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Flying over the South Pole

Our two sons have been living in Australia since May 2010 and January 2011 respectively. That implies of course that we have been flying many times between South Africa and Australia. The outbound fli...

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Jan 16, 2020

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Fremantle

During our 2020 Perth family visit we went discovering on our own and took a ride to the coastal town Fremantle – or Freo as the locals love to call their town. After parking the car, we strolled to w...

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Jan 16, 2020

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Perth

After the first part of our 2019 – 2020 family holiday and a flight hampered by smoke from the bush fires on the East side of the country, we arrived in Perth and were greeted with hugs and balloons a...

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Jan 15, 2020

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Smoky flight from Griffith to Perth

When we arrived back in Griffith from our Noosa Christmas trip , we saw that the heavy smoke we had passed on the way, had been an indication of how far the smoke of the NSW bushfires had drifted inla...

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Jan 4, 2020

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Noosa Christmas Trip

From the onset of our 2019-2020 holiday in Oz, we knew that Peter and Jacinta and baby Louis wanted to go to Noosa in Queensland for a Christmas Holiday break with family at the East Coast. Although o...

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Dec 18, 2019

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Wangaratta Wine Trip

After our amazing Uluru trip , we had one day to catch up with the family again before our son Peter had to go spend a week in Wangaratta with the mobile bottling plant of Casella’s Family Brands, the...

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Dec 4, 2019

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Outback Uluru Road trip

A year or two ago, while in Australia visiting kids and grandkids, we read somewhere an article promoting “Field of Lights” at Uluru (Ayers Rock), an installation of British artist Bruce Munro … , on ...

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Dec 1, 2019

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Retired and with our family spread around the world, we decided to get out of here and hit the road to see more of this amazing planet! Feel free to browse our photos, read our stories, and follow us on our travels.

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