75 minutes from Sydney and I’m landing at Mudjimba Airport on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. I’ve never seen so many babies in all my life as were on the plane. It’s good to see young families being able to enjoy holidays at the beach I suppose. My brother Mark and Jenny have a new house overlooking …
Great Uncle Michael doesn’t quite understand what it’s like to be blessed with child. But after this afternoon’s non-stop chasing of young Jude over the grass in Rushcutter’s Bay Park while my bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich and coffee got cold, perhaps I’m the one who got it right! The fresh salmon sushi that I …
My only visit to Egypt was in 1990. It was primarily for business and my sightseeing was confined to a morning’s visit to see the Sphinx and the Pyramids just outside Cairo. We did not cross miles of cinnamon-dusted desert on camels to reach the site. Instead, driving down the main street of Giza, the …
A Devonshire Tea of freshly baked scones (whipped up in Captain George’s own kitchen) is the first surprise of our harbor cruise that takes us into the Lane Cove National Park and the upper reaches of the Lane Cove River. George was up early to do the baking before slipping the epaulettes on the shoulder …