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  • Lake St Clair

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    Hobart to Lake St Clair Our guide Jon picked us up from the Henry Jones art hotel at 7.15 am, and our first stop was Mount Field national park, 64 kms from Hobart. Founded in 1916, it is Tasmania’s oldest national park and its landscape ranges from eucalyptus rainforest to alpine moorland. Here we did…

  • Lake St Clair, Tassie

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    November 2, 2023 A beautiful cool sunny day in Hobart. After breakfast and a short business call, I got the bus to Richmond. Hugely expensive 30 min trip…seniors price $2.40. The last time I visited Richmond was about 40 years ago with Angie, when we did a road trip around Tassie. Richmond is famous for…

  • The road trip continues…

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    August 25: Dubbo Taronga Western Plains Zoo, commonly known as Dubbo Zoo, was established in the late 1960s to provide breeding facilities for large plains dwelling animals and to fulfill a need for an open range facility for the display of mainly grazing animals. After considerable planning and preparation, a site on the outskirts of…

  • The road trip continues….

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    August 24: Coonabarabran to Dubbo Left our 5 star accommodation – which had a beautifully decorated water tank, for our 2 hour trip to Dubbo. Slight delay in Coonabarabran while we waited more than 30 minutes to order and collect coffee – a necessary companion for our driver Les. Uneventful drive to Dubbo where we…

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    August 23: Coonabarabran Well everyone was on their best photographic behaviour today after yesterday’s chiding…in fact Sally took SO many pictures, she received a distinction for her performance! Beautiful morning in Coonabarabran. Warm enough to eat our breakfast outside, after Sally had prepared a scrumptious spread. Off to the Warrumbungles. First stop was Whitegum lookout…

  • The road trip continues

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    August 22: Mudgee to Coonabarabran Whatever happened on Tuesday morning in Mudgee will NEVER be known because the culprits, Les, Sally and Betsy, failed to take a single photo of their wine and food excursions. The other culprits, James and Julie, also failed in their photographic duty. Sara meanwhile was on a work call and…

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    Aug 21, 2023: Sydney to Mudgee Remember this! Sydney was locked down on June 26, 2021 – three days before we were due to embark on our tour of regional NSW, led by Jim James of course wanted to try and drive out of the red zone before the lockdown began because very few restrictions…

  • Sara says “ha det”(goodbye)

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    July 7: Stavanger Hey Dina, they do some groovy gurneying in Norway. Today Tone and I walked into town from the apartment. Lovely walk -it skirts along the fjord. Here we are across the river from the apartment. The Norwegians are very efficient with their land use. Tone is standing on top of a fire…

  • Sara and Robyn say “hallo”

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    July 6: Stavanger Today we left Chris and Tone’s summer house and moved to their apartment near the centre of Stavanger. Their apartment also has views of the water but not as breathtaking as the summer house (however, closer to all the shops and restaurants of Stavanger itself). The apartments are dog friendly and we…

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    July 5: Stavanger – the summer house An addendum to yesterday’s blog….here’s us leaving our lovely hotel in Bergen, and a picture for those who don’t know what a troll looks like!j A bit of an explanation of the summer house concept in Norway. They are called “hytte” ( pronounced “hooter”). There are many, many…