3rd April – 13th April 2018 Day 1: Melbourne to Grampians (and a little bit further) After finally making it to the car hire place, thanks to John, we checked ourselves in. We watched some videos, explaining how to drive a 4WD (not that we were even allowed to use that setting, as we were …
25th March – 3rd April 2018 25th March After a long and tiring week, we finally got a little lie in on Sunday. The night before, Mo had suggested that we go out for the morning, for a coffee/ hot chocolate, so we were up just after 8. It was a slow process to get …
12th March – 24th March 12th March We were up early on Monday morning as I was working a 1-5 shift and we still needed to get back home and get changed. We got up, packed up our clothes from the weekend and headed downstairs to get a lift down to the station from Mary. …
26th February – 11th March 26th February The next morning, I woke up about 9 and head downstairs to get some breakfast. After breakfast, me and Joe played Yahtzee for a little while, as I didn’t have to be in work until lunchtime. After only a couple of games, we decided it was time for …
20th February – 25th February 20th February After a late night, in the city, saying bye to Jan and Pete, I was up early the next day, so that I could get back to work. After creeping around the room, trying not to wake Joe up, as I was leaving, he woke anyway, as he …
15th February – 18th February 2018 After a very late night of blog writing and catching up with posting them online, we had quite an early morning the next day. I got up around 8.30ish and had a shower and got ready, before I dragged Joe out of bed too. Once we had eaten some …
1st February – 15th February 2018 1st February After having a late night to see the moon, I was then up at 7.30 to head to work. I was on a long day, so getting up to see the moon may not have been the most sensible thing to do, but it was worth it. …
14th January – 31st January 2018 14th January After spending the evening with Mick, Michelle and Jeannie, the next morning we woke up and contemplated going on another run. After debating for about 10 minutes, we decided that we would get up and go straight out for it. The weather was nice and cloudy, a …
2nd January – 13th January 2018 2nd January After a reasonably quick flight, with no naps, we landed in Avalon at about 11.30. We could leave straight after getting off the plane, as we had no bags to collect and didn’t have to go through security. After paying for our car parking ticket, we found …
20th December – 30th December 2017 20th December We arrived at Christchurch airport, in plenty of time. We checked in and sent our bags off before wandering through the airport to our gate. We had loads of time to spare, so we sat at the gate for a while and waited for it to open. …