Travels with John and Janice

Dateline February 18, 2015: Robe and Port Fairy Australia

on February 28, 2015February 28, 2015By John and Janice

We drove almost six hours to get to our next destination Robe. It is a quiet fishing village with much history. Robe is one of the oldest towns in South Australia.
Robe is situated on Guichen Bay, about 350km south east of Adelaide. Nicolas Baudin, a French explorer first viewed the bay in 1802...

Dateline: February 15, 2015 – Kangaroo Island – Meet The Koala

updated on February 24, 2019February 27, 2015By John and Janice

We left the Lambert Estate Retreat headed to Jim and Pam's to purchase some wine for the drive to Sydney. We purchase two bottles each of the unreleased sparkling chardonnay/pinot noir, Thoroughbred Cabernet and Commitment Shiraz. Pam said we needed to take a bottle of the sparkling Shiraz as a ...

Dateline February 13, 2105: Lambert Estate – The Barossa Valley

updated on February 28, 2015February 27, 2015By John and Janice

We landed in Adelaide from Auckland after flying through Melbourne, at about 11 a.m . We picked up our rental car and headed to the Barossa Valley to visit Jim and Pam Lambert at Lambert Estates.

Jim and Pam have a lovely guest home called Lambert Estates Retreat, at the vineyard in Angaston....

Dateline January 24, 2015 – Auckland – Welcome to New Zealand

updated on January 27, 2015January 27, 2015By John and Janice

We arranged our travels here with Playing Around New Zealand, Ltd., through Will Owen. Will met us at the airport and took us into Auckland to settle us at the Stamford Hotel, beautiful facility. After checking in we walked the dock front to find a place for dinner. After dinner, ...

Dateline – January 21, 2015 – New Zealand and Australia – The Adventure Begins at Doyles

updated on January 27, 2015January 21, 2015By John and Janice

We arrived in Sydney after 24 hours of flight time around 8:30 Tuesday morning. We traveled to the hotel and met up with our travel friends peter and Bunny Warenski. We wrote of them in the past as part of our Alaska trip and companions for a month of playing golf on the Robert Trent Jones Alabama...