Looking Out To See
Towards the end of our Australian epic, we spent some time in a little town called Pottsville with some more wonderful and extremely hospitable family members (homecooked meals every day – yum). As the town is near the border of New South Wales and Queensland we got the chance to explore a few areas either […]
From Melbourne, the fella and I decided to take a little 3-day road trip down the Great Ocean Road. The official starting point is in Torquay. Our first stop was Point Impossible beach, little did I know that I navigated us to the nude-y beach, oops! After that, we drove through town to Bell’s Beach, […]
I felt that the William Ricketts Sanctuary deserved its own post. Situated in Mt. Dandenong area of Victoria, in the greater vicinity of Melbourne, the sanctuary contains approximately 90 sculptures, mainly from the trees and rocks, by artist William Ricketts. The sculptures feature aboriginals and aboriginal philosophy. The artist spent time living among aboriginals and […]
After Sydney, we moved on to Canberra. It’s a strange city. It was planned so everything is completely structured, the road network, the buildings, the views. It is like a model city. And apparently one of the cleanest, hospitable and secure capital cities in the world. I’m glad we went to see it though as […]
After visiting Melbourne, we set off on a drive to Sydney. Yep…its a long way….like, really really long way. We travelled along the Hume Highway, and I can safely say it’s probably the most boring road I’ve ever driven. We stopped halfway in a tiny little place called Talangatta and stayed at gorgeous Air BnB […]
Flinders Street Station is an incredible building in Melbourne. As soon as I saw a photo of it I knew it would be my priority to sketch it. It didn’t disappoint in real life. We braved the searing 46-degree heat of this particular day to get a glimpse of some of the Melbourne sights. Luckily […]