Do you like seafood? I like mild fish and most shellfish, but I LOVE lobster and crab! When Cameron and I took the kids to Australia ten years ago, we went with my Mother-in-law. She would talk about catching and eating mud crab when she was a girl growing up in Queensland. Mud crab doesn’t…
My family loves animals and loves to have hands-on experiences with them. Queensland is a great place to get up close and personal with animals and hold many of them. Our favorite place to accomplish that is Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane. Lone Pine has been around since my Mother-in-law was a girl and…
We like tea. We like scones. We love them together. Not just any scones…..only really delicious scones. We check British-influenced cities before we travel to see who has the best scones and we always visit them. We have strong opinions about cream and jam and the order they are applied to the scone. The Cream…
I love visiting the cookie/biscuit aisle in the grocery store. In Australia, they put the biscuits right beside the tea because one always has a biscuit with tea at tea time. It makes so much sense! I love tea, as mentioned in a previous post about scones, and who doesn’t like biscuits?! Have you heard…
One of our favorite things to do in any foreign country is going to the grocery store. It is so fun to wander the aisles to see all the items not available to us at home. One thing so interesting to us is bare feet in a grocery store or any store in Australia. We…
Getting to the Bunya Mountains takes about 3 hours from Brisbane. The last part is on a very narrow mountain road, which we ended up driving on in the dark. Not our favorite time to be on the roads in a foreign country while driving on the opposite side from what we are used to.…
There are lots of restaurants in the area that cover all different cuisines. Barangaroo has a lot more to offer since it gets a lot more foot traffic due to proximity to the Barangaroo Wharf. The sausage rolls we got at Bourke Street Bakery were the best we found on our trip. We also loved…
We were initially going to stay by the beach in Manly, and at the last minute, we decided to stay in Sydney. Cameron had a couple of work meetings in the Central Business District (CBD), and it ended up being much better being in Sydney. Once we decided to stay in the city, we started…
If you’ve traveled to Australia from North America, most flights arrive early – 6 am is the earliest planes can land in Sydney due to city laws. This can be a problem for storing baggage until your accommodation is available or ready. Fortunately, our Airbnb host had a spare apartment available for us to store…
We chose Sydney since we haven’t spent much time there and Cameron will work some while we are there. We are thinking about staying in Manly or Bondi Beach. I love the idea of being at the beach and being able to walk to restaurants and shops. Both fit that requirement, but Manly’s beach seems…
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