Hello, again We'd envisaged retirement to include lots of holidays. Over the past 2 years it's been a long time between holidays for us. The last was to Tassie (to review - look here) where we went following some frustration with Council over our housebuild - and also to 'prepare' ourselves for a hard slog. Overall, the housebuild project has demanded we turn our attention away from nomadic enjoyments of the recent past to focus upon the design challenge, Council permit process, and the all-embracing build task. For us, the last 12 months have been hectic - we began the construction phase 'officially' in late Feb 2014 and moved into the house a year later. There is still work to do to complete the final aspects, but for us it's 'liveable'. In Nov, last, Bruce realised ... read more

. This is another of 'our' travel experiences - this time to Tasmania in 2013. The collective ‘episodes’ describe our journey from our arrival in Hobart, Tasmania (during the 3rd week of October) and our journey to 'relax' away from the stresses of preparing to build (another) home. We'd thought that we could contain our journey into one 'episode', but as we noted after several days of enjoyment we have to break the epistle after a week of travel. Hence, this segment is the first of two. This 'segment' covers our travel from arrival in Hobart (and our 2 nights there), our journey to Bruny Island for a few days, on to Geeveston further south on the Tasmanian coast, before heading back north. . As background, we'd spent the past year finalising a lot of aspects ... read more

. This is the fourth ‘episode’ in another of 'our' travel experiences. The collective ‘episodes’ describe our journey from our arrival in Paris, France (from the 2nd week of May) and our journey to Floriade (Holland), then the remainder journey through northern and western France. In this part (week #4), we describe our journey around the coast of Brittany. As always, if you want to 'see' more detail in an accompanying picture, click it to enlarge. We've attached a few pics that give you a flavour of our journey, and some 'flow over' past the dialogue. You may need to manually go to the next page to see them. Sunday 3rd June - Brittany. In our last travelblog, we'd signalled we'd arrived at Brittany. Brittany - in French, Britagne - is reputed to be quite d ... read more

. This is the second ‘episode’ in another of 'our' travel experiences. The collective ‘episodes’ describe our journey from our arrival in Paris, France (from the 2nd week of May) and our journey to Floriade (Holland), then the remainder journey through northern and western France. In this part (week #2), we briefly describe our journey from Paris northwards through France and Belgium to Monchengladbach (Germany) and Venlo (Holland) for the Floriade expo, and our return back to France to comprehend the Australian experiences in (what we refer to as) the killing fields of the Great War (WW1). As always, if you want to 'see' more detail in an accompanying picture, click it to enlarge. We've attached a few pics that give you a flavour of our journey, and some 'flow over' past the dialogue. Friday 18 ... read more

. This is the final ‘episode’ in another of 'our' travel experiences. The collective ‘episodes’ describe our journey from our arrival in London (2nd week of June) and across the 'ditch' to Ireland for a few weeks before a return home in mid July. In part 1, we described our journey from Cork to Dublin, and part 2 described the time spent between Dublin and Sligo. This ‘episode’ describes our foray from Sligo back to Cork (our departure point) via the pretty South East of Ireland. As always, if you want to 'see' more detail in an accompanying picture, click it to enlarge. We've attached a few pics that give you a flavour of our journey, and some 'flow over' past the dialogue. Tuesday - back to the lakes country. Sligo is situated at the western ... read more