Hugh & Justine’s Excellent Adventure

Not a lot to report on this week, so that gives me an opportunity to finally share information I've been gathering on health care prices. Probably a boring topic for Aussies but for Canadians, who aren't given any information about what various health services cost,...

On Friday after work, Hugh and I decided to go for a walk on the beach. The big question here is of course, which beach? We have so many to choose from! We decided on Farnborough Beach, but further north than we've been previously. Farnborough Beach is ENORMOUS and,...

I'm afraid we didn't get out an awful lot again this week as my work schedule was still a bit crazy (should start settling down now), but still have some fun tidbits to share with you. First, we're hearing a new frog lately! We haven't seen him yet, but based on the...

Well, it was a light week activity-wise as I was a bit overloaded with work this week, so I'll use this opportunity to catch up on sharing some more interesting tidbits we've learned about Australia since arriving. NOTE: I have linked a song below that contains bad...

I've been quite sure for awhile now that my phone is listening to me and reporting everything to Google and Facebook. Now I'm also thinking my laptop is reading my blog and reporting it to major news outlets. Last Sunday I wrote about the mystery of feeling so hot and...

January 26 is Australia Day. There is a lot of angst about this date because it represents the day in 1788 when Great Britain's flag was raised in Sydney Harbour, thereby paying no respect to the Indigenous people who had lived here for millennia. As a newcomer to...

To celebrate Hugh's birthday this week, we flew to Melbourne to watch tennis at the Australian Open. Unlike any time we'd watched it on TV, where it always seemed to be stifling hot, this year it was COLD! The daytime highs were 18-20C and the overnight lows were...

The title refers to what was definitely a highlight of our time in Australia thus far! But like any good broadcast, I'll make you wade through less interesting stuff first 🙂 Our back bathroom renovation is now complete! There is a curious Aussie phenomenon where...

I am totally stuck for a name for this week's blog. I was going to reference the damn tree frogs again but I'm trying not to give the buggers the satisfaction of making it into too many blog titles. So this one is just a "mish mash" because this week just has a mish...

I think we're getting used to this hot Christmas concept! Well, that's in the context of having air conditioning in the house and car, of course 🙂 (The image with the title of this week's blog came from my friend Leigh - I just love it!) The week before Christmas, we...

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