Category: travel

New post on my TravelPod blog http://www.travelpod.com/z/sleepydwarf/1/1409961600 In two weeks we’ll be ready to go. It doesn’t seem real at all. I have 10 days of work left, during which I have to get a major project to the point that I can hand it over, and do my...

In just over 3 weeks I’ll be embarking on a big adventure to England with Lil Sis. I’ll be trying to keep up to date with a travel blog on TravelPod. Here’s my first post (text reproduced below): http://blog.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/sleepydwarf/1/1409431658/tpod.html Earlier this year an opportunity presented itself to allow me...

Yesterday we went to Dunalley, the small town that was devastated by a huge bushfire in January. The road to Dunalley I’ve tried several times to write about the trip, but what can you say when faced with such huge devastation? It was heartbreaking to see the effects of...

When we take Juniordwarf to school in the morning, he has a few little quirky habits. One is to tell us that “the animals and the teddies” are also driving to school, and which colour car they are driving in. Sometimes he contacts them on the “walkie talker” to...

My boss and I travelled to Launceston today for a meeting that we expected to run for about an hour and a half. It turned into more than three hours. Then on the way back we were stuck on the highway for over half an hour following a crash....

Our last day. Juniordwarf, Slabs and I went to Floriade, Canberra’s annual spring festival, with Grandma.               We had a couple of hours there. Juniordwarf loved smelling the flowers, even the ones that weren’t scented.   In amongst the stalls was the Chilli...

We went shopping this morning, then did a bit of sight-seeing. Or rather, we went to Parliament House.  Juniordwarf loved the water feature at the front of Parliament House, and insisted on dipping his feet in. After that, we drove up Mount Ainslie to show Juniordwarf Canberra from above....

Today was the last day of our road trip, from Tumut to Canberra. Goodbye Grandma & Grandad We did the obligatory stop at the Dog on the Tuckerbox (where Juniordwarf, upon learning that we didn’t know the Dog’s name, decided that its name was Charlotte). We’d stopped there the...

Today’s schedule: Sleep in. Drive from Adaminaby to Tumut, through Kusciuszko National Park, stopping to visit the Yarrangobilly Caves. It was a clear sunny morning, and there were no reports of snow on the road, so we were confident we’d have an uneventful trip across the mountains. The ‘high...

Today’s schedule: Get up at 4.00 am for a 6.00 am flight to Canberra via Melbourne. Pick up hire car. Drive to Adaminaby via Cooma. The map Slabs and I gave Juniordwarf his own little trolley case as an advance birthday present yesterday, so he could have his things...