Rising from the pastoral land of Victoria’s west are the Grampians – a playground for adventurers and haven for food and wine lovers, with a fascinating Aboriginal story to tell. The Grampians National Park is home to an incredible mountain landscape dotted with small towns such as Dunkeld, Stawell, Halls Gap, Wartook Valley and Beaufort. With …
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Upon arrival in Melbourne and after clearing immigration, we went to pick up our rental car. Since our first night accommodation is not in Melbourne but in Grampians National Park which is about 3 hours drive away, we decided to head out of town in the direction of the Grampians. We stopped by in the …
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Melbourne is sometimes called ‘Paris of the Southern Hemisphere’, but with its grand buildings, broad avenues, sense of space and its trams, it is perhaps more like Vienna. And like Vienna, Melbourne has a long and rather unfair reputation of being formal and stuffy. Not any longer. It has been given a new injection of …
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