Getting romantique in the Blue Mountains

Can you believe it? Craig organised a lovely romantique weekend for us in the Blue Mountains, just North of Sydney. We stayed in a cute little loft cottage with a fireplace and spa and great view of the green green forest and it was just perfect!



I was very impressed with the Australian mountains, these are the first big valleys I have seen and I was blown away. It is stunning - beautiful colours, fantastic blue skies, waterfalls and crisp clean air, perfect for a day of bushwalking!



We saw the famous 3 Sisters of course and walked through the Wentworth falls valley, the National Pass and underhand route and over the Govett's leap the next day. Loved it! We had a very romantic weekend indeed...I really did not expect Craig to propose after all these years... but it made me oh so happy!!! FABULOUS!

My brother and family on hols in Oz

My brother and family came out to visit for their summer holidays to send 5 weeks in the Australian winter! It was wonderful to catch up and spend time with my nieces Kathie and Klara - they have grown up so much!
We spent a week of holidays in Cairns and Port Douglas exlored the Barrier Reef and building sand castles - it was great fun! And I am so proud of my little nieces to go diving on the big reef, very cool indeed!




Today we went to the Koala Sanctuary in Lone Pine to say good bye to all the famous Australian animals - a must do!

French dreams come true

I am so very very excited about our BEAUTIFUL new French Bedroom which finally arrived yesterday. Am loving it - tres romantique and we bought the world's most comfortable matress - heaven! Worth every penny I reckon!



Craig and Wilson always enjoy their bath time and I love to watch them. Very very sweet and Willie always gets out smelling like flowers :)



My brother and family arrive tomorrow morning - should be interesting! I have not really talked to them in almost two years!

Flooded in Ashgrove

Can you believe it?!?! After having a tree through the roof only a couple of months ago we have now moved into a new home with a cute little creek at the end of the garden and got completely flooded in last weeks deluge!

Amazing! Thankfully the main bit of the house is on stilts and we are safe and dry but everything that was stored under the house (lots of boxes, aircon, washing machine, garden tools etc) is destroyed and caked in mud. Lovely!

Donna and Tim Downunder

It was lovely to have Donna and Tim visit for a couple of days and we had a great time catching up on life and exploring things Australian...

I spent a blissful weekend with Donna at the beach in Byron while the boys flew down to Melbourne for some Formula 1 action.

As expected the time went way too quickly after months and months of anticipation but I hope hope hope they will come back next year!

Home sweet home

New home is coming together and we are very very happy here! Wilson is very upset he has to share his new territory with various Possums and we really hope he will get used to them soon. His constant growling is a bit annoying!!! And they are so cute! Look!!!

Sunday afternoon at winery

We had a lovely relaxing day with Mark and Isla and Wilson in Sirromet, slurping yummie wines and watching the world go by. Oh what a life!

I know - we are very lucky!