Around The World and Around The Neighbourhood Travel Adventures
Flinders Street Railway Station - Melbourne
Coming up over the next few weeks — City Breaks and Weekend Getaways in Australia.
The specific areas that I will be covering in these new articles are all within the state of Victoria.
Watch for them!
Lakeside in Daylesford, Victoria
Travel — one of the topics which has always set my brain alight in the planning stages and set my heart afire in the unfolding of the long planned event.
There are still ways to make travel viable, enjoyable, and relaxing — but unfortunately rather none of that involves travelling via airplanes nowadays unless you are one of those gilded creatures with access to a private jet. For the rest of the world, travel by air has become either drudgery or dreaded or both.
During the week of Christmas, my husband and I took a much needed 5 days away from our normal life in a small village in Central Victoria in Australia. We travelled back to Melbourne, a marvelous city that we formerly lived in until we moved up here for a ‘tree change’ (in contrast to the oft-desired Australian dream of a ’sea change’) and the entire trip was an exercise in relaxation and ease.
After driving for a half an hour, we parked in the free parking lot, took our 2 pieces of small rolling luggage plus one tote bag, and entered the gorgeous old 1800s-era Ballarat train station. 
Two years ago? Has it really been two years ago since I registered this domain name and began to prepare for an around the world trip?
We had a plan — sell our small acreage instead of building a house on it, put all of our household goods in storage, and go around the world whilst working in a variety of jobs and countries along the way. Then we’d come home to Australia and buy another house. Sounds pretty good, eh — pretty straightforward?
Life didn’t cooperate with our plans and the real estate listing expired with no sale. All of our ideas went on hold for awhile and we went back to our day to day life. But we never stopped dreaming of that big overseas trip — all the while enjoying several smaller ones around Australia.
Kangaroo Warning Sign in Tasmania
The village where we live in Central Victoria in Australia is a gorgeous and historical gold mining site from the 1800s and I’ll include pictures of some of our local sites in a future post. We’ve loved living here and we are currently in the final stages of construction, an addition actually, onto the little eco-cottage that we built on our wee farm. But as we come closer to completion, those plans and dreams have percolated to the surface again and we are back to planning the around the world trip.
We love Australia and our life and friends here — but it’s time for a change. There are lots of reasons including health issues — but the bottom line is that serious change is afoot and 2010 will be the year for the REALLY BIG TRIP!
I will update this site during the coming year as things progress towards departure.
But in the meantime, I will begin by posting stories from our travels around Australia — a beautiful and varied country that everyone should visit at least once during their lifetime. We have been very blessed to live here!
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