Dinner and Three Breakfasts at Lake house – Daylesford
Our three night package at the Lake House in Daylesford included breakfast each morning, an eight course degustation on new years’ eve and a three course dinner on one other night. We chose to have...
View ArticleQantas A380 Business Class Review – Sydney to Los Angeles
My flight from Sydney to Los Angeles was on a Qantas A380, and after spending time in the lounge, I headed down to the gate, ready to board. I can’t recall the gate number, but it was one of those...
View ArticleCalifornian Girl – Week 1
On landing and disembarking half an hour late at LAX after the long flight, everyone who had a connecting flight was given their boarding pass in a bright orange express pass holder, and once in the...
View ArticleA Tassie Break Part 3 – Cradle Mountain
Leaving Strahan we headed in a vaguely easterly direction on the road to Queenstown. We then turned left onto the A10 towards Roseberry, but instead of continuing on that road, we took a right turn...
View ArticleQantas A380 Business Class Review – Los Angeles to Melbourne 2013
Once again I was able to use Frequent Flyer points (45, 000) to upgrade my Premium Economy ticket to Business class for my flight home (QF94) from LAX. I consider myself very lucky to have gotten...
View ArticleEating my way around Hobart and Surrounds
This post covers the two nights I recently had in Hobart catching up with my brother, The Mole. I flew into Hobart late Friday afternoon on a surprisingly on time and hassle free JetStar flight. The...
View ArticleA night in Kyneton
J, being a wise man, decided to book us a night away in the midst our bathroom renovation. We were tired of the dust and dirt, and a tad over having tradies in our house (especially on weekends). I...
View ArticleAnnie Smithers Bistrot – Kyneton
The lady behind the name is no longer at the helm, but I was still very happy when J told me we were booked into Annie Smithers Bistrot on our night away in Kyneton. The focus here was always on...
View ArticleTwo Nights in the Nation’s Capital
A lot of you would know that J travels a fair bit for work. When he does, we occasionally make the most of it and I join him for a weekend away. His latest work trip was to Wagga Wagga, which meant...
View ArticleSoju Girl – Canberra
When researching places to eat in a different city or country I can spend hours on Urbanspoon and reading blog reviews. For our quick weekend to Canberra, I took a different approach. I asked the...
View ArticleAnother trip to the US!
Hello readers, Just a quick note to let you know that I off travelling again. I heading to the US on Saturday to attend the MadWorld conference in San Diego. After the conference I am meeting J in...
View ArticleVirgin Australia Business Class Review – Melbourne to Los Angeles
What’s this then? An international flight that isn’t on Qantas? What’s going on? Well, dear readers, when your place of employment says they will pay for you (and TheBoss and Jill) to attend the...
View ArticleCalifornia April 2014
After immigration etc at LAX myself, TheBoss and Jill headed over to the Delta terminal for our flight down to San Diego. The Delta terminal was a zoo, to put it politely. I had to get my boarding...
View ArticleTexas April 2014 – Part One
I had an early morning SouthWest flight from San Diego to Austin, Texas. I got an Uber car to the airport, dropped my suitcase off and went through security (which was super slow as one of the bag...
View ArticleTexas April 2014 – Part Two
Let’s start this post with breakfast. Two out of our four mornings in Austin, we had breakfasted at Cenote, a very popular cafe just down the road from our hotel. Seating is inside and out and...
View ArticleTexas April 2014 – Part Three
Happy Easter! Yes, I know it is now probably closer to Christmas than Easter, but this is where this post, the last of the Texas posts, kicks off. It was Easter Sunday, and that clever rabbit had...
View ArticleLouisiana April 2014 – Part 1
After finishing our tour of NASA, it was back into the car for the 3+ hour drive to Lafayette, Louisiana. With stops and some bad traffic coming into Lafayette, we didn’t get to the Hilton Garden Inn...
View ArticleLouisiana April 2014 – Part 2
After leaving the Tabasco factory, our destination was New Orleans. I had been to New Orleans once before, almost twenty years ago, and wasn’t that keen to return, due mainly to safety concerns....
View ArticleSouth Carolina 2014
Before we headed into Charleston, we thought it would be a good idea to check out a couple of plantations so we didn’t need to come back out of the city in the next few days. The drive between...
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