Brenda and Kemm's travels

Day 3 – In Dubai

Tuesday morning we spent checking out our surrounds a little more and had a quiet lunch in the hotel grounds on the beach front – absolutely delightful there – the weather has been very kind to us whilst away and similar to home without the humidity. Pickup time for the …

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Day 2 – In Dubai

Our first full day in Dubai, or any other place we travel for that matter is usually one of ‘gather the maps’, have breakfast with maps in hand, determine where we are, what the plan is and what we do first. The area we are staying in is ‘Jumeraih’ and …

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Day 1 – Off to Dubai

As many of you know, Kemm and I are off again!! We left Brisbane lunchtime Saturday bound for our ‘Egypt trip’.First stop in the Qantas lounge at the International airport – it was chocka block!! Qantas certainly has some work to do to bring it’s standards up because there certainly …

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The Melbourne Open

A fleeting visit to Melbourne for the weekend to see Tiger Woods play in the “JB Were Masters” at Kingston Heath. We stayed at our usual Accor Holiday Apartments in Flinders Lane – always a perfect location to stay. Having arrived on the Friday afternoon we ventured over the river …

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NZ

Flew via Emirates into Auckland and had a driver take us to Lyn and Andrew’s place at Bucklands Beach. Magic place which Lyn has had for years but it’s right on “The Parade” and across the road from the water. Sitting relaxing here just watching the water traffic out the …

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Heading to Perth

Had a 6 hr flight from Brisbane to Perth!!! 200km/hr head winds and although a reasponable pleasant flight – it was a very long one! A few days at the Vines in the Swan Valley (vineyard area – again!) – on the golf course accommodation so guess what we are …

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Coonawarra, Fluerieu Peninsula and home

The last few days of our trip have come a cropper with horrendous weather so our proposed 4 nights at The Links, Lady Bay at Normanville on the Fleurieu Peninsula south of Adelaide turned into 3 nights and no golf – supposedly 4 nights with 2 days of golf and …

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Port Campbell to Coonawarra

From our last stop at Port Campbell we headed ‘back’ to the 12 Apostles the next morning for a look at them in a different light so now have photos from evening and morning perspectives.Checked out the cliff top whilst in Port Campbell to find an amazing sight of the …

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Lorne to Port Campbell

What a beautiful few days we have had – some have said ‘don’t get blown off Cape Otway’, ‘why on earth are you doing the Great Ocean Road in winter?’, ‘you’ll freeze your butt off’ etc but we could not have asked for better weather.A warm jumper is all we …

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