As you travel along the Clare Valley Riesling Trail, you’ll see a sculpture honouring a locally born novelist, Monica McInerney. This well-known author of 14 international bestselling books, is captured in this sculpture, which depicts her as a child sitting on the roof of her home and reading books. The sculptor was a local artist… Read More Girl on a Roof Sculpture
A couple of days in South Australia’s Clare Valley is only going to give you a brief taste of what the region has to offer both in wines and food, but it’s a great start and will definitely tempt you back to discover more. Located 130 kilometres north of Adelaide, this mid north region of… Read More 48 hours in the Clare Valley
I was lucky enough to see the Tim Ross exhibition – Motels, when we were in Longreach, Queensland and if you enjoy funny and nostalgic reminders of the way things were, it’s a brilliant example of Australian holiday life from the 1950s to the late 1980s. The exhibition came about from the book ‘Motel –… Read More Summer Holidays – The way they used to be
Summer is coming and our thoughts turn to long lazy holidays by the beach. South Australia is blessed with arguably some of the most beautiful and swimmable beaches, so I thought I’d revisit an earlier story on my website and answer the one question I get asked most often, and that is where are the… Read More Best Beach Caravanning in South Australia 2023
It’s time again to grab your cockle net and head down to Goolwa Beach for cockle season. The season opened on the 1st of November and runs through to the 31st of May each year and whether you call them cockles, pipis or even better by the Ngarrindjeri term Kuti, or collect these little molluscs… Read More Goolwa Cockle Season 2023
The town of Walpeup on the Mallee Highway in the north west of Victoria is one of those that is easy to blink and miss as you pass through, but keep it in mind as a rest stop in your travels and like a lot of rural locations in Australia, you’ll be surprised with what… Read More Lest We Forget – Walpeup Silo Art
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