Here in Australia at the moment it’s school holidays. It’s a two-week break for spring, which began a week ago last Monday. Now that Elizabeth has gone up to senior school, it’s not so clever to sneak her out during term to take her on holiday. So this time we needed to book our break [...]
Holidays
Mrs Bob and I are thinking about booking our winter holidays for this year and wondering where to go. School winter holiday time here is around the last week in June and the first week in July, just two weeks in total. The thing with Australia is, we can stay within this country and we [...]
Coffs Harbour is about a five hour drive south of Brisbane on the New South Wales coast. It is not a big town, it has a population of about 45,000 and has a reasonably ordinary looking town centre. Coffs, as it is known, is where we decided to spend a one-week summer holiday this year. [...]
It’s at this time of the week that we get to have a look around elsewhere in Australia. I like to keep it topical if I can and tie in with something recent in the news and then top it all off with a YouTube video. This week my choice was made very easy with [...]
This may seem like a strange subject for a post in September, but it will get stranger before we are finished. Today’s post will also talk about summer arriving in the UK and it being winter here in Australia. Neither is true. Yes, it’s time for another reprint of one of my articles for Australia [...]
It’s the start of the second week of the winter school holidays here and for those who have decided not to go away, there’s always plenty to do in and around where you live. Take, for example, where I live in Brisbane. A quick Google for “things to do in Brisbane during the school holidays” [...]
It was around the middle of March this year when Mrs BobinOz said she wanted to have a little chat with me about something. She wanted me to sit down for it, never a good sign. I was expecting the worst. “How do you fancy a holiday abroad?” She said. Ah, this isn’t so bad, [...]
As you probably know, each month I write an article for Australia and New Zealand magazine, available at a newsagent near you for just £3.99. That is, of course, as long as ‘you’ live in the UK. But many of you don’t, and maybe some of those of you who do, don’t actually buy the [...]
