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Toast to the Coast

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We live in one of Australia’s many wine countries and have not visited any.  Fortunately, Geelong plans an annual tasting event with a bussing service: Toast to the Coast.  We signed up for both the tasting tickets and the bus tickets. Our friends had gone the year prior and suggested that we arrive early and […]

3 Days in Brisbane

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Someone told us to go to Brisbane in August because the weather is wonderful there and shitty in Melbourne.  For our American friends, this is like going to Florida in February.  Naturally, when Jetstar had a fare sale back in May, we choose a weekend in August and bought tickets.  Unfortunately, the weekend we chose […]