My train south from Rockhampton is Queensland Rail’s Tilt Train, built locally in Maryborough.

Plus bonus material from Longreach

A walk along Quay Street

I arrive in Longreach mid-afternoon: it’s very hot, and I have a fairly long walk to the Longreach Caravan Park.

Explore Look and Listen videos from Auckland Writers Festival, with recordings of author conversations, readings and festival highlights.

As I mentioned in my last post, the Enterprise Mine is the big, original mine at Mount Isa.

Medics and Miners

Where is it?

Cairns doesn’t really have a railway station - Queensland rail’s two platforms sit within the Cairns Central Mall’s car park.

Sunday 30 August: I decide I should take a good wander around downtown Cairns, starting naturally enough at Blackbird for a good coffee.

I have planned the two night stay in Port Douglas so that I can spend the day (Wednesday, 26 August) driving up through the Daintree Rainforest as far as Cape Tribulation: after that, the road is clos...

Jane commented on my last post about obsessive planning v accidental finds.

Back in Cairns for the evening after the Kuranda Scenic Railway, I go in search of dinner and a drink.

The Otago University Students' Association plans to trespass controversial Dunedin City Councillor Benedict Ong from its premises after reports from students of inappropriate and unwanted behaviour.

Scones and a train

Featuring Herbiton Historic Village and some John Deere history

YouTube video by classiceml

You have been warned!

Dunedin’s International Airport might not be much chop, but it offers the international traveller more than Cairns International Airport does (if you exclude destinations served).

Mainly Christchurch lots of pictures of musicians

This movie was inspired by a real robbery of a small town art gallery in Massachusetts in 1972, which was apparently the first armed art museum robbery in America. There, the art works taken were by r...

I’m on the road again, this time in my own car: for those who don’t know, it’s an elderly Alfa Romeo 156.

YouTube video by Lance Weston

With bonus Jimny pictures!

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The Suzuki Jimny can trace its origins back to 1970, when Suzuki released the LJ10 (a tiny thing with just 359 cc at its command but still, it was 4WD), based on something called the HopeStar ON360, a...

I've now watched this movie three times: it's a fun watch, a bit of a magical mystery tour in search of the identity of the author who wrote it, with a side trip looking for his typewriter. It's set i...

After my feed of oysters in Bluff, I drive up to the lookout to see what I can see.

I knew nothing about the story on which this movie is based. Jan Bojarski is a Polish engineer and inventor who can't get work when he moves to France (strange, because it's war time) so turns his han...