After a long day of airport and planes (did I mention the Tasman Sea is wiiiiiide?), we touched down in the penultimate stop of the three-week tour, Melbourne. It, like Sydney, is one of largest cities on the continent, a diverse and thriving city with a variety of neighbourhoods and more things to do and… Read More Melbourne – 2017
The sky was clear and blue arriving into Sydney, the plane describing a wide, low arc before descending down over Botany Bay. It was here in 1788 that the First Fleet arrived to Australia, setting up the national founding myth of the country with the offloading of boatloads of convicts. It makes for a poetic… Read More First Fleet, First Stop
My departure from Adelaide was orderly and efficient, save for the airline actually weighing carryon baggage. Since when does anybody do that? They really try to squeeze your dollery-doos out and smile gently about it. At any rate, that was the only drama available for the evening and I had a row to myself on… Read More The Apprentice Apiarist of Regans Ford
Leaving the Outback I woke up the next morning in a bus station. This time it was a genuine bus station, with a roof and a garage and everything, as opposed to the service stations with motels that one passes through going down the Stuart Highway. It was Adelaide, a city with more people in… Read More Lazy Days in Adelaide
For the past week I have been whiling away my time in Alice Springs, a small city that is unremarkable in nearly everyway, save its location. Alice is set in the near-center of the continent, a lone outpost of civility (though it is a term used lightly) amidst the massive backdrop of the Outback. In… Read More At the Red Centre
My early morning arrival in Darwin was greeted with a cheery woman selling me a bus ticket into town for 12 dollars. I learned, quickly, that as it is winter in the rest of Australia, Darwin is in the throes of its peak tourist season. The city centre is choked with traffic from sun tanning… Read More Adventures in the Top End
Zak Abroad 