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Wines drives – West
Denmark. It’s a curious name for a little town on the south coast of Western Australia and it’s not down to homesick Danish mariners, the place was named for a […]
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Wine drives – East
In 1953 poet Philip Larkin wrote in a letter to Winifred Arnott that he wished someone would invent a decent way to get to Loughborough from Belfast, and you can […]
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Great roads – a national roundup
Some days your priorities are clear from the moment you wake up: 1; Get the hell out of town, 2; Lunch. Yep, this is why long summers were invented – […]
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Nullarbor then and now
There’s something kind of mesmerising you can do out on the Nullarbor Plain. Find some high ground – out here high ground is anything rising more than more than a […]
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Great drives, great wines
Driving through the South Australian wine country can get weird. It’s all little towns with old stone cottages and general stores and they’re all the same. And there are so […]
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Great drives
New South Wales: Port Macquarie to Walcha and beyond The enthusiasts all talk about the Bells Line of Road up the Blue Mountains, the Snowy Mountains Highway from Cooma to […]
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Great roads: Tasmania
There are those I would happily have shot and near the head of the queue would be all the patronising noddies who say how silly it is to buy an […]
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The truth about driving in Europe
Those who have witnessed it but never attempted it won’t believe this, but driving in Italy is actually pretty easy when you get used to it. That includes when you’re […]
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Australia’s best drive?
Do this before the winter sets in. Get yourself to Cooma and drive west on the road to Jindabyne for seven kilometres until you see the right hand turn that […]