For this part of the trip we rented a car and you can see our route and directions here. Brisbane Brisbane is considered to be Australia’s Pittsburgh, and it certainly seemed to fit that description on our brief stop there. We spent half-a-day there, enough to get a great breakfast at Spoon, and snap a …
We decided that as long as we were visiting that part of the world, we might as well check out the island of Tasmania a.k.a. Tassie – the home of the Tasmanian Devil and a place where Australia would send their own criminals. Although we’ve read about it before we went, we didn’t realize how …
Sydney is great and all, but if you want to experience some nature, Blue Mountains, which are only an hour and a half away from Sydney, offer a perfect opportunity. We took the train from the Central Railway Station to Katoomba. But you can also drive, which significantly cuts down the travel time. On the …
Just a 15-hour flight away from Dallas lies the magical land of Australia – the native land of Keith Urban, Chris Hemsworth, kangaroos, koalas, and flat whites. If one of those doesn’t make you squeal with excitement, you must be dead inside. I’m kidding (but not really). General Notes on Travelling in Australia and our …