Category Archives: Kate

In the week before Christmas, we settled into our house in Akaroa, up the road from St Helen’s. There were 4 bedrooms, a full kitchen, 2 TV’s and a cracking verandah out the front for dinner (and plenty of other … Continue reading →

“What are you doing about their school work?” has been one of the most common questions of our trip. It has been asked by well meaning nomads, suspicious shopkeepers and other parents doing their best on the road like us. … Continue reading →

And into Victoria we drove… Being into the extreme sport of crochet, I could see that Victoria was going to be a state at the cutting edge, when I noticed “guerilla crochet” on the drainpipe at our first lunch stop … Continue reading →

Driving East certainly feels like we are on the way home. We have been trying to make the most of each experience each day, rather than giving in to those thoughts of “running out of time”. With a couple of … Continue reading →

Driving East brought mixed emotions. We are under no illusions that we are at the back end of the trip and as we turned the car Eastward, some of us did not want to go. Western Australia in all it’s … Continue reading →

In Esperance… …wide salt lakes glisten and your thongs are sucked into the sand. …aqua reef beaches ring the coast. …you need a wetsuit to swim in Twilight Bay. …the harbour is the working heart of the Town. … grain, … Continue reading →