Travellin' Penguin

Please go to  (OUR NEW HOME) click below: TRAVELLINPENGUIN.WORDPRESS.COM   I have been thinking of transferring the Penguin and myself to wordpress for quite awhile now but thought the ef...

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Please go to  (OUR NEW HOME) click below: TRAVELLINPENGUIN.COM   I have been thinking of transferring the Penguin and myself to wordpress for quite awhile now but thought the effort might...

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I have finished this book and I must say in my jet lagged haze it was a comfortable read. No terror, suspense, misogyny, war or animal cruelty.  A tale about Arthur, whose wife died one year p...

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The Penguin is packed and I am sitting in a large Dublin Hotel waiting to leave for the airport.  My flight is not until 10:35 pm so I don't need to get there until around 7:00 pm. I have h...

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....tomorrow. We have pretty much finished up our travels around the southern part of Ireland. We began in Dublin, went around the southeast to the southern coast then came up the west coast e...

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Yes we are tired. Yes we are still sight seeing, driving endlessly, booking accommodation for the following days and eating.  Everywhere we go seems to take ages. We get lost at every turn and c...

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I have not tried it yet but it looks interesting. Earlier this year, the price on the blockbuster book, The Girl on the Train, was slashed from $11.99 to $1.99 for one day only. Previous...

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This was our road we travelled on. Today we woke up to pounding rain on the west coast of Wales. We had a three hour drive north to Holyhead, where we will take the ferry to Dublin tomorrow....

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 Two days ago we finally got to Hay on Wye again. It has changed since I last saw it. More empty shopfronts for lease. A few less bookstores. It was rainy and dreary and didn't seem to have th...

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Today we had to leave this beautiful farm stay. We had three nights and lots of fun. Juliet is the landlady here and she is a one stop wonder. She cooked for us, sat and had afternoon tea, chatte...

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We are not being overly bookish but we are sure travelling'. My friend Judy and I and the Penguin have just spent a week in Cornwall. We saw Port Isaac, Padstow and St Ives Harbour. We spent a h...

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Hi folks, We are all resting tonight after our very long day visiting Port Isaac/Port Wenn in Cornwall. The TV show Doc Martin is filmed here and they have wanted to visit this place for a ve...

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We made it safely here started the road trip today. Yesterday we had time to run into Notting Hill and Earl's Court in London. My card reader for my camera fell apart in my hand and I needed anot...

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The journey has well and truly begun. The trip is a long one (35 hours from home to Thistle hotel), planes, airports, trains and a bus in the end. It was hot here yesterday. But a storm broke t...

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  DIARY OF A TRIP   PART I Today the adventure begins. The Penguin and I are at the Hobart Airport ready to go to Melbourne. We have an eight hour wait in Melbourne airport so need to plan...

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I have just finished this book with my book group last week. THE WATCHMAKER OF FILIGREE STREET by Natasha Pulley. Most of our members enjoyed it but a couple really did not. I was one of tho...

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Hi Folks, I am still here. Life gets in the way of the blog sometimes. You know, the best intentions etc.  I am writing this to you from the local laundromat on my 45th wedding anniversay....

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I am going to have a bit of a rant here. The other night I was watching the ABC (Australian Broadcasting) Book Club show with Jennifer Byrne, Jason Steger and Marieke Hardy.  They reviewed a...

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No. 2543- 1968 Who would have thought I would find vintage Penguin books from Alice Springs? I did not expect to find a book shop but lo and behold I not only found one but there were two. ...

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The Penguin has had lots of fun this week. I am still here but have had a lot of technology problems lately. We have had a wonderful trip so far in Cairns, Uluru and now Alice Springs. Howev...

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We got snow this weekend on the mountain. It was a  chilly 9 degrees C (about 45 F).  But the sun was out most of the weekend and it was really gorgeous out there. Whenever it snows, many peopl...

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Thursday 9 June, 2016 I quite like this letter type format. I miss old fashioned letters.  Yesterday was the day the Domain Writer Group met. There are about 7 of us that meet each Wednesday f...

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Good evening, (as Alfred Hitchcock used to say) I am shaking off the old blog and beginning anew with something more up to date, fresher and a bit more motivating. I have been blogging here fo...

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Excuse the crumbs, I am eating a wagon wheel I picked up from the bakery down the road.  I have just returned from the Opening Address with Kate Tempest at the Sydney Writer's Festival. The ...

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Tomorrow morning I am off to Syydney, crossing the big ditch that separates Tasmania from the mainland. I am attending the Sydney Writer's Festival. I have left time though to visit my favourit...

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