Immediately after our “cruise” in Dreamweaver, we visited Monarto Safari Park. We had hoped to stay in the newly built Safari Hotel. Originally due to open to paying punters by late 2022, it has only just started to take bookings. …
4. ADELAIDE AND RIVER MURRAY
Leaning sadly against a pillar as we exited Parklands Station in Adelaide, we found our luggage. So it hadn’t got lost. But the reason it was leaning was that one of the wheels of one of the cases had been…
3. HEAD WEST, YOUNG MAN!
We were trying to emulate the explorative adventures of the early settlers. The Blue Mountains, part of the Great Dividing Range, created an impenetrable barrier inland from the coastal region. It remained impenetrable (to Europeans) until 1813, when Gregory Blaxland,…
2. INTO AUSTRALIA
Disaster! Well, you knew it would happen! There is a very sad Australian song by Slim Dusty about a “Pub With No Beer”! We have our own real-life version of that! We are booked to travel to Adelaide by train. …
1. LEAVING THE COLD AND THE WIND!
Holidays should be such fun! As we get in the taxi for the station, we receive yet another request for information regarding the sale of Glenda’s mother’s house. The house sale was agreed in one hour, but that was in…