away
Day 6: Rain, rain go away Wanaka, New Zealand Wanaka, New Zealand Today was a long long day. The rain that had started late yesterday afternoon was showing no signs of letting up, and we were glad we’d been able to do the helicopter ride yesterday instead of waiting...
Day 5: Flying high
Day 5: Flying high Fox Glacier, New Zealand Fox Glacier, New Zealand We’d picked up a brochure for the glacier helicopter flights from the motel reception when we checked in last night. The motel has a deal with one of the companies, so their prices were a little cheaper...