Rome Thanks Dawn, We hope to catch up with you on our way back to Bunbury later in the year! Wishing you, your mum and dad, and all your family all the best,
living the dream Great to hear your doing so well and enjoying life
We ended up buying another van a sunliner its ok but isnt as good as the matilda no slide out pantry for starters I fitted a diesel heater for the cold weather something you wont have to worry about Solar panels led lighting extra water etc etc Helens still getting sick all the time and not been up to travelling though weve done a few trips this is the last van as I have my 4x4 sprinter still and would probably buy a caravan I hate it just sitting there anyway we are planning to give it a go and will be heading off to Cairns this thursday all going well (27/8/15) If we keep going we will call in and visit
All the very best
Robert&Helen
Darwin Hi Robert and Helen
Good to hear from you and to catch up on what you are up to. Good luck up on your trip and safe travels and it would be great to see you should get this far.
What a Life! Hi Suzanne and Pete, Great to hear from you again and what a marvellous life you are having! I am so pleased that your travelling is working out so well and see that your horizons are continually expanding!!! Great stuff Kiwis!. I will be in NZ in September and October this year, back to Oz for Christmas, rather playing ping pong across the ditch for the moment! But would love to spend 6months or so in the UK. Maybe next year!! Take care of yourselves, hope to see you again sometime and anywhere, in the not too distant future. Love from Kyra
Darwin Hi Kyra
Lovely to hear from you. Hope we will be able to catch up sometime. Life is too short. Will keep you updated where we will be and maybe we can meet up in England next year!
Letter Can Peter ring ring as soon as possible,we would like to know how many days Peter is staying.If staying for a few days might be able to go to the wedding. Mandy and Neil
Christmas message. Hi Sue and Peter, hope you are coping in the wet. Can't wait to get back. We are both working over Christmas, the wether is a lot colder here, can't believe when people complain when it is 28 degrees(nice summer day for us. I don't know if you heard we are grand parents again? We now have a Max and Molly. Hope you have a very Happy Christmas and all the best for the new year. See you the end of March if you are still around. Love GReg and Jenny
Darwin Hi Jenny and Greg, Great to hear from you and thank you for the funny Xmas card. Congratulations on becoming grandparents again and I bet Molly is really cute! We are looking forward to our girls joining us for Christmas. Pete is off to Brisbane for a week to visit friends after they leave because he has two weeks off work. Lucky him.
The park is very quiet and we are looking forward to you all returning. Peter invited us for a meal the other day and we are going fishing with him sometime so will save you some Barra!
Have a lovely Xmas and New Year. See you soon.
Love
Suzanne and Pete
News NOt much is happening.The weather has been cold,Di does not like the cold.Di is still working at the Motel.Neil is still walking and has lost 18kgs,the Doctor is pleased with him.Glad both happy and doing what you are doing.All the wedding plans are in place,Justine is organised.Have not picked the bridesmaids dresses not shore on the colour .Justine said she will know when she sees the colour.Must go now.Good to hear from you.
Mandy and Neil
Darwin again!! You just got that loving feeling for Darwin, thats what it is, cobbs. Glad you are both OK. Your jobs sound terrific. Not too sure about the 'Big Wet' I believe it can be very tedious , but what the hell, you can always start a Monopoly Club and spend the nights over the board game. Or Trivia!! Sounds good. Be very very wary of the crocs. I cannot think of a worse way to go and I know they are fast and cunning. Don't fall asleep on the beaches either. Jenny (who used to work for us) is up at the Northern Territory, slept on the sandy banks of some water way and found croc foot prints all around their tent in the morning! Take care of stuff like that. Thinking of you. Love Kyra.
PS: Betty's sister Hazel is coming out in October to visit Ernie and Jacqui and other family members and will come to see me in Melbourne. xx
Darwin Hi Kyra, This working full time certainly puts a stop to me spending hours on the internet doing blogs and sending emails! I hated the Air North job as it was so so boring and next week commence a new career as Assistant Manager with QBD The Bookshop and really looking forward to interacting with the public again as my last job saw me spending 8 hours in front of a computer screen with conversation with fellow staff members frowned upon! Can see why the last person only lasted a month as the boss was a real witch to put it mildly! Please say hi to Hazel from Pete and I and maybe we will be able to call for a coffee with her when we get to Europe late next year unless knowing our luck she will be in Austalia or NZ.
Letter Everything is going well.My sister and her husband have moved back to Katherine to live for a few years.Our weather has been mild for winter.Dot,Cherly and Donald arrive for the wedding on the 23rd of December.Dot arrives on Boxing Day.Neil is well and still walking,lost 14 kgs in weight.the wedding plans are going well?Di and Peter are well.
From Mandy and Neil
Darwin Hi Mandy and Neil, Good to hear from you. Neil you must be a fraction of your former self and will look very dapper at Justine's wedding I am sure. We would love to come over for the after do if we can get time off work if you don't mind so that we can see you all again. Are you having it at your home?
Alice Springs Hi Suzanne and Pete, Glad you survived the journey with no tyres!!!!! Crumbs!. Lovely photo of the Southern Ocean, I have been there once upon a time and also at a different time to Alice Springs (with Robin). I vaguely remember that we took the Casino by storm!!!!! But The Radio school of the air was great to see and listen to the kids piping up from the bush. Also the train line where it stopped due to lask of funds in the pioneer days.
And of course, the Dri- as- a- bone, Todd River, OK in the day probably, but not great after dark. Enjoy the Alice, maybe get out the movie, Town like etc.....?
Love Kyra
Alice Springs Amazingly enough the new tyres took longer to fit than first expected resulting in our being able to have lunch with our daughter Tessa who just happened to be commencing a 5 day tour of Ayers Rock, Kings Canyon and Alice so that was a real bonus!
4 August, 2012 - Peter and Suzanne, being of the Baby Boomers generation, are now setting forth on the next travel phase of our lives. We met many years ago in Cape Town, South Africa, Suzanne from Oldham in England and Peter from Cambridge in New Zealand, on an overland expedition taking six months to get to London. A year later we then journeyed from London to Australia overland taking 10 months. We settled in Rotorua, New Zealand, had 3 great kids who are now doing their own thing and it is now, excitingly, time for us to recommence where we left off. We have, with much trepidation on my... full info
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Hi you two Sounds wonderful what you have planned have a great time see you when you get to Perth safe and happy travel regards George and Del