This writing challenge only went up to Day 30 so because December has 31 days in it, I decided to do a free for all today. The topic I’ve chosen (as you can tell from the title) is my 12 favourite photos from 2016.

Before I get into all that, I just want to say

thank you

• Thank you to all those to have read my posts
• Thank you to all those who commented
• Thank you to all those who followed me
• Thank you to all those who nominated me for blogger awards
• And  BIG Thank You to all those I have connected with over the last twelve months, especially Bex, Tanja & Lui Maria. Though we have never met, I consider you all friends

I am looking forward to seeing what the next 12 months throws at me & travelling to some places I haven’t been before. I can’t wait to share my adventures with you all.

So HAPPY NEW YEAR. I hope that whatever you do, wherever you are and whoever you spend it with, it’s a special time for you. Out with the year that was 2016 and in with the New & Improved 2017!

And now back to our regular program.

Actually I’ve chosen 13 (unlucky for some) photos to share because I just couldn’t choose which one to get rid of. All these photos were posted to my Instagram – if I had to go through ALL my photos from this year, it would have been so much bigger than 13!

Most of the photos I’ve chosen are actually from Brisbane. I didn’t travel that much in the last 12 months so a lot of these are just from my random wanderings around the city that I live in.. so here we go: I’ll put the Brisbane ones first, followed by a Sydney one and a couple NZ ones (those ones might not surprise you because I keep posting them everywhere!)

https://www.instagram.com/p/BOPQefnjomL/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BNaIFvuBeP4/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMIUGKlhPJT/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BL47JpzBZiv/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BLAD4LGhCKT/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BIxBrRMBR7u/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BHZemCUhjVf/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BF-CYb3xHUx/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEuz_tFxHX3/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEsjkn-RHWz/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEnIiU6xHf6/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMnWtRxhlJH/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEmtgZCxHTk/

Honourable mentions – I took these next two photos a couple days ago on my recent trip back to Christchurch for Christmas and thought I’d include them because I kind of like them 🙂

https://www.instagram.com/p/BOgmqGMDcqm/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BOddT1qDX68/