A Travel Blog
No, I’m not talking about our hosts, generous though they are. I’m talking, rather, about Maria Island and what one entrepreneur said was needed to make it commercially successful! Maria Island, whose indigenous name is Toara-Marra-Mona*, has a fascinating history, but I’m only going to give you a very potted one here – and then let the photos … Read more
Holidays come in different shapes and sizes, and one of these is the one in which you can mix sightseeing and busy-ness with some rest and relaxation. Not all our Tasmanian holiday will be like this, but our first couple of days here have been. Day 1 was spent travelling in the morning – and it was … Read more
If you subscribed to this blog for our Ghan Trip, you will now receive notifications of posts about our next Oz-based holiday. We are heading south, across the seas, to Tasmania, where my brother Ian, his partner Helen, and son Oscar live. We’ll be spending the beginning and ending of the holiday in Hobart with … Read more
We have been back south for five days now, and it is high time we closed off this shortened holiday blog. We drove off from Yulara at 5.30am last Sunday, with our lovely breakfast kits supplied by Desert Gardens Hotel. It was raining, slightly, and for 170kms we saw no other vehicle. Sadly, we saw no critters … Read more
Our last full day in the park was a cool one with a forecast maximum of 13°C, though we think it eventually got to 15°C. Our aim was to do the last of the three main walks we had planned to do in the region, the Valley of Winds Walk in Kata Tjuta. We got to the … Read more