Sometimes when you’re travelling there are days you will carry forever. Today was one of them. Let’s start by rewinding to the early 1980’s when my parents were holidaying on Dunk Island. I suspect it was their first proper holiday without us kids. In all the pictures Dad still had his sideburns and moustache and, maybe I’m imagining it, but Mum was rocking an extremely cute crocheted bikini! It was on that holiday they met an American couple Bill and Connie. Well today we spent the day with Connie and heard how they first met. Connie told us they had booked the trip to Dunk Island on a working holiday at the last minute. Unfortunately they’d missed out on the snorkelling bookings and were really disappointed. They couldn’t believe it when an Aussie couple they’d just ... read more

Day 1 We left our house at 5:45, but before that sadly we take Luna down to Nan’s house because she could not come with us. We checked in at the airport and put our bags on the thingy. We then went to the Qantas first class lounge and had something to eat. I had a cheeseburger and Zoe had calamari. We got on the 13hour plane ride, that left at 9 o’clock (Melbourne time) it was smooth sailing except for one part where the plane hit an air pocket( turbulence). We got a lot of food. We pretty much just watched movies the hole time. we landed at 5:15 (San Francisco time), we all just wanted to get home! We got a taxi out of the airport and we arrived! My first impression was it ... read more

Day 22: Goodbye Cartama and hello Madrid Bella We all sadly Packed up the house La Niña Chole in Cartama. We didn't want to leave but I feel ready to go back to Melbourne soon. We Drove to the train station and returned the hire car. We returned the car to malagacar.com We Caught the high speed train to Madrid (230 kms an hour). I sat next Zoe while mum sat with dad, we listened to music and played games on our iPads We Arrived in Madrid from our train and went to our apartment. It is cute and has double bunk beds. We are all sleeping in one room! We walked to a cute sweet shop called La Violeta.and got a lot of presents We went out to dinner with dads work friends called Toby, ... read more

By Bella We woke up had breakfast and went for another walk of the property, it is beautiful. It has lots of trees. After that we we went on a drive for 1 hour to Ronda which is an old town in the north of Malaga. It is cut in two and joined by a huge bridge. We went on an adventure under the bridge in the rocks. You walked/kind of climbed across and saw a bridge. It was amazing. Then we had lunch, I had pizza. Then we drove home We went for a Swim with dad and Josia it was really fun. There was a little concert with Flamingo dancing it was really cool but it was also really long so we were all tired half way through. Scroll down to see all the ... read more

Day 18 Caroline and Mike leave us: ? Bella We woke up and collected 4 eggs?!?! We were so excited but we went down there and they had stamps and were bought eggs from the supermarket?!?!?! We did Running training and went to a track but it was closed so went to the park and did some laps. Cause we're running the melbourne marathon. We did a Big swim and then had a Late lunch. We said Farewell to Mike and Caroline. They left a note in the pillow case of their apartment. I feel sad that they have left. We are going to send post cards and letters to them. They live in a castle in Ireland, I would like to visit them there. We had another long swim with Josia. We played Marco Polo. ... read more