Today was our last day of traveling, so I’ll close off this blog today. We are spending a few days a Coolum for a bit of relaxation before I go back to work next week. I know it’s not been the usual 3 weeks or so, but I’ve enjoyed the compressed break. I started today…

Since I’ve been blogging about holidays, there is one thing that always happens and that is the days that things just don’t quite work out. Today was that day, but more on that later. We started the day with a cooked breakfast. The owners of the property supplied some bacon and farm raised eggs (from…

So part of writing a blog means that sometimes my facts aren’t always correct, maybe even alternative facts?. My friend Maxim pointed out to me that the Boab trees I talked about yesterday are in fact Queensland Bottle Trees… similar, but the foliage is different. On top of that, I realised that I have misspelt…

One of the reasons accomodation had been hard to come by in Goomeri was there was some motorcycling event in the area and many of the riders were staying in town. When I say motorcycling event, it was not bikie gangs with crappy Japanese bikes, but a much more posh affair with BMWs and Triumphs…

Our hotel stay was probably a little more communal than we would normally like, but we both slept pretty well, despite a bit of chatter outside the room. It was nonetheless cheap and and did the job. Goomeri has a somewhat famous bakery that make a pretty good coffee and I had a Chicken and…

In a normal year we would normally be going on our ‘big’ holiday for the year. As we all know, this year has been anything but normal, so we are heading off on a local trip around south-east Queensland. We had planned to get down to Melbourne, to see the family down there, but that…