We always love visiting Melbourne to visit family and for someone like me, who rarely ventures near a city, it feels a bit like being set loose in another universe. No matter what time of day or night, there are crowds of people in the suburbs and where we stay in Fitzroy North, this seems… Read More Doing Melbourne like a Local
We are no strangers to visiting the Barossa Valley in South Australia, after all it’s one of Australia’s premier wine regions with many well-known winemakers and brands that are renowned around the world. Our latest visit was for a reunion amongst friends and we literally arrived from points north, south, east and west of the… Read More Winter Get Together in the Barossa Valley
The Winter edition of On The Road magazine is out now and I’m pleased to say that I have a couple of short articles inside. In each magazine, there is a section called ‘Curious Australis’ which show snippets of some of the quirkier things, or interesting places to stop and visit as you travel around… Read More Winter On The Road
The statistics for our last trip have been tallied, so for those interested in a similar trip, here are a few details of our loop around three states. We drove a total of 3763 kilometres in 31 days, starting in SA then travelling to Broken Hill in New South Wales, down through Victoria’s western region… Read More Tri State Trip Round Up
‘Life is better by the lake’ is the slogan that Meningie uses to attract people in and it’s hard to argue with the spectacular Coorong nearby and the beautiful Lake Albert which the town sits on. Lake Albert joins the River Murray to the lower lakes and Coorong and it’s a haven for pelicans in… Read More Meningie & Lake Albert Caravan Park
My first impression of Kingston in the south east of South Australia was that of a very tidy town that has done a great job with its marketing, brochures and information for visitors. It also has one of the best off grid, RV parking spaces of any I’ve stayed in before. Despite the gloomy weather… Read More Discover Kingston ~ South East
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