Category: Travel
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Middle Rhine Valley Day 3: Marksburg
Saturday September 19th 2026 I’d originally thought we might head off to a festival in St Goar with fireworks, food and music on the Saturday but we were both pretty tired and not feeling 100%, so we ditched that plan and decided to just go to Marksburg Castle during the day. It was a longish…
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Middle Rhine Valley Day 2: Hike Oberwesel to Bacharach
Friday September 18th 2026 This morning I woke up to do my scheduled run: 50 min easy plus 6 strides. I decided to avoid the rocky switchback and ran out along the road and down to Oberwesel before running upstream along the river until I was opposite Pfalzgrafenstein Castle. This is a toll castle built…
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Middle Rhine Valley Day 1: Arrival Oberwesel
Thursday 27th September 2026 We flew into Frankfurt at 9:20 am, and had originally planned to take a combination of train and boat to Oberwesel. Unfortunately the water level in the Rhine was so low that most of the KD lines boats were unable to run and none could stop at Oberwesel, so we caught…
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CBWC October 2026
It’s November which means we’ve come to the end of the Cool Bloggers Walking Club for October 2026. Elisabeth’s CBWC is where we do 10 mins of walking, or other activtity, every day. A lot of the month G and I were traveling so there was lots of walking. I haven’t included all the walking…
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Berlin Marathon
My wave for the Berlin Marathon started at 10:12 am, which is very late start for me. Usually races in Australia start at dawn, sometimes you start in the dark and get to see the sunrise. This meant a very different kind of race morning. I woke naturally at around 7 am, put the first…
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Berlin Pre-Marathon Days: 24th – 26th September
I do plan to recap our days in the Rhine and Mosel River valleys but wanted to do these marathon centric posts in close to real time. We arrived by train from Cologne just after 3pm on Thursday into Berlin and checked into our hotel, The Melia Berlin. We have a marathon package with Travelling…
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A Singapore Layover
Wednesday September 16th 2026 Originally for our trip to Germany we were flying Emirates via Dubai but earlier this year we felt that the US-Iran situation was a big unknown so we decided to look into shifting our booking to a flight through Asia. The best price we could get was with Finnair but we…
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Yamba August 2026 In Photos
I thought I had better get this post done before we jet off on another holiday! We stayed three nights in Yamba on our way back from Noosa. While there I finally took my proper camera out and about—a goal of mine is to do this more. One of the mornings I even got up…
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City2Surf Weekend 2026
We enjoyed much better weather for this City2Surf weekend than last year. There was some rain later on Sunday but most of the time we had gorgeous sunny weather. We had a bit of consternation on the day we arrived when we found out there was no parking for the apartment. We did realise later…
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Gold Coast Weekend and A Few Other Things
Last weekend was the Gold Coast Marathon weekend. G, S and I all did the half-marathon, along with our friend M. None of us were aiming for PB’s as we were all a bit under-trained but we had goals and made them. I decided to aim for 2:10 which is the pace I’m hoping to…