Tapp's Travels

Wow!  I had no idea how busy it was going to be at home!  We need to get away again for a holiday – SOON!  Oh!  We are.  In fact we are now in Cornwall.  This is to try out…

[Sorry, this is much delayed…  we’ve been home for a week as I write this.  We’ve been a bit busy!] We’ve been promising to take the boys to Australia Zoo for ages.  It’s been hard finding the right occasion when…

As you may have gathered time has flown the last couple of weeks.  We’ve been a bit busy!   Now we are beginning to think about luggage, about tickets and checking in times, about driving time to airport and where the…

I did say I wasn’t going to use the B word again.  However, it’s April Fools Day (that shows you how busy we’ve been!) and Nick and Cath have just sent a couple of relevant photos which I reproduce here……

Talking of snakes, we saw our third of the trip the other evening.  The first live one.  Until we ran over it that was.  Sadly, I didn’t see it in the dark in time to avoid it.  But at five…

Our apartment gets visits from parakeets from time to time… We also have frequent fly-pasts at eye-level by ospreys (harder to photograph without Anne and her telephoto lens) … Except one just drifted past about 5 metres out.  Never have…

At the end of the last episode we were just getting to Kenilworth… This town used to have two things going for it.  The cheese factory and a rather fine art gallery.  Now it’s just the cheese place.  Apparently there…

The view that met us as we arrived at our rented apartment was just as stunning as it was the last time we were here. It’s pretty good at night too… But the real reason we are here is to…

Stanthorpe is in what is known as the granite belt.  It’s about 250 kms inland and more than 800 metres above sea level.  So it’s hotter because it’s away from the coastal influences but cooler because of the altitude.  Overall,…