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Its been a while ...

1/3/2019

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I have finally retired ... retired from the hum drum of daily life in the corporate world.

But far from having time to myself over the past eighteen months and getting stuck into updating my blog and page I have found myself busy, busy, busy.

As soon as I retired we were off to Vietnam, a trip planned well before ending work.  Then of course we just had to do the mandatory retirement trip through the UK ... more on that later.

As soon as we were back we got stuck into renovating our home of 42 years to sell and downsize. What a mammoth job that was.  It is so daunting to go through everything that has been saved for a rainy day and realise it is no longer required.  So off to the Salvos where everything will be zapped up no doubt and find a new home.  Of course there was plenty of “stuff” that no one would want but we were able to get some cash for scrap and help others with a plentiful supply of firewood for the coming seasons.

Soon the house was sold and far from being overly sentimental it was actually good to be rid of it and move on.

So here we are, waiting for the new place to be completed, to move in, settle then set off on our adventures once again.

We have much in the planning stage which will be revealed as time goes on.

What I do have time for though is to get the webpage up and running. I started way back in about 2012 even before blogging was a thing.  But with working ridiculous hours of 50+ a week (yea silly me), there was really no time to do the things I was passionate about.  Things are about to change.

My main aim is to not only provide insights into our travel (which is almost wholey independent) but hopefully to provide some hints and tips to help other like minded travellers.

Over the years upon returning from our holidays I have usually either put pen to paper and written books of our escapades or just done some photo books as well.  All of these thus far have been done by www.blurb.com and can be purchased either by hard copy or via ebooks.
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A new year begins

1/1/2012

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Welcome now to a new year - can you believe 2012 is here already, where does the time go.
I have been thinking about this blog and whether it's worthwhile.  Of course I have my theories, but until I try and get myself, my thoughts, ideas and things I do out there I will never know.  And unless people read what I have to say and let me know their thoughts via the contacts page I will not know whether there is any interest.
I have already talked about my passions in life and over the last couple of days as we had a few days away I realised that 2 of them are actually linked - they are travel and my family research.
My background is primarily England and Germany, with forbears on both sides coming to Australia in the mid 1800's.  My English parentage who hailed firstly from Lincolnshire and then Devon settled on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia.  John Keightly Grundy was one of the pioneers of Gum Flat later to become known as Minlaton, so it was here that we ventured for a couple of days.  Whilst John Grundy eventually settled in the Curramulka area (& I have gleaned quite a bit of information about him already) it was my Great Grandfather John Cudmore who settled more in the Minlaton area.  I know a little of him but find it hard to find more.  I knew that his son Tommy Cudmore had a butcher's shop in the town in the 1920's as it featured on the front cover of a heritage book of the area, so thought we would ferrett around and find if it still existed.  The ladies in the shop from which we purchased the book had no idea, but within the book there was a map of its original location, so off we went and lo and behold it was still there.  Renovated over the years it is unmistakably still Tommy Cudmore's Butcher Shop, so one more piece  of the puzzle has been put into place.  It has also given me more ideas of where to look to find where the Cudmores lived and raised their 13 children.  It is such a pity that I had no interest when my dear Nana was here - she lived to 99 and would have had so much to tell me if only I had have asked!
We need to visit England to see what we can find - I am sure there are many relatives as family's were so large.  Then of course to Germany to see what more I can find of my Dad's side of the family.
I have been doing family research for about 10 years and via the internet have been able to trace my Cudmore side back to the 1300's - thanks to a distant cousin who lives in Canada - Alan Cudmore. I may even need to visit him to say thank you for the work he has done!
So you can see that travel and family history are linked to a degree, especially for us in Australia as being such a young country all of us have originated from places far away from here.
If you are reading this and have an interest in researching your heritage, drop me a line and I may be able to give you some hints and tips of where to start - but be warned it is extremely addictive and at times very frustrating as you hit brick wall after brick wall.
Happy reading and please let me know what you think!
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Welcome!

12/27/2011

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This is the first blog I have ever done so here goes.  I set this site up a while ago in the hope that I would get my writings out there, but so far not many takers.  I have also put a lot of my photos onto a site called Imagekind and have been fortunate enough to have sold a couple of Tropea in Italy. Aside from our travels and photography, one of my other passions is beading and I shall get some of my pieces on the site in the coming days - by no means am I a professional, but I think I do quite well.  Lastly Family Research - what an addictive past-time that is.  Via other family members (who I have discovered along the way) I have gone back to the 1300's - unfortunately no-one of note has popped up and definitely no convicts!!!!  I hope you enjoy my site - would love feedback of any sort so I can improve and talks about what interests you!  Don't forget to visit my book gallery - I have put a couple of the books up to eBooks which makes them a much more affordable option.  Enjoy!!
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First Post!

12/27/2011

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    As per my home page we are avid travellers having had the privilege of being able to travel extensively over the past 10 or so years to many different countries. I love to take photographs, by no means a professional, but I do fairly well as can be seen by those I have shared on this site.  I also love beading again at an amateur level but none the less do quite well

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