Year: 2009
Wilson Family 2009 Newsletter
The Year 2009 was another great year for us – very active, and it sure did go quickly. Download Our 2009 Family Newsletter Here – Newsletter
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Boxing Day Test Match
It’s Boxing Day 2009, and has been our custom for a few years, David & I are at the cricket to see the first day of the match between Australia and Pakistan. We have doom good seats on the first level of the Ponsford Stand. It’s a nice day with the temperature in the low […]
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Marysville Revisited
We visited Marysville again over the weekend- the second time since the terrible fires nine months ago. Nature is taking it’s course in slowly regenerating the forests. Trees are coppicing and the green shoots on trunks and branches are starting to hide the blackness from the fires. The Watts River was flowing quickly with a […]
Read MoreMontreux and Home
We had a leisurely morning on October 6 looking around Interlaken. There were a number of shops that sold very elaborate cuckoo clocks and we debated whether we would like to get one one to bring home. In the end, we decided that they didn’t really fit into our house and that we were cuckoo […]
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Interlaken
Yesterday, we had a leisurely morning and a walk around the harbour on Lake Geneva before walking the 300 metres, or so, around to the station to catch our 12:55 Golden Pass Panorama train to Interlaken. We started by following the same route as we took to Mt Pilatus, but then turned left to head […]
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Mt Pilatus
We arrived in Lucerne, Switzerland, yesterday afternoon after a long trip from Venice. We had almost two hours in which to change trains in Milan on the way and it was quite difficult in a crowded station which was undergoing renovations and not a place to sit anywhere. What a change to get on a […]
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Leaving Slovenia
We left Slovenia on Tuesday after visiting the Karst caves at Postojne. We reached the main chamber on a little train that travelled about 2 kms into the mountain through a series of halls filled with stalactites, stalagmites and grand columns. We spent about 90 minutes wandering through the cave system on firm concreted walkways. […]
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Lubljiana and Bled
After crossing the border from Croatia into Slovenia, the environment was noticeably different. Slovenia is noticeably more affluent (probably because it is in the EU and didn’t have a six year long war that sucked up a lot of money). We moved from countryside in which houses were pock marked with holes from machine gun […]
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Plitvicka Jezera National Park
We had a long day of travel from Dubrovnick to northern Croatia. A we travelled north, the scenery changed from the harsh Dalmation coastline with its rugged limestone mountain ranges and stunted trees to one which was more temperate with grassland and forest. In the late afternoon, we arrived at Plitvicka where we stayed at […]
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Montenegro
On Saturday, we took one of the options available tours and did a day tour to Montenegro, one It is one of the old Yugoslav states and it added another country to my list. It was only a short distance from Dubrovnik to the border, which we crossed with ease. Montenegro is noticeably more poor […]
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Adriatic Coast
I realise that it is now a few days since my last posting and that’s because for the last six days, I have been battling a severe dose of gastro which has knocked me round solidly. It started after we left the ship.and it wasn’t until last night when we reached Dubrovnik that I was […]
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