January 2121

Change is in the wind

Olivia leaves her Brisbane rental house, packs up the car, and off mother and daughter go on a Thelma & Louise adventure through the outback. Time to get to that new job in Adelaide. James and Keno head back to Oxford after a month in the Portuguese island of Madeira To a continuing COVID crisis. IN Italy Elena has a birthday and Nick heads up to the Sunshine Coast hinterland to stay with Uncle Mark and Olga. Paulie and Stephen (apart from the Thelma & Louise gig) continue work and play in Brisbane.

Jan 2 - James and Keno are still in Portugal (Madeira) before heading home to Oxford	Getting a lot of Madeira walking in before returning to UK COVID lockdown :-(	A couple of days of more restrictions for 1 or 2 Brisbane cases of COVID. Fair enough.
15th Jan - Sister Jan and Jim come down from Doonan for a family farewell for Olivia	Jan and Paulie edit the banner that's done Christmas, and at least 6 birthdays!	Adelaide, here she comes
Sophie toasts Olivia	Lyndon has always been super helpful for Olivia	Cousin Kirsten and Jim join Lyndon in deep discussion
.	Paulie & Stephen's boarder Blake joins in	Shari, Halka and Sophie chill
.	.	2nd Cousins Claudie and Jess couldn't miss out
.	.	The whole team
And then on the 17th it's school and Uni pals	.	.
22nd - this is it. Adelaide here they come. 2046km to go	Ready for leg one	The gals go through Goondiwindi- the border with New South Wales
And evening one is Coonarbarabran before Dubbo	No GPS out there	En route past Dubbo to Cobar as they travel west to Broken Hill.
They made it. Night two in the outback . The big mining town	A bathroom with a view	.
When in a mining town, do as the miners do.	Miners don't always make it however. Memorial to those who met their end in the job	Back on the road. Only 50km to the border
The elegant facilities en route	And it's getting warm	.
Whilst it is 40+ in the outback, James and Keno get snow in Oxford	Well planned trip. Not too many kilometres (516) on The last day. Paulie was in the Clare Valley three months prior (see October 2020 photos)	She loves the Kilikanoon vineyard despite the heat
Olivia's new home in Prospect, Adelaide. Lovely!		.
Paulie spends a night with Olivia at Jane and David Barkers/Andrews	Jan 25 - Indeed Olivia liked it so much she stayed some nights	26th - Paulie had time to catch up with pals Greg and Rosie Egan before flying back to Brisbane.
Back in Brisbane, Paulie and Stephen collect mangoes before the bats and Possums get them all	Yum.	jan 28 - Olivia is making pals already. The Barker lads and friends head to vineyards
Rosie returns to her old home. She wouldn't cope with a move to Adelaide but settles in very quickly at Chateau AthoTurnbull	The 28th is also birthday time in Italy for Elena	At St Lucia with Tony Donovan and the St Lucia Athertons
And to end the month Rosie supervises Paulie in cat stretch yoga

Jan 2 - James and Keno are still in Portugal (Madeira) before heading home to Oxford

Getting a lot of Madeira walking in before returning to UK COVID lockdown :-(

A couple of days of more restrictions for 1 or 2 Brisbane cases of COVID. Fair enough.

15th Jan - Sister Jan and Jim come down from Doonan for a family farewell for Olivia

Jan and Paulie edit the banner that's done Christmas, and at least 6 birthdays!

Adelaide, here she comes

Sophie toasts Olivia

Lyndon has always been super helpful for Olivia

Cousin Kirsten and Jim join Lyndon in deep discussion

.

Paulie & Stephen's boarder Blake joins in

Shari, Halka and Sophie chill

.

.

2nd Cousins Claudie and Jess couldn't miss out

.

.

The whole team

And then on the 17th it's school and Uni pals

.

.

22nd - this is it. Adelaide here they come. 2046km to go

Ready for leg one

The gals go through Goondiwindi- the border with New South Wales

And evening one is Coonarbarabran before Dubbo

No GPS out there

En route past Dubbo to Cobar as they travel west to Broken Hill.

They made it. Night two in the outback . The big mining town

A bathroom with a view

.

When in a mining town, do as the miners do.

Miners don't always make it however. Memorial to those who met their end in the job

Back on the road. Only 50km to the border

The elegant facilities en route

And it's getting warm

.

Whilst it is 40+ in the outback, James and Keno get snow in Oxford

Well planned trip. Not too many kilometres (516) on The last day. Paulie was in the Clare Valley three months prior (see October 2020 photos)

She loves the Kilikanoon vineyard despite the heat

Olivia's new home in Prospect, Adelaide. Lovely!

.

Paulie spends a night with Olivia at Jane and David Barkers/Andrews

Jan 25 - Indeed Olivia liked it so much she stayed some nights

26th - Paulie had time to catch up with pals Greg and Rosie Egan before flying back to Brisbane.

Back in Brisbane, Paulie and Stephen collect mangoes before the bats and Possums get them all

Yum.

jan 28 - Olivia is making pals already. The Barker lads and friends head to vineyards

Rosie returns to her old home. She wouldn't cope with a move to Adelaide but settles in very quickly at Chateau AthoTurnbull

The 28th is also birthday time in Italy for Elena

At St Lucia with Tony Donovan and the St Lucia Athertons

And to end the month Rosie supervises Paulie in cat stretch yoga