tripski – final part

We had some other nice days, went out for lunch – actually, there’s a story there all by itself Never go to Pizza Express in Sevenoaks – they were terrible, forgot our order, lied to cover it up and told us it was ‘just in the oven’ but 1/2 hour later it still hadn’t arrived, stuffed up with the deserts and eventually, after nearly…

Tripski – part 3

We went to see some of my close friends mid week. They live not too far from where I used to live in England.  Not too far away from where Ella and Henry were born and grew up. Ella remembers the place, her old friends, her school and snippets of the old house.  She’s sometimes a bit sad about it – I kinda feel…

Tripski – part 2

So, one of the first things we did (apart from go shopping for food and get very wet in the rain) was go see my youngest sister and her two kids. You’ve probably seen them on here before. We have a lot of fun with them, normally outside in the park where they can run around, but in this case, the rain prevented any…

Tripski, part 1

So, as you know, I went to England to see my beautiful kids.  England, land of the village pub, the Darling Buds of May, long summer evenings, rambling footpaths and history going back millenia. Well, it wasn’t like that.  The sun didn’t shine.  It rained all the time.  It was freezing.  The cloudbase was 3 feet above the ground – so much so it…

In transit

Travelling always sounds so exotic, but the fact of the matter is that the actual travelling bit sucks. Blows goats, no less. First, you have to endure check-in.  The airlines and brochures present you with an idyllic view of check in, of smiley gorgeous women on the counter, handsome travellers all with $10,000 watches and smiles to match. or of wonderful machines that take…

Best Hotels

I was reading Baby Girl’s blog – http://www.purecomplex.com and she was talking about a new fabulous hotel in the grounds of the Palace de Versailles in Paris will be created from a disused mansion – the Hôtel du Grand Contrôle. It looks amazing – and will probably cost an arm and a leg too I suspect. Then I got to thinking, what hotels have…

Holidays, the end

And so came the day we had to go home – boooo!  We’d had a lovely time, but we still had 950km to drive back, so we had to leave early.  We packed everything back in the car remarkably easily, set the chiller bag in the middle seat for the girls to have easy access to food and drinks without having to stop too…

Holidays, part 7 – boats, pearls, dolphins and dugongs

On the last day, we went back to Monkey Mia to go on a catamaran, the Aristocat 2, which sails out into Shark Bay in search of dolphins, turtles, dugongs and black pearls.  It was a beautiful day, in contrast to the day before – we really do have the best luck! The boat sails early, so we got there in plenty of time…

Holidays, part 6 (part 2)

I just remembered that Jay took a video on her iPhone as we were crashing along the track back from Cape Peron The sandy track The claypan Not gonna be doing that in a Nissan X-Trail!

Holidays, part 6 – off road to Cape Peron

The next day the weather wasn’t so good, so we decided to go to the Peron Homestead, an old sheep station in the Francis Peron national park and then take the car off road and go up to the top of the peninsula to Cape Peron. The homestead was very cool – the people that used to do this stuff (and still do I…