Category: Travel
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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…
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Road Trip: Melbourne – Sydney – Port Macquarie – Gold Coast
We are on our annual road trip up north, fleeing Melbourne’s cold weather for a while. We left early Saturday morning and drove pretty much straight though to Sydney with a short lunch/brunch stop at The Ten Mile Cafe in Holbrook. I had homemade baked beans, G had an eggs benedict version. They were both…
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Holidays
A couple of weekends ago we went to Noosa. It’s our annual work trip where we enjoy some warmer weather, eat lots of good food and run in Runaway Noosa races. This year I planned to do the HM but forgot and when I remembered it was already sold out. I had to settle for…
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Kangaroo Island – Day 4
23 March 2026 Today was the day we had to leave this gorgeous place. Our breakfast view was a bit gloomy compared to our other days here and we were wondering whether the day was going to be spent hanging out inside the lodge. After breakfast we headed back to our room to pack ready…
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Kangaroo Island – Day 3
Today we were heading the Flinder’s Chase National Park so we started with a good breakfast—poached eggs on sour dough with bacon, tomatoes and hash browns. While we were waiting for everyone to meet back up at the lounge the head of activities came out to chat with us and give us our supplies for…
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Kangaroo Island – Day 2
Sunday March 22nd 2026 It was an earlier start this morning as we had an excursion to Seal Bay scheduled for 8 am and needed breakfast beforehand. We were the first guests in the dining room for breakfast at 7:15 am. I had an eggs benedict variation with smashed peas and jamon which was yummy,…