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The Ghan Train: Adelaide to Alice Springs
By January 14, 2012 2 Comments Read More →

The Ghan Train: Adelaide to Alice Springs

As if one 24hour train journey wasn’t enough; a few days in Adelaide and we decide to get on another train and head up to Alice Springs and back within four days. So that is about 76 hours on a train journey in the space of a week. The Ghan runs once a week in low […]

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Adelaide & the Barossa Valley – Australia Travel Blog

Adelaide & the Barossa Valley – Australia Travel Blog

We both had an amazing train journey from Sydney to Adelaide and arranged to have a three night stopover in Adelaide on our Australia trip. Our first impressions of the small city of Adelaide weren’t great.  On arrival we took a taxi to our hotel AUS$10 (this is the first time we’ve taken a taxis the entire […]

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Australia: Sydney to Adelaide Train Journey
By January 9, 2012 3 Comments Read More →

Australia: Sydney to Adelaide Train Journey

As our last day in Sydney approached we started to both get a bit nervous about our choice of transport to the red centre of Australia, Alice Springs and Uluru (Ayers Rock). Twenty four hours on a train journey in a seat; would we sleep, would we we bored senseless, would we get cabin fever? […]

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