Category: travellers tales

John Herbig’s harrowing China story

It is one of those harrowing travellers’ tales which bolts one to an armchair instead of flying to explore exotic places. Mt Pleasant man, John Herbig and his wife Sandra, wanted one more overseas trip before he retired from his managerial job at the Barossa Valley Council – and it was to be China. “I […]

Tuesday July 12th, 2011 in travellers tales | No Comments »

Lake Eyre – a stunning shimmering inland sea

It’s a phenomenon in our lifetime to peer below at Australia’s vast inland sea – Lake Eyre filled with water, so crystal clear it mirrors the sky. Where once there was only that barren, crusty, salty surface we learnt about in geography lessons at school, now the desert is in flood. Water is everywhere and […]

Sunday June 19th, 2011 in travellers tales | No Comments »

Omeo: A Gem of a place.

the Great alpine Road at Conner’s Lookout Omeo, with its grand goldrush-inspired buildings, is the idyllic mining town setting for the recent Australian film Patrick Hughes’ Red Hill.  Not surprising.  It’s a gem of a place and  much of Omeo’s quaint 19th century hilly streetscape is an architectural timepiece, a legacy from when the town […]

Saturday June 18th, 2011 in travellers tales | 2 Comments »

Darwin, a colourful chameleon city.

I was whisked away from the Darwin railway station in a shiny, red Robinson R44 Raven II helicopter. And I felt very star-like as the helicopter swooped over Darwin’s exciting new Wharf precinct, and the wreckage of the historic bombed wharf, so dramatically portrayed in “Australia’’. Old jetty pylons jut this way and that out […]

Monday May 16th, 2011 in travellers tales | No Comments »

Fleurieu – a Treasury of Tourist Treats

Sometimes it takes someone from overseas to come to the state to confirm what we have always known that South Australia really is the best tourist destination in Australia.. Last weekend renowned tourism identities Rodney Twiss and his wife Regina and Alan and Diane Colton hosted tourism VIP Angelika Wegner, who represents our state’s tourism […]

Tuesday May 3rd, 2011 in travellers tales | 2 Comments »

The Cullen

They are the last three days of a dismal summer and we are in Melbourne living a lesson in style at the zany boutique hotel, The Cullen. It is one of the new Art Series hotels, strategically placed on Commercial Road, Prahran, opposite the famous market and a block from fashionable Chapel Street. However, the […]

Wednesday March 9th, 2011 in travellers tales | No Comments »