To stay near or go far that is the question that Terri from Second Wind Leisure is asking this week for the Sunday Stills Challenge.
For me it will always be to travel far and hopefully on a plane to somewhere exotic. But any kind of travelling is okay, as long as it involves a suitcase and a new destination. I love the planning stage of a trip and normally by the end of it I know the place inside out! Sometimes I’ve completely changed my mind after sifting through reviews and images of the destination I had in mind.
During the two year “lockdown” that Australia had – no-one in and no-one out – only the most extenuating circumstances accepted, we did a few “home” trips. By that I don’t mean staying in the house but actually exploring Western Australia. Western Australia was the most locked in state, we couldn’t even travel to anywhere in Australia.
We did most of this travelling in the South West of Western Australia and tried to go to towns that we had never been before, although one trip was to Kalgoorlie which is 600 km east of Perth.
I have written posts about most of these mini-breaks but here’s a gallery of some of the photos.
Mini Breaks – 2020
Porongurup Hills 
Porongurup National Park 
Lake Muir 
The Glastonbury Tree, Pemberton 
Pemberton 
A night at the Historic Caves House 
Badgingarra 
Buntine Rock 
Rothsay 
Dunsborough 
Dunsborough
2020 was also the last year that my parents would visit us, so Covid was good in the fact that they had to stay for five months and not their normal three! My nephew was also visiting and we had some wonderful days out.
Gidgeganup 
Gidgeganup 
Shelley Beach 
Cottesloe Beach 
Baskerville Winery
“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.”
