Author: Fiona
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Sydney Walks
Thanks to the aforementioned shoddy infrastructure, public transport was pretty low on our list of preferred modes of getting around and the steep inclines all around the harbour quickly put a stop to any notions of cycling. Thankfully, there’s a range of walking tracks that have only recently all been joined up to form the…
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Ferrying around Sydney
Sydney is a beautiful city, with jaw-dropping vistas shoved under your nose at every turn, but I firmly believe that it is precisely the natural beauty afforded the harbour city that makes it so incredibly lazy regarding the more mundane aspects of a liveable city, such as a functioning infrastructure. The public transport offered by…
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The three-month trip
After Arek arrived in Melbourne, the serious travelling began. Limited by his three-month visa, we wanted to cram as much as possible in, without rushing around like headless Germans. Again largely dictated by the seasons, we started with the southern part of the country, slowly heading north as winter set in. A work commitment in…
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Two weeks in Tasmania
The only reason why my first trip (after a month in Melbourne) took me to Tasmania was the weather. They get cold, wet winters down there and I just about made it over for the last few weeks of Autumn. In hindsight, it was a great way to start. The manageable size meant I had…
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Rail Travel in Australia with Great Southern Rail 3: The Overland: Adelaide to Melbourne
After back to back trips on the Indian Pacific and The Ghan, going from Sydney to Adelaide, on to Darwin, and back to Adelaide again with just a few days in between, the 11-hour journey on the Overland was just the thing to wean myself off train travel gently. While the trip itself, the train…
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Rail Travel in Australia with Great Southern Rail 2: The Ghan: Darwin via Alice Springs to Adelaide
If you only do one of the “Great Australian Rail Journeys”, I would recommend The Ghan. First of all, it links several destinations that most visitors will have on their To Do list anyway. Secondly, the distance and the time it takes to get from one end to the other are a bit more manageable,…
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Rail Travel in Australia with Great Southern Rail 1: The Indian Pacific (from Sydney via) Adelaide to Perth
This was the journey that got us thinking about the train in the first place. Originally we had envisaged driving from Adelaide to Perth, but it soon became evident that this wasn’t a good idea in the limited time we had. The 2659 kilometre journey across a treeless plain, 478 of those kms driven in…
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Camper relocations around Australia
Camper relocations are another great, cheap way to get around Australia. However, unless you really love driving and have company/someone to share the driving with, this is only recommended for relatively short journeys. A lot of the most popular travel routes tend to always be done in one specific direction, especially during certain seasons, when…
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Getting around Australia by train on the AusRail pass
There’s a reason why this is Number One on my list. Buying an AusRail pass and using trains for the majority of our travels was one of the best things we did. The rail network doesn’t even get close to spanning all of Australia, but where the trains do go, they are comfortable, scenic and…
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The best way to get around Australia
There is no one best way to get around Australia. There are bits of the country you can only reach by car – by 4WD, even. There are many, many places that you can fly to – but then you miss all the bits in between. There are quite a few places that you can…