The Compleat Traveller

This imposing memorial to the men and women of Australia's armed forces stands on a hill overlooking the Melbourne skyli...

Melbourne's Luna Park may have seen better days, but try telling that to the hundreds of thousands of children, teenagers and adult...

Tree form (detail). Click here to see the full work...   During my stay in Melbourne in January, I paid a visit (as I always do), ...

Actually, I have lost count of the number times I have been to Melbourne in the past five years. It is at least four times but it could be...

~ During my three week house sitting stint in Melbourne over January, I frequently found myself hanging out at the city’s Federation Squ...

Victoria Square Fountain, Adelaide ~ For most of my life I have lived in Adelaide, Australia, and although I like to say that Adelaid...

I write this on New Years Eve from what has become a regular house sitting visit to Melbourne, Australia. This is the fourth house sit f...

How true that heading is. On my way back to Adelaide from Melbourne yesterday, I got talking to a man who was also travelling on his...

  Commit No Nuisance Now where is the fun in that? I spotted this sign as I wandered through Melbourne’s Chinatown area, and couldn...

... Reg Livermore has been entertaining Australian audiences for over 50 years. Sadly, I have missed the majority of the many, many sh...

Clifton Hill Shot Tower looms over local homes Have you ever wondered how they made those little round balls that passed as bullets ...

Flinders Street Station by Adam J.W.C. ~ After an exhausting eight hour day wandering around central Melbourne – buying books and visit...

It’s traditional to offer some homilies and reflections at the end of one year, and at the beginning of a new one, and being a bit of a t...

My second piece for Travelhoppers on the Australian outlaw, Edward 'Ned' Kelly is now online . The post looks at the legend of...

... Just a quick note to let you know that my first article for the Travelhoppers website has now gone ‘live’. The article looks at c...