Today’s off-train excursions on The Ghan are to Marla and Alice Springs. The first stop is a sunrise breakfast at Marla. Up at 5.30 am, the constraints of the single cabin in the dark and […]
The Ghan leaves Adelaide Parklands Terminal today, bound for Darwin. My subcontinental Fangio of a taxi driver insists on taking the speed humps leading to the railway station at 60km per hour and seems to […]
Traveling from Melbourne to Sydney is easy, even having dropped the Hyundai i20 rental car at East Coast Car Rentals near the airport. I’m at Qantas Domestic in Melbourne in plenty of time for my […]
Melbourne Cup weekend is an excellent weekend to get out of Melbourne. I’d seen quite a bit of travel writing recently about Lord Howe Island, and decided to check into Capella Lodge, the most expensive […]
Today’s ‘tourist activity’ is to go whale watching off the Sydney Harbour heads. It has a dual purpose – one, to keep me busy until my late night flight to Hong Kong, and two, to […]
Today is a day in Sydney waiting for tomorrow’s flight to Santiago, Chile, for the start of an epic journey that includes the Atacama Desert, a repositioning expedition of the National Geographic Explorer from Ushuaia, […]
