Well we have been on the road for 2 weeks. How time flies. Chateau Relaxeau is up and running, and we are really settling into the lifestyle.
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| Poplars Caravan Park |
The Poplars Caravan Park at Camden is a beauty! What a great way to start. Because we booked late we had to set up in the overflow and general camping area, and it is fantastic! No sqeezy site here. We have acres of land around us on a beautiful lawn that is mowed every week. We could not be happier. |
| Opening the Presents |
We spent Christmas and Boxing Day catching up with family and friends. Really like any other year, except we had further to drive home! Christmas Day we visited our Mums and had a lovely Anderson Family day, at Jenny's on Boxing Day. Christmas night we spent with Cheryl and Chris and their family, which was a real treat and very different for us. It was so good, we did it all again on Boxing Day night!
Since then we have had visitors galore, which has been fabulous. Robyn came down for coffee and a look around the area. Nancy & Keith came down with Robert and Graeme. The boys played golf at Camden Lakeside and the girls did the shops and lunch. Bev & Fred came across for lunch on New Years Eve, and following that we did the movies and had a great night seeing in the New Year at Cheryl & Chris', with lots of swimming good food and wine. The weather has been mostly hot, and we have spent a lot of time at Cheryl & Chris' in and around the pool. We have really enjoyed this quality time, with them and their family, and their wonderful hospitality.
Tomorrow, 2nd January, is our last day at Camden. We will spend the day packing up, but will take a trip to Bowral, to watch a little of brother Neil's special cricket match at the Bradman Oval, which will give us a chance to catch up with many of the family, before setting off for Tumbaraumba on Monday, to meet up with Lynne & Paul.
What an idyllic scene. this comment is from someone in England with a frozen water main and no water since Christmas. I am trying to think why we are so much better off here at the moment. Not much of a list yet!
ReplyDeleteWelcome to blogland Carol, John & April... we look forward to hearing about you adventures!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy... both blogging and living the gypsy life!!!
Nic & the boys
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It is Christmas Eve and I have been catching up on your blog. At this time last year it was bitterly cold. Leaving the house by car was a hazardous experience and walking on packed snow and ice was even more dangerous. Yesterday it was 14 degrees in the shade and our investment in kilos of salt and spikes for our shoes looks like a waste of money. Still lots of Winter to go.
ReplyDeleteAs ever we have enjoyed reading your blog. Your damp experiences at Woodgate Beach reminded me of our camping experiences in the New Forest when the children were young. Joan stayed for six weeks and I drove down at the weekends. Our stay ended when we had a river flowing through the tent. It was awful but the campers around us were really enjoying it. They could not wait to unfold their portable spades and get digging. This was in the days before cell phones and I can still remember standing in a phone box so wet that I had trouble gripping the coins to make a call. We found a lovely hotel and that was the last night spent in a tent.
Our son, Stephen is one of your watchers. He is working of course and enjoys reading about your idyllic lifestyle after a hard day's work. He spent &s on a fancy tent to camp in Scotland. He did not know about the midges on the West Coast in August. He does now and the tent quietly rots in our loft.
Your blog tempts us to follow just a part of your journey but the exchange rate has deteriorated so much that it is now unaffordable and several friends have returned from Oz with much lighter pockets. When we were last with you $10 was £4. It is now approaching &7 which makes an enormous difference. Of course it works the other way if you decide to take a trip to Europe.
We have not travelled this Autumn/Winter as we have been enjoying Lizzy's baby Emma. She is an absolute delight and is already three months old. A young baby's smile is really special.
We had decided to take a fairly long sea trip in January to Bilbao in Northern Spain with our car and then to drive to Barclona and North to France in good weather or South to Valencia if the forecast was bad. However, we found a really cheap cruise on a modern ship from Venice to Israel with stops between in Athens, etc. A cabin with a balcony is only $A600 each. We have to find our way to and from Venice but that is not a problem. We have been to Venice twice before so we are only spending a couple of nights there. Happily we have just found that my regular golf partner will be there at the same time so we are looking forward to a meal together. You have these details as a counter balance to your lazy touristic days.
I realise that you are heading south as you have run out of north. However, I am not sure how your plan for 2012 will work out. You mentioned Tasmania. Perhaps you can enlighten us. I have been following your journey on Google. That gives some idea of the size of Australia. I read that hundreds of people were scanning Nevada to find the wreckage of Steve Fossett's balloon. Nobody found it and that was just Nevada.
OK I have to break off now for Christmas preparations. Joan and I wish you both a Happy Christmas on the road and an exciting year 2.