Category: Before the Boat

Four granddaughters blatantly promoting our boat! We headed from Yamba back to Melbourne, stopping halfway at my sister Gays in Pitt Town. The car seemed to have less in it that when we drove up 9 months earlier. This would be the last long trip in my car that I was quite fond of. It had to go because storing it was just not viable. It is only a car but oh such a nice one! It was a busy…

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. We were at my daughters in West Footscray, there was no one there except us, my daughter had taken her family to Penang to meet other family members for Christmas and my son had wiped us over a refusal to babysit issue months earlier! It did not seem like Christmas and it was a bit depressing. Nod, from Multihull Solutions, had…

Gare SNCF La Rochelle Oh the relief to finally arrive at our destination with every piece of luggage and our relationship intact. Our bodies, mine especially, was a bit battered and I was gallantly fighting off a case of changing climate flu.  We got off the train in La Rochelle jubilant that we had arrived, the joy was short lived as we found another lot of stairs descending and ascending before we could get a taxi to take us to…

We were always going to move somewhere warmer. We were never going to buy a boat, never even gave it a thought until I came back from that Vanuatu trip. We were going to buy a nice place in Peregian Beach on the Sunshine Coast. Shelley was going to practice her Chinese Medicine and I was going to find a new hobby. While I was away I had organized painters to give the house a bit of a face lift,…