Our Big Lap around Australia started last Tuesday with The Duke hitting the road from Melbourne to Mildura for the night. It was supposed to be a quick slip across from Victoria into South Australia at Renmark-Paringa. We made sure we had our COVID-19 quarantine travel pass but we hadn’t paid close enough attention to the food quarantine requirements. A thorough inspection of the van by a uniformed quarantine officer […]
Day 1 Melbourne to Devonport to Cradle Mountain We headed to Tassie on the Spirit of Tasmania ferry which leaves from Port Melbourne in Victoria and lands in Devonport, Tasmania roughly (literally) 10 hours later. We took our trusty van, The Duke, and had a day sailing (all that was available) with no seat allocation, so thought I’d share some tips for making the most of the journey here: Ferry […]
Tick tick tick. This travel blog is for the time poor but curious traveller who wants to see at a glance the top three things to tick on every trip. Why three? It keeps my travel blog short and sweet. It also ties in with a triptych, an artistic form from the middle ages which is an arrangement of three pictures together that tell a story.