Romance in Palm Cove

In the evenings we walked along the foreshore and stopped at a restaurant that took our fancy for dinner. The sun would set as we sipped a cocktail or glass of wine and listened to the waves patting the shoreline. We were treated to a full moon one night and I managed to get a picture of it

​Last year, we had just moved into our house when we had to leave it again because we had a holiday booked. For me, Sam and I were starting our lives together. I’d looked forward to it for so long and had expected to be in our house a month or two earlier. But delays in the renovation put us back so far that our holiday had rolled around just as the removalists finished bringing in the furniture. So we locked the front door and left all the boxes and headed off to Palm Cove, just out of Cairns. For non Aussies, Cairns is the tourist capital of northern Queensland

​Sam and I had been spending holidays at his house in Rosebud, but this was our first real get-on-a-plane and stay in a motel style holiday. We did all the touristy things and enjoyed what Sam calls, ‘Having some time together’. We went for drives to Port Douglas and looked in all the gift shops. We had lunch at an Italian restaurant overlooking the main street. Sam enjoyed his meal so much we did another day trip later in the week, just to eat lunch at that restaurant again. Always there’s a glass of wine and soft talk and smiling at each other. So romantic.

The gondola ride took about half an hour. We went over many treed valleys and saw the waterfall again.

​We also had heard about a train ride to Kuranda, an artists village high in the rainforest mountains. We caught the train up and enjoyed spectacular scenery including a majestic waterfall. You can just see a little of it in the picture on the left. Something about me and Sam is, we find high places romantic. We always seem to gravitate to each other and hold hands, which we did as we strolled around all the art shops. A highlight for me was when Sam indulged my excitement at finding a butterfly zoo.  

We caught a gondola back down, which also had the most amazing views. We did have to share with another couple but you know, we were high up. Even though the view was wonderful, there was plenty of eye contact too.

After the stress of the reno' and moving in, this holdiay (where we had no pressure) came at a really perfect time. Although I felt we should have  settled into our new home before going away, this romantic holiday helped us to de-stress, reconnect and gather energy for all the unpacking that waited for us. It couldn’t have worked out better.

Dora Bramden writes sexy contemporary romance and lives her brand of a romantic life.