Bendles Cottages & Country Villas Maleny

... my husband was Mr Cool himself and totally wore out the other bidders, setting a local auction record (the most bids – a total of 80 or something!) & still managed to get a steal! We now have our little bit of country, close to the beach. We moved in 3 weeks later (a quick settlement’s a good one!). The first couple of weeks we had plenty of help warming the house, with the Millers & the McCorkindales camping on the lawn ...

We got a glimse of the city traffic as we came down the freeway towards Brisbane, but we were heading up into the hills to Maleny, thinking we were taking a short cut on the GPS we actually ended up going up a very steep, windy and single track in some areas way up into the mountains! We arrived late avo and got ourselves into ...

... this has to be the most hardcore. We bussed it into Coolum and went to meet our instructors, who were really nutty and i really hit it off with. We did some ground training and head up in the (tiny!) plane. The flight up was hilarious as we were all squashed in, and i started fearing for my legs, as the harness was slowly cutting off the circulation and turning them purple - which didn't matter when i ...

... we were beginning to get lost and the only words from my temporary navigator was, fer fer fer fer ffff follow the road. The bird on the GPS was very polite and announced that "you have arrived at your destination". At that point, the phone rang. It was Rowena. I was digging out maps, looking for addresses and trying to stop Steve from wandering into neighbouring properties. How the hell was ...

... weiter an der Sunshine Coast entlang wieder durch das "etwas" verwirrend und schlechtbeschilderte Noosaville gefahren, wir haben uebrigens diesmal nuuur 30 Min raus gebraucht nachdem wir wiedermal im Kreis gefahren sind. Wir fuhren dann runter zum Coolum Beach, was uebrigens ein echt super Surfer Spot ist! Sind dann nochmal an der Sunshine Coast ...

... aux deux nous avons pris un rendez-vous pour faire la visite. Karl travaillait alors Nadine y est allee seule. L"appartement etait parfait, grand, propre, tout meuble, le prix du loyer (125$ ch par semaine) etait dans les prix du marhce de la region et en plus ca lincluait tout tout (tv, electricite, internet, etc...). Jenny navait pas de probleme a nos avoir seulement pour 3 a 4 mois alors on a tout de suite accepter cette offre, on etait alors ...

With all those adventures off the beaten track ahead we booked a full day of 4WD training. And god was this an eye opener - how just one day can change the way you approach things. But most importantly it was about getting the confidence that we would know a thing or two if the **** (or deep puddle of mud) should ever hit the fan.

Hi, just setting up a travelpod blog, so I can keep in touch with you whilst we are on our big trip. should be a good way to send photos back and make you envious. Hope it works , this is a test. Let me know if it is okay. It should link with facebook. Thanks heaps, your itchy feet traveller Shell

... I guess you might expect, although we didn't expect to affront him so much by daring to ask for a carafe of water! However, the melodrama which unfolded outside the bistrot made up for his rudeness because of its own interest value - a large group of police suddenly appearing out of no-where and running down their target directly accross the road from us. (Funnily enough, that night, after we walked home to our apartment building, on the stairs up to the third floor we had to walk ...

... watch the world go by, while the power that be laid down the shoe leather!!! Anyway yesterday we moved on to this little town with a nice campground with power for $8. There seems to be a few around this area. We are hoping to meet up with a couple of our kids next weekend who are coming up this way for a holiday, our aim being also to see Australia Zoo. So we have a few quiet days to kill after all the excitement of last weekend!!