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A holiday of a life time, one where I had cashed in all my frequent flyer points for myself, husband Scott and youngest daughter Jessica to spend 20 days overseas visiting 4 countries and 1 Disneyland! Flying out on Saturday 22nd September 2012 we arrived at the airport around 9.45 am for our 10.50 am […]

To celebrate my parents’ birthdays in August 2012 I booked a mini break at Normanville staying in a really nice, new, holiday house called Bungala Shores. With Thursday to Sunday to plan out, I called into the Visitors Centre at Yankalilla where the staff were very helpful and I came away with brochures and things […]

I love the Wotif specials that are available for a window of a few hours and recently I booked a night at the majestic Mount Lofty House.  The package included a deluxe room, country continental breakfast for two, midday checkout, bottle of wine and $35 dinner voucher. Arriving whilst it was still light, late on […]

Mini break photos Taking two nights to relax by myself was something I was really looking forward, a chance to chill, have some quiet time and focus my thinking. Having bought a Scoopon a few months ago, I booked into Authenticity Day Spa Resort on Thursday around 5.00 pm, just an hour’s drive from home […]

For our 18th Wedding Anniversary on 19th February 2012, Scott and I had a week long holiday in Cairns and we loved it! Arriving mid Thursday afternoon via a direct Jetstar flight (such a bargain, $99 flights each way from Adelaide) we took a walk along the esplanade and grabbed a gourmet, light burger for […]

It seems that we discovered a tradition of spending Australia Day at Horseshoe Bay, Port Elliot a little by accident as heaps of people, locals and those from Adelaide, go down there each year. I had looked at a couple of options for a mini break and booked a cute 4 bedroom house called the […]

Since the move to the sidewalk areas outside The Alma Hotel and Fino’s in Hill Street Willunga, as the market grew out of their original location, there have been quite a few changes. The new brand with the pitch fork logo, the introduction of the community membership scheme and the engagement of administration, book-keeping and […]

There is a romanticism about wine, food and cellar door locations in South Australia that sometimes has me considering moving (or mini-breaking) to a regional location with beautiful views and growing my own produce or running a South Australian produce shop. So when I heard about South Australia’s First State Cellar Door Wine Festival in […]

Regional Development Australia Barossa recently advertised a Thinking Barossa forum headed with a question, Can we have it all?With a title like that it piqued my interest in regional development so I booked in online and looked forward to making the drive out along the new Northern Expressway and through the valley. At late notice […]

A kaleidoscope of lycra clad cyclists, media, entourage, sponsors, spectators and families lined the decorated streets of Willunga for the Jayco Stage 5 of the Tour Down Under (TDU) on Saturday 22.1.11. This stage started in McLaren Vale, through to Willunga, along Aldinga Road to the Esplanade at Aldinga Beach and Port Willunga, and then […]