Blogs from Oceania - page 3

Another easy, natural get up this morning! After another good nights sleep. I’m a little bit stiff today n the legs, but I think that it will loosen up as soon as I start walking around. We got straight on with booking me into a Vicious Cycle Class!! I know… OMG… what am I thinking? I know I’m just having a go… no judgement.. ha ha. I’m happy to see Bernard doing what he loves. It’s a big part of his life, and this is a good way to do that! We’ll see, watch this space! We had brekky. Bernard made us scrambled eggs in toast, by request. I do love my eggs! These were washed down with a black/purple, very seedy, berry and protein packed smoothie! It certainly tasted a lot better than it looked. ... read more

Here we are, back on some blogging! hope your travelling is bringing you to amazing places! After Cairo came a big week in Congo followed by a lot of wine, golf and friends at home in South Africa. No blogging on those as it has been done before! Funny fact, my lovely wife Tanya has been more often to Melbourne than I have. My first and only visit must be something like 18 years ago! We actually flew in Melbourne together few years ago, but this was to drive the Great Ocean road! This time, I flew in the long way from Durban to Johannesburg, hopping from their on Emirates to Dubai and the long flight to Melbourne! Good for me, got my upgrade on miles all the way through and business class was pretty empty ... read more

We flew early to Christchurch in the South Island from Auckland after a terrible night sleep in a beautiful boondock spot along the bay just minutes from the city center. Unfortunately some partygoers decided to get raging drunk and were smashing beer bottles during the night. There's always one night of idiots while boondocking, let's hope that was it for the trip. We picked up our beautiful 17 ft. Toyota campervan that would be our home for the next 11 days. It was a huge upgrade for us, our first van being functional but this being cozy and luxurious by comparison. We drove a few hours north up the coast ending at the seaside town of Kaikoura. This town is one of the best places on earth to snorkel with dolphins in the wild and the ... read more

It was a very lazy day in Adelaide today. After breakfast we popped out to the Adelaide Market with Meredith to pick up a few items. The Adelaide Market is so vibrant and full of mouth-watering produce. There were cakes galore, but we resisted the temptation. It was much less busy than expected given it was the Wednesday before Easter which was very welcome as it made it easier to negotiate the aisles amongst the fruit and veg, nuts, meat and seafood. Later in the morning Meredith headed off to a lunchtime function and left us to our own devices. We meandered our way up to the Rundle Mall for a bit of window shopping. Which turned into actual shopping with Tracey purchasing a blouse in Myer. We had a bit to eat in the food ... read more

This morning, we packed our bags for the last time on this holiday. Both down to our last pair of clean undies we need to get home to do a big wash! We had a quick breakfast with Meredith then (mainly) Bernie started the task of re-packing the truck for the final leg of the journey. The truck had been parked out on Carrington Street overnight, but Bernie managed to move it into the lane adjacent to the apartment this morning which meant we didn’t have quite so far to ferry the luggage to the truck. Aiming to be on our way by 8.00am we managed to pull out onto Carrington Street at 8.30am. We negotiated our way out of the city in moderate peak hour traffic. At the last set of lights before the start ... read more