Spirit of the Outback – the train from Brisbane to Longreach
22 May 2021 | Transport
▲ I took Queensland Rail’s Spirit of the Outback train from Brisbane to Longreach. It’s 600km north along the coast from Brisbane to Rockhampton then 700km due west inland and into the outback. That’s 1325km in total, which takes almost 26 hours. That means an average...
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Other Transport of 2008
25 December 2008 | Transport
I’m running through my travel lists for 2008, we started with 10 interesting hotels, moved on to my best music experiences and then the views out the window from my favourite flights. Next it was cars & drives and then museums, galleries & exhibitions followe...
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The Orient Express
18 May 2008 | Transport
We are meeting friends in Tuscany to spend a week walking, so how to get there from London? EasyJet would be cheap but dull, the Orient Express sounded much more interesting.
The original Orient Express made its first run from Paris to Constantinople (the city ...
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