Travel Stories and Travel Tips
These are short stories of our travels on land.
Mount Tamborine view
We weren’t even thinking of going to Mount Tambourine when we left home. We were going to the wineries of Ballandean near Stanthorpe.
We had travelled from Queensland’s Sunshine Coast on the north side of Brisbane and on to Highway 13 heading south to go through Beaudesert to Stanthorpe. We actually got to Beaudesert but instead of turning right as we intended, we decided to have a quick look at Mount Tamborine just because it was so close, so we turned left.
We had four days to spare, and enough frequent flyer points, so we decided to take a quick visit to Perth in Western Australia. This was to be our first visit. It was a direct flight from Brisbane, but because of unseasonal westerly winds at 12,000 metres it took 5 hours to fly across the country.
We were met at Terminal 2 by my cousin Bruce, who then took us to their house at Mt Hawthorn. His wife Jude suggested we walk to Gianni’s, the local Balkan restaurant, for dinner. I can’t pronounce or spell what I ate, but it was delicious.
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