A couple of boomers and an octogenarian

Our dear friend Liza works for an aged care advocacy organisation in Brisbane. A  part of Liza's job is to manage the production of an Over 55's monthly magazine called "Now That's Living". A few months ago Liza asked me to write a piece about Dave and I traveling to…

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Hong Kong. Some more fabulousness.

8th October 2012 This was our second time in Hong Kong and we were really happy for the chance to explore more places this time. We had lots of lucky discoveries.   Food. My favourite topic. My work colleague Anna told me about Tim Ho Wan, a Michelin starred dumpling…

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Hong Kong….. here we are

I've always thought it best not to eat the meal offered on an overnight flight - just shut down and go straight to sleep. One day I might just take my own advice. I'm always interested in the food offerings and this time especially as we'd never flown with Singapore…

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Testing, testing. Here we go, almost.

3rd October 2012 So this is my first attempt to upload a blog using the iPad. I know I've left it a bit late to test if I can actually do this on the go, but that's pretty typical of me I guess. This is our last night in a…

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Count down to China

30th September 2012  So here we are only 4 sleeps away from our grand adventure to the Orient.  We've been practicing our packing and had forgotten the challenge to "pack light". On our recent overseas trips we committed to taking only a small "carry on" size wheeled suitcase to check…

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