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Queen Anne, our return to England Part 1: 10th March – 7th April 2025
Read more: Queen Anne, our return to England Part 1: 10th March – 7th April 2025Life on cruise ships can be uneventful, especially when stops are far and few between. Sometimes the weather can bring a moment of excitement… And sometimes the interest is something completely unanticipated, the threat of being captured by pirates… This latter event caused great excitement on board, despite the minimal actual risk, as we were…
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Rockhampton, Byfield National Park, Great Keppel and The Top End: 1st March – 10th March 2025
Read more: Rockhampton, Byfield National Park, Great Keppel and The Top End: 1st March – 10th March 2025A whistle-stop tour of the northern part of Australia. We dropped in to see Tali on our way to Darwin. In those few days she took us to a fantastically rustic cabin in Byfield National Park, an hour or so north of Rocky. Problems caused by Queen Anne arriving late into Sydney meant we arrived…
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Back east. Melbourne, Victoria and returning to Sydney 9th Feb – 26th Feb 2025
Read more: Back east. Melbourne, Victoria and returning to Sydney 9th Feb – 26th Feb 2025We chose to have a couple of days in Melbourne after flying in from Perth but once we got there we wondered why as after Sydney, Brisbane and Perth, Melbourne is our 4th Australian city on this trip and they’re all beginning to look the same! Day 1 we spent wandering around the central business…