On the 20th of July I went on holidays to Lord Howe Island. My friend Jenny brought me to the airport. We had breakfast there.
At five minutes past 9 boarding started, we went with a small van to the plane. It was a very small on, there was only place for about 30 people. We landed from the seaside on Lord Howe.
The weather was beautiful. Were picked up and went by van to Somerset Resort. I got a nice studio unit. Went out and hired a bike for the week. That went not so good the first couple of days, had not been biking for 38 years, even fell a couple of times.
The weather was very windy and raining the whole week but that did not stop me from going out and exploring the island. Have been climbing some mountains and did a lot of walking.
Had a look at the weather balloon going up. The weather man turned out to be Doug. I had been working with him in Melbourne at Philips. He was in goods inwards and I in stock control. He recognised me.
They had also a museum and looked at it. There was also a café and had most of the time coffee and afterwards some lunch there.
Watched one day the plane going out. It was very, very windy that day. It was scaring to look it at but up it went. The wind was across of the runway.
One morning I went to see the feeding of the fishes.
Have been knitting another Lodewijk on Lord Howe Island, have now three.
On the Sunday I flew out again. Lucky there was not that much wind as during the week. Had a good flight back. Jenny picked me up.
Have been working hard on the bathroom it is nearly finished.
The small quilts which are going over the armrests are going fine. The top is finished and am doing the quilting now. Then the small ones have to be stitched together with the big top. Will have to work that out.
Yesterday there was Holland Festival at the Dutch club in Richlands. Went there and had a good time.
Have been eating coffee and cake, salted herring, oliebollen (they are a bit like donuts but then round with dried fruit in it), poffertjes. Watched Maori people singing and dancing, this was very entertaining. Bought a lot of Dutch foodstuff, which you hardly see in a supermarket.
4 comments:
The place you went to looks really clean and fresh. I like wide open spaces where all is quiet. I haven't been to Australia, maybe one day.
You took some beautiful photos Rens.
Looks like a very nice vacation.
I do like your new Lodewijk.
Oliebollen In September, a bit early isn't it ?
Ha Rens, goed weer wat van je te horen. Prachtige foto's van je vakantie!
Heb je onze uitnodiging gekregen en kom je ook de 20e?
Groetjes,
Linda
There are not many open spaces just enough for the people to live. They are very lucky to live there with no pollution. Australia is a very beatiful country, i am now living here for 38 years.
We can eat oliebollen any time of the year except with new year's eve, it is then too hot for oliebollen.
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