Thirsty Thursdays: Top 10 Pub Crawls From My Travels So Far
As I just begin to plan a major pub crawl on a big reunion day with the lads in London during the World Cup, it’s a good moment to recollect the top 10 pub crawls…
100 Places I Backpacked Through That You’ve Never Heard Of, in Australia🇦🇺
“We may never meet again so shed your skin and let’s get started” – Hunters And Collectors. Firstly, this article has taken a fair bit of work over the years and I’m finally getting it…
Backpacking in Australia: My Top 5 Memories from Melbourne
It’s a while since I have reflected on backpacking in Australia and my crazy life down under, which began almost 5 years ago now, crazy!! On my first Working Holiday Visa I ended up passing…
Road Trip Part 10 – Cann River, Pambula, Yellow Pinch Dam and the return to New South Wales
Apart from Tasmania, Victoria is the smallest state in Australia, which actually came as a surprise to me, as I had passed across the border into New South Wales before I even knew it… The…
Road Trip Part 9 – Flashback to my Childhood at Marlo
I grew up and was raised in Marlo, a small housing area in Kilmaine in the south of Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. That is where I’m really from. This year I have thought about…
Road Trip Part 8 – Lakes Entrance
From Bairnsdale there wasn’t much further to go to a small seaside resort called “Lakes Entrance.” In Australia place names are misleading and at times ridiculous… Lakes Entrance does actually fit though, as the inlet…
Road Trip Part 7 – Fuel Stop At Bairnsdale
A longer pleasant drive brought me to the city of Bairnsdale. Undoubtedly the largest settlement on this route I was taking. A blurred sign of the “Welcome to Bairnsdale” sign on the way in. It…
Road Trip Part 6 – 90 Mile Beach Start
At a lonely farming community called “Woodside”, we see the first sign dictating the “begin” of 90 Mile Beach. A famous long stretch of beach not to be missed on Victoria’s south coast. I found…
Road Trip Part 5 – Yarram
I decided to stop at Yarram. There wasn’t anything special to see there, but it was a random spread out town in Gippsland, South Victoria. It was just a sunny winter morning and I only…
Road Trip Part 4 – Tourist Information at Foster
There was always the option to incorporate a trip to Wilson’s Prom into my road trip. Wilson’s Prom is Wilson’s Promontory National Park, which has a lot of animals and also the…