A Summer Down Under
The aptly names Sunshine Coast Earlier this year in May, as we were packing our bags for an 18 months trip, it did fleetingly cross my mind that we had perhaps taken on a bit too much. Packing for a week, a month, even six months - no worries! But what do you need for a year and a half, where two thirds of it is travelling overseas? It helped that we will really only have warm weather – following our summer on the boat (see earlier blog) and a sunny autumn in France / Spain, we were then heading to Australia and New Zealand for five months. It did not help that we had snuck in a week of golf at Barnham Broome, necessitating clubs and trollies for both of us. Fortunately, that turned out to be a fun week! Golfing with Richard and Ann Somehow, we got it all into the Polo and headed off. We did not think to take Ian’s kilt, having failed to foresee his godson’s proposal and subsequent wedding 12 months into our trip. That excepted, so far s...