Year: 2007
Audrey’s First Christmas
At Christmas (2007), our little granddaughter, Audrey, was just on 6 months old. She really enjoyed her first Christmas. She spent some time wondering what Santa would bring for her, and eventually had a lot fun with crinkly wrapping paper (almost better than the present itself)! She enjoyed her first swim – even when […]
Read MoreMore Day Touring in Tokyo
On our next day in Tokyo, we decided to hit the high spots and go to the Ginza. This is the most prestigious shopping area of all with some of the highest property prices in the world. As usual, we caught the subway to the station marked as the beginning of our walking tour and […]
Read MoreJapanese Innovation
We all know about Japanese innovation, but some of the simplest of things stand out as being a great aid to the weary traveller. They are not the high technology ones such as the computer controlled monorail where trains travel over a 15 kilometre route and only 5 minutes apart – all without a driver […]
Read MoreA Quick Trip to Tokyo
We are in Tokyo after having found a discount airfare and the ability to buy one of our two tickets on frequent flier points. It’s autumn and the weather is fine and cool and there are gold and yellow autumn colours everywhere. We are staying at Shinjuku which makes it easy to get around as […]
Read MoreReturn to the Pickle Slicer Venue
Our final nights on our trip to Broken Hill, were spent at Halls Gap in the same cottages in which we stayed with Mary, Rob, Junene, Ken, Maureen & Dennis about 11 years ago. It was at the Kookaburra Restaurant in Halls Gap that I am accused (somewhat undeservedly, I think) of emptying the restaurant […]
Read MorePatriotic Peterborough
On our trip from Broken Hill to Adelaide today, we deviated off the highway for a few kilometres to visit the town of Peterborough – actually it just arrived on the GPS just in time for coffee. This town must take the award for being the patriotic capital of Australia. This fact became instantly clear […]
Read MoreTo The Outback Mining City of Broken Hill
Saturday November 3 saw us taking advantage of the forthcoming Melbourne Cup Week to travel north to Broken Hill for a few days, followed by a plan to return via Adelaide. It was raining as we left home – which we didn’t mind as this weekend was only the occasion of the second major downpour […]
Read MoreBack To The Army
Over the weekend of October 21 & 22 2207, (and along with a few other Vietnam Veterans) I attended a two day celebration of my old army unit as it began to close down its operations at Moorebank NSW and prepared to move to Amberley in QLD. It was an interesting weekend and it bought […]
Read MoreVietnam Trip Report
Between September 13 & September 29, 2007 we spent some time in Vietnam with our friends Rob & Mary Neal and Max Dong who is an old friend from my National Service days. Max served as a driver at 1 Field Hospital at Vung Tau. I was simply too busy to post any blogs during […]
Read MoreThe Long Trip Home
Leaving the baptism party was the beginning of my trip home to Melbourne. Birge kindly dropped me off at the local station where I caught a train to Hanover. From there I had a 2 1/2 hour trip on the Inter Clty Express(ICE) to Frankfurt. That was a pleasant trip and I enjoyed watching rural Germany […]
Read MoreA Baptism in Barsingausen
We have enjoyed the final days of this trip in a very relaxed way at the home of David’s friends Stefan and Birge along with their two beautiful daughters Maiko & Suzuna. David first met Stefan at university in Japan. He and his family live in the town of Barsinghausen in Lower Saxony, Germany. Stefan […]
Read MoreRiga
There was a young lady from Riga Who smiled as she rode on a tiger They returned from the ride With the lady inside And the smile on the face of the tiger. We haven’t seen a tiger yet, but after being in Russia for the past 19 days, the city of Riga seems much […]
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