Blogs from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania - page 11

It was sooooooooooooooooo windy today, seriously windy that we couldn’t even stand still while watching Sacred Heart Starters’ demonstration. ------------------------------------------------- Sacred Heart – by The UniKorns + Kieran As we got to the school it was as windy as a hurricane (Georgia). To our surprise we were going to be skipping on fake grass outside, it was like a nightmare on elm street (Ellie). We watched the Heart Starters do their demonstration as our hearts filled with wind and sand (Kieran). They withstood the flying debris and showed us a killer routine. After we did a quick workshop we did a good performance while high schoolers walked past and shouted out like talking bananas (Bec). As we finished up our routine, Jeremy got approached by lovestruck fan girls, it was sooooo cute. ------------------------------------------------- Putt Putt Golf ... read more

First Day! Early morning! We got together at 6:20 (well most of us were there, right?) at Northbridge school. Tina G and Tim F drove us to the airport while Bec and Fintan were driven by Bec's dad. The flight was quite OK apart from the fact we had to braid kids' hair madly in order to get ready for the first performance at Parliament House. Here I asked soe kids to write a bit about our first day. --------------------------------------------- It was a very good flight except for the fact that every 5 minutes we had to change seats so we could finish off braiding everyones hair for the performance at 11:45 at the Parliament House. When we got off the plane, we met Megan and got our bus then headed of to the Jump Rope ... read more

Made a gesture to the people I'm working with today at Archdiocese of Hobart. I've invited them to send a written prayer that I will bring to the Cathedral at Santiago. I have a lot of respect for the workers in Centacare, STAY, SITS and HSS and of course ICT they are doing a fantastic job. Of course the church behind it all is in crisis but then so is Carlton Football Club! Just another sign of the changing times we live in. Procured a used camera today which is great because it's shock proof and water resistant to 3m so I can take it swimming. The shock will be exposing my winterised body to the open air!!! Departing Hobart on the 22nd of August. Cheers, Scott... read more

Round 2 of the airfare booking process is nearing completion. It's no trivial matter to leave behind a wife working full-time and two busy kids but it has to be done before the idea of the Camino disappears down the line. Jan 27th 2014 As I sit here reviewing these entries some 16 months after receiving my compostela, my intention is to flesh out some of the memories that made it to this blog and to leave the original text in place because its imperfection is something to be happy with. So anything in italics is new! What was trivial at the time just prior to my camino was that something had to change. That was an absolute certainty because apart from Katherine who has so far been straight-forward to deal with, the rest of the ... read more

We got to play the original Barnbougle course today – the Dunes. It opened in 2005, while Lost Farm opened in 2010, and they are, obviously, very similar, even though the owner used two different golf architects. Loved them both, they are a real destination, just a pity they are so expensive from NZ. The dining room, lounge and rooms at Lost Farm are better than at the Dunes, due to being placed on top of the highest sandhill around. On Thursday 7th we left Barnbougle (Bridport) and came east, then south to Coles Bay where we had 2 nights at a lovely B&B. The countryside is much hillier than we have been used to, and the land is basically only cultivated in the valleys. The roads were quite narrow and winding, so progress was slow, ... read more