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Africa Day 7  Livingstone and Victoria Falls, and much, much more. 13 July 2018

Posted on 13/07/2018 by Greg

Africa Day 7  Livingstone and Victoria Falls, and much, much more. 13 July 201 I bet you were all expecting the “Once upon a time ……” version with that headline, sorry, but its been a very busy day, so tonight … Continue reading →

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Africa Day 6 Cape Town to Livingstone Zambia 11 July 2018

Posted on 12/07/2018 by Greg

I have been waiting for this moment,  yes here it is “Livingstone I presume”, yes folks today we have flown from Cape Town South Africa to Livingstone Zambia. (well Livingstone international airport anyway). In days gone by this area was … Continue reading →

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Africa Day 3 Cape Town 8 July 2018

Posted on 09/07/2018 by Greg

I forgot to mention the wonderful surprises waiting for us in our room when we checked in on Friday night, my only excuse is that it was a VERY long day. When we got into our room we found a … Continue reading →

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Africa Day 1 Adelaide to Cape Town 6 July 2018

Posted on 07/07/2018 by Greg

A 4:30am pick up, is way too early.  We both have this thing of checking the time every hour or so, so that we don’t sleep through the alarm. 3:48 and Debs alarm went off! I was awake Deb was … Continue reading →

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27 May 2018 End of one flight and then another one home

Posted on 27/05/2018 by Greg

Our flight arrived ahead of time in Melbourne at 7:00am. We were through imigration and customs fairly quickly. We went to the Qantas service desk and they got us on the 8:40am to Adelaide, so much better than the 11.40am … Continue reading →

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26 May 2018 HK & a flight home

Posted on 26/05/2018 by Greg

We had another very slow start to the day, managed to get down to breakfast some time after 9. We missed all the early leaving US part of our tour group. Luckily we had said good bye to most yesterday. … Continue reading →

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23 May 2018 Beijing China – Hong Kong. “Once upon a time ……..”

Posted on 23/05/2018 by Greg

We were already awake for our 6:30am wake-up call. Bags out by 7:30, on the bus to the airport at 8am. Breakfast was in there somewhere. An easy drive mostly in the opposite direction to Beijing’s peak hour traffic got … Continue reading →

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Tuesday 22 May 2018 Beijing China

Posted on 23/05/2018 by Greg

For those who have been following our China trip, Deb has asked me to do a “and they lived happily ever after.” blog today, rather than the full on “Once upon a time” version. We are both very tired and … Continue reading →

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China May 17 2018 Shibaozhen

Posted on 17/05/2018 by Greg

Happy birthday Eileen/Mum, we hope you have a fantastic day. We are now nearly 1300km from Shanghai and about 300km (as the crow flies) from where we started our cruise. Number of Views :1545

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China 16 May 2018 Wu Gorge

Posted on 17/05/2018 by Greg

We woke in time this morning to go to the Tai Chi session on the top deck. It was an interesting half hour, mostly attended by westerners. I was surprised how flexible I was/wasn’t!  Some movements were much easier to … Continue reading →

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