The Devil’s in the Detail
6 am start from Melbourne meant we were in Hobart by 10, unfortunately the weather was grey and dreary.
Sue’s only previous bit of knowledge of Tasmania came from Chris Tarrant when She was a huge fan of his Capital Radio breakfast show. She can’t remember why but he came and broadcast the show from here, 2 things stick in her mind. 1. the terrible old fashioned jingles that they played about Hobart Tasmania, and 2 he made a BIG thing about the bridge, it’d been repaired after a tragedy caused by a ship crashing right through the centre in 1975. ANYWAY, it was one of the first things we saw and in fact drove over to reach the Capital of this Island
Too early to check in to hotel, so we decided on the furthest trip from here, to Port Arthur about 90 mins away. Grey and dreary weather followed us all the way, which never shows a place in its best light does it. Secure & dry in our Holden S6 Sedan we were fine, never mind the weather.
Love the slogan on the number plate.
So, Port Arthur is a world heritage site showcasing this former convict colony brilliantly. The modest entry price included a guided tour of the remains of the buildings with vivid descriptions of events during its ‘occupation’ . Around the site actors portrayed scenes of actual events, not too gruelling though.
Also included was a boat trip out into the bay and around the island of the dead – the graveyard – with vividly related stories, Of some of the 1100 souls apparently buried there.
The English families who lived there because the husbands & fathers were civil or military men running the colony, created a community with a church and a school and all the normal village requirements. I say they ‘created’ but actually the workmanship was all criminal labour of course.
The ladies ‘created’ a beautiful garden with favourite plants that would be grown in the UK but of course many more indigenous to the area were interspersed, as the climate wouldn’t support many UK delicates.
A fantastic experience we’ll worth a visit.
You’ll notice that the sun came out while we were there, so on the looong drive back we began to realise why lots of people had told us that it was fabulous here.
A bit of sight seeing followed by a few drinks and a seafood supper in the harbour rounded off our busy day.
It has to be said that Hobart is not what you’d call an attractive place, a bit industrial and ‘clumpy’ looking, obvs I’m sparing you those sights.
Thursday 11th Jan
We had 3 recommendations of things to do, so we decided to start with Charlie Boyle’s advice to drive/climb to the top of Mount Wellington.
Most of you’ll know that neither of us are great mountain walkers so we drove up to the highest car park and walked to the look outs from there. 😜 We’d left Hobart in beautiful 20 degrees of sun, but at the top it was blowing a gale and only 12. The tower that we’d seen clearly as we’d climbed was now shrouded in cloud
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very dear friend Ian had said me must visit MONA – Museum of Old & New Art. On arrival , Outside was set up for a concert, amidst some quirky architecture.
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mirrored entrance had a slimming effect , we liked that 👏👏
Tennis court with no net or surround?
Cement truck made of rusty metal?
Great view of Mt Wellie and the tower, from the garden, nothing crazy about that.
Inside though, some of the weirdest art you’ve ever seen. We soon went our separate ways as we have very different artistic tastes. Miraculously, though within minutes of each other, just over an hour later we both surfaced from this subterranean spectacle agreeing that it was absolutely not to our our taste (polite translation) on any level. We couldn’t get out of there fast enough.
Here’s a few examples
All very creative, But is it Art? Probably, but not for us.
Third recommendation of the day was wine tasting at Domaine A from Gavin’s brother Neil.
We found the place easily enough, only to discover that they only did tastings and not lunch, should’ve checked but hey ho!!
Gavin went ahead but Sue took an instant dislike to the supercilious lady and abstained. We’d had to wait and witnessed her speaking to the people in front of us, which is largely what Sue based her opinion on, which was endorsed further throughout Gavin’s tasting.
Their top grade Pinot Noir was apparently superb but at $100 a bottle even at the cellar door, it should be. We can understand why Neil likes it though.
Pooleys Wines just outside Richmond, was a wholly different affair. Very pleasant people all round, from the lady we did the tasting with, who later recommended where we should eat tonight. To the general manager who was really informative about not only their area but about Freycenet our next stop up the East Coast. He Even offered took our picture
Lastly the young couple we got chatting to, she’s employed by the University to research seaweed and it’s benefits and applications – seriously
Coincidentally, They were the couple who’d been in front of us at Domaine A.
Cheeky little cheese platter lunch and we’d had a very enjoyable stay. The house that the Scottish family owners built back in the 50’s was super stylish, would have been well at home in the Cotswolds
An unexpected (almost ) last stop was at the historic village of Richmond, really pretty, with the river running through it, passing the church. Built in 1823, allegedly this is the oldest bridge still in use in the whole of Australia.
Gavin also took the opportunity to get a haircut while Sue visited the cutesy shops lining the only street. Meeting up with a shorter haired Gavin for a creamy, home made ice cream. 🍨
Lastly we passed this place and it just screamed, take your pic here.
Inside the cheese was ‘most inadequate’ said Gavin after the tasting.
Friday 11th Jan We Set off fairly early for Freycenet Lodge, as there’s some stormy weather coming in, and we wanted a chance to see the place in the dry.
Quite a dull journey, unfortunately, Lots of ‘nothing but 🌲🌲’ areas, but at Rocky Hills we could see our destination on the peninsula across the water, under the cloud
An hour further on we arrived at Freycenet Lodge, and as it was barely raining yet, although very blowy, we went to see the beautiful surrounding area, in case we’re stormbound to our cabin for the next 48 hrs . Fantastic views
In the last pic you can see ‘what we could’ve won’ in different weather. Can’t win ’em all though can you.
Our hotel is behind the beach edge under the word ‘from ‘ on the last pic above. Superb location in Wineglass Bay, here’s the view from our balcony.
On the point of the peninsula sits the Tourville Lighthouse, beautiful vantage point to see the Mts, Bays & little Islands in the vicinity.
Back down towards our hotel we came to Sleepy Bay so investigated the curious rocks down there.
After hiding indoors from the rain – that actually didn’t amount to much – we enjoyed a magnificent meal in the restaurant at Freycenet Lodge and also the BEST surprise SUNSET !!!!!
Sat 13th Jan Unlucky for some ………, but despite the forecast for wall to wall rain, the sky was light and bright and showed some promise of keeping the rain at bay.
After a walk through the grounds which delivered an interesting reward
Then along the beach looking back at the hotel
Also the canoeing excursion from our hotel was leaving just as we walked across the boardwalk above them.
We decided to carry on with our plan, To visit several East Coast Wineries.
Namely, Milton, Spring Vale, Craigie Know, Freycinet & Devils corner. Gav had very small tastings at all but Devils Corner, where he tasted all they had to offer. Sue was designated driver so just had a glass of fizz at Devils Corner, and the odd tiny sip elsewhere😳
We haven’t mentioned before the difference in Reisling & Chardonnay in these parts, the Reisling is much drier and the Chardonnay is much less oaky & buttery, making them much more palatable to us than European equivalents.
In fact Craigie Know’s Reisling just won a gold award amongst rival global producers, and they are justifiably proud.
We did both indulge in an unusual tasting at Craigie Know, where they paired wine with hand made chocolates 👏👏👏
Very nice indeed,
After Freycinet we arrived at the most Beautiful setting for a scrumptious lunch at Devils Corner. The sun even shone for us and the sky cleared giving a magnificent view of the hills that form Freycinet peninsula, where we’re staying. So pleased we got to see them in their best light.
Bizarrely, within 15 mins of the video (that I took but can’t upload here -but it’s on FB) the menacing weather from our right raced into the bay and gave a totally different look to everything!!!!
Driving home in the long threatened rain though, we got an even greater surprise
We feel incredibly lucky to have been let off the hook for the 48 hours of terrible weather that we’d expected.
It’s a very beautiful and interesting part of the world and we’re very glad we came.
Sunday 14th
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Compared to the original forecast, we were sooo fortunate to only have had rain from tea time yesterday and all through the night.
An early breakfast and we headed to a detour that the lovely girls we met yesterday had recommended.
Beautiful seaside drive from Freycinet through Bicheno, Shelly Point, Four Mile Creek, Beer Barrel Bay, & St Helens
to arrive at the Bay of Fires, the first Bay of the famous area was Binalong,
can’t resist……..it’d BINALONG detour 🤣
but the reward was a spectacular bay and huge rock outcrops that had curious red stains, Gavin was told by a local this is caused by the lichen growing in the past?
in the last pic you’ll see Daddy carrying the canoe and a little 5 year old carrying the oar. The 5 yr old said ‘Daddy’ – Yes came the reply. I LOVE YOU said the little voice. Sooooo cute, reminded Sue of Noah, he does that to Marc all the time ❤️
ANYWAY
The area was named the bay of fires, allegedly, in 1773 by a passing sea captain, Tobias Furneaux because he saw lots of fires along the coast where aboriginal tribes were living.
We had a choice now, whether we head back 30 ish miles to St Mary and have a total journey of 2 hours to Lonnie (what the locals call Launceston) or go forward but the trip would take 2.40.
We took the longer route, and whilst we’ll never know what the scenery was like on the shorter route, it can’t have beaten our spectacular journey, where we were over 1000 m above sea level on many occasions.
We even passed over Mt Cameron so there were forces at play here.
Arriving in Lonnie, knowing that we still had almost 2 hours to our destination at Cradle Mountain, we had a quick shimmy through, saw nothing of any note except Cameron St & a very smart town hall.
We probably missed something fantastic but Ce La Vie 😳
Just over 90 mins later we arrived at Peppers, Cradle Mountain.
En route we passed by, Mount Roland and another couple of similar Mounts??.
more than once we were promised a lake by looking at the sat nav but, though we stopped on a few occasions we couldn’t actually see the water because the way through was inaccessible 😡😡
Anyway we’re in the middle of a National Park and there’s pictures in reception of lakes so we’re pretty sure we’ll see some in the next 48Hrs.
We’re nicely settled into our upgraded Spa Suite -la di da – We have a hallway, kitchen, bathroom with Jacuzzi, lounge/diner/bedroom, terrace, log burner etc.etc.
BUT no TV or WIFI as it’s all very back to nature styly.
No probs, we’ll have to talk to each other instead 🤣🤣. When we’re out of convo we’ll just watch the flames in the fire🤣🤣
Sue wrote the last paragraph before we went to the lodge for dinner, where we were lead to believe there was WiFi access. Not a bit of it, too many people after too little bandwidth 😡😡😡
Sue did manage to get connected at one point so tried to post a simple message on FB saying we’d be offline until Tuesday AM, and in a REAL emergency could be contacted at bla bla bla, but even after 17 attempts, we gave up trying to get even that sentence to upload.
Now, we feel that in 2018 this is completely UNACCEPTABLE, especially with no mobile phone signal too, Sue, especially felt very uncomfortable about the whole situation.
We were told it’s deliberate so that you can enjoy your local surroundings with no distractions.
BullXXXX
No amount of Womba
Waterfalls or wonderful scenery is going to replace being in contact with the outside world as and when you want to be.
No reason why we can’t have both, except economic ones.
RANT OVER
Monday 15th January
Rain’s rattling on the cabin roof, but are we downhearted, NO. It’s not yet 7.00 so it’ll be fine before 11.00 An old saying Sue remembers from childhood 👏.
We’re planning on canoeing today on one of the lakes we were deprived of seeing yesterday, and spotting some wombats & waterfalls and whatever else nature wants to throw at us.
So after breakfast we tried to book the Canoe trip, to find that it’s only on Tuesday, hey ho.
We thought that at the National Park Visitor Centre we’d have more luck.
‘Sure you can canoe on Dove Lake, as long as you have your own canoe’ 😫
Thoroughly thwarted on the canoeing front we have to settle for what was sold as a 2 hour, relatively easy hike, which will enable us to see 4 Lakes.
Okay says Gavin that’s fine.
Not what he said when we’d finished BTW,
Ronny’s Creek was where we began a gentle walk up a very conveniently placed boardwalk.
In front of us we saw all these hikey types with more kit than Sherpa Tensing.
Only a little way along the hikey types we’re roasting and had to keep stopping to take layers off, and add it to the tent on their backs, meanwhile we ‘sauntered’ past in shorts n Tshirts 🤣🤣. Sues theory of fine before 11 came good. 👏👏👏
The boardwalk ran out eventually but it was still quite easy terrain.
Soon we passed through a rainforest area with several cute waterfalls
More boardwalk, then scree like terrain all the way to the summit
Less than an hour after we’d started we reached the holy grail of Crater Lake. O M G what a sight, as well as a relief that we only had to come down now
Actually there was a little more climbing to do before the actual summit, but soon we reached a wide open plateau with fabulous views of 2 more Lakes. Lilla & Wombat Pool.
Breathtaking !!!!
( the views, not the walking 😜)
Sue’s posing here like she’s just conquered Everest.
Note the sign quite clearly stating that our route is to the right, Sue ( not having read the sign) blindly follows Gavin to the left – Just sayin’ 😜
A few hundred yards in, It was properly STEEP and Sue cast her mind back to the Visitor Centre lady’s description, and at no point did she mention anything like the North Face of the Eiger? When Sue asked a hikey type if we were on the right track he pointed back to the very sign She’d posed in-front of. Gavin was still sure that sign had said go this way, but you know the saying
‘the camera never lies’
Sue zoomed in on the pic, then back down we went 🤣🤣
The descent was actually harder than the ascent in many places, but we managed.
We got our first partial view of Cradle Mountain itself not long after we started to head down.
More pics later, but just to say here that it was formed around 2 million years ago by glacial activity and subsequent melts.😳
Further down we came across Dove Lake, overlooked by the mighty Cradle Mountain. Which, had we not done the 8km walk to a height of over 1150 mtrs, we could have driven to. But no ………..
But below is the BEST view of the Mountain, 1545m high BTW
What a sight !!!!! Immensely proud that we managed it, ahead of most of the hikey types that started at the same time as us too !!!!
We ate our little packed lunches that we’d hastily bought at the visitor centre & carried all the way in a plastic carrier bag.
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Ridiculous but we had NO IDEA we’d be doing this kind of thing today, we wanted to go canoeing and drive to some lakes !!!!!! Instead we just caught a bus to the bottom of a trail and started walking
It sounds mad but we didn’t actually realise what we were coming to before we arrived, our itinerary is quite long & complex and we left some bits to our travel agent, this was one of those bits 😳
Thanks Savile Row – We know they’re reading this – it’s been marvellous, shame about the phone signal & Wifi though.
After a cooling beer back at the ranch, we headed off to see Pencil Pine falls – Perfectly Picturesque, and in our own back yard.
On this stroll we also spotted some of the local wildlife. Echidna, like a hedgehog, a Wombat, & a Pademelon (Rufus Wallaby)
No Tasmanian Devil Though 👹
Best of all, Sitting in our room we heard scratching on the roof !!! What’s that? Soon after, this Pademelon jumped down and sat on our deck, Gavin’s certain he’s looking for food, he’s been here now for a good 15 mins, wandering around, even when we go to the door to take more pics he doesn’t flinch.
Another early night ahead, for several reasons.
No TV or WiFi
It’s too hot so we won’t be lighting the fire, so no flames to watch 😜
Oh and we’ve an early start for our flight back to Melbourne in the morning.
Farewell Tassie, you’re a quirky little place, but we’ve had a wicked week.
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Arrived in Huskisson to find it rammed full of camping types with hoards of kids
The scenery on this journey south is gorgeous, lush green rolling hills like, just like South Wales. No Wonder it’s called NSW !!!!!
We Stopped in several places – Hyams beach
Mollymook
Batemans Bay
Mogo-Gold mining village.
Narooma, a beautiful spot. Today so far we’d stopped in 5 places looking for lunch but they were all no good or too busy. We spotted a car park opposite Meads bakery, having seen ads for pies all down the coast in QLD and resisted, here we had our first pie!! It’ll be Sue’s last but Gav may be tempted to try more.
Back in the car after 2 mins we passed a cafe called Million Dollar View – 😫
Black swans on the Lake.
Not long after came
What a fantastically scenic trip we’ve had down the Sapphire Coast. We would recommend that drive to anybody.
The waterfront is amazing with fab 360 views
Curiously there were a bunch of people gearing up to go diving, but it was almost dark?
Merimbula – meaning place of two/divided waters – definitely under promised and over delivered.
Back on the road after our 50km detour.
After all that excitement we had a cheeky Chinese and an early night.
Arriving in Foster we fancied a winery for lunch. What we found certainly didn’t disappoint. Basia Mille was at the end of a 4km dirt track, very Tuscan by design and a view through their vines and olive groves to take your breath away.
Lunch was superb and the wines matched. The temp had already reached 40 + so we sat inside, but without A/C it was murderous, retreating to the gazebo for dessert was hotter but at least there was a breeze.
The coast in the far distance is Wilson’s Promontory which we’ll explore in the next day or 2.
The local town of Foster is very cute and spotlessly clean, catering for your every (basic) need. Very sleepy on a Sat afternoon as almost everything is closed except the supermarket, launderette 👏 and numerous take always.
It’s very unlike Sue to keep out of the heat, but Even she retreated back to the hotel ASAP with our freshly cleaned clothes, grateful for once for the pesky A/C. Good to drive the car though 😜
Sun 7th Jan 
Another 20 mins and we’d reached the south point – we headed for Norman beach, not to sunbathe as it was blinking chilly at 19, mad compared to 42 at the peak yesterday. But what a spectacle we found.
The large coloured rocks looked interesting so we headed towards them, only to find a whole other area of beach behind the main one, only there because the tide was out of course, but it provided a perfect family fun area with shallow pools, safe sand for bike rides and many other games.
Turning to walk back, look what we saw
How lucky were we, that a lady near us spotted it and alerted her children otherwise we’d have missed it 👏👏
Everyone else must’ve had the same idea as Gavin ………
Our hosts had been waxing lyrical about Agnes falls, Gavin felt they’d be disappointing due to the lack of rain, but no, they were def worth the trip.
Another early is night ahead, watching an old movie before heading to our next stopover at the Yarra Valley Lodge for some golf and probably another winery or two.
We were just thinking about lunch there when a whole bus load arrived, so we decided to go to Rochford’s just down the road instead
This is seemingly the Yarra Valley’s largest winery and hosts music concerts on a regular basis. Next month Robbie Williams is playing-we Both would have loved to see him!!!
We saw a few Emu’s who looked a bit crazy. Sue thinks Rod Hull’s act wasn’t so far from the truth that night on Parky!!!
Great little place with many more animals in a really natural environment, but we had a Tee time to make so couldn’t see too much else there.
Cute Kangaroos, but we’ve seen so many we don’t even take pics. – well not many anyway 😜
One or two super houses too.
We literally had the course to ourselves, NOBODY else at all was playing – true Millionaires golf.
Tuesday 9th Jan
Chores sorted, then we were out exploring together.
As you can see it was all a bit one sided, so we got out and walked across the bridge to the Southbank
Hope to see later whether the bridge adornments light up?
The Rod Laver arena is towards the top of the pic, we have tickets to The Tennis there next week 👏.
Across the road to the Immigration Museum, QI but we’ve seen better, we felt.
All the usual things you’d expect decent people with a globally responsible attitude to wish for, but these 2 made Sue chuckle.
Looking forward to catching up again when we join you for the tennis next week when we’re back from Tasmania.
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Jan 2nd I’d been wrestling with myself over doing the ‘BridgeClimb’ I wanted to but I was a bit nervous 😳. So instead of booking it, I thought I’d let fate decide. We caught the ferry over to Circular Quay, Gavin (who def didn’t want to do it) went off to the Hyde Park Barracks museum, and I went to the bridge. I figured that if I was supposed to do it there’d be a space, if not there wouldn’t. Well there was, and it was one of the most exhilarating things I’ve ever done, easy to say just over 3 hours later when I was safely back on the ground. The process is of course very safety centric, youre clipped into a safety wire all the way so there’s no danger, it was hard for me to look down but looking out was a very rewarding experience. Our guide Kevin, a Swiss with an Irish accent made the whole thing so interesting with stories of the history and construction and made you feel so secure it was an incredible experience.
These are racks of suits that we had to wear, absolutely everything that you had with you had to be clipped to the suit. The only personal thing you could take were glasses/sunglasses, everything else was left behind in a locker. The safety belt, as well as the harness wire had clips to attach the headphones for Kevin’s commentary & communication, your sunglasses had to be clipped to your suit, as did your cap. They even provided you with a cloth to mop your brow, which clipped to / tucked up your sleeve.
So back on the ground I met up with Gav after his morning at the museum where 600 convicts were kept there back in the day. It later housed wastrel women, & immigrants, before being used as a law court and several other things prior to becoming a museum.
At 2.00pm we were booked onto a harbour highlights cruise that Josh had bought us for Christmas 2016 – shows how long we’ve been planning this trip!!!!
One of my fellow climbers ( from LA) told me he was going to the Opera House to see the Beatles tonight – I think he actually thought Paul & Ringo were going to be there !!!!!
A wonderful way to end 4 full on days in Sydney
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Thursday 28th Dec Given that we were effectively trapped in our space we decided that we’d book a chauffeur driven wine tour. Not available today but booked for tomorrow.
It used to be a brickworks, 5 of the original kilns are still in situ
Tasted 4 different beers before lunch
Very nice owner
Innovative idea-saving on staff I guess. They page you when your food’s ready and you go and collect it .
On the way in I’d spotted a gift shop, the very nice owner gave Gav
Friday 29th Dec
A boutique winery that had been family run for 4 generations, the only part of the process they outsource is the bottling.
Next another small winery, Blueberry Hill, that only produces enough for the tastings, shop and a local restaurant.
They produce a fabulous fizz, but at $40 we passed on that as well as the all the other wines we tasted there, however, “I found my thrill……..” 🎼
The view from our table
A lovely grandad making BIG bubbles for his Grandson
Back in the Van, with the A/C off the temp had reached 42 😩.
Saturday 30th
We hadn’t driven more than 2 miles before we saw a coal train, Gav said I wonder if he’s called Robbie 😂😂
Only 15 mls out of Sydney now
A hint of blue to the sky and the rain’s stopped.
Whilst it was a wrench giving the Van back, from what I’ve seen of Manly, I’ll get over it.
Can’t wait to see Sydney, but that’ll be another blog.
If I didn’t know better I’d have said the Romans got before Captain J Cook
After over 200 kms ( 125 mls) without passing a town, or even what you’d call a village we arrive at the New England Highway and the TOWN of Guyra.
Similar to Southern Spain in the Springtime.
Wednesday 27th The man from Hunter valley. he say yes👏🏽👏🏽
lots of Olive trees, which I can’t recall Seeing before, and great to see some of our old WA favourites, the Black Boys-this time with spears
And for the first time I think I can show you a video of kangaroos in flight !!!!!!
also a bunch of waxwork models depicting the famous ones.
At the awards, the winners receive golden guitars, Country Music equivalent of the Oscars.
Those 2 tasks completed we’re back onto the New England Highway towards the Hunter Valley.
We’ve arrived at our last Campsite.
3 nights here before we drive 2 hours to Sydney and say goodbye to our Big Friendly Giant of a Van.
Now, it wasn’t by chance that we popped into the Pallazzo Versace.
It’s very Versace dahling, OTT, but I enjoyed seeing it. I asked a manager if by any chance any of the contestants were still here, perhaps having a family holiday after the rigours of the jungle?. No, they leave the day after the end party, came the apologetic answer.
Soooooo Treasure Island Holiday Park.
All our grandchildren would love it here.
Luckily they’ve put us in a child free zone, and apart from the odd Go Kart rolling by, we wouldn’t know they were here.
We’re wondering what kind of show our neighbours behind might put on later, given the two massive flags they’ve proudly hung on their washing line, they’re 2 families from Austria, maybe they’ll treat us to a Von Trapp style carol concert ? 😂😂😂
We even had our own TINY beach just in front of us
Beautiful views up and down the estuary
It was so warm I even Had a swim !!!!
We had a great lunch and whatever we wanted to drink, straight from our own fridge!!!!
The rain had started but was due to be light showers till 8pm so we had a few drinks while the first one passed before going to the BBQ.
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Great bistro for lunch so all was good.
Before heading ‘home’ We went to Noosa Marina to check out a sunset cruise, but as you’ll have noticed the weathers a bit off so there was some doubt as to whether we’d see a sunset so we decided against booking.
Around the World in 80 Stays 
