My 2025 A to Z theme is Airports, Airstrips, Aircraft, and Airlines I’ve known and flown with. I’ll be using IATA codes where they’re available. My inner travel agent emerges at this point as I’m the FTO (family travel organiser) and now, the online travel agent. BNE Brisbane Airport, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Brisbane has been … More BNE, BKK, BME, BCN, BOS, BNZ
This is the next instalment of my Special Moments, Magic Memories series for the 2022 A to Z Blog Challenge. Back when we were mere youngsters in the early 1970s, we decided to use our biennial leave fares to travel to Europe from Papua New Guinea. Our initial intention was to take Miss 3 and … More Europe adventuring and Expo 88
This is the finale of my collage series and while it hasn’t been precisely 4x7UP it’s covered the key events of my early years. In this post, I’m once again going to indulge myself a little so I hope you’ll come along on the trip and see some of our travel from a child’s point … More Fab Feb Photo Collage Festival: Day 28 Far and away
Can you believe that when we first went to Europe in the early 70s, the compulsory travel reading was Frommer’s Europe on $10 a Day (that’s per person). What we’d give to be able to do that now…I doubt even the most frugal backpacker could manage it! We’d decided to exchange our employment-funded return-to-Australia fares for … More Fab Feb Photo Collage Festival: Day 23 Europe on $10 a day
Much as we love the little snippets of information about our ancestors, we still tend to keep focusing on the “big ticket” items in our own lives. My photo today is about the ordinary moments, the ones we often forget to capture. Over the years picnics have been big in our family: at the beach, … More Fab Feb Photo Collage Festival: Day 22 Let’s go picnicing
This week’s Sepia Saturday image fairly shouted “Kinsale” (Ireland) to me. In a surreptitious test I asked Mr Cassmob what it reminded him of….”snap” …he said the same thing! Why don’t you have a look at the professional image online here and see what you think…not only snow but a snowed-over barrel outside the pub! … More Sepia Saturday 163: Snow deep and crisp and even
Family history across the seas 