Tag: holidays

Apollo Bay 26th Dec. 2011 to 2nd Jan.2012

We were six at Apollo Bay: Martin, Kristen, Lauren, Kristen’s Mum as well as Peter and I. Kristen’s dog Darcy was also with us. In the previous blog is a picture of Martin, Kristen and Lauren, which Peter took just before they all went off on a seal watching tour. More pictures I’ll try to include at a later date.

Apollo Bay turned out to be a marvellous holiday place. But all good things have to end. So now we’re back home again and getting used to the daily routine. We have good memories of seeing Martin’s daughters as well as Martin’s son with his family.

Kristen’s Mum, Margarete, who turns 80 this year, was often great company for me. It was a thrill for me, to have a fair dinkum Australian to talk to and compare memories of the distant past.

Peter made hundreds of pictures during the holiday. I hope to be able to publish some of them soon.

Aunty Uta’s Diary

PLANS for December

Martin and Kristen invited us to stay with them in their rented cottage at the Great Ocean Road in Victoria. Kristen booked the cottage already at the beginning of the year. It has three bedrooms, that is two with double beds and one with two double bunks. The booking is for one week.

Martin says he’s going to rent a car to take us all to the Great Ocean Road. Kristen wants to drive her own car, a station- wagon, to take her big dog along and possibly her Mum as well. We are going to leave Melbourne on Monday, the 26th of December. Before we leave Melbourne, we pick Martin’s daughter Lauren up from the air-port.

Spending time with our son Martin and Kristen and Lauren close to the beach will be very good for us. I am also looking forward to meeting Margaret (Kristen’s Mum) again. I hope she’s going to be all right because she’s had an operation not so long ago. Kristen had the idea to book this cottage because it is where she often used to spend summer holidays as a child. Peter and I have actually never been driving along the Great Ocean Road, even though we’ve been travelling to Melbourne lots of times. We always had wished to find time to go along the Great Ocean Road and see the Twelve Apostles, a collections of huge stones standing right in the ocean. I believe there are only eleven apostles left since one got tipped over in a storm.

Lauren, our granddaughter, we haven’t seen for one whole year! It will be great to finally see her again. This holiday will be so good for all of us. We plan to leave home on Friday, the 23rd of December and spend Christmas in Melbourne. Our family back home is going to be disappointed that there won’t be any Christmas Eve celebrations at our house this year. We’re inviting them instead to a Pre-Christmas Lunch on Sunday, the 18th of December. But the lunch is going to be at a restaurant, not at our home.