Christmas Auzzie style!

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We spent Christmas and New Year at Lara’s sister (Natalie) and her husband’s (Shane) house in Coffs Harbour. It was my first Auzzie Christmas and so it had to include a Christmas morning swim! After a quick trip to the beach we went back to the house for a fry-up breakfast and to open our presents. Lunch was a vast selection of cooked meats, vegetables and of course…prawns! In the afternoon we played darts and judging by how I felt on Boxing Day I probably drank too much amber nectar! Very different to a cold Christmas in England!

At New Year we went out for a delicious Thai meal and then went to the local yacht club to watch a couple of bands and see in the New Year.

After a couple of days of sleeping to fully recover from New Year (now we’re getting old!), it was time to start organizing our road-trip. We didn’t need to worry about wheels as Lara’s sister and her husband had found us a car so we spent the next few days scouring charity shops and bargain stores looking for camping gear and cooking stuff for our road-trip. We got everything we need except….a map! We’ll get one before we go but we’re not making any plans about where we’ll end up except that we’re going to head north(ish) - we might go a bit inland for the 1st few days but we’ll probably decide that as we’re leaving Coffs - perhaps we’ll flip a coin!

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