The Overland

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November 20th 2012
It feels a lifetime ago since we sat at Waiheke planning our ‘Grand Tour’ and decided that to cross Australia we would complete the famous Ghan trip from Darwin to Adelaide. Despite our best efforts it did not work out so we took the shorter option – the Overland train trip from Adelaide to Melbourne. This is an 11 hour, 828km journey through the most spectacular of scenery and, after comple ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » CBD

Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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