There is something magical and almost mystical about great train journeys.Iconic associations spring to mind…..The Oriental Express,The Trans Siberian Express,our own Blue Train and of course some of those Inspector Hercule Poirot murder movies,one of which was set on a train.When planning our travels through Australia there was no real connect with their World class train journeys until Sue’s brother,Rory Lynsky,traveled on The Indian Pacific from Perth to Sydney during 2008.A bit of research and there it was…The Ghan,a 2900km train journey from Darwin to Adelaide.Not only would it get us to a jump off point to access Tasmania but the added opportunity of experiencing one of the World’s top train journeys and seeing a huge slice of this enormous country was irresistible.Train travel is not a hurried affair……after all we had roughly fifty two hours
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