The Barossa Valley: A Study in Brown, Blue and Green
Greg has to wake me again (at 7:30), for the 2nd day in a row. We grab a coffee and then it’s off to the Barossa Valley, one of the world’s great wine regions. We are going on a bus – the typical Gray Line tour with your typical...
Searching for ‘Roos on Kangaroo Island, Australia
This is one of those days that Greg has been dreading. Up at 5:30!!!!! On the bus at 6:30 for the 2-hour ride to the ferry (45 minutes) that takes us across to Kangaroo Island, where there is a huge wildlife sanctuary, Flinders...
Day One: Exploring Sydney, Australia
S33° E151° We get up and start walking in Sydney – no plan, just wherever we end up. It is a beautiful, clear sunny day and we wander through Hyde Park, a glorious green space in the middle of Sydney, through what seems to be...
Day Two: Exploring Darling Harbour.
Downstairs with coffee and the papers by 8:20, we are up early today for breakfast…well, relatively early for the new us. The morning bustle on Oxford Street is persistent. We are organizing ourselves for a stroll and a wander:...
Suffering ‘Heavy Baggage Jokes’ Enroute to Adelaide, Australia
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Welcome to Adelaide! Grumble, Grumble.
We have arrived in Adelaide too early for the Adelaide Festival, which looks like it will be amazing (this is the Festival State, after all, as all the licence plates all tell us), but the Tour Down Under is underway. This is a...
Two Eloises
We take today as a day off. Since Sunday last week, we have been on the move non-stop. As good North Americans, we aren’t used to walking long distances. And walking is what we’ve done since leaving Doubtless Bay. Our hips and...
A Melbourne, Australia Primer
Well, well, well. Melbourne is an entirely different city from Adelaide, and that is evident firstly in its size. Melbourne has over 3.5 million people in it and reminds us of Toronto. The water, the beach proximity and their...
One Month in to a Year Full of Travel
We are moving into our first full month of travel and I must admit that I am feeling a little down. The weather in Melbourne is unusually cool for January—23° and overcast. There is rain predicted for the rest of the week, and I...
An Easy-Going, Melbourne City Routine.
We have evolved a Melbourne routine. We buy the newspaper at the 24/7 supermarket next door to the hotel, read the paper over breakfast in the hotel, then head out for the day. Today, despite predictions of rain and cool weather,...