• Sue and John Davies
  • Sue and John Davies

Australia

An open-ended adventure by Sue and John Read more
  • Trip start
    January 13, 2018
  • Airport chips

    January 14, 2018 in England ⋅ ☁️ 4 °C

    Just enjoying chips from Burger King waiting to board aircraft

  • Relaxing 1st day

    January 17, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    After 12 hrs sleep catching up it’s a day of relaxing especially out of the 31 degree temp

  • Visit to Geelong

    January 18, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 38 °C

    Lovely beach,large harbour plenty of boats
    Really nice place and was really busy.
    It was a much larger place than expected.

  • Interesting day in daylesford

    January 22, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    Lovely Wild West style buildings very hot weather
    Convent was closed to visitors
    Then we had car trouble, waited about 2.5 hrs for tow truck which took 2 of us with it.
    Taxi was also ordered as well as tow truck but that arrived a further 1.5 hrs after so Sue and Jean sat in the BP service Stn (attendant was brilliant with them)
    Oh well such is life it made for a very interesting day and we all enjoyed it
    Back in Melton now for tea
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  • Australia day BBQ

    January 26, 2018 in Australia ⋅ 🌧 21 °C

    BBQ Celebrating Australia Day in Romsey with lovely people
    Seeing family and friends again. Thanks to Brian and Alicia for the invite and great friendship

  • Day in Melbourne city centre

    January 27, 2018 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 26 °C

    Lovely day In the city with Maz and her friend
    Seen Emirates stadium,MCG,Tennis centre,Flinders St Station,Federation Sq,St Paul’s and St Patrick’s cathedrals. Also took rides on the trams
    Cathedrals were amazing with the coloured glass and painted ceilings
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  • Shopping day

    January 29, 2018 in Australia ⋅ 🌧 19 °C

    Shopping in Maribyrnong at largest shopping centre in area
    Probably covered less than a tenth of it. But we had cinnamon donuts

  • Mt macedon and Ranges

    February 8, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    Visit today to the cross at Mt Macedon it stands 350 m high and has fantastic views

  • Lakes entrance

    February 15, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

    Stop over for 2 nights on the way to Sydney with Andrew and Linda
    Very nice resort with plenty of fish and chip shops
    Lovely apartment overlooking the harbour and bay

  • Narooma

    February 18, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

    Beautiful place really nice apt fantastic views
    Seen seals, stingrays, pelicans then when we got back on the balcony had parrots visiting some very tame

  • Sydney week

    February 25, 2018 in Australia ⋅ 🌧 18 °C

    Fantastic week here in Sydney. Done bridge walk to halfway (not the arch) sailed under the bridge. Toured the opera house, seen cruise ships including the Queen Mary 2. Climbed the bridge pylon, super boat trip around the bay and brilliant food restaurants including Guylian chocolate cafe. Visited Manly beach and Bondi Beach
    Really hard to believe we are here.
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  • Blue mountains and katoomba

    February 28, 2018 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 22 °C

    Absolutely beautiful area the forest and mountains have a blue tinge apparently caused by the eucalyptus? Trees

  • Back after super trip

    March 4, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C

    What a brilliant road trip
    Thank you Andrew and Linda for such brilliant company and fantastic places visited on our trip

  • Apollo bay and portland

    March 13, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

    Lovely visit to Apollo Bay and Portland
    Our hosts took us to see some beautiful places and looked after us really well
    We have only seen a small fraction of the country but am still amazed at the beauty it offersRead more

  • Melbourne city visit before home

    March 19, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

    Day in Melbourne city centre visiting Victoria market,
    St Paul’s Cathedral, and Eurika Tower 88th floor. Observation deck with a section that moves out beyond the edge of the building and has a glass floor. (Andrew would like that )
    Brilliant views of the city, ocean and Albert Park lake
    We celebrated our 50th Wedding Anniversary this week with a meal at Galli winery
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  • Holiday over and back at home

    March 28, 2018 in England ⋅ 🌙 1 °C

    Well the fantastic holiday and road trip are over
    To mention just a few of the places visited:-
    Melton, Geelong, Melbourne, Williamstown, Ballarat,
    Bacchus Marsh, Romsey, Mt Macedon, Kings Lake,
    Sunbury, Lakes Entrance, Narooma, Sydney,
    Bondi Beach, Manly beach, Katoomba, Wagga Wagga, Apollo Bay, Portland, Mt Gambia. Hamilton,
    There are lots of other places we passed through but too many to mention.
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