Today we had most of the day off – things didn’t start till 3:30 (some people were flying in from as far away as Perth! Gosh….). We had breakfast in a little place next door to the hotel then had a stroll through the sunday market by the beach (which is what the marquees are [...]

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So now I know WHERE the Gold Coast is.  I must admit to some initial confusion about exactly where we were travelling to, the “Gold Coast” not being, as far as I knew, a city.  It turns out that Coolangatta Airport = Gold Coast, so here we are. The trip over was uneventful and unblogworthy.  [...]

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