There's much of history in the Victorian goldfields and much to visit in Ballarat, Victoria's largest inland city. Experience colonial times and the search for gold at Sovereign Hill... feel ... Read More

Caves and blackwater rafting: Come down into the bowels of the earth and on a dark, night-black river, catch a vision of a starry sky... The Wonders of Waitomo> The North Island ... Read More

Sydney has its tourist-oriented Red Explorer Bus (and the Blue Explorer Bus, too) and Melbourne has the City Tourist Shuttle (and the City Circle Tram, too). All these are hop on, ... Read More

Go training and get on track. About Honeymoons / Romantic Travel Guide Susan Breslow Sardone has come on track to give us a rails run around the world in her ... Read More

With the sighting of Matariki in the New Zealand skies, the Maori new year begins. In the Auckland region, the Maori new year is being celebrated from June 24 to July ... Read More

Yes, the snow has been falling in the Snowy Mountains and the Australian ski season is definitely on since the start of the Queen's Birthday long weekend earlier this month. There's ... Read More

Well, here's your chance to exhibit your superior knowledge. This quiz is all about Sydney locations and landmarks and related topics. Just 10 questions, so it should be a quick quiz. If ... Read More

A road by any other name would probably be as grand. One of my favorite stretches of road, Lawrence Hargrave Drive — from Bald Hill at the southern end of ... Read More

It runs 2000 kilometres off the coast of northern Queensland and is Australia's most notable underwater wonderland. It's the Great Barrier Reef, of course, and the reefs and resort islands ... Read More

You'll what? You'll ara? Yes, Yulara. That's the resort town less than 20 kilometres north of that iconic rock monolith, Uluru, in the heart of Australia. It's a self-contained town ... Read More

It's not only circus aerialists who fly through the air with the greatest of ease. Skiers and snowboarders, skilled ones of course, now give them strong competition. As freestyle skiing ... Read More

What better way to ward off the winter cold than imbibing a drop of wine or two? Visit Australia's wine regions to sample the range of wines now served among ... Read More

In a country where Christmas takes place in the summer, it seemed only a matter of time before people started enjoying the spirit and the trappings of Christmas in the ... Read More

With the southern winter having officially started on June 1, the skiing season Down Under is nearly here. There haven't been reports of sufficient snowfalls in the alpine regions and it ... Read More

We'd been having cool days and nights and now winter is officially here. There had been some really chilly nights when I'd shivered with the cold, and this was in ... Read More