Travel, Wine & Shoes

First a warning for vegans and vegetarians … you may want to skip this post! Next, I’m staying in the noisiest hostel ever! This one was advertised as slightly older crowd and no alcohol permitted. Yep, the noisiest!!!!!! I spent some time last night figuring out my next steps from […]

I was up way too early for people to be awake. I took Jetstar on this leg, they’re the cheap one here in Australia. There was only 1 flight today and it was at 6 am. But …they were $200 cheaper than Virgin so 6 am it was. Cairns is […]

Today I planned on going to Bondi Beach, but ended up walking about. I wanted to see more of the harbour area. I hung out in Starbucks and booked my flight to Cairns tomorrow and a hostel for a few nights. Planning on diving the outer reef and skydiving again. […]

After my wine tasting shenanigans yesterday, I’m feeling my age this morning. I’m now in Sydney at the Asylum Backpackers Hostel and it looks like an interesting place! I’m the old lady in the dorm, these young ladies sure like to leave their clothes all over the floor. I’d be […]

I got drunk today. But I’m getting ahead of myself. I woke up in Tassie!! I’ve been told a lot that Australians like to shorten their words. Tasmania … Tassie, Parmigiana … Parmi, TD … Tasmanian Devil. I’m starting to get it. I did yet another small load of laundry, […]

I said goodbye to Linda, Harvey and Lizzie this morning. We took a fabulous walk on the beach. Stunning area! These are known as Bathing Boxes. Owned by locals their starting price is 300k. They have no power and you can’t sleep all night in them. I’ve had the best […]

I had a fabulous day!! I took the train from Linda’s house to Melbourne City. The first thing I did was get a Starbucks and it was good! The barista asked me if I was from Canada and said he recognized my Visa card. He lived in Montreal for a […]

Another day started with … laundry! Again, with only one pair of leggings and the weather a little cooler, it’s all I’m wearing. I put my shorts on to wear while doing the laundry, but Barb loaned me a pair of pants and a big blue wooly jumper. I’m going […]

I’m loving travelling with my little carry on backpack. When I landed in Sydney and went through Immigration, the man asked if my pack was all I had and THEN he said don’t you have 20 pairs of shoes.  OMG I said do you know me? Maybe I’m on some […]