Category Archives: Travel
Review of our journey through the middle of Australia
Are you an Australian who is yet to explore the Northern Territory or travel on the Ghan train? Are you from overseas, with Australia on your ‘bucket list’, but you’re not sure where to go first? If so, this review … Continue reading
Top time in the Top End: Litchfield day tour
As we dragged ourselves out of bed for yet another depart-at-dawn journey, I was grumbling – half to pity myself, half to blame my wife – about having to go out on a third boat cruise to gaze at an … Continue reading
Top time in the Top End: Kakadu National Park
The final days of our journey through the centre of Australia were spent in two more of the Northern Territory’s wonderful national parks. The first of these was Kakadu National Park, which we visited on a two-day coach tour. Kakadu … Continue reading
Top time in the Top End: Katherine Gorge and Darwin
At the end of our week in Central Australia, we re-boarded the Ghan late in the afternoon for the overnight journey from Alice Springs to Darwin. Next morning, we pulled in to the town of Katherine, at the southern edge … Continue reading
I’m still thinking about that painting
As foreshadowed in my previous post, I learnt a lot about the Wave Hill walk-off, a major event in modern Australian history, when Maggie and I viewed the Still in my mind exhibition in Alice Springs. In this post, I … Continue reading
Up close with Uluru and Kata Tjuta
This post shows you what we did and saw when we weren’t watching the sun rise or set over Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. First, a walk into Walpa Gorge, one of two trails open to the public at Kata Tjuta. … Continue reading
Sunset, sunrise … sunset
This second post about our recent journey through the centre of Australia introduces you to the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, one of the most iconic locations in Australia. Let me begin by saying that it is very difficult to convey … Continue reading
Journey through the middle of Australia: days 1&2
Maggie and I have recently returned from a fortnight’s journey through the middle of Australia, from south to north. Our journey began in Adelaide, the capital city of the state of South Australia and finished in Darwin, the capital of … Continue reading
Ten days in Japan: high speed, comfortable pace
This is the first in a series of nine posts about our travels between June 2017 and February 2019. In total, we went on seven trips and spent significant time on the ground in thirteen countries across four continents … Continue reading
Rick and Maggie's food and travel adventures 