Really into heavy jet-lag...

We are back in Australia, on our property in the Hunter Valley.  But both Peter and I are in heavy jet-lag. Peter keeps falling into a heavy sleep just around dinner time...  but he seems to still sleep at night.  But me...  I am getting up at 3:45 a.m. every morning!  Just can't sleep anymore.  Then I am super 'fuzzy' at around 3:00 in the afternoon.  Don't want to sleep, but can't seem to think straight so I am useless at accomplishing anything.  Then I am falling asleep immediately after dinner, around 8:00...   far too early.

Time, hopefully, will get us onto some kind of normal schedule, along with Melatonin!

Swiss Schloss

We are in Zurich.  We fly back to Australia tomorrow.  It is SNOWING...  lots of snow gently falling.  I do not have a coat with me.
Today we visited a Schloss...  a castle from the 1300s.  (I am on a Swiss German computer.  Cant find the apostrophe.)  Anyway...  Castle was fantastic in recreating the life and the times.  One would not want to go back and live in that era...  cold, uncomprimising, unforgiving, tedious and relentless.
Next post will be from Austrlia.

Sadness in my heart, but a new beginning...

What can I say....  it looks like we have sold our barge.  The couple came to visit us last weekend, fell in love with the barge, and today, we have received a formal agreement to sell the barge to them.  Peter is working out the details, and a deposit is yet to be paid...  but things are moving forward.

I go along with this, with mixed feelings.  We have had the barge for 12 years and it is time to move on.  We have so many places we wish to go and things we want to do.  And as Peter says, we have been offered the loan of friend's barges when we want, and if we find we miss it too much, we will just buy another with lots of 'barging wisdom'.

I love our 'Zee Otter', and believe it is going to a good home.  But it doesn't make the sale any easier for me.