November 2017 – Teddy & Me

“Spring has Sprung, and the Grass has Riz”

…and that’s not the only thing going up.

The mercury’s inching up and that summer feeling is certainly in the air. And, the biggie…Christmas is just around the corner.

It’s time to brush off the barbie, lock in a stock of Christmas cheer and prepare to relegate 2017 to the rear view mirror.

It also means it’s time to climb on board the holiday travel train. To join the hordes of holiday makers heading to the beaches for their annual fix of summer sun.

Popular tourist hang-outs will be overrun with jandal-footed, scantily clad bodies. And the smell of a hundred SPF 50’s will clog your nostrils for weeks to come.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. And just maybe you don’t have any annual holidays left to let you escape for a week or two.

Continue reading “6 Remote “Kiwi” Attractions to Explore this Summer”

Holidays and travel should be a time of “firsts” and our trip to Perth was no exception.

Some people have “firsts” of a magnitude that Teddy and I could never achieve (and frankly, nor would we want to), such as climbing to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, or maybe something slightly more subdued yet achievable, like a ‘stroll’ along the Great Wall of China or arching to kiss the Blarney Stone in Ireland.

Our “firsts” are unlikely to appear in any famous bucket lists, but for Teddy, whose life is a chronicle of well-photographed milestones, our journey will become etched into his memory.

So, as we start out braving the 30^o plus temperatures here is our list of Perth “firsts”:

1: The Big Dry in 36^o Temperatures

Our first and lasting impression of Perth was the parched landscape.

Not only was the air dry, but so was everything that I associate with the colour green. Brown wisps of vegetation marched like grass imposters across the lawns, verges lay unkempt and vast parklands find little relief from the fringes of protecting gum trees.

Continue reading “7 “Firsts” from our Visit to Perth: and a Couple of Jaw Droppers”

1: The Big Dry in 36o Temperatures

1: The Big Dry in 36^o Temperatures