HERE AND THERE

We've been to Lord Howe Island before, in 2024.* We liked it so much that we have returned: not only to the island, but to the same accommodation, Pinetrees Lodge . They did a great job last time so they deserved a return visit. Lord Howe Island is about 800 km northeast of Sydney across the ocean, and is part of New South Wales. No passports needed. Has anything changed in the last two years? Not much, as far as we could see. Lord Howe Island has a permanent population of 40

I will return at some point to my last post from Vietnam, still unpublished.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...