Friday, March 28, 2008

Sacred Mountain Retreat

We have booked two nights at this place South of Coffs Harbour. It is a romantic hideaway type of place and we have a small one bedroom cottage on the top of a mountain with sea views all around.

The only sounds are of the birds and the occasional aircraft, a bit like Weybridge???

We spent most of our first complete day really just taking it easy as we were both a bit tired from the previous days journey which took longer than expected. We were relieved to have done our food shopping first as the nearest place is a few miles away and neither of us felt like going out. There is no telephone in the cottage and no internet and so we had to beg borrow and steel some time on the owners private internet connection to be able to keep up with emails etc.

The weather was quite nice in the morning but by late afternoon the tropical down poor had arrived. The garden had many fruit trees in it from banana, papaya, lemons, pineapple and melons and probably more that we did not see. There was also a vegetable garden with a great choice. Breakfast was provided by the owner and mainly focused on the fruits from the garden.

The cottage was a good size and although nice we felt the furniture in the lounge could have been more comfortable and the TV could have been bigger. Perhaps we are just getting grumpy as we get older.

We went to bed to the sound of heavy rain but at least Noel was not dreaming of the very dangerous funnel web spider’s which he dreamed about the previous night.