Time To Go Home, Adelaide to Sydney, June 2016

Day 23 of the "Ultimate Australian Rail Holiday" Thursday 9th June 2016 If we were on our "correct" schedule of the Ultimate Australian Holiday itinerary, this is the day we would be "departing from Southern Cross Station aboard the XPT bound for Sydney in a First Class Seat". The XPT train leaves Melbourne at 8.30am and …

Wine Tasting in McLaren Vale, Adelaide, SA, June 2016

Day 22 of the "Ultimate Australian Rail Holiday" Wednesday 8th June 2016 Well now we are completely off schedule. While others in our group are on their second day of Melbourne touring, we are still back in Adelaide, and about to be collected by my former workmate (oh - who am I kidding  . . . he …

Day Two of Kangaroo Island – the “Remarkably Wild” Day Tour

Day 21 of the "Ultimate Australian Rail Holiday" Tuesday 7th June 2016 If only I could make it a habit to wake before dawn every day. We live beside the ocean ourselves, so perhaps I would be rewarded with a similar sight to that which greeted us from the jetty and foreshore at Kingscote, Kangaroo Island. The …