Our plans for the rest of 2013:
(as at January 2013)

21st March: arrive home from Iran via India and Singapore
28th March go to Bright Paragliding and MTBing for Easter weekend
8th April: 3:50pm depart for Frankfurt to see Sara
16th April 1pm depart Berlin to Agadir in Southern Morocco
riding in Morocco and then across to Spain and along Portuguese Coast
1st June hire a car from wherever we get to to drive to Piedrahita (in central Northern Spain)
2nd June one week Paragliding booked at Piedrahita with guiding and pick ups included
9th June return to where our bike is and make our way back to Tubingen to see Sara
19th June depart Frankfurt 10:20pm
21st June arrive Sydney 6:05am
Emma and James's 30th birthday celebrations
6th July go to snow camping at Sawpit Creek (this is middle weekend of School Hols and hopefully go down with Emma for week)
Stay at Sawpit Creek for most of the time until 8th September
SARA will probably arrive in Australia late August and will spend a week at the snow with us
11th Sept Go to Pacific Bay for a week at Coffs Harbour 
28th Sept Fly to Rotorua to go Mountain Biking for 2 weeks.  (note Emma & James may leave 21st being first day of school holidays)
We hope Sara, Emma & James, and Kate & Andrew will all be in New Zealand from 28th to 5th October.
SARA will probably fly back to Germany around 10th October?
12th Oct We plan to return from NZ
10th Nov Highland Fling MTB event
Here are plans for the next six months or so just in case you are wondering where we are:

  • NEW ZEALAND MTBing at ROTORUA
    • Tuesday 9th October fly Sydney to Rotorua departing at 9:30am Air New Zealand
      • stay in Rotorua for the whole time riding our tandem MTB on the great single track
        • address of cottage we are booked at is: 31 Larcy Road, Lynmore, Rotorua
        • Tuesday 16th October Jannine and Brett fly over to join us
        • Saturday 20th October Whaka 100km MTB race
    • Tuesday 30th October fly Rotorua to Sydney to arrive 5:35pm
  • BUSHWALK proposed with family on part of "Great North Walk"
    • Saturday and or Sunday 3rd and 4th November
  • HIGHLAND FLING 100km+  MTB race
    • Sunday 11th November at Bundanoon
  • MALAYSIA visiting Terry Valentine thence to Burma
    • Monday 12th November fly Sydney Kuala Lumpa depart 11:55am arrive 5:30pm Air Asia
    • Stay with Terry and Yati about 35km outside KL
  • BURMA or MYANMAR cycle touring
    • Tuesday 20th November fly Kuala Lumpur to Yangon (Rangoon) depart 6:55am Air Asia
    • Tuesday 18th December fly Mandalay to Bangkok depart 10:45am arrive 1:10pm
    • Tuesday 18th December GARY ONLY fly Bangkok to Sydney depart 5:50pm
    • Wednesday 19th December Gary arrive Sydney 10:45am Air Asia
  • ANNETTE TO EUROPE to visit SARA
    • Tuesday 18th December ANNETTE ONLY fly Bangkok to Frankfurt depart 8:05pm
    • Wednesday 19th December arrive Frankfurt 6:25am
    • Friday 28th December fly Frankfurt to Sydney via Abu Dhabi depart 10:05pm Etihad
    • Sunday 30th December ANNETTE ONLY arrive Sydney 7:20am Etihad
  • BARRINGTON RIVER HURST camp
    • Thursday 3rd January to Sunday 6th January 2013
  • AUSTRALIAN CANOE SLALOM CHAMPS at Eildon Victoria
    • Tuesday 8th January drive to Eildon
    • Saturday 12th January drive back late
  • PARAGLIDING SIV course
    • Sunday 13th January drive to Lake St Clair
    • Thursday 24th January SIV course finishes
  • INDIA SKIING in Gulmarg KASHMIR
    • Friday 1st February fly Sydney to Delhi via Singapore departing 7:10pm
    • Saturday 2nd February arrive Delhi 5:45am
    • Saturday 2nd February 8:50am  fly on to Srinagar arrive 11:15am
    • Sunday 3rd February travel Srinagar to Gulmarg
      • Stay at Hotel Heaven for 27 nights
      • guiding 6 days per week included
    • Saturday 2nd March travel by car Gulmarg to Srinagar
      • Stay on Dal Lake for 2 nights
    • Monday 4th March  2:35pm fly Srinagar to Delhi arrive 4:05pm
      • stay in Delhi 5 nights with trip to Agra and the Taj Mahal
  • IRAN SKIING
    • Saturday 9th March 4:25am depart Delhi for Tehran via Doha arriving 10:05am
      • Taxi directly to Shemshak and stay at hotel 6 nights 98 221 3552260
      • Ski at Shemshak and maybe Dizin
      • Friday (weekend day in Iran) travel back to Tehran (about 1 hour drive)
      • stay in Tehran 4 nights including skiing 1 day at Tochal
    • Tuesday 19th March 11:05 depart Tehran for Doha arrive 12:40pm Qatar Airways
      • 7 hours in Doha to visit museum and city (1/2 hour from airport)
    • Tuesday 19th March 9pm depart Doha for Delhi arriving 3am Wed so 5 hours in transit.
    • Wednesday 20th March depart Delhi for Sydney 8:am
    • Thursday 21st March arrive Sydney 7:40am Singapore Airlines
  • EASTER 2013
    • Friday 29th March to Monday 1st April
  • BIKE FRIDAY annual get together Port Elliot South Australia
    • Wednesday 3rd April fly to Adelaide early
    • Wednesday 3rd Ride the 85km down to Port Elliot
    • Rally goes form 4th April to Sunday 7th April
    • Sunday 7th April fly Adelaide to Sydney
  • EUROPE  visiting Sara and Daniel plus cycle touring & maybe paragliding
    • depart by Monday 8th April for Frankfurt
    • return by Friday 21st June.
      • note this is 10 weeks in Europe
      • we hope to ride some of the way from Morocco to Belgium via coast of Spain Portugal and France
      • hope to do a paragliding XC course in France in May
  • EMMA's 30th BIRTHDAY on 27th JUNE 2013
  • SKIING IN AUSTRALIA and camping at SAWPIT CREEK 
    • July and August spend most of time down at the Snow.