The plan

The broad plan for this trip is to find a few spots up the coast (or near the coast) of Northern NSW to give us a 4 week (or thereabouts) break from the Winter cold of Canberra.  A feature of the trip is that we'll be taking the small dog with us so are using a travelling with dogs website as our basic resource.

The UK magazine "Country Life" has a cartoon series under the title of "Tottering-by-gently" (possibly the name of a small village just outside Bath).  It includes a Black Labrador as a sort of Greek chorus.  This strip was particularly appropriate.

As with our trip to the UK last year I will fiddle with the publication dates (and possibly times - I will not, hopefully, be updating the blog at 3am or such like) of posts to set this blog up so that it follows a narrative with the planning posts at the start then day by day posts of interesting/amusing events and finally some summarising thematic entries.  I will use Labels to indicate some thematic points of each post.