Category: AustraliaBy Wanda on May 9, 2008 in Family, Australia, Featured | 1 Comment
Paula and I both celebrate our birthday’s next week and as I will be in Brisbane we decided to treat ourselves to lunch at the Hyatt hotel in Canberra a week ahead of time.
Demelza was home from school with a sore foot? so we took her with us for the experience. I had only given […]
By Wanda on Apr 24, 2008 in Canberra, ACT, Australia | 0 Comments
The Olympic Torch for the games to be held in Beijing in August passed through Canberra today.
The capital is the only Australian city that the torch will be going to. So we set off nice and early because the roads into the city center are all being closed off to through traffic.
So Val (husband) and […]
By traveltripz on Feb 11, 2008 in Family, Tara | 0 Comments
It seems to me that every time I drive to Tara it is raining and this week was no exception.
We are in the process of moving from the beach in Brisbane to a rural area in Queensland which is a good 5 hour drive, although everyone tells me it is only 3-4 hours.
So we are off with […]
By traveltripz on Jan 12, 2008 in Queensland, Australia | 0 Comments
Nowadays we take what is considered to be the back road when we go to Tara. It’s more scenic than taking the highway through Ipswich and Toowoomba.
Unfortunately, the roads are quite a lot rougher and in places there is only a dirt road and no tarseal.
Still it means we get to drive through places such […]
By traveltripz on Dec 10, 2007 in NSW, Australia | 0 Comments
We decided to take the inland road back to Canberra. This meant driving up a very steep incline over the Great Dividing Range. Not far from the summit is a rest area, where we and a number of others stopped to take a break from drive and take in the spectacular views back over the valley.
The township of Cooma […]
By traveltripz on Dec 9, 2007 in NSW, Australia | 0 Comments
After a quick cup of tea we hop back into the car and head of down to Eden.
We are becoming really brave as we have not booked a hotel for the night, deciding instead to see what we can find when we arrive.We drive to the end of town, down the one main street, […]
By traveltripz on Nov 15, 2007 in NSW, Australia | 0 Comments
I will probably receive a bit of flak for this next statement but I find driving in Australia to be totally boring. I would much rather fly between centres and hire a car locally to drive out to interesting places.
So after a fairly long drive I have had enough of being behind the wheel so we decide […]
By traveltripz on Nov 15, 2007 in Australia | 0 Comments
After we left Braidwood we drove straight on through to Bega. Usually we stop at Batemans Bay but with a 4 hour journey ahead of us we decided to carry on through.
Batemans Bay is the largest town on the coast south of Nowra, it has a small town atmosphere with attractions and facilities for tourists […]
By traveltripz on Nov 15, 2007 in Australia | 2 Comments
We stopped at the Braidwood Deli for a sandwich and cup of tea.
Braidwood is approx 300 klms from Sydney and is a lovely old style, heritage listed town has many examples of 19th century architecture.
There are a number of beautiful churches, old time pubs, restaurants, galleries, craft and antique shops, all operating in restored old […]
By traveltripz on Nov 15, 2007 in NSW, Australia | 0 Comments
On Monday, Val and I headed off down to Eden. My daughter had been talking to us over the weekend, about this former whaling town. So we decided to go and have a look and check out other places of interest on the way.
After some discussion on the best way too go, I […]
