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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 :)

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The road most travelled: On the backpacker trail to Brisbane
Australia

The road most travelled: On the backpacker trail to Brisbane

We check out some of the biggest attractions on Australia’s east coast backpacker trail – from Cairns to the Whitsundays, Fraser Island and the Gold Coast. Continue reading The road most travelled: On the backpacker trail to Brisbane

Clicking with dolphins and dugongs: Shark Bay and Monkey Mia
Australia

Clicking with dolphins and dugongs: Shark Bay and Monkey Mia

Travelling to the westernmost point of Australia, we visit world heritage listed Shark Bay and
Monkey Mia, where you can handfeed dolphins and see living fossils. Continue reading Clicking with dolphins and dugongs: Shark Bay and Monkey Mia

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