Steve Carr

MELBOURNE — PART 3

As we rode our bikes and walked around Melbourne, we learned a lot about Australia’s southernmost metropolis. It’s a happening

Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia (most populous in urban area), has

We did an interesting 4-hour, 20-mile bike tour around Melbourne with a company called Melbourne By Bike, and our guide

For our last day of fun and games around Cairns, we booked the Self-Guided Kuranda Day Trip with Train and

We booked a Full Day Reef Cruise and a ten-minute Helicopter Scenic Flight with a highly-rated, family-run operation called Down

The flight from Brisbane to Cairns on Qantas took 2 hours and 20 minutes and cost $309 for two. The

We left New Zealand with a heavy heart. What a wonderful country! It’s easy to see why so many people

For our last few days in New Zealand, we decided to live adventurously. We booked the cargo plane at the

This is probably as good a time as any to say a little about what it’s like to drive around

In 1998, movie director extraordinaire Sir Peter Jackson sent a trusted scout around the Waikato region of New Zealand to