Category: Travel News

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 […]

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 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 […]

COVID19 Update

Hello everyone. We were due to fly to London on 21 April. 2020 to begin a 3-month adventure through Europe. But, like many thousands of others, we’ve had to cancel everything. Fortunately we’ve been able to get refunds or credits for almost everything. Now our thinking turns towards what will replace it when travel begins again. The new destination will […]

Weekend at Launceston Festivale

This weekend 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, we […]

Europe 2020 Itinerary

Europe here we come………… Departure date for this year’s trip to Europe is rapidly approaching. The planning is done and most of the bookings made. We leave on April 21st and will be travelling for about 11 weeks this time, the longest trip we’ve done so far. Here’s the itinerary: Fly to London via Dubai with Emirates. Jan’s daughter Natalie […]