This weekend Australia celebrates the 88th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II. Any excuse for a long weekend will do!
Down the Kings Highway come long lines of cars full of Canberra's hard-working public servants, trying to escape, at least for a weekend, from their dull lives in their even duller city.
Surprisingly, we have had no booking for "Riverbend" Cottage. We are listed with www.stayz.com.au who, among other things, require us to indicate the languages we speak.
I mentioned "English (with an accent ☺); German (but don't mention the war! John Cleese did but he got away with it! ☺); Indonesian (as are most of the dishes we eat)".
This also being the 70th anniversary of D-Day, perhaps I should have left out the German bit ☺
