STE’s Holiday Editor, Tony Taylor, reports on a trip with his wife to Australia in February 2020, returning just before the Coronavirus pandemic took hold. They called in to Jakarta on the way. We decided on this trip, our fourth visit to Australia, to explore places which we had not previously visited, so this was […]
After a seven hour overnight flight from Hong Kong, we were ready for a relaxing day in Brisbane, before driving north through Queensland to Bundaberg and our Great Barrier Reef adventure. Our hire car, a Toyota Camry, was booked through Holiday Autos. I took out annual Car Hire Excess Insurance to cover for all three car hires on this […]
Early last year I posted an article Make Your Pounds Go Further. This advised how to make the most of your holiday money, following a fall in the value of the pound over the previous twelve months. The good news is that, compared with a year ago, your pounds do go much further now in most destinations, with […]
The weather during my exploration of New South Wales had been, to say the least, rather inclement. So I was very much hoping that the Queensland stage of my Round the World Trip would live up to its billing as the ‘Sunshine State’. I must admit I knew very little about Queensland or its capital, Brisbane. But in three days travelling around the […]
After driving through some of the most scenic parts of Victoria, the next stage of my Round the World in 50 Days trip took me to Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales, visiting Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory along the way. It is easy to forget quite how huge Australia is; what looks like a relatively […]
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Australia Trip 2020: Part 2 – Tasmania
STE’s Holiday Editor, Tony Taylor, reports on a trip with his wife to Australia in February 2020. Moving on from the mainland, he now reports on the island state of Tasmania. We flew into Hobart, the capital of Tasmania, and stayed three nights at the Comfort Hotel Foreshore, Lauderdale, which proved difficult to find in […]