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Your Guide to Visiting Rhodes

Your Guide to Visiting Rhodes

Visiting Rhodes early or late in the season can offer a really good value holiday in the sun and is a great introduction to Greek Island life. We give you our one stop guide to getting the best from your time on one of the larger Greek islands. After our long recuperation in Fethiye and […]

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No place like Northlands, NZ
By February 11, 2012 2 Comments Read More →

No place like Northlands, NZ

Our time in New Zealand is fast coming to a close, but we had just enough time to spend a couple of days in Northland to view the Bay of Islands and discover the site of the Waitangi Treaty We found a lovely private owned campsite at Sandspit about an hours drive through Auckland, it […]

Posted in: North Island
Coromandel, Oysters, Coves & Beaches
By February 10, 2012 1 Comments Read More →

Coromandel, Oysters, Coves & Beaches

After the heat of the geothermals we set off to cool down with a sea breeze as we headed north toward the Coromandel Peninsula, via the Bay of Plenty.  After being inland among the forests and mountains it was good to be heading to the sea again.  Both John and I feel more comfortable when […]

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Australia: Gold Coast Relaxation
By December 21, 2011 3 Comments Read More →

Australia: Gold Coast Relaxation

Melbourne to Adelaide Gold Coast As I write this we have now spent the last three days on the Gold Coast in Broadbeach, just south of Surfers Paradise.   If we had stuck to Plan A we would have spent these days in Adelaide (in torrential rain as it turned out) and be on our way […]

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Australia: The Great Ocean Road
By December 18, 2011 3 Comments Read More →

Australia: The Great Ocean Road

Having got over our jet lag, our last day in Victoria was given over to mother nature and a trip to view what millions of years of evolution and erosion can do to a coastline. The Great Ocean Road runs through the south of Victoria, Australia, along the Bass Strait hugging the coastline from Torquay to Warrnambool […]

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