Ho hum – another days drive but supposedly not an overly long one. Thank goodness for the GPS as we headed into Melbourne and onto all the ring road toll roads – would hardly have known where to go otherwise. Arrived in Rye approx 3pm and headed straight to Woolies …
A longish day travelling south with the only drama being spearing into a flock of cockatoos which were grazing on seed on the road north of Jerilderie somewhere. Consequently one of them smashed into the passenger side mirror leaving it hanging by the electrics. Stopped as soon as we could …
Kemm arrived home last night after his few days in Wellington with the Air Dispatch Association reunion. So today we headed off at about 9.30 am to head south to who knows where! Ended up in Armidale at Rod’s place for an afternoon cuppa before heading on and eventually stopped …
HISTORY Kerikeri has a rich and colourful history. The Stone Store is New Zealand’s oldest building. Rewa’s Village will take you back to a time before European settlement. And a visit to the Kerikeri Mission Station and Pete’s Pioneers Transport Museum is not to be missed. FOOD Kerikeri is widely …
Santorini is an amazing and interesting place. The small townships on the island are all built around the rim of a extinct volcano which provides a spectactular view of the regions waters and the inner crater area. The sea entered the crater at a time when the craters edge was …
Another pre-arranged pickup seemed to work well and we headed off to the Athens Port to meet our ferry. Now that’s a ferry!!! We were unceremoniously dropped at the back of the giant ferry wondering if that’s where we were meant to be! Dragged the bags (had left one big …
Our 7.30am pickup became 8.00am after a couple of phone calls – blamed on traffic but I had my doubts, not a lot around and probably just on ‘Athen time’!Did the now usual whizz around by bus – here’s this, here’s that etc. Have now decided that a ‘Hop On …
Picked up this morning for our 2 day bus tour up to Delphi and the Meteora Monasteries region – both unknown to us but seemingly the places to go for day trippers. It turned out to be a 3 1/2 hr bus drive up to Delphi to some very ancient …
We arrived into Budapest this morning in the midst of a very thick fog and assuming we were going to see nothing after being told what a wonderful entry to Budapest this would be.However it was almost like going around a corner and the fog and mist just disappeared to …
