15/16 August 2022 BERLIN For those of you asking – some good news first – our bags arrived in Berlin with us! As we landed in Berlin a storm began, meaning we sat on the tarmac for 1 and 1/2 hours before the ground staff were able to assist us disembark. My favourite holiday gadget…

And so the holiday begins… Dave has been warning me that I should prepare for things not to go smoothly and, true to expectations in the current travel environment, we were delayed 2 hours out of Sydney which meant that we landed late into Heathrow. Before we landed the cabin manager came to see us…

Back on December 30, we finally broke free of our Adelaide lockdown and headed on the long road back to Wagga. It took us nearly 12 hours to cover the almost 1000 kilometres. Dave and I got an online permit to travel through Victoria, as we hadn’t been in Sydney. The others, however, could only…

Monday 28th December = Day 13 Monday was the day allocated for our final COVID test. We had requested the testers come to our place, as they had in the previous test, and so after breakfast we tried to phone and confirm. Both Dad and I tried a few numbers, however the only non-automated response…

Day 12: 28th December We are on the countdown. I think we have done amazingly well not to be completely stir crazy. Last time Dave and I did ISO back in March, when we got home from Thailand, we were at home and I was working, so there were plenty of things to keep us…

ISO Day 11 – Boxing Day Boxing day tradition – for my family watching the start of the Sydney to Hobart and then Day 1 of the Melbourne Test. Is anything about 2020 normal? Not for me, and not for anyone else, I suspect. I do love traditions. New ones and old ones. Cultural traditions…

Day 10 – Christmas Day It wasn’t exactly like it usually is, but was lovely just the same. We started the day with ham and egg rolls. Rather than cut into the top of the ham, which needed to stay intact for glazing, we snuck some slices from the underside. Braden and Victoria had managed…

Day 9, Thursday 24th December The day began like any other… is that how the story goes? The story here is pretty much ‘same ole, same ole’. Sleeping, eating, reading, swimming, then start again. An important part of Christmas eve was to confirm our Christmas menu. Again we have divided the work. Braden will be…

DAY 8 – 23rd December Who remembers the lamb ads of the 80s? This ad was one of my favourites (can you have a favourite ad?! ) Naomi Watts became famous after this, from memory. Yesterday’s grocery order included a butterflied lamb leg. It arrived along with a few other essentials like cooked and green…

Who doesn’t love a list? If your answer is no, are you really even my friend 😉 I’ve been thinking a lot about what is good and bad about this situation we find ourselves in. It’s not so much about counting each and comparing, or weighing up the numbers in each list, but more about…

The beauty of not being able to go anywhere or do much is you have a great excuse to sleep in. Except I can’t. Sleep is not something that comes easily to me. Hard to get to sleep, hard to stay asleep, hard to sleep in. The best solution I have found is exercise. Catching…

Hello everyone. You were probably not expecting to hear from me, given that there is no overseas travel and all. But alas, here we are. I’m sure you all know about my love of cricket. For the last few years, I’ve joined my Dad and brother in South Australia to watch the Adelaide test. In…

That’s all Folks! (for now) Apologies for not finishing this series of posts on Wednesday – which for us was Day 14, the last day of compulsory self-isolation. Things got super busy at work, I got very tired, and just a little bit over everything… but now it’s the weekend, and I’m determined to close…