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    AUSSIE RULES TOURING

    Aug 22, 2019 6 minutes

    Our story began in November 2016, 11 months before my 65th birthday. My wife, Hilary, and I were talking about retirement. Although eight years my junior, she had already decided that my birthday would mark our joint retirement from our sales jobs with a local home improvement company.

    Our conversation turned to bucket lists, and the one item common to both lists was visiting Australia.

    I have four cousins, whom I last saw on Southampton Dock in 1957, as we bade them ‘bon voyage’ for their trip to Australia. They were emigrating to start a new life in Sydney… and that’s all I had to go on when I started searching for them.

    Hilary had better information about her relatives: a 90-year-old aunt, sister to her late mother, plus cousins and their siblings, all based in Victoria. Hilary was keen to visit her aunt and loved the idea, if it were possible, to visit on her 91st birthday, on 12 December 2017. It was Hilary who said, “Wouldn’t it be great if we could arrange

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