2026 travel plans

[Forg]

“Lambs lettuce” and salsify also make this sad list of healthy veggies that are near impossible to find here. And I’m sure you could grow the former at least!

You can! We’re currently between houses, but our prior house had a veggie garden & my (German) better-half sourced lamb’s lettuce seeds.

We’ve seen it on occasion at Harris Farm or Panetta Mercato, although normally sold as mâche (and the seeds often sold as corn salad).

 

[Warks]

Got a few nights in Launceston at the end of June. VA had $79 one way tickets from Sydney so grabbed those and got an AirBnB for only a little over $100 a night in the heart of town. Cheap break. Will be nice and chilly by then but will be good to have our first decent look around town in a long time.

 

[Forg]

Got a few nights in Launceston at the end of June. VA had $79 one way tickets from Sydney so grabbed those and got an AirBnB for only a little over $100 a night in the heart of town. Cheap break. Will be nice and chilly by then but will be good to have our first decent look around town in a long time.

Launceston punches way above it's weight for food, drink, coffee, all the stuff I'm into!

 

[Katie]

OK, well here's the year so far:

• Started on the Disney cruise between SYD-HOB (still working on the TR, two more days of the cruise to cover)
• Jan - crashed Mr Katie's boys' week in Radelaide for the starting weekend. Ate lots and did lots, and Mr Katie got antsy because he was in Adelaide and not riding ... yet ... !
• Mar - WLG dinner with Mr Katie.
• Apr - Easter in MEL, conference trip to PIT and then a long weekend in SIN.
• Aug - not confirmed, but may be a 1-week trip to help the Teen relocate to a secret location for a College Program.
• Sept - CHC weekend
• Oct - YVR and CLT for conferences, back to back, and maybe a weekend with the Teen at the secret location in the middle.
• Nov - CHC overnighter
• Dec - Christmas/New Years trip to secret location to visit the Teen for Christmas week, then do some fun tourist stuff the following week in other locations. Don't need to be back in Australia for NYE birthday.

So 2027 needs to be the year of the Euro Christmas ... though that would be two Christmases in a row away from the Grandparent squad, siblings and niblings.

 

[kookaburra75]

Got a few nights in Launceston at the end of June. VA had $79 one way tickets from Sydney so grabbed those and got an AirBnB for only a little over $100 a night in the heart of town. Cheap break. Will be nice and chilly by then but will be good to have our first decent look around town in a long time.

Launceston punches way above it's weight for food, drink, coffee, all the stuff I'm into!

Another vote for Lonnie. If you like a steak, try out the Black Cow

 

[stu961]

Another vote for Lonnie. If you like a steak, try out the Black Cow

My brother lives just outside Lonnie... Rosevears pub is a stroll down the road, a vino and a bite to eat over looking the Tamar is rather special and so Aussie

 

[GarrettM]

Well I still don't have any travel plans for the rest of this year. Which is fine.

Everyone else in the family has something to look forward too though.

MrsGM will take Turdboy to Brisbane in the next school holidays to visit Bluey's World.
And in October she's arranging a trip to Borneo with MsChaos to see orangutans and baby turtles.

Of those plans I think I'm more jealous of the boy.

 

[Warks]

Just booked the Routeburn Track (NZ Great Walk number 7 for me) for the end of November. Bookings opened this morning at 0730 and if you were there 30 mins before you qualified for the queue with a number in line when it opened. Between the two of us we were something like 4000, 7000 and 9000th in line and were told it was over an hour to wait. But it moved fast and our 4000 in the queue browser got there in 25 minutes. Got our huts and paid. By the time the 7000 one got there 5 minutes later there was almost nothing left for the whole summer. Insane demand but this is much less than the Milford Track which we did last Feb. We've tacked on a return hike via the Caples Track to avoid the long bus shuttle at the other end of the Routeburn. Can't wait.

 

[RooFlyer]

I might even be able to convince the better-half ... and HBA is perfect because it's one of few places on the QF network that has a lounge but I don't have a little cry to myself when traveling with her due to the fact she's no longer QF Platinum.

That’s what I mean … other places I miss the lounge, but HBA we always went in & left shortly after ‘cos the general terminal was a nicer place to be.

Qantas has made your (and others') decision easier. The temporary lounge will be closed from July until 'early 2027'.

 

[bPeteb]

Our second trip to India is now locked in. Thankyou to everyone who recommended Magan. He is a truly wonderful person.

19/12/2026​	Brisbane	SQ y
	Singapore	SQ y
19/12/2026​	Delhi	The Connaught New Delhi
20/12/2026​	Delhi	The Connaught New Delhi
21/12/2026​	Mandawa	Castle Mandawa Hotel
22/12/2026​	Bikaner	The Laxmi Niwas Palace
23/12/2026​	Bikaner	The Laxmi Niwas Palace
24/12/2026​	Jaisalmer	Welcome Heritage Mandir Palace
25/12/2026​	Jaisalmer	Welcome Heritage Mandir Palace
26/12/2026​	Manwar Camp	Manvar Sevan The Desert Camp
27/12/2026​	Jodhpur	Ratan Vilas
28/12/2026​	Sardargarh	Sardargarh Heritage Fort
29/12/2026​	Udaipur	Jagat Niwas Palace Hotel
30/12/2026​	Udaipur	Jagat Niwas Palace Hotel
31/12/2026​	Bundi	The Hadoti Palace
1/1/2027​	Bundi	The Hadoti Palace
2/1/2027​	Ranthambhore	The Earth Ranthambhore
3/1/2027​	Ranthambhore	The Earth Ranthambhore
4/1/2027​	Jaipur	Alsisar Haveli
5/1/2027​	Jaipur	Alsisar Haveli
6/1/2027​	Agra	ITC Mughal A Luxury Collection
7/1/2027​	Agra	ITC Mughal A Luxury Collection
8/1/2027​	Delhi	SQ y+
9/1/2027​	Singapore	SQ y
	Brisbane

 

[RooFlyer]

@bPeteb the Jagat Niwas should suffice! But the bed was very firm!

Post in thread 'The view or two from my "office"'

Dec 7, 2019

This morning's office view of Lake Pichola, Udaipur from my hotel ( Jagat Niwas)





The office:

• RooFlyer

• 

 

[bPeteb]

@bPeteb the Jagat Niwas should suffice! But the bed was very firm!

Post in thread 'The view or two from my "office"'

Dec 7, 2019

This morning's office view of Lake Pichola, Udaipur from my hotel ( Jagat Niwas)





The office:

• RooFlyer

• 

Noice! We are prepared for board like beds. It'll take us back to our trip to China.