The Ghan, heading north

I'm not going to write too much about The Ghan here because I'll be writing about it elsewhere.

But as it was one of the major highlights of our trip to Australia I shall tell you this:

The Ghan is not only the longest passenger train in the world (1km long, give or take a metre or two) but it also takes you on one of the world's great train journeys...

Adelaide, la belle

I'm a little behind with our story because we've been in places where there is no internet connection. So let me step back a bit, south and east of where I am now, to Adelaide who bears her name well: just a little bit old fashioned but charming. Her streets are wide, her traffic sparse, her modern buildings largely low-rise and not very imaginative, her older buildings very definitely Victorian. ..

Heavenly Maria Island

Maria Island, a world heritage national park, is just off Tasmania's east coast between the Freycinet Peninsula and Hobart so Susie de Carteret had suggested that we might like to stop there for a few hours on our last full day in Australia's southernmost state. And what a brilliant idea that turned out to be!