Adventures with John 2025_1
John Mahoney arrived on Monday 27 Jan 2025 for his third visit to Australia. His first two days included Jerry meeting him at the airport in Sydney for the train trip to Newcastle, landing at 47 King St Stockton in the early afternoon, dinner at our place with Anna, Kate and granddaughter Bénédicte (with a fab Shiraz from Anna and a beautiful Pavlova made by Benne), surviving a blistering hot Monday by laying low, sharing a pub dinner with Josh’s family at the Gates Hotel and then experiencing a full a southerly buster as only Australia can deliver. A southerly buster is when it is so hot you think it just cannot get any hotter and then a storm arrives with wind and rain and often lightening and the temperature drops in minutes. This was a challenging beginning but the fun was only just starting. We have planned two “road trips” during John's stay and the first was flying to Melbourne on Wednesday. We DID get to Melbourne on the d...

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