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We started at 9am and it was cold (about12c) and we needed warm trousers and fleeces. This probably sounds strange but we split up again...

Mark started the day by getting his missing towels and having a shower and then we were off to Melbourne - we haven’t learned it’s...

We started the day by splitting up. Pam went back into Bowral for breakfast and to have a look around. Meanwhile Mark visited the Donald...

We slept in. Yay! We didn’t need to check out till 10am and our shuttle to the airport was at 10:50 so we got as much sleep as we could...

We awoke bleary eyed before 5am for our tour. We went to our usual pick up point and was met by a small coach and our guide Matt. There...

The morning started with us loading up the car at 6:30. With a bigger car and bigger boot we could get almost all our stuff, except one...

Today is the last day we get to see the centre of Sydney so we decided to finish off a few things on our should see list plus a few...

Today was not a success at all. For a start, temperatures in Sydney reached 41c breaking all records for an autumn day. We escaped that...

We spent a bit of time in the morning in the town and we found where many of the koala statues hang out - there is a shop in town that...

This was more or less a travelling day. We set off at 8am and very soon lost an hour as we crossed the state border into New South Wales...

We caught a tram a few stops to the end of the G-link tram line to a place called Broadbeach. It was another surfers beach with a few...

Today is essentially Tamborine mountain day which is just under an hour from Brisbane. We checked out of our Brisbane hotel around 8:30...

Today we are doing the 2 must see items in Brisbane. We started the day with the 1st one - The Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary. As we want a...

This day started terribly. First here is our room. We put a wash on as we were running low of clean, lightweight, clothes. Then we saw a...

A longer day for us today, with quite a few stops, but we knew we had 3 nights in Brisbane and would be sharing the 6hrs of driving and...

We started this exceptionally amazing day with breakfast at the Korte’s resort restaurant and then we checked out and took a short drive...

Awaking in Airlie Beach on a Saturday meant we got to see the weekly beach market except we didn’t as it got cancelled this week - due to...

We are both of a certain age which means that we cannot sleep thru the night with at least one visit to the toilet. You wake up to spend...

We were up at 6:30 as we had to check out and put our cases in the hotel’s storage room to collect tomorrow evening. Then, it was off to...

We slept well and awoke, at 7am, for the last time onboard Arcadia. We had already docked in Brisbane a few hours earlier so it was...