The Holiday We Didn’t Have

Bill and I were expecting to spend the first week of February (2023) on the 18-cabin riverboat Proud Mary out of Murray Bridge in South Australia. We were to spend five nights cruising upstream to Blanchetown (SA) and back, with daily excursions. Here's the itinerary if you are tempted. Proud Mary on the Murray River, …

Jindabyne Group Tour September 2022

Hubbie and I left home at 10am this morning, in company with another 29 "seniors" in age range from late 50s to mid 90s for a six hour bus coach ride to Jindabyne. This is a private tour arranged from the complex in which we live, so we are all known to each other and …

Chateau Elan at The Vintage, Hunter Valley

It was well over twelve months ago that we had purchased a Luxury Escapes discount voucher for two nights at the Chateau Elan at The Vintage (Golf Club). It was intended as a birthday celebration for Bill, and in our naivety we were thinking that Covid19 lockdowns would be a thing of the past by …