The Ocean Pools of Sydney – Part 1: Tamarama to Coogee

The Travel Bees are currently on a short break that has been long in the making. My Yallingup lagoon swimming buddy and I decided some time ago, a trip to Sydney to swim in the ocean pools would be an epic way to cement our swimming camaraderie. When Jetstar announced flights from Busselton to Sydney […]

Magic Perth – Western Australia

There’s nothing like having visiting family to get you out and about, enjoying where you live. The last two weeks we have been fortunate enough to host our niece and her three children from the UK, and boy did WA put on a show. The weather has been outstanding….. like a second summer. We’ve had […]

You know you’ve been in the ‘country’ when……. (Boyup Brook WA)

Your white shoes are now brown and you find a whole fly up your nose! That’s right, that is what I discovered as we were packing up to head home….. sorry for the gory details. Day 2 of the Boyup Brook Country Music Festival starts with the ‘Bush Poets Breakfast’. I wasn’t sure what to […]

Brandy Polenta and the Rice Pudding Sisters – Boyup Brook Country Music Festival WA

Yes, the title is an inside joke, but a memorable part of the weekend. One of those moments when no one can stop laughing. Laughing to the point you are crying………..I’ll set the scene. Here we are at the Boyup Brook Country Music Festival. Not something we have ever done before, but something we are […]

Kyoto by Tomo

Following on from our success with a private guide in Tokyo, we did the same for our very short amount of time in Kyoto. We are staying in Osaka so could only fit in one day or as it happens part there of. We caught a train and Tomo met us at the station. My […]

Osaka: the food capital of Japan

From the get go Osaka felt different to Tokyo. It might just be the places we visited, but Tokyo seemed more orderly. For example; check out this photo of commuters lining up to get on the subway. I’ve never seen anything like it! They take polite to the extreme. Osaka seemed more relaxed in terms […]

Club Med Sahoro-Hokkaido 2024 (part 2)

You’ll never guess…….. Day 6……… yes I skied! When I drew the curtains to find a huge fresh dump of snow (something like 18cm) and our last day was to be powder, powder and more powder, what could I do? I had to try it. The snowshoe idea went out the window and I was […]

Club Med Sahoro-Hokkaido 2024

Something very strange has happened to me…….I think I actually like skiing! At the beginning of the week I told the family I would hire skis for two days and then snowshoe. Today is day five, I still have the skis and I’ve been skiing all day, everyday! It seems the key has been to […]

Sahoro-Hokkaido bloopers

As you can imagine, I am not short on material for a bloopers blog. Skiing, especially when I am involved, can be rather entertaining. The first two bloopers however are more related to the extreme exhaustion that travel and skiing lead to. 1. I’m at a different train station Bless her little heart, when we […]