Hugh & Justine’s Excellent Adventure

Well, here we are in our final weeks of winter and spring is already in the air - thank goodness! Having to wear long sleeves, long pants, and socks in my sandals was getting to be a bit much. It was nice this week to get back to my usual garb of skorts and T-shirts...

For all you early risers who get up on Sundays at the ridiculous hour of 6am and enjoy a coffee whilst reading this blog - I apologise for being late getting it out today! But I have a good excuse - friends from Canada arrived this arvo! Hence the title of the blog -...

We are definitely having a cold winter here! After having an unusually rainy autumn, we're now having an unusually cold winter. Check out the description of just how cold it's been south of us (the vocab used is what Canadians use when it hits -20C!): Fortunately, it...

Hard to believe it's July already! Even though it's the dead of winter now, it's still a comfortable 21-22 C during the day and a somewhat chilly 16-18 C overnight - much better than the temperatures we had a couple weeks ago in Hervey Bay! Those temps were, however,...

Well, I probably shouldn't have waited two weeks in between blogs because we had some terrific experiences across the past 2 weeks that resulted in LOTS of photos! We visited 3 different islands - just love having so many beautiful islands around, for real, not just...

Well, winter is indeed upon us in the sub-tropics! While it's still in the low-to-mid 20's during the day, the early mornings and evenings are downright chilly! It was below 10C yesterday morning: I skipped outdoor yoga as I didn't think I stood a chance of staying...

It's been 2 weeks since my last post and I think, unless something really newsworthy happens in between times, I'll probably reduce to fortnightly (that's Aussie for every 2 weeks) posts going forward. This is because I think I might finally feel like I'm settling in...

I told you last week that I would have fun stuff to report on this week and I will not disappoint! Not sure where to start, so let's start with the biggest event in Rockhampton, which only happens every 3 years, Beef Week! If you click on that link, you'll see that...

Well, as crazy as it seems, it's been one year since we arrived in the Land Down Under! I took this photo at the airport in Toronto on May 3'23, loaded down with as much luggage as we could get away with on the plane to keep us going until our shipping container...

On November 11, we went to Emu Park for the Remembrance Day ceremony. You may remember that Emu Park has the most incredible memorial walkway along the ocean so that's why we went there instead of Yeppoon for the Remembrance Day ceremony. That is also why we chose Emu...

I've been doing fairly well learning to spell some words differently (e.g., paediatric, organise) and use a few new vocabulary items, but one thing I'm really struggling with is changing how I think (and speak) of seasons. If I want to refer to something happening in...

First - my apologies to everyone for last week's blog being down for several hours! I actually wrote it early but not long after I published it, the hosting site went down and didn't come back up for several hours. I received some panicked emails, but the site came...