A break...

Forgot to mention... we have gone ahead with the idea of having a break from travelling for a few months on our return to Brisbane at Easter. We have booked a holiday unit at Caloundra (Southern end of the Sunshine Coast) for 4 months, starting on the 20th of April - we decided that it would be nice to have a break from caravanning for a while, and recommence our travels afterwards.

We are staying at our favourite holiday unit called "By The Sea" (truly imaginative name, given that it is, indeed, by the sea). It's an older unit, with no real mod cons, and is situated in the less trendy northern end of Caloundra, on the hill overlooking the rocks and ocean. Although the unit itself is very 70s, we LOVE the position - you get uninterrupted views across the ocean to Moreton and Stradbroke islands. I would love to buy this place. Because the unit is older and kind of run down, we can afford to rent it off-peak (after some price negotiation with the owner) at about the same price as what an unfurnished unit would cost us to rent in Brisbane anyhow... The REAL bonus is that it's furnished, and thus we don't need to delve into the scary place that is our storage shed, and get some of our stored belongings out (if we could indeed find them). It's also a shortish drive to Brisbane (about an hour) so when I need to be there for my study, it's an easy commute. Plus we can have friends and family around, or visit them, or... whatever... We have always fancied living at Caloundra - I guess we're about to get a really good idea what it would be like to live there long term.

We're on the road for a few weeks more, and we are spending a couple of weeks with our families over Easter before then, but it should be good.