Brenda and Kemm's travels

Day 2 – Paris

PHOTOS The day began with us having passed through 16 hours in bed – the body has needed some catching up and a 4pm ‘lie-down’ late yesterday afternoon turned into an all night event with both of us waking around 4am for a couple of hours then another 2 or …

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Day One – Paris

Arrived in Paris and made it to our hotel about 8am and fully expected to leave our luggage and wander which is exactly what happened. I did however grab out of my suitcase, my heavy red jacket and my camera. Badly need for the jacket and its about 15 degrees …

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China

Just a VERY small section of Shanghai airport – manged to spend a “delightful” grrrrrrrr… 6 hours here!!!!!! grrrr….. Should have only be 3! grrrr…… None the less an amzing airport . . ggrrrrr…. Beautiful gardens around the Forbidden City The Red Wall is the outer wall of the Forbidden …

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Great Ocean Road

It’s been another long day on the road – although it hasn’t really been ‘on the road’ with so many stops and things to do. First stop was a lookout viewing area over Port Campbell – one from each side of Port Campbell! From there it was down to view …

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Mt Gambier to Port Campbell

Our first stop out of Mt Gambier this morning was to a ‘sinkhole’ – formed 200 odd years ago just out of town and known as the ‘Umpherstone Sinkhole’. If anyone ever passes here, it is well worth a look – really interesting to say the least. The sinkhole has …

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Adelaide

Had no real plan for the day so hopped in the car and headed off on a driving tour to whereever the car would take us. It was a bit tricky as we were in the centre of the CBD but ended up on a drive through War Memorial Drive …

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Adelaide down to Mt Gambier

Organised ourselves early this morning and made our way firstly to the Adelaide Central Markets – supposedly opened early at 7am and yes, lots of the fruit and vegie areas were open but not a lot of others. The assortment of fruit and vegies was amzing as were the cheese …

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Days 4-6

Cervantes to Geraldton Geraldton and inland to Dalwallinu Dalwallinu via New Norcia to Perth

Day 3 – Heading north from Perth

The journey begins! On planned schedule, we headed out of Perth and heade up through the city of Joondalup – an area that quite simply wasn’t there 20 years ago! Mum and I have been absolutely staggered at the growth of the urban area north of Perth – we drove …

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