Our 2016 Grand Tour Begins

Checked in, cleared Immigration and waiting in the Business Lounge until boarding time. 

Our A380 to London being loaded up with supplies. 

Irish Strawberries

Did you know that strawberries grow trees in Ireland?

It's true. We found a tree in Peak Hill. 

Don't believe me? Read the sign. 

Now for the drive home...

Our holiday is over...all that is left now is our drive home...two days done the Newell. 

Kyogle Revisited

We caught a bit too much sun yesterday so we decided to go for a drive...to Kyogle. 

Why Kyogle? Over 40 years we camped there for a couple of weeks...in a tent...and we have never been back there until today. 

The town has changed a bit...but not a lot. 

Pacific Fair

The Pacific Fair shopping centre was something rather different but there is very little left of it as we knew it...

It is now mostly like any other shopping centre...

Christening my new boardies

Having been told that my old bathers were a bit too "bright green", yesterday I bought some new board shorts...not that I am ever likely to go anywhere near a surfboard. 

Today when we got back from a drive down the coast to Burleigh Heads, Coolangatta and Tweed Heads, I decided it was time to christen my new boardies.,.

Broadbeach - One day is much the same as the next

Another beach walk this morning, this time with a dip in the ocean. Back in our apartment, it is time to think about lunch. 

Life is a beach...a Broadbeach

Out for our morning walk...

Out for an afternoon cache...

...at the Kokoda Memorial. 

Home for the next week and a half

A room (or two) with a view

Two and a half days driving....

...and we are still in Eltham!

Up the Moonbi Range

Almost dinner time and still a bit further to go to Armidale but the view off the Moonbi Range back towards Tamworth is just too good to pass up. 

Lunchtime in Dunedoo

Nothing better for lunch than an Apple Turnover filled with fresh cream. 

After a stop in Wellington to visit the Cathedral Cave, our morning run across the Central West of New South Wales brought us to Dunedoo for a lunch stop. 

Add another 25 minutes

Enough said!!!

Slight Delay

Here it is...departure time and I'm still in the Lounge...flight has been delayed 25 minutes...still, can't complain, the lunch time flight to Canberra is still here and won't be going until 8:00 tonight. 

On my way to Canberra

This isn't a holiday so it really doesn't belong in my Blog but I am just testing "blogging on the run" using an App on my new iPad. 

At the moment I am sitting in the Lounge at Melbourne Airport waiting to board my plane to Canberra.