Well folks, Peter has now had the wow factor of seeing THE BRIDGE and THE OPERA HOUSE!!!! I'll never forget the feeling 10 years ago when I first saw them. After arriving at our hotel yesterday, with an upgrade to a fab room on 13th floor and a balcony overlooking a bit of the harbour And 2 sails of the Opera house. We went walk about! its about25 mins walk down thru Hyde Park to the harbour.The place is buzzing. All preparations are in place for the firewor...

Fab journey xmas eve down the Gt Ocean rd in wonderful sunshine. We stopped at Lorne for a superb seafood lunch at the Pier restaurant for Paella and Barrimundi. It doesnt get much better than that! We arrived in Warrnambool at 8pm and settled in to our gt accomodation. Christmas morning in 30 degrees we stopped for a swim at East beach in Port Fairy before Peter cooked our Xmas barbi lunch at Lake Pertobe. After lunch it was back To the beach but at Lady Bay, W...

After the chaos of Dubai and 13 hours flying overnight we arrived into Melbourne and rain! By the time we check in and get sorted the suns out and we head to St Kilda beach to chill as tomorrow we head to the Great Ocean Road.The walk to St Kilda takes us through Albert Park which is a lovely peaceful space just seconds from a very busy dual carriageway outside our hotel. We see loads of parakeets and cockatoos in the trees surrounding the park. We find a route o...

Ok, so weve been in Dubai since very early morning on Wednesday 18th December ( Ocean View, The Walk, Jumeirah) and what have we done?????IWell ............ after a chill and a lunchtime sleep we walked to the Metro station and went the The Mall at the Burj Kalifer. Wow, its some Mall! With Ice Rink, Cinema, literally hundreds of shops, a HUGE Aquarium big enough to have divers wandering around, an aquatic Zoo, inc Penguins, Lizards plus loads more, all just amaz...

About this blogWay back in 2012 on a dreary wet afternoon in early December, Peter my wonderful 'other half' threw down a challenge. He'd just made us coffee and I suppose in the sporting world (we do love our sport, as will become apparent to you later) you would say 'It was a bit of a curved ball.' Do you fancy a project, he said. Well, I've always loved a project. Now we are both retired, as much as we love days just chilling out, we lo...