The sun is out and we are happy. We head for Scottsdale for a recommended scallop pie (Tassie specialty) to find the bakery no longer exists. So we find another and are very disappointed with the result. Oh well, we will try again somewhere else at a later date. Luckily, nothing else disappoints today! WeContinue reading “Green green green blue blue blue”
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A Providore’s Dream
After a lovely fresh fruit and yoghurt breaky at our BnB we headed north to the Tamar Valley in anticipation of beautiful scenery and delicious food and wine that the area is world renowned for. The rolling green hills of the valley and its rich agricultural land attracts many growers and producers including makers ofContinue reading “A Providore’s Dream”
A daffodil kind of day
After picking up our hire car, we made our way to Cataract Gorge for the first taste of Tasmania’s panoramic beauty. It was a lovely place to spend a few hours despite the pretty constant rain. We wandered along the edge of the gorge to the gently swaying Alexandra Bridge, suspended high above the gushingContinue reading “A daffodil kind of day”
Girls road trip 2.0 coming up
Once again, we’ve cleared our schedules and packed our bags (definitely the most difficult part with only carryon size suitcases allowed), because we’re going on another girls’ road trip… not to any exotic locations this time, but to the beautiful island of Tasmania. Well- it is sort of ‘over seas’… and we’re excited! We’ve lostContinue reading “Girls road trip 2.0 coming up”
Flying high
It was my birthday and our plan right from the beginning was to go paragliding today. But we had tried to book with no luck… so instead I had a big day planned in Interlaken. Our day started like most with a discussion of what to wear… not from a fashion aspect… more from aContinue reading “Flying high”
Loud Springs
From Locarno we headed into the ‘real’ Switzerland… none of this Mediterranean climate stuff. We had travelled all this way with a suitcase half full of winter clothes and we didn’t want it to be for nothing (as much as I dislike the cold). We catch the scenic Centovalli train for an unhurried journey climbingContinue reading “Loud Springs”
Green water…or is it blue…or aqua…or turquoise?
We cross into Switzerland and immediately notice the difference in the trains- clean, fast, efficient and not hot and stuffy. The rest of our travels will be in comfort. We arrive in Locarno with its palm trees and much hyped 2300 hours of sunshine a year… to rain and gloomy skies… but we have beenContinue reading “Green water…or is it blue…or aqua…or turquoise?”
Slum dog
We have swapped the stress of our hire car for the stress of the notoriously unreliable Italian trains and are just praying that we make some very tight connections. Each train is a little late which works well for us as we lug our suitcases through crowds… up and down stairs when there is noContinue reading “Slum dog”
Flames frozen in stone
We leave Bled early on our long drive back into Italy’s Dolomites. We cross the border and keep commenting how much it looks like Austria. Wait a minute…it is Austria! Google maps has taken us a different route to what I would have expected- and we are in Austria. Unexpected new country travel tick forContinue reading “Flames frozen in stone”
Lake Bled
Lake Bled is every bit as lovely as all the pictures you have seen…with its emerald green lake, picture-postcard gothic church nestled on an tiny islet at its centre, a medieval castle looming above from its rocky perch with amazing views over the lake and some of the highest peaks of the Julian Alps asContinue reading “Lake Bled”
and I think to myself what a wonderful world 