Nibseys Tours

We arrived in the city centre around mid day on Saturday (12th) and took our bags to the hotel before dropping off the hire car for the final time. We had driven just over 6000 KM in four different hire cars on our journeys in both counries. It's a good job that fuel is cheaper than in the UK. Once again we checked in to our hotel and immediately set off across the city to visit some of the prime locations. On our list was the botanic gardens once again, a place we never tire of. We have both agreed that Sydney botanic gardens is one of our favourite locations. The contrast in plants, the smells from the herb garden and the sights and noises from the variety of birds and fruit bats is just incredible. ... read more

Hi Time for me again... What John ommitted to tell you in his last update was that around the red center there were thousands of bloody flies. Our guide informed us that there was three ways to protect our selves. !. Fly nets over our heads,mmm nice fashion accessory 2. Insect spray which he said they just licked off. 3. Cream that diguised your smell which all the locals used. We opted for the third way but what he ommitted to tell us was just how bad it smelt, we nearly cleared the coach when we applied it to ourselves, also that the rain washed it off, so we were back to square one... Back to my blog We left Sydney on Saturday which I didn't really want to do as I learnt it was the ... read more

Well time to try to catch up I suppose. Lets begin with Adelaide. Not much to say really only that it was very hot at 35 degrees for the day and half that were there and that it is very much like all the other cities that we have visited so far. On the sunday we did take the tram to Glenelg which is a half hour ride to a suberb by the sea. A quite beautiful resort with a nice sandy beach not that we went swimming. The following day we set off for Alice Springs on a two hour flight. Now this was very different as it is as I'm sure that you know in the middle of the country and in a desert. The most notable thing for me was the forlorn looking ... read more

ok it's my turn again, these come around so quick. We arrived in Melbourne mid morning on a cool cloudy day. Whilst John was booking into our hotel i was speaking to the receptions who suggested that we visited the Victoria Market which was just across the road from our hotel, so it was down with the suitcases and out to the market which covered 17 acres and had in excess of 1000 stalls selling every sort of produce from fruit to fish etc. Having whipped around the market it was off to the city center to get a feel for the place, to help us with this we caught the free city loop tram complete with a commentary. The following day we were up early as usual on with the walking boots and off for ... read more

Leaving Franz Joseph we set off on route to Christchurch via a small town called Hokitika. This is a very small coastal town not notable for very much except that we arrived shortly after there had been a beach competition to create sculptures from the masses of driftwood on the beach. Needless to say some were hard to fathom and were clearly from the eye of the creater although the titles were in some part appropriate. My personal favourite being a mish mash of knarled tree branches and such like with the title. "One Day My Son All This will be Yours" a winner for me. We spent a quiet night here in a ocean facing bedroom. The following day was planned to travel to Christchurch in preparation for our flight onward to Australia. We travelled ... read more