Thursday 9 August Today we start our Cosmos Tour – British Isles in Depth. It will take us around England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Wales and then back to England. Finishing on 1 September. Our first 2 days will be in London. Scroll down to see a day be day update of the tour. We […]
We’re in London for a few days as part of our European holiday. Each day I’ll add details of our adventures. Saturday After the epic flight that is required when you live in Sydney, we arrrived nice and early Saturday. We flew with Qatar Airlines via Doha and […]
Silverton was once a mining town with a population of over 3000, but today it’s only around 50. The town is 25 km north of Broken Hill and is easily accessible on a good sealed road. There are plenty of old buildings around, art and craft stores, an old […]
We visited Broken Hill, the iconic mining city, after staying in Adelaide and visiting Burra. Silver, lead and zinc have been mined here for over 125 years. Travel in any direction and it won’t take you long to be in the desert with red soil and pale scrub […]
As part of our road trip to see the Silo Art Trail and after some time in Adelaide we headed off to Broken Hill via Burra. Now Burra is a great little town – full of history, churches and a cluster of great stores and places for coffee. […]
As part of our road trip, after seeing the Silo Art Trail, we travelled to Adelaide via Pinnaroo. Using Adelaide as a base we did some great day trips – Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale and Victor Harbor. We need to revisit Adelaide as there is so much more […]
We had heard about the Silo Art Trail in the Victoria’s Wimmera/Mallee region it became the impetus for a great road trip via Wagga, Echuca, the Silo Art Trail, Adelaide, Burra, Broken Hill, Orange and then home. It was 4100km and we loved every minute. The concept of transforming […]
On our way to see the Silo Art Trail we called in to Echuca. What a gorgeous place! Echuca is an historic port dating back to the 1870s. Heaps of paddle steamers along the red gum lined Murray, horse-drawn Cobb and Co stage Coach rides and the old town […]
Our road trip from the Central Coast to see the Silo Art Trail started today. Wagga is our first stop and from here we will visit Echuca on the way to the trail then go on to Adelaide, Burra, Broken Hill and Silverton then home through Wilcannia, Cobar, Dubbo […]
Our cruise departed from Singapore and visited Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Phuket, Kota Kinabalu, Nha Trang, Ho Chi Ming City, Bangkok and Ko Samui before returning to Singapore. A 15 day cruise that gave us a taste of these cities. This is a map of the itinerary for our […]
