Home sweet home

Monday Jan 26 2009..AUSTRALIA DAY!!!YAY!!!

JAN 25 2009 Very tame Zebra in singapore!!

Delicious Street meal of deep fried Rabbit Fish

Sheldy notices the people look different...at our favourite restaurant.

No surprises...Hong kong, downtown Kowloon

Jan 24 London to Honk kong, where we overnighted in Kowloon...wow certainly different!

Big Ben...and yes it is actually getting colder as the day wheres own - has to be snow around the corner soon

Famous London Bobbies and 3 convicts that nearly got away!!

Guess the profile...WC.

London Tower Bridge

London Friday 23rd Jan 2009 We spent a wonderful evening with cousin Taryn and partner Mark. Thanks for everything guys - look forward to catching up in march? this year - you made us very welcome. And then off to see the sights of London before flying out to Hong Kong that night.

The younger one in control, showing NO mercy!!!
Thursday 22nd Jan 2009 - Warwick Castle


Marshall, Rachel and family

At Marshall and Rachel's - what an awesone time. Marshall directing affairs here with his extensive knowledge on completing our very first WASGIJ - Jigsaw backwards - the picture is a guide to the puzzle - i think the puzzle is in response to what happens in the picture, or something like that...Rachel and I managed 3 pieces.

The famous Shambles - what a great city YORK is.

Wednesday 21st Jan 2008 Viking Experience continues...

Heading south from Largs in scotland, we crossed the border and headed towards York.

Old Abbey no doubt destroyed by the Vikings of old...

Nick, Jack and Chris - rellies in Largs Scotland - great to catch up ugain after 15 years.
Tuesday 20th Jan 2009

Vivec and Nancy - wonderful to catch up, so sad at loss of daughter Lucinda only a fortnight ago.

Balmoral Castle - exclusive Loechel tour...!!

Monday 19th Jan 09

Did our rellies once travel to or from this part of the world....?

We spent the night with these Irish folk...Harriet and Cyril, Harriet's mum and Alexandria (and Naomi - at school). We had an awesome time and left at the crack of 11am, after 'good crack' as they would say in Ireland!!


Sunday 18th Jan 2009

Alex and Betty - we love you so much!! It was wonderful after 15 years to finally catch up again - you haven't changed a bit and we really enjoyed your company, just as much as we did so long ago. thank you for making us so welcome - please come and visit us if you ever get the chance!!!


We had dinner thursday Night in Munich, SE Germany, with Hubert and Julie and family - wonderful company and great to catch up with kids close to our boys age at last !!

Thursday15th Jan 2009

Lego Land!!! 4 hours drive from last night...but closed... too bad had an interesting experience with the porta loo - stroy for another day- now off to Zurich where we board the plane to London, then Scotland...Aberdeen!!

Wed nt 14th Jan - we spent the night in a beautiful old walled town of Riquewihr, in the Alsace region of France.

Castle on the Moselle river

Tuesday 13th Jan 2009

After parking outside an expanisve paddock, in the beautiful moonlight, and waking up next morning to find out it was a graveyard..... we headed south through Germany down the moselle valley - discovered the moselle River was frozen and needed an Ice Breaker Ship to clear it - boys were in awe.

Mon Nt 12th Jan

Then headed south to an Open Locht Museum (Open Air) where old buildings from all over the Holland were brought to this one area and restored to their original condition.

Monday 12th January 2009

Annaleise, a very dear friend we met up with in WIJK BIJ DUUSTEDE, the centre of the Netherlands, had Monday off work, so lo and behold she had organised skates for the entire family and off we troop through a beautiful forest to a fair dinkum frozen lake in the middle of the forest...and here we all skated and it was a real treat - particularly as the lake started melting (under the speed of our skates...?)