Monthly Archives: August 2008

We actually slept on the plane! All of us! Annette and Ben reckon they got about 5 hours and I got somewhat more. Not bad in a 12 hour flight. Glad it’s over. We landed at Heathrow around 4:30am and … Continue reading →

Another early wake up! Didn’t have to check out of the hotel until 12 noon, so had breakfast room service in the room and finished packing. At 12, we got a taxi to the Airport Express train terminal where you … Continue reading →

Had a quiet day. Room service breakfast then caught the 5C bus down to Star Ferry terminal and visited the Space Museum nearby. Also went into the big Ocean Terminal shopping centre for food and bought some Crocs shoes. They … Continue reading →

Another broken night. Ben woke early and was coughing, so we all awake. Poor love. Decided to do the trip up to The Peak on Hong Kong Island today. Walked down from our hotel to the Star ferry port. Really … Continue reading →

Ben had a very bad night – awake from 3am with his ear. Annette also feeling poorly. I have slight chest infection as well. Church bells woke us at 6, but fortunately we got back to sleep until 7. Checked … Continue reading →

Ben was up in the night with more earache, and we all lost lots of sleep. The birds started to “whistle” around 4am! We got up around 8am, but Ben was still rough, so we decided to visit a local … Continue reading →

After packing, we went to Bray park in Boyne Island for a small ceremony to scatter Wes’s ashes in the sea/estuary. After this, we did a re-enactment of Michael and Fiona’s wedding for the benefit of Glenda, Gary and Shelly. … Continue reading →

Alison took us for a tour of Gladstone. We picked up some fish and chips for Alice and then called at her nursing home. She looked very frail, but seemed pleased to see us. We looked at lots of photos … Continue reading →

In the morning, we went to the Heritage village in Rockhampton. It was quite interesting – they had lots of buildings from years gone by. There was an Aussie who drove a veteran car round the site giving rides to … Continue reading →

Went to look for Annette’s addresses in Rocky. Found two – one of which might even be the original house. Then we went to the North Side cemetery. When we got there, it was locked and huge, but there was … Continue reading →