weekly photo challenge: window
Happy New Year! We have only just returned from 10 days away in Tasmania (posts to follow about that trip).
A tricky challenge set this week by Cheri Lucas Rowlands at The Daily Post.
Here is our entry, a photo we took when we were travelling the Romantic Road in Germany!
The Rothenburg Clock Tower – there is a window on either side of the clock that opens on the hour between 11 am and 3 pm and then at 8pm to 10 pm. Inside the window, you see the legend of the town mayor who drank a LOT of wine as a challenge to save the town from war in 1631!
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tassie here we come
So Christmas is now behind us and New Year is about to come knocking! We will be bringing in 2014 in Hobart this year. It’s the second year in a row that we will not be in Sydney!
Seriously?! Where does the time go? We cannot believe that this time last year, we were on a Caribbean cruise and this year, we are trying to think of what to pack for Tasmania.
We’ve googled the forecast for the next few days and the temperature ranges so much: from the lows of 9 to the highs of 28. A mix of winter and summer clothes are needed here!
This is a family holiday, we have 12 people aged between 1 years old (our niece) through to 64 years old (the patriarch of the family). The last time we did this, there was only 10 of us and we were driving a mini-van around Western Australia… After that experience, we have decided this time to split up into two cars for our sanity!
So our itinerary for this 10-day trip goes a little something like this:
Flying into Hobart for a few days, onwards to Bicheno for a few more, up north to Launceston and Sheffield to finish off. There will be day trips in between no doubt but these will be our “hubs”.
Thinking back to our visit here back in 2008: we are looking forward to eating fresh fruit and visiting the different farms, seeing wildlife and the beauty of nature… and who doesn’t love a good ole road trip!!
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weekly photo challenge: one
The week’s Photo Challenge is ONE.
This photograph of ONE jellyfish was taken at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California.
Wishing everyone a Happy Holidays!!
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our travel wish list
As December 25 is fast approaching and kids have made their Christmas wish lists for Santa, we’ve been writing up a list of our own.
Our own wish list but one might liken this list to a bucket list which is something we’ve never had! Things like sky-diving and bungee jumping and white water rafting have been done by one wise monkey already and to be honest, the other has no interest or even an adrenaline drop in her body. But because our list only contains travel stuff, it might be more appropriate to call it a ‘travel wish list’!
Should a genie ever come out, here is what we have, for NOW, on our travel wish list (or “official travel bucket list”) that can run alongside our unofficial bucket list and our retrospective bucket list.
These are not listed in any particular order or priority:
1) Walk the Camino de Santiago
2) Visit Carcassonne & Mont St Michel
3) See the Egyptian Pyramids and Sphinx
4) Go on an African safari and see the big FIVE
5) Visit the Disney theme parks around the round: LA, Orlando, Paris, Japan, Hong Kong
6) See the House of Green Gables on Prince Edward Island
7) Photograph penguins in Antarctica
8) See Iguazu Falls, Niagara Falls, Victoria Falls
9) Witness the Northern Lights
10) Have a white Christmas
11) Experience 24 hours of sunlight
12) Float on the Dead Sea
13) Welcome a new year with celebrating NYE in NYC
14) Chase a solar and a lunar eclipse somewhere
15) Get to at least base camp of Mt Everest
16) Hot-air ballooning at the Albuquerque Ballon Fiesta
17) Road trip across America
18) Attend the Naadam Festival in Mongolia
19) Visit Christmas markets around Europe
20) Go in search of bears in Canada or Alaska
21) See gorillas in the jungle
22) Go husky-sledding in Scandinavia
23) See polar bears in the North Pole
24) Visit Russia (at least Moscow & St Petersburg)
25) Hike/trek in the Patagonia
26) Volunteer overseas
27) Visit Santa’s village in Lapland
28) Attend:
a) a FIFA World Cup
b) an Olympics
c) a Wimbledon match
d) a Premier League game in England
e) one game of each of these in the USA: NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL
f) an Ashes game in England
29) Ice-skate in an open-air rink on a wintery evening overseas
30) Self-drive around Iceland
This list is by no means exhaustive and will be forever evolving! Now, we will need to think of what we want on our non-travel bucket list.
Here’s to hoping that we wake up one day & a genie materialises while we’re polishing that lamp! Maybe on Christmas day?
wise monkeys abroad 