Skip to content

The Grand Tourists

Dreams, waking thoughts and incidents on the road

Aussie roadtrip stats

  • Days travelled: 100
  • Kilometres travelled: 26,161
  • Free/paid camps: 51/49
  • Pies eaten: 26
  • Tantrums thrown: 6
  • Bush poos taken: 1

Recent posts

  • A walk in the park: hiking in Peru, Australia and NZ
  • The last leg: limping from Byron Bay to Cup Day
  • The road most travelled: On the backpacker trail to Brisbane
  • Diver down: Learning to dive on the Great Barrier Reef
  • On the tablelands: Eating our way through Tropical North Queensland
  • Where the forest meets the sea: Discovering the Daintree Rainforest
  • The rest of the Red Centre: Hiking Kings Canyon and Ormiston Gorge
  • Between the Rock and a hard place: Uluru and Alice Springs
  • Discovering Australia’s Disneyland: Kakadu National Park
  • Bugs, crocs and bushfires: a million ways to die in the Top End

About us

An Aussie girl and an Englishman meet in Thailand and make their lives an endless Grand Tour.

Follow us as we road trip Australia and New Zealand, backpack South America and explore Europe.

Slow travel = slow posts :)

Social

  • View grandtourists’s profile on Twitter
  • View grandtourists’s profile on Instagram
  • View grandtourists’s profile on Pinterest
  • View grandtourists’s profile on Flickr

Tag: road trip

Land before time:  Travelling through the ancient Flinders Ranges
Australia

Land before time: Travelling through the ancient Flinders Ranges

Entering the Flinders Ranges, we become immersed in an ancient world of 500-year-old gumtrees, 1000-year-old indigenous cave paintings and 600 million-year-old rock formations. Continue reading Land before time: Travelling through the ancient Flinders Ranges

From town to country: Echuca, Mildura, Broken Hill and Silverton
Australia

From town to country: Echuca, Mildura, Broken Hill and Silverton

The paddle steamers and old trains of Echuca and Mildura make way for the heavy industry of Broken Hill and Mad Max vibe of ghost town Silverton. Continue reading From town to country: Echuca, Mildura, Broken Hill and Silverton

D Day for we travel preppers
Australia

D Day for we travel preppers

The epic Australian roadtrip begins! Where we’re going, why, and how we prepped our sweet ride – a 1999 Toyota HiAce converted into a campervan perfect for two. Continue reading D Day for we travel preppers

Posts navigation

Newer posts
Create a website or blog at WordPress.com
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • The Grand Tourists
    • Join 74 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Grand Tourists
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar