VANUATU HERE WE COME
May-June 2023 Or How to have an unwanted learning experience, or It shouldn’t take 3 weeks to get to Vanuatu, or The Weather Always Wins, or No, Things won’t get…
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1 July 2023
Changing Cruising Plans
October 2022 There I was one week sitting on my computer, calculating ratios of tinned tomatoes to packets of dried beans on a spreadsheet, getting ready for our big trip…
11 November 2022
Belgium – Bikes, buses, trams and trains, but no canal boating
Or “When the Gods rain lemons on your plans, spit in their eye and make limoncello”. August 2022 With the canal boat saving its energy for a rainy day (not…
30 September 2022
SOME VERY DIFFERENT BOATING IN BELGIUM – Canals
August 2022 (Week 2) We normally go canal boating in Europe every two years, but due to Covid it has been 4 years since our last trip, so we are…
9 September 2022
SOME VERY DIFFERENT BOATING IN BELGIUM – Brussels
August 2022 We have, up until 2020, travelled to Europe every two years with another couple to cruise the waterways of some unsuspecting country, sprouting very accented attempts of the…
29 August 2022
My Work Here Is Done
June 2022 Neon Beilby October 2003 - June 2022 Sadly, ‘Opal Lady’ is now a boat without a ship's cat; Neon has passed away at the stately age of 18…
30 June 2022
‘Opal Lady’ at Opal Reef
January 2022 The 17th January sees us heading out to the Great Barrier Reef for at least a week, as the weather is looking pretty good. We are going to…
6 February 2022
Opal Lady is Heading North Again
January 2022 6:20am (What is with all these early morning starts?) Sunday 2nd January sees us leaving Airlie Beach after a wonderful 5 months stay, bound for Cairns and then…
5 February 2022
Christmas In Victoria
December 2021 Mother-in-Law appeared to be going mad in Victoria. They had been in lock down for an incredibly long time (I read that Melbourne had the longest lockdowns in…
1 February 2022
Noosa and Batteries
November – December 2021 Peter’s heart check-up was scheduled for a clinic down on the Sunshine Coast, so we took Neon for a 12 hour drive from Airlie (I don’t…
20 January 2022