Two Drifters

We ended April by meeting the CEO and Australian Head of Sales & Operations for Panache in Sydney. We enjoyed a lovely “get to know you” breakfast and recorded some interviews. The CEO and Founder,James Cole, flew back to the UK later that day. We released our first interview on YouTube - https://youtu.be/yaG44N9BS9Y?si=hNvlJKF-F4HpIFPU where James talks about Panache and its expansion into Australia. It’s only about 15 minutes if you want to have a listen. Our second video with the Australian Head of Sales, Juliana Nasmith, is only five minutes - https://youtu.be/wyubaLcb6Bw?si=MoXnkVaOQdxQUZAH The next week, we spent two nights on the Bellarine Peninsula doing a famil (ie a trip organised for me where I have a story already commissioned ie presold/pre-ordered) and the following week we were off to the Sunshine Coast to see family. The week after that, we flew to Cape Town so it’s been a busy little period! First, the Bellarine. This trip had been in the works since February 2025...

^Choosing a few photos for this month's blog entry made me realise this has been the month of the Queensland beach walks!! What a privilege to live in a country where there are such beautiful, unspoiled beaches which are also accessible to all. We started the month in Palm Cove. Our last group who stayed with us are a couple we have been friends with for almost 40 years! It was lovely to spend a few, relaxed days together. Dropping them off at Cairns airport on a Monday morning, we started the almost 3,000 kilometre drive home to Melbourne. I wanted to be home by the Friday as I had concert tickets booked for Melbourne for the Saturday night and it was Mothers’ Day on the Sunday. We had also been away for almost three weeks and we were less than four weeks away from a two month trip to Europe (sorry, that’s a lot of numbers!!) The upshot of all that is that we had no time to wind our way down the East Coast. It was basically point the car and drive. And drive. And drive. We have a ...