mr walker

Uncle Les has a standing invite to visit our place & I'll even chaperone him to Panthers

That's the place - home of the mighty Penrith Panthers!!!

I may have exaggerated a little on the distance - it's about 11km, out along the Northern Rd, so not a walk with luggage 🙂 . The flight paths have not been released as yet, but visiting the site, it is clear the direction of the runways, and so it will be from the east &/or west. We are basically north of the site, in the southern part of Penrith. Les can park here anytime he wants & it's not far to Panthers 🙂

Strewth. Best of luck mate.

I’m almost close enough to walk there 😳

Yes Les, I’m very happy. The boys & I enjoyed our day/night at game & came home and enjoyed a quiet celebratory drink. Quiet day today including lunch with friends, including my mate who is a Parra supporter 😁 Penrith Panthers B2B!!!

Cheers mate - hoping for the boys to win. our sons & I are going to the game to cheer them on!

Always a thinker eh Les 🙂

We received some excellent advice on a land tour, including particularly from Julie @OzKiwiJJ , ahead of our cruise (AKL to SYD) in Jan '19. We planned around visiting places we wouldn't visit on the cruise. Based on the advice we flew into Christchurch & picked up rental. We stayed in ChCh , Mt Cook, Queenstown (3N), Franz Josef, Westport, Picton, crossed Cook Straight to Nth Island on the ferry, & stayed at Tongariro (2N), Waitomo & then Auckland ahead of the cruise. All accommodation & car rental was arranged thru a NZ tour company, which worked well for us. So 12N for maybe 2/3 of Sth Island & 1/4 of Nth Island. We made the most of the time, but another week at least would have been better. Good luck - it is a wonderful place to visit.

Another recommendation for Zealandia from Tauranga.

They’ve put on a public holiday for your return 😳

Looks as if you met the important people then! 🙂 We have also met the same people before - well perhaps not your ex neighbours. 🙂

Happy birthday Julie. Cheers Neil & Tracey🥂

Enjoy your cruise mate - Tracey & I are sure you will have a great time. We expect to see photos of your ‘proper’ breakfasts 😁 Cheers

For those of you embarking over the next month or so - enjoy!!!! For those boarding today it’ll be good to escape this miserable weather. I am thinking to maybe surprise Tracey with Majestic Princess 11N QLD coastal Oct 20. As most know, we normally are ‘Royal’ but we did enjoy Sun Princess in 2017. Thoughts? It just seems a long wait until Ovation to NZ in March!

I was thinking that also. I saw that a ship was to be in Eden on Wed. Unfortunately the only way for me to contact him is on here. He’ll be happy we are thinking of him

Happy Birthday for Tuesday - still hoping to catch up with you downunder one day 🙂

Not sure if I was a Tourism operator in Hobart I'd be too happy with that

I thought we were all mates on here 🙂

Yes, cheaper(??) & reliable wi-fi on the ships has sure led to cheats at trivia. For music ones, the cheats give themselves away when they request repeatedly to "play #3 again" at the end as they struggle to get the device to recognise the song/artist. Some 'quizmasters' have used a less well-known artist's version of a song at times, and this often will catch out the app 🙂 Anyway, we play for our own entertainment & interest - scores by others are irrelevant in that instance.

We gambled $10 on last nights jackpot. Woke up this morning to email saying "Congratulations, you're ticket won a prize". Scrolled down "You're ticket winnings - $8.15"!!!!!!!! Nett loss $1.85, so no $54K cruise 🙂 Baked beans on toast for lunch today 😉

and the rainbow jerseys

Never had any trouble with vampires, so it must work 😳

Group booking at Raymonds 🙂 Or ship's excursion of a round of golf & lunch with Les at Catalinas. Non-golfers can visit Mogo zoo 🙂 Yes, would be a lottery win required for us, or a year or two living on baked beans on toast

Hi Les, we may get to visit Bega cheese in a few weeks. Our good friends from here are housesitting for their daughter in Merimbula & they’re invited us to join them. It will be around mid-August & we’ll try & visit Bateman’s Bay on that trip