On Monday (23rd), we fly direct to Busselton for a three week driving holiday taking in Margaret River, the south coast to Esperance, Coolgardie and across the south west back to Busselton. We will be visiting three cousins along the way, sampling a wine or two, visiting "Carbine", my Great-grandfathers goldmine, and hopefully seeing lots of whales. Whales do have a habbit of diving out of sight whenever I come on the scene, so I might have to hide and have Ches...

Our son Drew's 50th birthday is later this month. We are making a three week trip to celebrate and along with his step-godmother Lee, staying in Southampton for the celebrations and then a week in Weymouth. We leave Saturday night.

Well, here we are ... in the unique situation of flying in an aircraft with 2/3 of the seats empty. We always sit in aisle seats opposite each other. Easy access to bathrooms and at least one shoulder not jamed against another passenger. Maybe North Korean missile threats have scared people off. We have 10.5 hours to Seoul, 4 hours on ground and then 13.5 hours to Amsterdam. What a coincidence, Angie was also flying out for the U.S. and Europe at the same ...

Yes, Ches and I are still in Leichhardt, even though the time and date may be confusing. I've already set the time for UK time and no doubt the date will become totally confused when we travel back through time when flying to Amsterdam via Seoul. Hopefully I can reset both when we arrive there. We will be flying out of Sydney at 9:30am on the 1st June and returning on 22nd July. We'll be spending a couple of days in Amsterdam on our way to Southampton. That's th...

You can blame Bob Allison for this pre trip blog. He phoned me to wish us well on our upcoming trip, and when discussing my "fantasy" about spending time on the cliffs of Cornwall watching stormy seas and then retreating to a bar and enjoying a beer in front of a roaring fire, it revived memories of the last trip to Cornwall. Bob suggested I try some of the local brews and I then remembered a night at a hotel on the harbour wall at Polpero. In around 1986 Ches...