Saturday 19th Sept.We have arrived at our house swap and is very nice and very big we shall get our daily exercise walking from one end to the other.It is wet and cold but we won't be bored with a massive library of DVDs and a snooker/pool table to keep us amused.Tomorrow we are going to Melbourne to visit Joe's niece (Lesley and Gary) who we haven't seen for years.The journey yesterday was a mix of good and disappointing.We drove round Jevis bay which is beautif...

Weds.16th. Sept.Somewhere south of Sydney.We decided to make today a traveling day with no stops but as we were passing through the Sydney suburbs we noticed a sign to Castle Hill and remembered that our friend Robin Wood lives in Castle Hill so we decided to give her a big shock and ring and say "we are passing by are you in for visitors?"Luckily she had just got home and was thrilled to see us.Robin was our house sitter when we went back to the UK in ...

Tues/15th Sept. How could I have forgotten to tell you yesterday that we passed the Big Banana and the Big Prawn.Today was lovely around 24/25 degrees. Again it was a day of nothing much just beautiful beaches, magnificent forests and little townships.The highpoint was the Green Cathedral which is an open air church. It has a canopy of tree tops foliage for the roof and has pews, a lectern and altar roughly carved from the forest trees.It has a Sunday service and...

The journey begins.We got off to a good start leaving after church on Sunday morning.A beautiful day.We stopped a couple of times at beaches in N.S.W. but pressed on to Maclean north of Grafton.Maclean reckons to be the most Scottish town in Aus. And has its power poles painted at the bottom with every clan tartan and that's it. Today Monday another beautiful day our first stop was Ulmarra an old port on the river but it was closed and the most exciting thing wa...