Book Exchange at Stokes Bay

Looooong driving, clambering over boulders, squeezing through crevices and... voila! There's this extraordinarily magnificent Stokes Bay, a paradise on earth. It even has a sweet little cafe with a book exchange corner.

 

2022 Book Challenge

Out with the old,

In with the new

Wishing you a dazzling, 2022!

(Want to join me in this Book Challenge?)

Twice Read Books

We are in Victor Harbor the next two days to see the newly completed Causeway, a $43 million concrete and steel project.

We are ambling towards Granite Island when I am jarred by my 9-year old's bellowing: “Mum, keep on walking, just keep on walking, don’t look!”. Of course, I construe this as an invitation to do otherwise and I immediately put on my pedestrian brakes. And there to my left, in all its lovely glory, is a bookshop that is not in my biblio-radar.

My boys know that there is now going to be a (slight) alteration to our day's plans. We compromise. We’ll check out the horses and the camels, have KFC (this has become an imperative segue when we are in Victor Harbor), and return to the bookshop before we watch Spiderman.

Oh, this quaint bookshop. There’s music in the background, comfortable seating, and cool respite after our morning hike.

Here's a shop one would not mind babysitting. Everything costs $5 - a breeze to do the maths. 😊

 

Twice Read Books

5 Coral St., Victor Harbor

South Australia 5211

Mobile: 0421 702 193

 

And some people say I don't have a sense of humour...

 

The kitchen lab

My 9 year-old has sagely observed: "I know why you like recipe books, mum. It's because you are able to read and cook at the same time."

Old worlds, new worlds, other worlds!

The show must go on (with COVID-19 limitations!). 

And our favourite Yoda quote remains:

"Do or do not. There is no try."

Half-time!

I am halfway to reaching my KPI of becoming a centenarian, testing Dan Buettner’s Blue Zones theory that people can live healthy, meaningful, and productive lives up to their hundredth birthday.

If there’s anything that the ancient Romans taught us, a great empire can rise from the rubble and back to the rubble it can crumble. But still, in a half century, a team can soar again to win the Euro 2020. Anything is possible. In half a century, humankind has made the big leap from landing on the moon to joyriding in space.

I’ve learned that it is efficient to travel alone though I have also discovered that it is not much of a joyful ride.  Thank you, family and friends for the journey together and I’m hoping we’ll have opportunities to do carpool karaoke in the next two score and a decade (be it in an electric car or an autonomous vehicle).

Cheers.