...on the road again...

Ok, almost ready to set off, just waiting for hubby as usual doing his last minute fiddling and organizing. He really works after the old slogan "No press, no production". He seems to be more effective in the 15 minutes before we finally leave than the whole weekend before hand. I am used to it now but there were times when ... let's not  say to much here but ....our national traits were very obvious. With Germanic dislike for tardiness I would fret like mad about being late  while hubby with his usual fluid notion of time would go about his business. Then we would finally leave twenty minutes late, but assured that the doors and windows were locked and nothing electrical was left on etc.
But planes and ferries and trains wait for no one, or do they?

When we were due to get married and I was still in Sweden, hubby was supposed to come over from Edinburgh via Newcastle then by ferry to Sweden for the wedding.  He got to the station not-so-bright, but very early to find that the trains were cancelled due to a tunnel cave-in, and was sent off to the bus station.  There was a bus, but it would not arrive in Newcastle until around noon, for a 12:30 ferry departure.  He took it anyway, fretted half an hour away at the intermediate stop in Peebles unsuccessfully willing the driver to get going again, and arrived at Newcastle exactly at noon.  He jumped into a taxi, and asked the driver to step on it, to be told something like 'More than my job's worth, guv' in Geordie equivalent.  True to form he arrived at the North Sheild's ferry port just on 12:30, and ran into the ferry terminal prepared for the worst.  The ferry staff were very kind when they heard he was getting married though, and the ticket agent ran alongside him checking his ticket and passport while another called ahead to lower the gang-way again.  He made it, and here we are still together, almost on time, 33 years later.

Hi again

Now we are in Coffs Harbour after having driven through a mild drizzly rain almost the whole time. There were a few highlights and I hope the photos came out ok.  They might not since it has been a very grey day.
For example we tried to get to The pub with no beer  but we never found it and had we found it  we would not been able to have a beer, so it was really a double negative. No actually we googled it when we got back to the hotel and it seems to have all that is necessary for a pub and it was made famous by this folksong.