Goulburn Travel Blogs

The reason I came to Goulburn before heading to Hawaii was for Mel’s 40th birthday party. It started early in the afternoon, Mel thought if it started early people would go home early, and she and I would have a good night sleep before driving to Sydney for our 9 hour flight to Honolulu. Yeah…

I am back in Goulburn with the family. Well, I have claimed them as my family and they have claimed me, but they are actually my ex-in-laws. I had a long drive yesterday once I got off the ferry. After my almost sleepless night, I had to stop every couple of hours for another shot of coffee. I foun…

The trip to Goulburn was an interesting one, and even though the scenery was nice that’s not what made it so interesting! When we stopped at Gundagai to see the dog (don’t worry, if you’re not Australian you are not supposed to know what I’m talking about!) we were hungry so decided to have…

My family met me off the train at Campbelltown station, we then drove to Mittagong, one of the gorgeous little towns in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales for lunch, and a bit of a shop, (there seems to be a pattern developing here). It has been a couple of years since I visited the f…

Paris has the Eiffel Tower, Goulburn has the Big Marino. Small country towns in Australia have a predisposition towards building a giant concrete replica of what they consider iconic. We have the Big Orange, Big Prawn, Big Banana (distinct from the Big Bunch of Bananas, of course), Big Pineapple, B…

ahhh, Goulburn NSW,  funny little place.  We ended up here by accident actually but yeah,  Goulburn turned out to be an awesome little town with some crazy characters for locals, a great barman at the hotel (Tatersalls), and a great bushwalk. In all honesty though, the most memo…

We left Wodonga that morning, but as we only had about 300 kilometres to do we weren’t in too much of a rush. First we stopped at a place called the Ettamogah Pub, which is a fictional place from a cartoon drawing. It is quite unique in that it has been built how it appeared in the cartoon, i…

Although I wasn't able to celebrate my nation's birthday properly, I still think that I had one of the best 4th of July ever!! Generosity was huge on this day and fortunately we were blessed with the encounters of several wonderful people as we tried to make it back to Sydney. First, our pat…

Tasmania and Australia.