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- 2007 Central Australian Outback
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- 2009 Around the World Apr-Aug
- 2009 Mallacoota, Wilsons Promontory and Halls Gap Oct
- 2010 North America & Alaskan Inside Passage Cruise
- 2011 Western Half of Australia Jul-Ag
- 2013 Carnival Spirit Pacific Cruise
- 2013 India
- 2015 Carnival Spirit Cruise
- 2015 Chile, Galapogas, Cuba, Mexico & USA
- 2016 Norfolk Island
- 2016 Eastern Australia Tour July to Sept
- 2018 Africa July
- 2018 China and Hong Kong in May
- 2018 New Zealand Adventures April
- 2019 England, Scotland, Iceland and Ireland May to Aug
- 2023 Greece, Croatia and England
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- Our Travels 2006 to 2010
- 01. 2010 North America
- 02. 2010 Adelaide to Gosford to Sydney to Canberra to Adelaide
- 03. 2010 Australian Open Tennis Melbourne January
- 04. 2009 Around the World
- 05. 2009 Mallacoota, Wilsons Promatory and The Grampians
- 06. 2008 Great Ocean Rd, Kangaroo Is & Adelaide
- 07. 2008 Vietnam & Cambodia
- 08. 2007 – 2008 Antarctica and South America
- 09. 2007 Central Australian Outback
- 10. 2006 UK and Italy Aug & Sept
- 11. 2006–2009 Short Trips & Plans
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- Zero Hr COVID-19
- #01 November 2019 & January 2020 – The Novel Coronavirus begins and breaks out
- #02 February 2020 COVID-19 Spreads Globally
- #03 March 2020 COVID-19 It Spreads very widely
- #04 April 2020 COVOD-19 The world tries to deal with Covid-19
- #05 May 2020 COVID-19. A new “Normal”
- #06 June 2020 Covid-19 Things are getting worse
- #07 July 2020 Covid-19 Complacency is our greatest danger
- #08 August 2020 Covid-19 Globally No Better No Worse, Victoria from Good to VERY Bad
- #09 September 2020 Covid-19 Globally it’s getting Worse, Victoria is back on track.
- #10 October 2020 Covid-19 The Pandemic takes hold Globally
- #11 November 2020 Covid-19
- #12 December 2020 Covid-19 The End of 2020 – We have vaccines and the hope of a brighter 2021
- #13 January 2021 Covid-19 The start of a new year with promise
- #14 February 2021 Covid-19 The “New Normal” has become normal
- #15 March 2021 Vaccinations in Australia begin and so does the Global Third Wave.
- #16 April 2021 The Third Wave is continuing to grow.
- #17 May 2021 The Third Wave comes and goes, where now?.
- #18 June 2021 The “Third Wave” is over, but hello the Delta Variant!
- #19 July 2021 The Delta Variant has arrived and brought on a 4th Wave of Covid-19
- #20 August 2021 Covid-19 Same Same but Different, Delta Dominates
- #21 September 2021 We ride the 4th wave
- #22 October 2021 The Fourth Wave is over, what next?
- #23 November 2021 Looks like Omicron is riding the 5th wave
- #24 December 2021 And then there was Omicron
- #25 January 2022 The month of Omicron
- #26 February 2022 Omicron fades away
- #27 March 2022 Covid-19 Australia’s 6th Wave and a Global Steady State.
- #28 April 2022 Covid-19 is declining world-wide, but comes close to home
- #29 May 2022 The numbers of Covid-19 “reported” are continuing to decline
- #30 June 2022 The Pandemic has stabilised, or has it!!
- #31 July 2022 Another wave of Covid-19 washes over us.
- #32 August 2022 The decline of the Omicron Wave
- #33 September 2022 A Political End to the Pandemic
- #34 October 2022 Covid-19 Diary
- #35 November 2022 Covid-19 Diary
- #36 December 2022 The West Begins to Normalise as China sets Covid-19 free.
- #37 January 2023 Covid-19 Let’s look the other way, it might go away!
- #38 February 2023 Covid-19, Don’t mention it!
- #39 March 2023 Covid-19 Now Endemic
- Covid-19 Charts Jan 2022 to end April 2022
Author Archives: Greg
China May 15 Three Gorges Dam
The start of the first full day on board the Century Sun. Thankfully we didn’t wake much before 7am, it was a restless nights sleep but at least we slept in a little. We opened our curtains just in … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 05 China
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China 14 May 2018 Shanghai / Yichang / Three Gorges Dam
We had a VERY lazy start to our day, woke around 7am, breakfast about 9am, packed with our check-in bag out for collection at 10am, and finally checked out of the hotel at 11am and onto the bus for a … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 05 China
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China 13 May 2018 Shanghai and Suzhou
Happy Mother’s Day to our mums, hope you enjoyed your day. xoxox Road trip day, after a 6:30am wakeup call and breakfast we were on our bus to start our 2+hr trip to Suzhou at 8am. For the first 30mins … Continue reading
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Shanghai, 12th May 2018
Our tour started properly today, after a bit of confusion around the meeting time, was it 8am or 9:30, no-one knows. Turns out it wasn’t 8am, so we went to breakfast instead. John, Georgie, John and Yvette arrived at our … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 05 China
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China Tomorrow
Get ready everyone we arrive in China tomorrow 🙂 Number of Views :1409
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15 th April 2018 Homeward Bound
We had set our alarms, yes both of us set one, for 5:50, with the aim of being checked out by 6:20 and checked-in by 6:45. Mission accomplished, but we did get a slight headstart, Deb woke around 4’ish, so … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 04 New Zealand
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Saturday 14th April 2018 Whitianga to Auckland
Our day started very slowly and easily. There was lots of rain and wind overnight and it was pouring in Whitianga all morning until around 11:30am. Our hosts at Woodyhanger Lodge, Warren and Carol, cooked us up some bacon and … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 04 New Zealand
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Friday 13th April 2018 Whitianga
It has been remiss of us to have left this so late in our trip, but we really have to give our heart felt apologises to all the Kiwi’s out there for the way we have butchered your language. I … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 04 New Zealand
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Thurs 12th April 2018 Around Whitianga
This morning we headed out to explore the attractions around Whitianga. Number of Views :1476
Posted in 2018 04 New Zealand
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Port Victoria and the Copper Triangle 11 Dec 2017
Our plan for the day was to explore the north end of Yorke Peninsula, my plan. 🙂 . Deb likes to spend the early part of the morning reading her paper so I was sent out to do some fishing! … Continue reading
Posted in 2017 Port Victoria Camping December
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