You can drive to Canberra from Melbourne non-stop along the Hume Highway in 7 hours. We do this a lot as our daughter lives in Canberra. However, in late November, we decided to take<div class="blog-buttons"><a href="https://tripticks.org/a-capital-trip-melbourne-to-canberra-via-five-super-cute-towns/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>

Spotlight on Barwon Heads Nestled between Ocean Grove and Torquay, the cute little hamlet of Barwon Heads is a gourmet, golf, beach, walking and cycling delight. It’s around 90 mins from Melbourne’s Bayside suburbs<div class="blog-buttons"><a href="https://tripticks.org/beautiful-barwon-heads-and-surrounds-point-lonsdale-queenscliff-ocean-grove/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>

Outback New South wales is a pretty spectacular place with rustic towns (Hay, Walgett, Hillston) punctuating big wide, dry swathes of land broken up by mighty rivers (Murrumbidgee and the Murray) and mining towns<div class="blog-buttons"><a href="https://tripticks.org/soaking-up-a-week-in-outback-new-south-wales-griffith-to-hay-to-cobar-to-bourke-to-walgett-to-lightning-ridge-and-moree/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>