HERE AND THERE

I will return at some point to my last post from Vietnam, still unpublished. But now we take a detour from fun travel to not-so-fun...

Mount Gower, the tallest mountain on Lord Howe, is 875m tall, takes eight hours to hike/climb, involves a total walk of 14km, and...

Lord Howe Island is a tiny island off the east coast of Australia. It's so small that I've had to draw in the approximate dot on this...

We tried a different route on our most recent road trip to Adelaide. Our pre-Adelaide destination: Robe. South of Adelaide, Robe is a...

The northern hemisphere may be sweltering but it's chilly here in the south. In wintry Melbourne the average high/low temperature in July...

Ballarat is a city of 120,000 people about 120 km north-west of Melbourne. Gold was discovered in the 1850s and Ballarat boomed in the...