Posts in Category: Australia
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Kuranda Railway & the Great Barrier Reef
This is my seventh post from the March 2026 Adventures Abroad tour of Australia led by fellow Nova Scotian Brandi McCarthy. In the last post we arrived in the beautiful city of Cairns and enjoyed our first Aboriginal experience at Mossman Gorge. In this post I’m going to deviate a bit from the itinerary we […]
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Cairns – Gateway to Northern Australia
This is my sixth post from the March 2026 Adventures Abroad tour of Australia led by fellow Nova Scotian Brandi McCarthy. In the last post we visited Australia’s capital city Canberra and were very pleasantly surprised by the views from the Commonwealth Parliament building to the Australian National War Monument and vice versa. The thoughtful planning […]
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Canberra – Australia’s Surprising Capital City
This is my fifth post from the March 2026 tour of Australia with Adventures Abroad, led by fellow Nova Scotian Brandi McCarthy. In the last post we spent the day exploring Victoria’s most popular tourist destination, the Great Ocean Road which was definitely a trip highlight. Prior to that there were two posts from the […]
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Great Ocean Road – Why You Must Drive It
This is my fourth post from my and Alison’s 2026 trip to Australia. The first post was a recap of the entire trip with Adventures Abroad guide and fellow Nova Scotian, Brandi McCarthy. The second and third both featured the city of Melbourne and included portions we visited both on our own and with Adventures […]
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Melbourne Redux – Outside the Central Business District
This is my second post from the great city of Melbourne and please forgive the title Melbourne Redux, but Google throws a fit if you use the same keyword twice, thus the addition of redux. I’ll try not to overuse it. In that first post I gave a history of Melbourne and then embarked on […]
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Melbourne – A Most Victorian City
This is my second post from a March 2026 tour of Australia with Adventures Abroad. In the first post I gave an overview of the entire trip from Melbourne to Sydney with stops at Canberra, Cairns, Darwin, Alice Springs and Uluru. In this post I’m going to examine the things that make Melbourne perhaps the […]
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Australia with Adventures Abroad
Alison and I have just completed another journey of a lifetime with Adventures Abroad. This time it was the vast continent of Australia and in this post I’ll explain why I thought this itinerary was about the best way to get an introduction to The Land Down Under. Realistically, just as you could not expect […]