About 5 hours in, New Zealand delivers rain.  Endless, unstinting rain.  24hrs later the news is full of flash floods, landslips and evacuations…

Flying over the Tasman Sea the waves gradually ease from their angry, churned state off Sydney.  Two and a half hours later over…

Seeing Sydney from the air has made me curious, so I want to see a few places from the ground.  Thankfully one of…

At Airlie Beach I fancy a flight in a seaplane over the Great Barrier Reef.  No such luck.  ‘Seats book up weeks in…

My Sydney hosts are sailors in their spare time.  Damn good ones, too.  I am humbled when hear of their achievements.  It’s a…

I’m looking forward to Sydney for so many reasons.  Many folks to see, most of whom I know from the UK, who are…

A long weekend in Melbourne isn’t on the ‘plan’ but as good friends are visiting relatives here, I find myself in a cab…

As you read this, a select few of you will know I’m back in Blighty and wading through piles of washing ! Writing…

High above Hobart is Mount Wellington, a peak overlooking the south east corner of Tasmania.   An early morning drive to the top…

When the travel agent said accommodation in Hobart was unusually scarce little did she know the biennial Australian Wooden Boat Festival* was the…