Our flight to Brisbane is at 10 am so I wanted to be at the airport by 9am. I had organised and paid for the hotel shuttle to take us over to the terminal so we only had to go downstairs and hop in the bus. All pretty easy but there was a fair line at check in.. I do tend to panic when traveling, no matter where I'm going I like to be there hours before is necessary and today we were cutting it a little fine in my book! We got all checked in and through secur...

Woke at 6 am to take the dogs for one last walk before we go away.… then did all the usual things you do as well as checking out the Port of Mare ( mar-ray ) cos I got an email from P & O this morning to say our cruise itinerary has changed…. no Isle of Pines on X-mas day now, instead we will be in Lifou and the day we were supposed to be there we will be in Mare. In the process of doing this I had to take our document folder out of the bag and OMG...

Day One : 27th Jan 2012The alarm went at 6am - my first thought was NO MORE SLEEPS!!Todays journey is only a short one… Longreach to Brisbane but there’s lots to do this morning to make sure Deb is ready for 5 weeks of “motel sitting”. Poor thing her head must be buzzing with all the instructions. Oh well she’s a wonderfully capable woman so we leave with no concerns!!The plane was due to depart at 11.45am but we boarded @ 12 so only...