Catherine and Mark turning dreams into memories
Author: Mr A Location: Nowra, Braidwood & Woomargama NSW, Rutherglen, Victoria, Australia Monday: It was time to bid goodbye to Sydney for a few weeks and hit the road. We picked an interesting time to travel with 70kmh winds, dust storms and clouds of flies that reminded us that the great Australian outdoors has many …
Continue reading “11-13 November: Back in the Zone and off to Victoria!”
Author: Mrs A Location: West Bagborough, East Quantoxhead, Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK It was hard not to feel a little sad and apprehensive at our impending departure from West Bagborough, and the weather didn’t help either, with its chilly breeze and drizzly rain. With a little sunshine forecast for Monday afternoon we forced ourselves out …
Continue reading “6-12 July: Our love affair with Somerset continues”
Author: Mrs A Location: Sydney, Australia The past week has been full of friends, colour and laughter, starting with a Christmas day feast, lunch catch up in the city, and finishing the year with a bollywood inspired new year’s eve fancy dress party. Coming to the end of the year, it’s a great time to …
Author: Mrs A Location: Sydney, Australia A week last Friday I had heard disappointing news about my airway. A visit to my local ENT surgeon found the scar tissue has returned again, closing my trachea by about 40%. Definitely not news I wanted to hear. He injected some steroids into my neck, a treatment aimed …
Continue reading “8-15 December: Culture, kayaking and conviviality”
Author: Mrs A Location: Orbost, Victoria & Wonboyn Lake, New South Wales, Australia It was hard to tear ourselves away from our fabulous beachside view at Yanakie, but we needed to start pointing our noses back towards Sydney. On Wednesday we drove for a few hours, stopping for the night in Orbost. Orbost is a …
Continue reading “27-29 November: Edging back into New South Wales”
Author: Mr A Location: Yanakie and Tidal River, Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, Australia Monday: There’s a decent amount of research that points to being near water as having a calming effect on the brain. Blue Mind science they call it. Being in sight of water has certainly brought much joy to Mrs A and I, and …
Continue reading “25-26 November: Exploring Wilsons Promontory”
Author: Mrs A Location: Foster and Yanakie, Victoria, Australia Thursday: Hot temperatures blew into Victoria, taking our pleasant days in the early 20°Cs up to a very steamy high of 41°C (that’s an increase from about 70 to 106 in fahrenheit for those working in old measurements). This was coupled by strong winds which whipped …
Continue reading “21-24 November: Feeling the burn on the Great Southern Rail Trail”
Author: Mr A Location: Mount Hotham, Metung, Lakes Entrance, Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia Monday: There are only two ways to get from where we had camped in Beechworth and over to the east coast of Victoria, head south west nearly all the way into Melbourne, or head up over the Australian Alps and down into East …
Author: Mrs A Location: Beechworth, Victoria, Australia Thursday: We are extremely fortunate that on our travels around Australia, and especially since owning a Zone RV caravan, we have met some wonderful people. So we were quite excited to learn (while sheltering from wind and rain back in Scotland a month or so ago), that there …
Continue reading “14-17 November: Reconnecting with the Zoners”
Author: Mrs A Location: Helmsdale, Dunrobin Castle (Golspie), Fortrose and Eaglesham, Scotland, UK We woke up to an unusual phenomenon in our pub carpark – sunlight streaming through the windows. Excited, we packed up and drove down to the harbour for a look around the tiny fishing village of Helmsdale. Although sunny, it was a …
Continue reading “12-13 October: A taste of Scotland’s east coast”