Love skiing or snowboarding? Or just want a holiday in the snow? Join us at our GO SNOW! info night on 28th May 6-8pm
Love skiing or snowboarding? Or just want a holiday in the snow? Join us at our GO SNOW! info night on 28th May 6-8pm
Registrations essential info@dontforgettravel.com.au
PS Your never too old to take up snowboarding….but take lessons!
Posted in adventure, Banff, Canada, Europe, France, NZ, postaday, Ski, travel, Uncategorized, USA, Victoria BC, Whistler
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I hate nigthtime photography. Nighttime photography gnerally consists of blurry selfie photos in bars.
Actually that’s not true (not the bit about drunken selfies) but I really do like nigthtime photography, but the truth I’ve never felt I’ve been very good at it. My camera takes great day time photos but as soon as the sun sets my camera reacts badly to my lack of being able to hold the camera steady enough to take a good non-blurry photo.
As it turns out I have taken enough passable photos to complete this weeks Photo Challenge: Illumination
The Dont Forget Travel Group is taking part in the Weekly Photo Challenge, but we’re adding an extra twist as we’re going to try and adapt the weekly theme into being “travel related” somehow!
This week’s theme is: ILLUMINATION
#postaday
Posted in adventure, Asia, Athens, Beach, Canada, China, Egypt, Europe, Fiji, France, Gallipoli, Greece, Greek Islands, Guangzhou, holiday, Peru, postaday, Shanghai, Singapore, South America, travel, Turkey, USA, Vancouver, Whistler
Tagged beach, Canada, Greece, holiday, nighttime photography, photography, postaday, the dont forget travel group, travel, vacation
Ski fitness…aaaaaagggghhhh!
My last trip to Canada, which was also my first to Canada, I visited the well-known ski village of Whistler. It was beautiful.
Although winter had not set in there was snow on the top of Whistler mountain, but I kept imagining how beautiful it would be during the ski season.
How right I was.
This week I have been sent some photos of clients who are currently in Whistler skiing. Actually that should be bragging, because I have no doubts that the photos were sent to me just to make me jealous.
Well I’ll get them back because I have just been invited to go on an Educational to Banff and Lake Louise to test out their skiing facilities. I just can’t believe my luck! This is what awaits…..
Banff
(thanks to Banff Lake Louise Tourism for the image)
This leads me to this week’s photo challenge of RESOLVED. I resolve to do my Ski Fitness exercises every day until my trip in 4 weeks.
Thighs, do your stuff!
(PS Ski Fitness is a great App you can get from iTunes)
#postaday
http://video.news.com.au/2322294398/Sydney-sky-lights-up
One of the coolest things about living in Australia is that we get to go first in many things.
Australia was first to issue pre-paid postage, the first to produce a full length feature film, the first to put radios in cars (those who drive around with loud doof doof blaring out should get down on their knees and thank OZ), Yes there might have been other firsts like the bionic ear, multi-focal contact lenses, but we were also the first to put permanent creases in pants!
We’re one of the first countries to enter the arena at an Olympic opening ceremony, and we get to see in a new year before most countries. While the rest of the world is still planning how they are going to celebrate, Australia already has a hangover and pledging that “I will never drink again”. I’m not forgetting Kiribati, Samoa, Fiji, a few other Pacific Island nations and New Zealand, but it ruins the theme of my story if I say that Australia is seventh at most things!!!
Sydney is our biggest city and definitely our most flashiest city. It has a beautiful harbour that makes every photo a winner; an unusual looking Opera House, whose architecture was inspired by the sails on the harbour, (at first was hated by many by now loved by all); a bridge that is affectionately nicked-named The Coathanger as well as that other Australian icon, Bondi Beach.
Yes there are cries from other cities around the country, such as “but we are friendlier, we are the sporting capital, we are the fashion capital, ours is the most livable, we are the foodie capital (although Adelaide also claims this one), but Sydney doesn’t have Uluru, the Great Barrier Reef, The Great Ocean Road, The Great Australian Bight, The Great (insert local attraction here).
Speaking of Adelaide we lay claim to being the “best place to bring up children, an ubundance of Great White Sharks (I wonder if the two are related?), the best wines, both red and white, in the country (I wonder if the three are related?) and while our carplates may say “The Festive State” we all know that our true moniker should be “the home of the shallow grave”. For the gothic out there, just mention the towns of Snowtown or Truro or family names such as “The Beaumont Children” or “The Family” and a chill goes up the spine of most South Australians, as well as a morbid fascination! Funnily enough it is a great and vibrant place to live.
But I digress. Back to celebrating the ringing in of the New Year.
Every capital city in Australia puts on a sausage sizzle, lets off a few crackers (first at 9pm, so the families with little ones can go home early, then again at midnight) and has a party-pash with strangers. (Although this tradition is becoming less frequent as many areas become “dry zones” – which goes against every Australian tradition of binge drinking (Ed: maybe that’s the reason for them)). Sydney does it best.
http://video.news.com.au/2322294398/Sydney-sky-lights-up
(click for video)
And I suspect every city wishes that they were secretly Sydney, just for one night of the year!
Happy New Year from the down under, of Down Under…..Adelaide!
Now roll on 2013!
Posted in Adelaide, Australia, Melbourne, South Australia, Sydney, Uncategorized
Tagged 2013, Adelaide, Australia, beach, Celebration, Melbourne, New Year, New Year Eve, postaday, Sydney, the dont forget travel group
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This week’s photo challenge “2012” has been a tough one. Tough because its has been a big year for me, so it was tough trying to select the right photos. The year starting with the opening of The Don’t Forget … Continue reading
This week’s photo challenge “Changing Seasons” to me conjures up images of trees. This weeks photo challenge gives me the opportunity to show what has been going on right out my back door with my frangipani tree…
October in Canada is definitely a country going through a changing season….
Then I noticed this today…the changing on the season in Adelaide
#postaday. The Don’t Forget Travel Group is taking part in the weekly photo challenge, but with a twist by trying to relate everything to travel…ok this week is mainly about “home”.
Posted in Australia, Butchart Gardens, Canada, Churchill, postaday, South Australia, Summer, Victoria BC
Tagged Canada, holiday, photography, postaday, the dont forget travel group, travel, Victoria BC
I grew up on a merino sheep station called Greenfields. I’ve worked on Greenhill Road. I’ve even been green with envy, but as Kermit the Frog sang, “It’s not easy being green”, but it seems that I find it easy to photograph green
The Dont Forget Travel Group is taking part in the Weekly Photo Challenge, but we’re adding an extra twist as we’re going to try and adapt the weekly theme into being “travel related” somehow! This week’s theme is: GREEN
#postaday
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Tagged beach, Canada, Egypt, Greece, holiday, postaday, the dont forget travel group, trekking, vacation
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