Hello everyone, just a very, very short blog to send our congratulations to some sporting greats of Coffs Harbour that we have heard about since we have been away!!! Firstly Britt Ainsworth has been selected in the NSW Under 16 Basketball Team - Congratulations Britt, exceptional result and we send you our best wishes for a brilliant future. Jordy Black has been chosen in the Northern N.S.W PSSA Basketball team, well done Jordy, you too seem destined to a great future in a sport you are excelling in. Last but not least, the brilliant crew of 'Nina' the Beneteau 41 has [View Full Entry]

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Saturday the 29th of March Goodbye to Germany and Hello to Croatia Well after a very memorable night in the home of Martin and Gisela it was time to get packing and get going off to Cologne. Cologne is a large city about 400 klms north, north west of Nurnberg and we had booked train tickets to get there from Nurnberg. The reason we are going to Cologne is that we had found relatively cheap airline tickets on the net from Cologne to Dubrovnik; in fact they were about a third of the next best price we could get from any [View Full Entry]

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Gutentag von Nurnberg Day three in Nurnberg saw us having breakfast with Martin and Gisela and being exposed to some very strange names for food as we know it back home. What we call croissants at home are called ‘bambergers’. Bambergers are pronounced ‘bumburgers’ which of course I found, with my warped sense of humour, to be very amusing. Bumburgers and red currant jam for brekkie was a big hit. Martin and Gisela very kindly chose to take us into the old part of the city of Nurnberg to show us around and help us learn about where they live. Very [View Full Entry]

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Good bye Prague, hello Nuremberg Well the day finally came where we had to say goodbye to Prague and head off for some new adventures. Tuesday morning was spent getting the bags packed up and getting organised to head to the train station. It was a pretty cold, wet and miserable morning so if we had to pick a day to leave this incredibly beautiful city, this was a good one to do it. Our very friendly hotel staff advised us to buy some food before we got on the train as it was suggested that prices and the environment of [View Full Entry]

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Last days in Prague Happy Easter!! Well the good news is that the Easter bunny is alive and well in Prague and the girls woke up to find all sorts of chocolate delights ready and waiting for Dad to devour! Ahh but first one has to earn their little rewards and it was time to pull on the running shoes, rug up with the thermals and head out for our Czech version of boot camp. Nik and I headed off for a run, quite early in the morning and it was a tad cold to say the least. Pretty neat being [View Full Entry]

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Good Friday and Easter Saturday in Prague Because we enjoyed the company and the great depth of knowledge of our new best friend and guide, Slavek, we booked him again for Good Friday. We met him at our hotel in the morning and headed off to explore the old town and the Jewish quarter. When you learn more and more of what life was like under the previous communist regime, you say your prayers of thanks for what our life is like back home. It really is quite incomprehensible that it was only a few years ago that life for the [View Full Entry]

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Following on from yesterday….. and so rest we did. Nik went to bed about 2.00pm with strict instructions to be woken about 3.30pm so we could get organised and go out for an early dinner. Layni headed off not long after and then Debs and I decided that a ‘nana nap’ was a good idea. We woke up about 7.00pm and woke the kids with an option to go out for dinner or stay sleeping… sleep won out for everyone. Layni woke up bright eyed and bushy tailed about 1.00am and could not go back to sleep. Debsy stayed up with [View Full Entry]

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Arrived safe and sound, Hi guys, we have arrived in Prague, safe and sound but a bit bloody cold. We had a very long trip, just over 34 hours in fact. Have to say the kids were absolutely fantastic. Deb’s sister Lil very kindly drove us to Brisbane airport after a couple of nights with Debs Dad, Buster. It was a great chance to catch up with him and Debs family. We left Brisbane and flew to Singapore and made the most of the movies on demand feature which has been in for some time but we had not used it [View Full Entry]

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We have been very fortunate to be able to charter a Hanse 400. The Hanse 400 is a strong, well built and easy to sail yacht that we have narrowed down to being a boat that, if the circumstances permitted, we would consider buying. There are a few Hanse yachts available for charter in Croatia and we have been fortunate to cross paths with Eldin of A2A Yacht Charter Brokers and he has been fantastic in arranging our charter through Asta Yachting in Croatia. Have to say that Eldin has been a great source of information about Croatia and could not [View Full Entry]

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We are heading off next Tuesday, flying out from Brisbane to Prague, via Singapore and Amsterdam. We have been pretty busy, getting ready, packing for the four of us, Dad, Mum, a teenage daughter and our youngest daughter who is just 8. In reality we have to pack for a couple of seasons, although it is Spring in Europe, we are heading to Prague first and then to Nuremberg in Germany, catching up with friends before we fly down to Dubrovnik on the 30th of March. Hopefully, we might leave the cold behind once we hit Croatia and it continues to [View Full Entry]

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