Last night the Sunset was pretty good, so I just had to post a copy. Taken from the deck looking over Dundas Valley, in Sydney, NSW

Trip planning

The plans for our trip started while sitting in the international Airport at Denpasar, Bali on 31 Dec 2011. Yes they were cheap tickets. Flew up on 26 Dec, and back 31 Dec. Case closed.

So that plans to go back to Europe commenced, for Christmas 2012.
In a nut shell the idea was to Fly to Frankfurt, have Christmas in Liege (Belgium) with friends, and then have New Year some where and return back to Australia.

Bali was good. We stayed  near Echo Beach in a 3 bedroom villa, rather than previous times where we stayed at Kuta.
Bali is growing and the economic growth means that people can more readily purchase vehicles. The Road system does not handle this. Motor bikes are the Best.

Okay, back to plans for Europe.
We also spoke about going Skiing in Australia or New Zealand in August, which would mean that of our annual 4 weeks holidays we would be back to about three and half weeks by the time Christmas 2012 came around.
So once back at work, leave applications were made, and the planning commenced.

I have nothing against Travel agents, and often you can get a better deal with them. However we are not the tourist who wish to travel by Coach everywhere, and today we are in Rome and tomorrow we are in Florence, and then the next Venice. Also starting to get a little long in the tooth for the Party tours. We are still able to carry our own bags. We enjoy shopping in the shops we wish to go to, and not the ones the Tour operators take you too. Then there is the feeling that you are sheep. You are herded off and on the Coach.

So the Flights were booked, with the help of Qantas frequent flyer points. Important tip here is that there are limited seats available in the Christmas period, and you have to flexible on the days you wish to fly, and make your booking early.

Travelling WiFi

In 24 days time we are leaving a 2012 European adventure.
House sitters to look after the dogs, bird, and the house arrive before then. The WiFi cameras are installed. Our management system!
The plans of testing and writing up the experience via a blog, and using Wifi are made too.

So in the past I have written my own diary, of what happened during the day. The sites visited and the activities under taken. The advent of FB and the instant messaging which occurs, I have decided to write up the trip via 'Blogger' and post to the world.

In the begining there was..

It might sound a little like Genesis Chapter one Verse one. However there needs to be a starting point! Firstly welcome to the start of the blog. There might be interesting things that are posted, and then there might not. Oh, yes there might be grammatical errors, which will offend the English language purists. This subject was one of my weakness at School. Maths, was my strength. I think that has something to do with my left and right side of my brain, or is the front and back.

To keep the debate of Evolution and Creation going, which started some time ago, I will cut through some 20 million years quickly. I was not here then, so I'll just look at rocks and books to see what happened.

So in the blink of an eye I arrived. The jokes of being delivered by the stork, or found under the cabbage leave might be true. I'll I know that as a child I use to say at my birthday, "It is now three months to Christmas". I did not know at those young and tender ages, the meaning of Life and the Universe, or the Birds and the Bees. Oh yes as adults we know as Sex. Opps, there goes the "G" rating of the blog, and now the auto filters will block some people from reading this. So I was born on 25 September, 9 months after Christmas.

Updates. These might be of Biblical length, and then again they might not. However you can follow if you like too. I'm not offended. I might ramble on, and make comments that might offend, 'Such is Life'. So at the onset I have a saying. Go to Bunnings, buy a truck load of timber, build a bridge and get over it!

I am passionate about some things, and could not care less about others. I say it how I see it. It is when I do not say anything that the deep waters run still.