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Sunday 4th November – Along the Billabong and by the pool

November 4, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Another early start this morning as we have a cruise along the Billabong – which actually means a static body

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Saturday 3rd November – Kakadu National Park

November 3, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

A slightly early start today because we are on a full day Kakadu tour which the lodge run so after

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Friday 2nd November – To Kakadu National Park

November 2, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Today we are leaving Darwin so after breakfast we packed all our belongings back into the cases and set off

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Thursday 1st November – The city and the port

November 1, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Today was all about the CBD or Central Business District and also the port which is just on the edge

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Wednesday 31st October – North Darwin

October 31, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

So having been in Australia for 3 weeks today we went and saw our first prison! We had originally planned

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Tuesday 30th October – To the Northern Territories

October 30, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

It is time for us to leave Queensland and head north. Our flight is not until 3pm but we have

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Monday 29th October – Revisiting the Reef

October 29, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Today we have a flight over the reef booked but it is from Cairns so we decided to pack a

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Sunday 28th October – The Daintree Rainforest

October 28, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Today we had booked a trip to go to the Daintree Rainforest which is one of the few areas of

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Saturday 27th October – The rainforest three ways

October 27, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Today we had a full day booked at the Skyrail rainforest which is more than 150 million years old and

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Friday 26th October – What can I say except wow

October 26, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Today we had a whole day on the Great Barrier Reef and what a day it was. We were collected

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Thursday 25th October – Return to sea level

October 25, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

I can’t believe that we have only been on the ground in Australia for 2 weeks as we have already

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Wednesday 24th October – Rainforest, Waterfalls and how it all started.

October 25, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

We woke up early but to be honest not as early as I expected considering we are in the middle

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Tuesday 23rd October – Tablelands and the rainforest

October 25, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

We have another longish drive today so decided that we would have breakfast on route, after collecting the car from

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Monday 22nd October – Towards the mountains

October 22, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

After a great nights sleep where the bed didn’t move and a shower that you didn’t have to be a

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Sunday 21st October – back to dry land

October 21, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

We all woke up early again today and went up on deck to see if we could see anything, breakfast

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Saturday 20th October – Cruising the Whitsundays

October 21, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

We all woke up bright and early this morning and had breakfast on the deck looking for turtles in the

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Thursday 18th October – To Airlie Beach and the Great Barrier Reef

October 18, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

So the Rodeo last night was an experience I am not sure we will repeat in a hurry, basically the

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Wednesday 17th October – The Road To Rockhampton

October 17, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

We have the first of our long drives today so after breakfast we packed up the car and set off

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Tuesday 16th October – Whale watching

October 17, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19 2 comments

We were originally scheduled to go Whale watching this afternoon, but we received a phone call yesterday to say that

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Monday 15 October – Exploring Fraser Island

October 15, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

We were picked up at the hotel this morning at 7:30 to go on our trip to Fraser Island, this

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Saturday 13th October – Brisbane’s oldest house

October 13, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

The rain has returned today but luckily wasn’t too bad when we left the hotel this morning. Our plan for

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Friday 12th October – Brisbane city Heritage Trail

October 12, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Despite the early night we both managed to get a good night’s sleep and after breakfast we were ready to

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Thursday 11th October – it’s a long way down under!

October 11, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

After two comfortable but what seemed like extremely long flights we finally landed in Brisbane at about 6.30 this morning.

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Tuesday 17th July – The Residence and a final circuit of Munich

July 17, 2018 Xanthe Munich 2018

The forecast for today had been rain but luckily when we got up the sun was shining and it stayed

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Monday 16th July – Scholoss Neuschwanstein and Linderhof

July 16, 2018 Xanthe Munich 2018

We arranged a tour today to Schloss Neuschwanstein and Linderhof castles although it was an early start it was a

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Sunday 15th July – Museum Quarter and the Isar

July 15, 2018 Xanthe Munich 2018

As today is probably our last fine day before a couple of days of rain we decided to combine two

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Saturday 14th July – Schwabing and the University

July 14, 2018 Xanthe Munich 2018

Today was all about exploring the Schwabing area of Munich which is known as Munich’s back garden possibly because it

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Friday 13th July – Nymphenburg Palace and the Olympic Park

July 13, 2018 Xanthe Munich 2018

Today we set off to Nymphenburg Palace which is on the outskirts of Munich, we decided we would take the

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Thursday 12th July – The old town

July 12, 2018 Xanthe Munich 2018

Today was all about exploring the old town, the book we have divided it into North and South and as

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Wednesday 11th July – Munich here we come

July 12, 2018 Xanthe Munich 2018

After a fantastic day at Wimbledon yesterday but quite a late night we had a very early start being at

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