Sadly Mrs Loveless passed away shortly after this article was published. The Bendigo Advertiser offers its condolences to her family.
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As children Joy McIntosh says her twin sister Joyce Loveless was by far the more adventurous one.
“She was very adventurous, far more adventurous than I was,” she said.
But as adults it has been Mrs McIntosh who has had most of the adventures, travelling to every continent on Earth with her husband George, including Antarctica, and visiting Gallipoli as recently as this year.
“Where we were at the Antarctic we walked with the penguins who were very bossy... they never move for you because you’re intruding on their land so we always had to move away from them but otherwise it was just wonderful,” she said.
“We’ve also been to Norway, which I absolutely adored because the scenery there was absolutely outstanding, and of course everybody goes to Buckingham Palace to stand outside and see what’s going on there and watch the changing of the guards which is quite an experience, I could go on and on.”
Mrs McIntosh said it was a love of other cultures which had given her the travel bug.
“I think it really broadens your outlook on life when you go to other countries and see just how they live,” she said.
“We’ve been to some of the very poorest countries and that’s hard to believe unless you’ve been there to see the poverty when others have so much, [the world] doesn't seem quite fair to some people.”
The twins celebrated their 90th birthdays at the Joan Pinder Nursing home on Saturday.
But far from slowing down as she enters her ninth decade on Earth, Mrs McIntosh already has her next trip planned.
“We have booked a cruise next year, one up to New Guinea, we have been there before but we’re going again to have another look, I'm sure it has changed since we went and then we’re coming back to Sydney and doing a back-to-back cruise up around the top of Australia,” she said.
“At this stage we’re getting too old to take long flights, this year we went over to Turkey for Gallipoli for the big 100 year celebration and that was very tiring or course, that was a wonderful experience too, really something that was very emotional but we thought then ‘well that’s the last long flight we’ll take’.
“It’s very tiring but you never know, we’ve been saying that for 20 years and we’re still going.”
Mrs McIntosh said it had been a "wonderful journey" sharing 90 birthdays with her twin sister.
"In distance we live a long way apart but we are very close," she said.
“Even today we both arrived in black and white without knowing what the other one was going to put on.”