Monday, 19 October 2026 It was a HUGE driving day today. Leaving Sawtell just after 8.30am we made our way back to the M1 (Pacific Highway). As we merged onto the motorway Syri gave instructions to continue straight on for 349km! The weather was pretty ordinary, grey and overcast with occasional showers of rain, as […]

Sunday, 18 October 2026 Today marked time to start heading home in earnest after our short Queensland holiday. We self-catered breakfast in our room and then ferried our luggage down to B2 to re-pack the truck. Bernie drove the truck out of the basement car park while I wheeled the luggage trolley back to the […]

Saturday, 17 October 2026 Today I had hoped to see the Red Dress at the Museum of Brisbane in the Brisbane City Hall. I was sure I checked the exhibition dates and that the exhibition included our Queensland dates. I was wrong though and the exhibition finished last month. Oh well, off to city hall […]

Wednesday, 14 October 2026 Gosh, this is the laziest holiday we have had for a long time! It was late morning before we motivated ourselves to go out for a walk. We made our way across to the beach and turned south again to walk towards the Coolum Surf Club. Despite the weather being cool […]

Monday, 12 October 2026 We had a lazy start to the morning where the boys sourced more food at Shore to Shore Seafoods and Budd’s Butchers and the girls topped up a few supermarket supplies, so we will eat well for the next couple of nights. Further domestic efforts involved a couple of loads of […]

Friday, 9 October 2026 With only a 45-minute drive to Maroochydore Airport to meet the 10.05am flight from Auckland, we were able to sleep until a bit later this morning. After re-packing the truck we drove down the hill (in a long line of traffic behind a very nervous driver) to Landsborough. Nearing the coast, […]