It’s been six months since we did a camping trip. Bitti and I were ready to get out in the tent again. Our friends had suggested going to Woodhouse Activity Centre months back so we had this one locked in for a while. Camping in July was not immediately appealing to me. I get very …
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Summer holiday camping
Bitti and I headed to Port Vincent for a camping break before the school year starts. In my adult life I have never been west of Port Wakefield before so this was new territory for me. My friend, R, invited me to join her and her three kids, sharing a powered tent site. R’s friends …
Camping, finally!
Bitti and I headed off for some camping on the long weekend!
Back on the books
Uni is back! Semester two started recently and after a blissful four weeks of being blissfully unmolested by looming assignment deadlines I was back to feeling very happy about my decision to return to study. How things change! At the end of semester one I was considering stopping study after a struggle balancing study under …
What to do when travel is shut down?
I wanted to keep up the travel blog but suffice to say COVID-19 has put a crimp on that! So I am just going to reframe the whole concept of ‘travel’ as life’s journey. This year Bitti and I were all set for a camping trip to the Flinders Ranges around the new year, that …
The end :-(
We returned home over the weekend. Long haul flights are a special kind of bullshit and I don’t feel much like reliving the discomfort and tedium of it all except to say that Bitti was very well behaved and aeroplane food is the pits. We flew with Qatar and had a 14-hour stopover in Doha, …
Final destination: Milan
The blogging has fallen a little behind our actual progress. Writing this from my own lounge room, surrounded by the detritus of our suitcase while Bitti sleeps like it’s not nearly 11 am. Milan was our last stop. We spent two nights there in a pretty dodgy hotel near the central station. We rode the …
Venezia: not at all like in The Tourist (don’t watch that, btw)
The train ride to Venice from Bergamo was a little fraught. It was a 3.5-hour journey with two six-minute transfers between busy regional trains. Italian rail seems to love keeping platform options open, we had found that often platofrm numbers weren’t announced until minutes before the scheduled departure time. But this time we got caught …
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Bergamo: dogs and all the pastries
I risked my breakfast by deciding to take the ferry direct from Bellagio to Lecco rather than adding an extra train leg from Varenna. I have’t been able to tolerate boats since a scuba diving decompression stop disaster a decade ago. I even get motion sick on the bus home from work! But Bitti and …
Beautiful Bellagio
Our accommodation is right next to the Melzi Villa Gardens. Melzi was a super rich dude (there’s a lot of those around) who was into trees and stuff. The villa is right on the waterfront and is now surrounded by a wonderful garden with trees from all over the word, ponds, statues and very sloping …
Two Little Travellers 