{"id":5764,"date":"2018-06-21T08:35:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T22:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.natashabarr.com\/blog\/?p=5764"},"modified":"2019-04-07T20:36:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T10:36:53","slug":"time-away-in-the-hills-montville-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/travel\/time-away-in-the-hills-montville-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Time away in the hills – Montville 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I’m not the type of person to make a big occasion out of my birthday. It’s usually just another work day with some cake and a couple of gifts thrown in there but I prefer to keep the event quite low-key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some time I’d been thinking about taking a little trip away after hearing about other people’s weekend getaways and I began look into places I might like to visit. In my head I thought that I needed a reason or something special to take this trip, maybe I should wait until next year and go away for my 30th. I was telling someone about this and they said ‘why not do it for your birthday this year?’. They were right, there was no reason to wait and I could treat myself to this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided we would stay in Montville for a few days, hidden away in the hilly slopes of the Sunshine Coast hinterland. Though our time away was short, we managed to visit the Maleny Botanic Gardens<\/a> and the aviaries of Bird World, walk along one of the trails of Kondalilla National Park<\/a> and see the falls as well as eat at variety of local restaurants like Secrets on the Lake<\/a> and King Ludwig’s German Restaurant<\/a>. I loved being up in the hills and surrounded by beautiful views, it was the perfect little escape for myself and I’m glad I got to spend some time away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are a selection of photos from the short getaway in Montville :).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\"Monitville
View from the apartments<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville
Maleny Botanic Gardens & Bird World<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville
This Galah was having fun playing with its rock<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville
Apparently this bird loves to sit on women’s shoulders. Ending up hanging out with this lady the whole time we were in the aviary<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville
Our apartments<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville
I was obsessed with this tree in the back garden area with beautiful autumn leaves<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville
Secrets by the Lake<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville
Kondalilla National Park<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Montville<\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not the type of person to make a big occasion out of my birthday. It’s usually just another work day with some cake and a couple of gifts thrown in there but I prefer to keep the event quite low-key. For some time I’d been thinking about taking a little trip away after hearing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5764"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6181,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764\/revisions\/6181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}