Selfies.

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Today is our 34th wedding anniversary. WOW! 34 years! In that time we have lived in Germany and Australia, raised two daughters, owned two houses, visited some other countries and had a variety of jobs. In 2016, we made a spur of the moment decision to rent out the house, buy a caravan and head off on an indefinite trip around Australia. That was five years ago and possibly the best decision we ever made. (Click this link to read more about how it all started https://workingholidaypress.home.blog/2019/03/08/how-it-all-started/)

The little church where we got married. Herons Creek NSW

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The Nullarbor Links Golf Course

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YIPEEEEE We are on the road again after a ten month break due to Covid. In February 2021, we took off again from Newcastle NSW, heading west. On the way over we completed the Nullarbor Links Golf Course, the longest golf course in the world. To tell the story we made this informative; funny and entertaining video. Enjoy.

It’s a pandemic

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Time to write another story. Finally. I haven’t posted since August 2019. Now I sit in isolation with plenty of time and no excuses not to write.

I started writing this blog about a year ago, another time when I had a lot of time to myself. We were parked up at a Boundary Bend caravan park 90km from Swan Hill. I stayed home with the dog, shopped and ran the house. Even though we had been travelling and working around Australia for almost three years, I started my blog from the beginning of the trip, when we left in May 2016.Read More »

That time we visited the Aurukun Bush

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After working a few months in Wauchope NSW for the summer of 2018, we headed off to our next bucket list destination, Cape York. We were particularly excited about the plan to camp with friends on the beach for three weeks. These friends are regular visitors to Far North Queensland and experienced fishermen. They were taking their boats, skills and knowledge and we were going to fulfill a life long fishing dream.Read More »

Adventure before dementia

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We settled near Mackay for the winter of 2018. Thomas was employed as a truck driver to cart bogasse, the dry, sawdust-like end product after the sugar cane has been crushed. The bagasse is stockpiled at the local sugar mills who then burn it to produce electricity. I found the whole process of sugar production fascinating, from the machines that cut the cane and spit it into trucks which remain in exactly the right position to catch the cut stalks, to the network of train tracks throughout the fields, supporting locomotives pulling long snakes of carriages carrying the harvest to the mills. Photos and videos of transformer-like machines, trains and trucks were a big hit with our three year old grandson.

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