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Blog 2 Special Day at Windsor Castle – remembering family A short blog as today has been a very special day. We have been thinking about Uncle Alex Robertson’s funeral on Monday in Gympie and then the sad passing of great Aunty Margaret Robertson from Geelong on Monday night aged 92. We decided that we would honour them both in style. Being in Windsor we thought if St George’s Chapel was good enough for the Royal Family then it was the place to light a candle for our special Robertsons. Rest in peace Aunty Marg and Uncle Alex. Special hugs to Aunty Estelle. Love from Leanne and Graham (Photos inside chapel aren't so good. Had to take them sneakily as no photography allowed inside - eyes everywhere!!)... read more

Blog 4 Golfing – ticking off a few of the courses in the top 100 in the world that are on our Bucket List Monday 27th May – our big day at Royal Porthcawl – Wales. What a day this was. Awoke to a very windy day with passing showers. Got our gear together for all types of weather and drove up to Porthcawl. Visited the old town centre on our way to golf. Tiny streets and cottages dating back to the 16 and 1700’s. Every place is still inhabited and beautifully maintained. Drove up to the course and called at the proshop where we were told that lunch was to be provided for us in the Dining Room. The surprises continued when we arrived at the Front door and there was a welcome sign for ... read more

The World Top 100 Bucket List continues - Thursday 30 May – Golf at St Georges Hill Golf Club. Well this was one of the courses that we were both really intrigued by and so looking forward to playing. When we saw it on the World Top 100 list and then looked at the website we were amazed that they allowed visitors at the club to play the course it looked so private. We arrived at a very serious Check Point Charlie type entrance, spoke to a lovely guard who checked our booking, photographed our car number plate and then opened the gates for us. Wow what a world exists behind these gates. A beautiful community of gardens, private roads, mansions and woodlands – as we followed the road around we then came upon a clubhouse ... read more

Blog1 Switzerland Flew Bris to Milan and arrived in Milan at 6am. It was good to finally start our holiday after Graham breaking his wrist and having surgery. Sorted out our hire car and with Leanne at the wheel we departed Milan for the tiny town of Eglberg on the north west side of Switzerland on the Rhone River. Driving went well and the highlight of the day was driving the Simplon Pass. This is the old route between Milan and Paris. Weather was hot and the Pass provided stunning mountain views. Arrived at out hotel and did a little local drive on the tiny one-way roads high above the town. It was good intro into driving on tight narrow roads with serious blind corners. Next day saw us driving to the railway station to get ... read more

Blog 6 Our last two days of driving Snaefellsnes Peninsula/Reyjkavik Today is our biggest day of driving – 460 kms on not the best roads. After our amazing breakfast we headed down the road across the bottom of the fjord to Blonduos and onto Pingeyrar. My reason for stopping at Pingeyrar was to do with a book I had read called Burial Rites (thanks to Sue Thompson). The book told the story of the last 2 people to be executed in Iceland in the 1830’s. Amazingly the book was written by a young Australian author Hannah Kent. We found the little marker on the side of the road and just like her story, the historical marker pointed out where the execution of the young man and woman took place. It is amazing to think that Australia’s ... read more