We are travelling again, this time on a road trip from Cairns to Melbourne and back again. The first part of our journey was to the Flinders Region of outback Queensland. Tens of millions of years ago the area was a large, shallow sea with a multitude of islands forming an archipelago and hundreds of kilometres of sandy shores. The […]
Category: Australia Travel
On the (literal) road again….
To celebrate our newfound status as fully-retired pensioners, we are hitting the road again, this time literally. We are just about to begin a winter road trip from our home in Palm Cove, through central Queensland, central and western New South Wales, then down through Victoria to Melbourne to catch up with friends and family. After a couple of weeks […]
A Birthday Weekend in Cooktown
So, what’s this? You thought that because we got back home after the Grand European Adventure we wouldn’t have any travelling to post about? Well, they may not be coming out as often as they were last year, but we have been out and about a bit since we got back. One of our weekends away was to Cooktown in […]
Better late than never!
It has been a long time between posts, so our apologies for being so late to finish the final story from our adventure from Melbourne to Cairns. The last story for the trip is below, and tells of some great stays at Townsville, Paluma Dam, Undara Volcanic Area, Mission Beach and our final destination of Cairns. We’ve been living in […]
Travelling North
It has been a long time between posts, but that isn’t because we haven’t had anything to say. Rather, we’ve been seeing and doing so much that we haven’t had much time to stop, edit the photos and write the stories from all the places we have been. Our last post closed off with a story about our wonderful stay […]
Three weeks in Southeast Queensland
Our journey has taken us into southeast Queensland over the last three weeks. The weather has been a little warmer, although it’s still winter here too. We’ve explored areas around the Sunshine Coast and its hinterland. While we were there we caught up with some more old friends before moving a little further north to the coast around Fraser Island […]
Travelling Along the NSW Coast
After our chilly interlude in the mountains, trying to get to the top of Australia’s highest mountain, our journey then took us back to the coast, and hopefully some warmer weather. The next stage of our travels was through New South Wales. We started with a fantastic day walk from Gerringong, along the Kiama Coastal Trail, then did a few […]
The High Country
We are almost two weeks into our road adventure to Far North Queensland. We have made it to the NSW Central Coast, via some very remote roads through the High Country in East Gippsland and the Southern Highlands of NSW. We have managed to fit in a lot so far, refining some of our set up and doing a few […]
We’re off!
Well, the time has come. After all our planning and packing up and setting up what will be our mobile home for the next few weeks, today we depart for the three-month journey up the east coast of Australia. We’ll be exploring lots of places along the way, and hoping to find a place or two that we can retire […]
The Adventure Begins
With the pandemic curtailing travel, and for those of us living through 2020 in Melbourne, some pretty long and severe lockdowns, the Walk the World website hasn’t had the attention that we had planned for it. We’ve managed a couple of posts in the last year by creating stories of some trips we’ve taken over the last few years, but […]
Weekend at Launceston Festivale
In February 2020 we travelled to Launceston for Festivale, Tasmania’s premier food, wine, and entertainment event. Held in Launceston’s City Park over three days, it features a continuous program of music, comedy, and cooking shows on four stages. (www.festivale.com.au) We discovered this event almost by accident last year and enjoyed it so much that, not only did we come back, […]