A Travel Blog
Today (we’re talking Tuesday now) we set off on the next stage of our adventure, once again aware of our missing friends. The drive from Alice Springs to Watarrka National Park via the highway – the only way you can do it in a hire-car not designated for dirt roads – is long. (We do wish … Read more
… for hardy Gold and Platinum Class passengers when we hopped off the train in 2°C temperature at Marla – in the middle of nowhere – to see the sunrise. The train had stopped, in fact, around 4am and the staff, including Marla locals, had set up heaters and a couple of fire drums, plus … Read more
After a leisurely start in the morning – we are talking Sunday here – we got to the station at the appointed time of 10.15am or so. Check-in for all we grey travellers went smoothly and we set off exactly to schedule at 12:15pm. Our Gold Class cabin was comfortable, with a lovely picture window. (There are also … Read more
Today’s the day! It’s been a long time since either of us have slept on a train, so we’re looking forward to the experience. You’ll read about that, though, in the next post. Yesterday was a quiet day. With a 5am start, and all the emotions of the previous couple of days, we decided to … Read more
Well, you read the first post – perhaps – and now we have to tell you that things haven’t quite gone according to plan. Having spent 7 months or more planning this trip, making bookings, and looking forward to a different-for-us adventure with friends, we are now a smaller, sadder, contingent having left Sylvia and Brian behind. … Read more