Australia

This was a busy month for it being so short. I crammed a lot in. While DH2 was on a Tasmania backpacking trip, I did something interesting every day. I joined him in Hobart for the weekend and then my son came to visit! Harry Potter Cursed Child Play at the Princess Theatre. The dementors […]

DH2 did an eight-day backpacking trip on the South Coast Trak of Tasmania. Thankfully I did not go but I did catch up with him at the end of his trip so we could have a nice weekend in Hobart. We didn’t know it would be a party weekend in Hobart but we experienced the

DH2 had a conference in Adelaide so why not tag along and live/work in Adelaide for five days? Jetstar delayed the flight because they didn’t have an AC unit and the plane was too hot for passengers. We loaded an hour late, sat for a half hour, then deplaned for another hour. On landing, the

DH2 started his sabbatical and we’re back in Melbourne. I was excited that we were headed to summer but we were graced with only 2 hot days and 3 pleasant days in the 3 weeks of January we were here. I brought summer clothes but didn’t get to wear most of them. The temperature vacillated

In the final week of this Melbourne visit, I wasn’t able to check off everything I wanted to do this trip but it does give me a start on next year’s list. There were other fun things I did that weren’t on my list. An unexpected excursion was a walk through a First Nation’s cemetery.