WOMADelaide is a four-day music festival held in March in the centrally located Botanic Park/Tainmuntilla. That is nestled right between the zoo and botanic gardens. Bitti and typically visit Tainmuntilla several times a year to climb and picnic in the ‘magic tree’ (just a very good tree for climbing). Typically, 500-600 artists from 30+ countries …
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From South Bank to South Australia
Bitti and I stayed in the Riverside Hotel SouthBank for two nights before flying home. The hotel was definitely in a handy location, but the experience of staying there was … noisy. It was heavenly to sleep on a mattress again, my neck is dicky at the best of times so after 3 weeks on …
Serenity on the homestead
I acknowledge the Wakka Wakka people, Traditional Custodians of the land on which we spent our holiday, and pay my respects to their Elders past and present. Our final camping destination while in Queensland was Kenilworth Homestead. After our pit stop back in town we felt prepared to tackle four more days of unpowered camping …
First time in Second Valley
Having just recovered from our Queensland holiday, on Saturday Bitti and I headed off for a final summer holiday camp with R and her friends. Our destination this time was Second Valley on the Fleurieu Peninsula. I had not visited this spot before, but I have previously camped nearby in Deep Creek, and visited Cape …
Farewell to Port Vincent
I found this draft post that I never got around to uploading. Better late than never! It’s about our trip to Pt Vincent this time last year (2021). The last full day of our little weekend away was hotter and sweatier than Satan’s armpit. I am not sure we reached the forecast 41 degrees, but …
When things go awry and nothing is dry
Just before New Year’s we headed off to Habitat Noosa for 2 nights of camping on Lake Cootharaba. Just before we hopped in the car Bitti realised she had misplaced her ‘eagle eggs’ (marbles they’d got out of the xmas crackers) and a quick emu bob did not reveal them. She was devastated they were …
Ho, ho, hot mess
At the time I dutifully had my second COVID test done, 5 days after arriving in Queensland, I thought you had to isolate until the results come in. So on Christmas Eve we returned from Sandstone and braced ourselves to skip the family celebration, having not yet received our results. Bitti was pretty devo as …
The Sunshine State
Bitti and I have settled into our life in sunny Queensland. I am quite comfy in the humid weather. In Adelaide there is a lot of sartorial whiplash as the thermometer plunges from 35 to 19 and back again within the week, here you can rely upon being warm everyday (although whether you will stay …
A Christmas holiday in the post-COVID world
Dare we consider using the term ‘post-COVID’ to describe 2022? Clearly the virus will be a prominent news item, but its impacts upon life finally seem likely to diminish. As a parting shot, our THIRD attempt at a trip to New Zealand has been thwarted by the long island’s strict international travel rules, which will …
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Hamilton the Musical (and Sydney)
Way back in the dim dark ages of COVID-19 lockdown: 2020, I bought two tickets to Hamilton the Musical. I did it pretty much in defiance of the universe because at that point it seemed the pandemic would last forever. And I was not wrong, it definitely isn’t over, but we have had periods of …
Two Little Travellers 