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Australia, Planning, That's interesting, Travel

Another Step

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Another piece of the jigsaw falls into place. We have confirmed the arrangements for our time in Australia.

We had already decided to spend two weeks in Melbourne, it is one of our favourite cities and after six weeks touring New Zealand it will be good to stay put for a while; a holiday from our holiday if you like. But Australia beckons and we don’t want to miss some of the sights we haven’t been able to see on previous visits.

We will leave Melbourne and drive the Great Ocean Road to Adelaide. We have allowed time to visit the Barossa Valley (cheers) and spend a couple of days on Kangaroo Island before we fly to Ayres Rock to explore the Red Centre. Uluru, Kings Canyon and Alice Springs are all on the agenda followed by a flight to Cairns to visit the Great Barrier Reef and Queensland Coast. Finally, just in time for Christmas we will head up to Darwin and take in a trip to Kakadu National Park and Katherine Gorge.

After all that I think we will be ready to make the short hop to Bali for the beaches and some spiritual refreshment.

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Inoculations

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Today we went into Cambridge to see what health issues we should be thinking about. We went to the MASTA travel clinic in Hills Road.  It started with a 20 minute discussion with the specialist nurse about our trip and where / how long we would be staying in each country.

We then followed her advice about what we should be protecting ourselves against. So today we had inoculations for Rabies, Japanese Encephalitis and Hepatitis B. We also got a course of tablets to fight Malaria.

We now wait a week before we go back for the next phase; it’s beginning to feel real!

Planning, The Blog

New Year – Start Next Phase Planning

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Well 2016 has arrived and after a quiet period in Nov / Dec we are up and running again. We have now got our suitcases for the trip, one each, so we know the limit we can take with us. We have also updated our phones as contract was up for renewal in Dec.

Kim came up with a good idea to have a second travel camera and we have gone with a Nikon AW 130 which will allow us to do shots in more challenging environments, i.e. water! Finally we have just changed to one computer, a Microsoft Surface Pro 4, to be our IT base.

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