Tag: New South Wales

  • Parkes, NSW

    Parkes, NSW

    As my train pass was about to expire and I had all but exhausted the destinations accessible by rail, I decided to go off the beaten track and visit small-town outback New South Wales. I pretty randomly chose Parkes, NSW, as it was one of the few places I knew anything about. Pre-visit, these were:…

  • Byron Bay

    Byron Bay

    As we headed North from Sydney on the train, choosing our next destination was a matter of picking places we had heard of and that potentially had more to offer than just a beach. After the drive from Melbourne to Sydney (twice), we had just about had our fill of beaches and Byron Bay wasn’t…

  • Day trip from Sydney to Palm Beach

    Day trip from Sydney to Palm Beach

    Known to many as the location of the fictional Summer Bay, setting of Home and Away, Palm Beach attracts a few fans, but not nearly as many as you might expect. In fact, you really need to know what you’re looking for, because zero effort is made to point out the locations. We were woefully…

  • Sydney Walks

    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…

  • Ferrying around Sydney

    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…